Welcome to the Minneapolis Ancestral Lineage Healing Intensive! Fri - Sun, November 8 -10, 2019 - 10am - 5pm each day 

The Northrup King Building website 1500 Jackson St NE, Minneapolis, 55413 map Event Page - Facebook Event

 Ancestral lineage healing emphasizes learning to relate directly with one’s recent and more ancient blood ancestors for personal, family, and cultural healing. Coming into direct relationship with your ancestors can help to transform intergenerational toxins, re-establish obscured blessings, improve relationships with the living, and encourage good health, self-esteem, and clarity of purpose. This approach to ancestor reverence and ritual emphasizes psychological and ritual safety, participants’ ability to connect directly with their own wise and kind ancestors, and the intersection of personal healing with larger historical troubles. This approach is experiential, rooted in an ethic of kindness, and welcoming to people of diverse ancestries and any religious/spiritual background (or lack thereof). Intensives and sessions are open to all, and the work is explicitly rooted in a feminist, decolonizing, anti-racist, LGBTQI-friendly, class-aware, earth-honoring ethic without being overly politicized in ways that are at odds with depth ritual work. We’re striving to be culturally ahead of the curve and to bring a heart-connected, non-dogmatic spirit to meet each participant’s unique life experiences and ancestral storylines.

 About the Intensive. Our shared time will a blend of teaching, direct visioning and trance work (often with drumming), group dialogue, and other elements of ancestor-focused ritual (e.g., offering practice, song, prayer). There are no prerequisites, however, prior experience with ritual and personal healing are helpful. Attendees can expect to learn skills for navigating the relationship between the living and the dead, including ways to enjoy healthy connection with beloved family after their death. 

The intensive closely follows the first nine chapters of Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing as participants connect and partner with ancestral guides to support any among the dead still in need of assistance. 

Event leaders are committed to guiding this work in ways that are psychologically grounded, ritually safe, and culturally mindful. Those new to ancestor work, adoptees, and folks with a tough experience of family are all warmly welcome. Participants work directly with their own lineage ancestors but are not expected to hold space for others beyond showing up in a mindful way during group shares; attendees work alongside one another but very much in their own space and personal process. 

Participants can expect an in-depth experience and should be personally well resourced. Each intensive is facilitated by one or two of our teachers often with additional trained supporters; however, when guiding a group for three days there are limitations to the level of individualized support the team will be able to provide. If you have doubts about whether the intensive is a good container for your depth work, be in dialogue with the team beforehand. The intensive is not a substitute for personal therapy or physical medicines.  Participants at the intensives learn life-long skills for personally accessing ancestral support; however, the three day intensive is not a training in how to guide this work. For that, see the practitioner training. 

Since 2005 the founder of this approach to ancestral healing, Dr. Daniel Foor, has guided over 130 multi-day intensives. In recent years Daniel has trained other practitioners to co-lead the intensives. Be assured your intensive leaders have full organizational backing and bring their specifically excellent gifts and style to the work. 

Thanks for registering, and we will be in touch! Remember to feel welcome to reach out anytime with questions to info@ancestralmedicine.org.