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Upcoming Offerings - Links to Registration

2019

Calgary - Ancestral Lineage Healing Intensive.
Oct. 4th-6th. Info and register.

Online - Roots to Resiliency - Therapeutic Skills and Soulful Approaches to Support Others through Grief.
October 13th, 2019. Info and register.

Victoria - Ancestral Lineage Healing Intensive.
Oct. 25th-27th, 2019. Info and register.

Victoria - in partnership with UVic Environmental Studies Department
Getting to the Heart of It - Grief and Resilience in the Era of Ecological Crisis
Workshop series (free for ES students)
Nov. 5, 19, Dec 3rd, 2019.

Bozeman, Montana - in partnership with the Bozeman Renewal Network
Facilitating Grief - Group Practices and Ritual Skills
Nov 15-17th, 2019.

Courtenay - Ancestral Healing One Day Workshop
Nov. 30th, 2019. Info and register. 

2020

Online - Of Stone, Bone and Water - Ritual Skills and Ancestral Practices for Grieving.
January 12th, 2020. More info.

Victoria - Deathly Matters
Community Conference on Doing Death Better
May 23rd, 2020. More Info.

Offering Descriptions

Ancestral Lineage Healing

By coming into conscious and direct relationship with our deeply well ancestors, we connect with a source of guidance, support and love in our lives and contribute to the healing of inter-generational wounds and patterns. When we claim our ancestral gifts and inheritance, we deepen our belonging in the world, re-enliven our ancestral wisdom and practices, become clearer in our soul's purpose, and become a more wholesome force for personal and collective healing.

Through teaching, ritual, song, movement, and guided trance/visioning, participants will assess the wellness of their ancestral lineages and connect with ancestral guides to lead lineage healing. The training is a trauma-aware, multicultural ritual container that embraces the relationship of ancestral repair and cultural healing, and based in the method of Ancestral Medicine.

When Our Heart Breaks Open to Ecological Loss - Community Grief Ritual

The despair that is for the destruction of our other-than-human kin in these times is inescapable. This is a grief that doesn't go away, however it is vital to have ongoing places to release and express this despair if we are to remain open and responsive to meeting the needs of our times.

Ritual within community is one way to provide a transformative container to meet our heartbreak and allow its expression and release; to allow some of the reservoir to flow.  If your heart is cracked open by the devastation of this crisis, I welcome you to gather with others in a community ritual to pay homage to that which has been lost, is disappearing, and that which may feel too difficult to name.

The afternoon will consist of Council practice, personal reflection through writing, small group sharing, and a collective grief ceremony around the community altar.

Deathly Matters - A Community Conference on Doing Death Better

This is a community-based conference showcasing emerging voices and perspectives on death dying not readily found in mainstream dialogue. We welcome interested community members and practitioners to this opportunity to learn from others, ask questions, and share in a comfortable atmosphere with others who are also committed to doing death better.

The day consists of a keynote speaker, breakout workshop sessions, a community marketplace of services and resources, live music and community connection. To find our more about this annual conference, please visit the Deathly Matters website.

Monthly Ancestral Healing Circles

Thursday, Jan 9th - 6:30-8:30pm
Sunday, Feb. 16th - 2:30-4:30pm
Monday, Mar 16th - 6;30-8:30pm
Sunday, Apr 26th - 2:30-4:30pm
Monday, May 18th - 6;30-8:30pm
Sunday, Jun 14th - 2:30-4:30pm

The monthly ancestral healing circles are a time to gather in a supportive community with other folks and to connect in ritual space to work directly on your practice of ancestral lineage healing. Each ritual circle is guided in a culturally inclusive way, and includes opportunities for support, guidance and sharing.

Participants are required to have had at least two sessions with a practitioner, or have completed a 1 day or 3 day intensive.  Maximum capacity is 10 participants, and costs $40 each circle. Two spots are reserved each circle for individuals needing a lower subsidized cost. Please inquire if you are in need of this option.

RSVP is required, and confirmed upon payment.

Grief Support - Companioning Others with Dignity and Meaning

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Practical and soulful approaches to supporting others through grief, loss and transition in ways that promote dignity and meaning through times of pain.

Through visualization, active metaphors, individual reflection, and small group work, participants will gain insight into concepts and strategies to further embody their ability to hold space for others, companioning them through transitions in effective and healing ways.

This workshop is for anyone interested in heart-centered therapeutic approaches to supporting others through difficult times - whether it be death of a loved one, illness, divorce, relationship endings, substance use/recovery, moving, cultural loss, major life transitions and more.

Rituals of Belonging - A Day of Praise and Connection

Belonging. One word, 9 letters, and yet a portal to immense feelings of longing and loss for many of us. It is both personal and collective. This longing may be rooted in personal experiences, ancestral memories, and/or within the broader symptoms of Western modernity - a collective wounding that weaves throughout our lives in ways that can both be named, and in ways that reach beyond our words and knowing. It can be difficult to name those things we came into the world anticipating, and yet never receiving. All we know is something is missing.

We will explore ancestral connection, soul movements, and respectful relationships with the more-than-humans and place through ritual, Council practice, movement, and ceremonial dialogue, as pathways to nurture belonging in our own lives, and in our broader communities, both human and other-than-human.