Co taught with Daniel Foor, Founder and Director of Ancestral Medicine, and author of Ancestral Medicine, Rituals for Personal and Family Healing. This class will meet for 8 Thursdays.

12:30pm Vancouver | 3:30pm New York | 21:30 Berlin

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This course is for anyone called to the crossroads of ancestry, writing, and culture. Participants will be guided to bring alive their personal and lineage stories through practices of co-writing and ritual reconnection with the dead who are not dead. By affirming that our ancestors can be active participants in our lives and creations, we open ourselves to channel the poems, essays, and stories that we most need to write—both to understand the past and to live fully in the present.

Each week, we’ll engage in both guided rituals to safely connect with lineage ancestors and in practical writing exercises to welcome inspired words from our lineage ancestors. We’ll establish healthy boundaries with those still troubled in our lineages, and appeal to wise and loving elder guides for personal, family, and cultural healing. Course co-leads will blend intellect and intuition, care for living family and healthy boundaries with those among the living or the dead who are not yet at peace, historical research and direct communion with the ancestors. 

By cultivating inner listening, we’ll use our writing voice to also hear and amplify the voices of others.

Participants can expect a kind, responsive, internationally oriented, culturally mindful approach to course material that honors diverse approaches to writing and ancestor reverence. Through weekly small group breakouts anchored by experienced ritualists, participants will also find support for ancestral connection practices and a space to refine their writing. This offering aims to help participants to establish ancestral relationships and an ancestral co-writing practice that can continue long after the course completes.