The Berlin Conference was not only a political meeting; it was a performance of power over. The kind of power that fragments, silences and erases. It declared ownership over peoples and lands were never theirs to own. So this space is born out of remembrance and also out of refusal. It is an act of returning to what was taken, of reclaiming AGENCY, RESPECT AND ANCESTRAL SOVEREIGNTY that were denied to us when others decided our borders, our names, our fates. 

To sit together in grief today is to say we remember. We remember what was fragmented, stolen and what is still present in our migrations, our identities, our relations to land and to one another. But we also remember our agency, our spiritual continuities, our capacity to feel, to create, to re-member. Through collective grieving, we begin to loosen the hold of colonial trauma, to turn toward our own ways of witnessing and to reweave belonging the lines that were drawn for us, without us. 

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.