Ancestral Responsibility: Facing The Colonial Genogram And The Death Of Empire
Weekly gathering , Every Friday from OCTOBER 3rd, 20:00 pm to 22 pm, Berlin time
Language: English
Length: 12 - week journey (OCTOBER 3rd - DECEMBER 19th)
In this 3-month online process based on weekly meetings, we will trace the colonial genogram, looking honestly at the personal, familial, and systemic lines that tie us to histories of conquest, extraction, and violence. We will use the Soma and grief-centered practices to explore what it means to be shaped by empire, and to begin the slow work of metabolizing shame, and stepping into forms of repair.
Dyeing Before Dying: A Return To Indigenous Wisdom on Death
This summer, I was in Benin and went to my paternal grandmother’s grave, visiting it for the first time since she died some years ago. Her grave is not just a stone in the ground of a cemetery, but a room within her family’s house, a place where life continues to unfold with death resting beneath us.