The Details
Date
25th to 27th September (3 days)
Times
10am to 6pm (Sun 5pm end)
Price
Weekend - 395 euro (price includes a delicious vegetarian food)
...in the Burren, County Clare
This 3 day in person intensive will be led by Catherine Dunne and Emma Palmer. Both Catherine and Emma are Ancestral Lineage Healing practitioners with decades of experience as therapists and in holding group space. We will gather in the wild and magical surroundings of Studio Feasa in the lowlands of the Burren, Co. Clare. The workshop price includes all 3 days of the workshop, a full vegetarian lunch on site each day, and tea and nibbles upon arrival every morning. Whether you are new to this work or you have been working with your lineages in this way for a long time, you are welcome. We will move through the steps of the ancestral lineage healing process and deepen in connection with our people through ritual, prayerful offerings movement and song.
More information about the 3 Day Intensive Process
All of us have wise, loving ancestors. This three-day Ancestral Lineage Healing intensive will be a chance to learn how to be in healing connections with our ancestors of blood and bone; the ones who trod the precious earth before us. This work can bring healing to the living and the dead, creating spaciousness, liberation, and purpose. We will do this step by step, drawing on the Ancestral Lineage Healing approach as originated and taught by Dr Daniel Foor at Ancestral Medicine.
In safely reconnecting with our kin we can re-discover and re-member blessings, often embodying vitality for ourselves, and our family, friends – rippling into wider community. This five-step healing process also enables our lineage guides to repair intergenerational ruptures, including suffering arising from cultural harms. This healing can also clarify our sense of purpose, often bringing a newfound sense of belonging.
We offer a wholehearted welcome to those who are new to ancestral healing work, those who are adoptees, and those with difficult family stories – or, perhaps, an absence of any stories or information. Our gathering and work together becomes a shared hearth where grief – ancient and current – can be expressed and digested with compassion, cultural respect and with new found ancestral support.
These intensives and this method are founded in feminist, decolonising, anti-racist, LGBTQ-affirming, class aware and earth and element-honouring values. We aspire to actively embody these ethics kindly, undogmatically, knowing we, too, are learning. We aim to offer the conditions so we can co-create a circle warm enough for tender vulnerability, earthy enough for depth and spacious enough for healing to happen. More info to follow soon.
“Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine.”
About Catherine
Catherine’s ancestors are all from the province of Munster in the South West of Ireland. Catherine was born on the lands of the Lanapé people known as Queens New York, to her 2 immigrant parents. She grew up with one foot in New York and the other in her grandparents home in North Cork. Catherine returned to Ireland to study and live in her early 20s and has been rooted in Cork and now Kerry for the last 35 plus years. She has worked as a therapist, trainer and clinical supervisor and ancestral lineage healing practitioner, as well as holding embodied community dance and movement spaces. When Catherine isn’t holding space for others she can be found walking her dogs, gardening and enjoying the company of friends, family and the spirits of the wild.
About Emma
Emma works – plays – as an author, ecopsychologist-animist, psychotherapist, supervisor and family business director. Well rooted in southwest England, she is immigrant daughter of a Mum/family who arrived from post-partition India. She navigates British, Northern European and Asian ancestry through autoethnographic writing, gardening, and devotional practices, and she loves supporting others in their navigation. For 30+ years Emma has apprenticed with the Buddha/bodhisattvas, deepening her familiarity with the unseen. Earlier aid-working in Bangladesh, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa informs her love of immersing in a diversity of cultures. Her longing is for liberation for all and harm to none.