October 2022 On the Work and Play of Ancestral Belonging with Daniel Foor
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On the Work and Play of Ancestral Belonging
Our sense of belonging arises from land, culture, family, language, as well as from the demands of our specific destiny and the influence of our ancestors as they live in the present. Especially for those down-lineage from generations of displacement, colonialism, occupation of land, and other systemic harms, belonging is often a confusing and psychologically painful mess with no clear resolution or answers. And yet the longing arises from the depths and persists.
In this two-hour participatory gathering, we’ll focus on the role of the ancestors and the importance of honoring our specific destiny or calling in relation to what it means to belong. The time will be held in the vessel of internationally inclusive ritual with space for questions and at least two experiential practices. We’ll hold a tender space for personal and cultural pain while also welcoming levity, play, and irreverence.
About Daniel Foor
Daniel is a teacher and practitioner of practical animism who specializes in ancestral and family healing and in helping folks learn to relate well with the rest of life. He is a doctor of psychology, marriage and family therapist, founder and director at Ancestral Medicine, and author of Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing.
Daniel is a life-long student of earth-honoring traditions and an initiate in West African Orisha traditions in the lineage of Olúwo Fálolú Adésànyà Awoyadé of Òdè Rẹ́mọ. His recent ancestors are settler-colonialists to North America from England, Germany, and Ireland, and he now lives with his wife and two daughters in Andalusia near the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Granada, Spain. For more info see ancestralmedicine.org.
Daniel is a ritualist and educator focused on helping others to reclaim their innate capacity to relate with their ancestors and with the greater web of other-than-human kin. He is the author of Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing and an internationally respected teacher of ancestor reverence and ritual. Since 2004 Daniel has guided over 150 multi-day ancestor-focused healing rituals in eight countries, reached thousands of participants through personal sessions and online courses, and mentored over 60 practitioners to guide the work of ancestral healing and reconnection.Daniel is the child of early settler colonialists to North America, largely from England and Germany, and he is a white, cis-gendered, able-bodied, U.S. citizen deeply committed to historical honesty, reckoning with unpaid ancestral debts, and cultural healing with respect to race, class, gender, American imperialism, and other ways in which the Earth longs for better from the human folk.
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