Lessons from the Field: Tending the Ancestral Soul
A systemic approach to land, transformative justice and ancestral healing
This is an experiential course taking the principles of Systemic or Family Constellations, and applying them to practices of ancestral repair, activism, transformational justice and conflict resolution.
Participants will gain embodied, practical tools, with each session involving meditations, teaching, dialogue, break-out rooms and suggested rituals. We will take a queer, anti-colonial lens to the teachings.
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The Systemic Field is a term used in Family and Systemic Constellations, to refer to the morphological field of resonance through which humans, more-than-humans, ancestors are all connected across time and space.
We are living in challenging times. When global political, social and ecological crises are impacting us to varying degrees, we tend to fall back on and play out our blind loyalties and unresolved systemic traumas. Most of these do not serve ourselves or the collective. The emergent principles that we can observe from the systemic field, offer another more-than-human perspective to conflict resolution, ancestral healing and collective social repair.
This course explores teachings and rituals of systemic constellations as guidance towards abolitionist futures and ways of being together.
What’s Included?
6 Weekly Sessions - 2.5hrs - plus recordings. Sessions are every Wednesday 6.30 - 9.00pm BST, Online via zoom.
50min One-to-one session.
Material to explore each week, including Guided Audio Meditations, and shared reading resources.
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Week 1: Radical Inclusion
We will get to know the basic principles of inclusion that are required for the flow of all life in any given system.
We will begin to sense/feel into our own ancestral systems, to get familiar with the certain felt experience of absences and silences, and how our own and collective shapes might try to compensate.
Weel 2: The Orders of Love
The Orders refer to certain - sometimes unexpected - principles of the Knowing Field, which, when out of alignment, cause distress to individual and collective.
We will consider these in relation to land stewardship and how belonging in an ecological sense can support “not belonging” to certain social contexts, which might be an increasingly necessary resilience to build in our current world.
Week 3: Land Stewardship
We will consider how a phenomenological approach to justice and conflict resolution connects to earth-emergent practices and land stewardship. We will explore practical tools of ritual and ceremony for collaborating and being in dialogue with symptoms.
Week 4: Victim and Perpetrator dynamics
We will consider certain practices that unlock our own internal victim-perpetrator-martyr loops, and how these might show up at collective levels.
Can we consider ways beyond this dichotomy from an experiential place, and observe the unexpected possibilities that arise when we do?
Week 5: Soul and Fate
We will work with different practices of being with What Is, and explore this as a soul movement in conjunction with resistance, political activism and radical change.
Week 6: Ancestral Mapping
We will close our time together with an ancestral mapping practice, integrating some of the themes we’ve been working with, and witnessing one another in sharing and closing the space.
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About me
In 2020 I completed my training as a Family Constellations facilitator with The Centre for Systemic Constellations (UK). I’ve held space for individuals as well as used it as a modality in my creative practice and ongoing land stewardship.
I fuse a queer perspective with a more-than-human emphasis, to work specifically with the land itself as a knowing field and propeller of ancestral healing.
I draw on embodied experience from dance, somatics, creative practice, teaching yoga and 15 years of my own practice of ceremony and ritual with the land and ancestors, to this sharing.