We do not walk alone—our leadership is shaped by those who came before us and those who will come after. This course invites participants to explore the fullness, richness, and complexity of our ancestral legacies - the legacies of our ancestors of blood and bone, of lands and waters, of kinship ties, of traditions we carry - as well as our more-than-human kin. By listening and dreaming across time, we practice leading with dignity, humility, responsibility, and a sense of deep continuity toward cultures of ancestrally-rooted relation with self, each other, habitat, and planet. 

In this long weekend together, we will explore a holistic way of being with our ancestors and lineages, tending to the earth-cherishing traditions of our ancestors, the harm our ancestors endured, the harm our ancestors caused, and the ways our ancestors resisted and persisted along the way. Through story, song, ceremony, dreaming, and time on the land, we will reconnect with the folk traditions of our ancestors - stories of resistance, resilience, and relationship that predate colonial systems and can help us untangle the multiplicity of our identities.

When we strengthen our own resilience and relationships—individually and collectively—through ancestral practices and cultural reclamation, we have far more to offer to our communities during these times of polycrisis and systems collapse. Coming together across lineages, we will build collective capacity to offer leadership - each in our own way - as we tend to the spiritual and cultural loss.

Over the course of our time together, we will:

• Explore and practice a variety of ways of deepening in relationship with one’s ancestors, with an emphasis on dreamwork and ritual, 

• Develop an understanding of the physical, emotional, and spiritual risks associated with ancestral work (including dream as inquiry), and practice discernment and boundary-setting

• Orient within the spiral of time, honoring ancestors, lifeways lost and found

• See and hold our work as part of a larger movement for social and cultural  healing and justice

• Co-create a shared learning environment with an embodied commitment to care-filled pacing, titration of difficult material, and accessibility

• Build capacity to co-hold the space for co-liberatory cultural and ritual emergence

• Nourish and replenish alongside peers in our healing work 

• Participate in meaningful cross-cultural, cross-class, and cross-racial exchange.

Pre-Workshop Caucus Spaces

All participants are required to participate in a pre-session race-based caucus space to prepare us to tend ancestral trauma well in a mixed-race ritual space. We will hold one space for white, white-passing, and white-assimilated folks, and one for People of the Global Majority. If you hold both of these identities, you’re welcome to choose the session that best fits your current edges/explorations, or attend both sessions. We ask participants to attend the session live if at all possible; if your schedule simply won’t allow it, please contact the team so you receive the recording and short follow-up homework. 

To learn more before registering, or if you have a question about your registration or your payment arrangement, please contact us.

Financial Aid is currently available.

In-Person Course

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