Becoming a Good Ancestor

Five 2-hour sessions: Monday 2/3 – Friday 2/7 (3-5pm Eastern / 12-2pm Pacific) Indigenous wisdom is to make decisions for the good of the 7th generation. This way of thinking is not common for non indigenous people. To survive climate change and other pressing social ills we must learn a similar long term intragenerational thinking….

Workshop Description

Five 2-hour sessions: Monday 2/3 – Friday 2/7 (3-5pm Eastern / 12-2pm Pacific)

Indigenous wisdom is to make decisions for the good of the 7th generation. This way of thinking is not common for non indigenous people. To survive climate change and other pressing social ills we must learn a similar long term intragenerational thinking. We will be looking at our historic relationship to colonialization, its impact on earth extractive processes, and how to re-enter “”reciprocal relationships with Earth””. All countries on earth had (or have) indigenous people before they were suppressed. The workshop will also encourage connecting with our own indigenous roots wherever those may lie. This is not about being a grandparent or parent but rather about learning a way of living that prepares for life long after us. It will be both looking at our own family trees but also on how to create paradigm shifting social change. The workshop will encourage folks to do some homework pieces before Gathering and during gathering. We will also use some video clips. There will be daily worship sharing with queries designed to help us reflect on the material as well as group discussions and experiential exercises with partners. Lynn only lectures to introduce concepts or material.

This workshop frequently references the work of Robin Wall Kimmerer and would be very helpful to have read Braiding Sweetgrass. For people who have taken my previous workshops on Braiding Sweetgrass or climate change, there is some overlap, but it will be different. Please sign up for this workshop if you are willing to look at some hard facts about ancestry and do the journey into hope for how we create new relationships to Earth.

Leader Experience

Lynn Fitz-Hugh is a mother, a psychotherapist and a climate activist of 18 years. She is the Director of Restoring Earth Connection. Lynn is a trained AVP facilitator and a trained Work that Reconnects facilitator and values experiential learning as part of this experience.