Longing for Land and Belonging: acknowledging and healing from the trauma of dis-possession through colonization, slavery and Apartheid.One of the deepest traumas of the oppressed is colonization and the dispossession of land. The loss of land created the displacement and the absence of a sense of belonging.
Land is intimately connected to our identity and our sense of belonging to this earth. Ancestral lands contain the graves, the blood and the bones of our ancestors who lived and died here. The land holds the roots of our family trees.
Humanity holds extensive histories of displacement, and the impact of these ill-gotten gains is the intergenerational trauma experienced by oppressed people. This trauma severely impacts all aspects of their lives.
- Is acknowledgement enough, or what will it take to come into right relationship with the land?
- How does this impact our healing from the legacies of colonization, slavery and Apartheid
Learning Outcomes
- What we are doing with Land Constellations in South Africa (applicable worldwide)
- Why is it important to work with questions around land?
- Awareness around consequences of ill-gotten gains, colonisation, forced removals and stolen land
- Experiential learning and self-development of the facilitator
- Acknowledgment of diversity and culturally important themes
This session will include a constellation ritual created for the group by Tanja and Veronica.
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