Clayton Barker is not a concept; he embodies an Eternal Soul with rich ethnic roots spanning East Africa, Bab El Mandeb, Turkey, Siberia, Dagestan, Polynesia, South Central Asia, Portugal, Ireland, Scotland, Finland, Switzerland, Germany, and England. Adopted into the Maidu, Pit River, and Wintu Native American tribes by his Grand Paa, Wind Walker Blue Skin, Clayton carries a diverse heritage.

Trained in four martial arts—Kung Fu, Karate, Kalari Payattu, and Aikido—Clayton is dedicated to promoting safety and defense in life’s myriad situations. As a visionary multi-disciplinary artist, empathic life coach, and healing conduit of lightning energy, he infuses his work with the timeless expressions of the Mother Earth. He offers conscious co-creations, Empathy Tea Circles, Nonviolent Communication play shops, Interbeing Coaching programs, and Interfaith Harmony containers. Since Clayton is NOT a perfect Spiritual Master, it is best not expect him to be one, or you will get resentful. It is better to think of Clayton as being a “Communication Janitor” who is a very messy organized Virgo custodian. His sister Crystal, has a Birthday Book and it says that September 14th Babies are born to “Point Out Hypocrisy” which he does in himself, others, and community. He is still learning how to do that with Nonviolent Communication & Less Violent Communication.

Clayton’s upbringing was profoundly influenced by a family committed to nonviolence. His father, a doctor, served during the Vietnam War, while his mother dedicated her career to suicide prevention and therapy for battered women. In middle school soccer and high school he grew up around Xicano and Vietnamese Gang Members who trained him in the art of talking shit and the perfection of Violent Communication. These early experiences shaped his understanding of compassion and nonviolence. However, the challenges of growing up in a military family exposed him to violence, leading him to seek solace in meditation, prayer, and peacemaking skills. Clayton intentionally got himself locked up in jail in 2023 so that he could do a 17-day hunger strike and 5 month and 1 week meditation retreat inside Sutter County Jail which is named after a child rapist who raped 12-year-old Indigenous Native American girls. Clayton spent his entire time in jail chanting prayers to the Divine Mother praying for healing and the jail to be renamed after a pure Woman and demolished by wrecking balls and turned into a Goddess Temple to Awaken the Divine Feminine Goddess.

His growing trauma informed care originates from his Aunt being gang raped by 4 US Army Soldiers and then committing suicide when he was 2, witnessing a lot of bloody after school fights in parks and parties, and also 5 Gang Members being shot and killed during high school. Clayton struggled with being suicidal from 2007-2025 and has had to go to many hospitals and call 988 Suicide Crisis Hotline over 130 times, to fight the inner war to stay alive on the battlefield of life so he has great compassion for those who are depressed and get authentic about getting the required help. Clayton has compassion for sexual trauma because he himself has received 9 sexual batteries from men at home, at the doctor’s office, at Hindu Ashrams, at Siskiyou County jail, and in the Siskiyou County probation office. Clayton totally understands the difficulty of letting go of the past, healing the trauma, fighting to get out of victim consciousness, being full of self-compassionate Self Love, and taking %100 Self Responsibility for this karma coming from past life actions. Sexual trauma is the most complex, difficult, hard to let go of trauma, Clayton has come across on the planet and when one learns to read the Akashic Records it becomes even more subtly difficult to see the web of karma leading up to a sexual violation and some may have no past related karma, too. Clayton also knows the path of sobriety, quitting drinking alcohol in 2010 and giving up magic mushrooms and marijuana, in 2022 to stop the spiritual bypass of suppressed painful emotions. Clayton quit cocaine, ecstasy, and opium by 2003 and has been sober from narcotics, for over 20 years. He knows how drugs kill life.

Clayton has trained extensively in Nonviolent Communication (NVC) under Dr. Marshall Rosenberg and 40+ Certified Trainers from www.cnvc.org and has participated in international trainings and leadership programs. A certificate recipient graduate of the One Year North American NVC Leadership Program, He also completed a community apprenticeship program where he co-organized intensive NVC training for youth leaders. He relentlessly dialogues for years to invite people to Empathy Tea Circles to dissolve traumatic conflicts. Despite all this training, Clayton is still a novice beginner at Nonviolent Communication and at the Intermediate Level with Less Violent Communication and Perfect Mastery with Violent Communication.

In addition to his coaching and facilitation work, Clayton is the CEO of Interbeing Services Inc, a Licensed Handyman business in Siskiyou County. He also has a background in healthcare, having served as a nurse assistant and EMT, all while incorporating spiritual practices into his work. His diverse training spans various spiritual traditions, including Buddhist, Sikh, Taoist, Native American, Jewish, Islam, Christian, Hindu, Sufi, and many more.

Having lived as an unconventional Avadhuta Monk, Clayton’s journey includes teachings from Native American shamans and various spiritual masters worldwide. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies with an emphasis on Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He also obtained a Emergency Medical Technician Certificate from Yuba College.

Clayton’s spiritual mission is to foster a world where everyone’s needs are met with love and compassion, honoring Mother Earth and harmonizing the Divine Feminine and Masculine. Embracing his paradoxical nature, he is committed to authenticity and magic in all aspects of his life. His vow is to reincarnate for Eternity in an infinite number of bodies to Protect Mother Earth and serve the Liberation of ALL beings everywhere.

Join him on this transformative journey of Interbeing Coaching, where love, empathy, and understanding flourish, sometimes in very eccentric, authentically challenging, unique, Clowney, backwards, humorous, lightning strike of clarity kinds of illuminating ways.