Politicized Ancestral Reconnection & Lineage Tending
Learn & practice in queer/trans community
the season ahead: learning in community
Winter Solstice – Samhain
a yearlong invitation into plant relations & land devotion
Now enrolling! Grab your spot <3
Hungry for immersive community learning?
FOUNDATIONS and ATTUNE are the two extended group learning programs I facilitate each year.
FOUNDATIONS begins in October, and lasts 6 months. ATTUNE begins in December, and runs the year. FOUNDATIONS is the depth; a deep dive into learning Celtic Isles cultural threads and discerning values-aligned ways of relating in these times; ATTUNE is the breadth, turning knowledge into practice and practice into daily devotion together as we spiral the year.
More questions which one is right for you? Read more here – Balancing Breadth and Depth: the difference between the Foundations and Attune programs.
Samhain – Beltaine
a six month invitation to connect with ancestral culture & plant kin of the Celtic Isles
Winter Solstice – Samhain season
a year-long practice of ancestral + bioregional attunement to land & plant kin
Politicized ancestral reconnection is essential nourishment for dismantling white supremacy & building liberation in our lifetime.
Without this nourishment, how can we wade through the mire that is whiteness, untangling ourselves and the lies that have been fed to us all until we forgot who we were? until we were warped out of any recognizable shape? Without reconnecting to our disrupted lineages, how can we ever know who we truly are beyond whiteness?
Cultural connection is nourishment. It is life blood. It is memory of what was and spells for what might be. It is one of the many threads needed to unspell white supremacy. By reweaving these threads, we resource ourselves for the work that is ours to do.
Our lineages are disrupted, yes, but not destroyed. our ancestors may seem lost to us, out of reach, but they are not gone. Diasporic community webs are woven strong for us to lean into, and the lands & living breathing culture of our lineages are always there to welcome us home.
Learning Through the Spiral of the Year
Autumn
Autumn Equinox Season
an online introductory workshop & community exploration
Open to all european descended folks
Samhain – Beltaine
a six-month invitation to connect with ancestral plant kin of the Celtic Isles
for folks of Celtic Isles descent (Ireland, Scotland, Wales)
Samhain season
Online devotional series
Open to all european descended folks
Winter
Winter Solstice – Samhain season
a year-long practice of bioregional and ancestral attunement to land and plant kin
for folks of Celtic Isles descent (Ireland, Scotland, Wales)
Winter Solstice season
seasonal plantlore infoshare
for folks of Celtic Isles descent (Ireland, Scotland, Wales)
Spring
Spring Equinox Season
online infoshare & community dialogue
Open to all folks of european descent
St Patrick’s Day season
Month-long exploration of the interwoven threads of alcohol and colonialism in the Irish American diaspora
for folks of Celtic Isles descent (Ireland, Scotland, Wales)
Spring Equinox Season
online infoshare & community dialogue
for folks of Celtic Isles descent (Ireland, Scotland, Wales)
under the summer sun
Beltaine – Lughnasadh
Small group mentorship for reweaving cultural herbalisms
Open to all those with european lineages
Summer Solstice season
Building relations with plant kin deeply interwoven into Celtic legacies of survival and resilience under state violence
for folks of Celtic Isles descent (Ireland, Scotland, Wales)
STAYING CONNECTED
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