Mission

Our mission is to cultivate emotional justice at the roots of gendered harm through story-based practices, research-informed education, and restorative spaces where accountability, repair, and dignity can grow.

Vision

We envision communities where:

• Power is practiced with responsibility, rather than domination.
• Masculinity can be strong and emotionally honest, and relationally accountable
• Survivors and those who have caused harm are not reduced to a single moment, but invited into ongoing processes of truth-telling, responsibility, and transformation.
• Equanimity—inner steadiness in the face of pain—becomes a shared community skill, not a private luxury.

Dalia M. LaFontaine

Founder, Voices of Origin 

Dalia M. LaFontaine is an integral practitioner, doctoral researcher, and educator working across clinical psychology, human sexuality, social science, trauma-informed practice, and violence prevention, with particular attention to emotions, the nervous system, and discourse analysis as key determinants of relational behavior and social meaning. 

Voices of Origin Voices of Origin emerged from a series of direct, one-to-one interviews conducted as part of her academic and professional training, in which she listened to men incarcerated for feminicide. These were not group interventions or therapeutic programs, but individual conversations grounded in ethical listening, emotional presence, and accountability. The name Voices of Origin reflects the purpose of this work: “origin” is not nostalgia for the past, but a living root in the present—our capacity to return to the body, to emotional memory, and to a deeper sense of humanity than the rigid roles and scripts we inherit. 

Across these encounters, Dalia observed a recurring pattern she conceptualizes as glass masculinity: forms of masculinity that appear rigid and dominant on the surface, yet are internally fragile—constructed through emotional restriction, inherited silence, and narrow definitions of strength. Under conditions of intense stress and nervous-system activation, these structures can fracture, sometimes culminating in acts of lethal violence, with profound and irreversible harm. 

Rather than approaching these narratives to excuse violence, her work examines how emotional learning, nervous-system survival responses, and cultural expectations interact to shape relational behavior—so that the origins of harm can be understood, and its repetition interrupted. 

Central to Dalia’s approach is a deep respect for history and storytelling as tools for meaning-making and transformation. Voices of Origin was shaped not only by academic inquiry, but also by historical and artistic traditions that honor repair without erasure. She draws inspiration from the Japanese art of Kintsugi, which treats fracture as part of an object’s story rather than something to hide, and from Antoni Gaudí’s use of fragmented forms and mosaics to create structures that are resilient, organic, and whole precisely because they are made from broken pieces.