What does it take to heal our lineages? What does ancestral re-connection entail? How do we understand the legacies of our ancestors and hold the complexity of transforming their lineages?
Join us for an introduction to The Spiral of Re-Calling Our Ancestors! Together we will orient ourselves to the cycles of healing and repair that guide our work.
What is Re-Calling Our Ancestors? Re-Calling Our Ancestors provides an educational and healing space for white, white-passing and white-assimilated folx to deepen their practices of ancestral connection and commitment to anti-racist action.* Together, we explore a holistic way of being with our ancestors and lineages: tending to the nourishing traditions of our ancestors, the traumas our ancestors endured, the harm our ancestors caused, and the ways our ancestors resisted and persisted along the way.
What is The Spiral? Re-Calling Our Ancestors follows a curricular and ritual framework called “The Spiral.” Each station of The Spiral addresses a different component of the work of ancestral re-connection. Together they comprise a comprehensive approach to the emotional, intellectual, somatic, magical, intergenerational, and political experience of de-assimilation. The Spiral offers an orientation to the complexity of de-assimilation. However, the Re-Calling Our Ancestors curriculum is not a single, nor a linear process. Relating to our inheritance and the ongoing legacy of whiteness necessitates iterative cycles. To recall our ancestors is to spiral – to tend transformation and entertain futures through consistent, exploratory, deepening cycles of engagement.
Why Re-Calling Our Ancestors? When we as white anti-racists strengthen our own resilience and relationships—individually and collectively—through ancestral practices and cultural reclamation, we have far more to offer multi-racial movements for justice. We believe in building collective capacity to tend to the spiritual and cultural loss that prevents us from being co-liberators in movements for racial and economic justice. Through ancestral reconnection, embodied practice, and shared study we are making transformative action toward de-assimilation and reparations.
*We honor that race is a social construct, and there are people with white skin who come from Black, Indigenous, and/or other Communities of Color who may wish to participate in this offering. If this is you, you are welcome! And, please know your guides for the journey don’t carry this experience in their bodies so won’t be able to speak to these complexities from personal experience.