The Time of the Lone Wolf is Over: Community Practices for Honoring Grief with Sangoma Oludoye & Trevanna Grenfell

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The Time of the Lone Wolf is Over: Community Practices for Honoring Grief with Sangoma Oludoye & Trevanna Grenfell

As we live and work as vulnerable humans and brave leaders within the swirling seas of change, loss, and upheaval that characterize these wild times, there is an increasing awareness of and longing for old-time practices of honoring and transforming grief as it arises within and around us.

What are some seeds of culturally appropriate grief tending that we can weave into deep nature connection practice in order to allow our pains and struggles to be fertile compost from which new futures can grow forth– rather than burying us with the weight of unprocessed emotions.

Join Sangoma and Trevanna for an exploration of ways you can tap into the potential that comes from offering grief for the sake of healing. If possible please have with you a journal and pen, small bowl of water, and a crack in your beautiful heart through which light and life can travel in and out.

Sangoma Olodoye

Sacred Activist, is a wife, mother, and grandmother. A traditional Yoruba priestess, Afin chief and member of the Egbe Moremi, National African Women’s Society in the Kingdom of Oyotunji African Village, located in Sheldon SC.. North America’s oldest, authentic African community, Sangoma met Oyotunji’s founder and Father of the Cultural Restoration movement in 1969 at the age of 12. A Sangoma speaks of a tribe of healers and diviners with indigenous gifts of ancestral medicine from South Africa. Sangoma graduated from Clark University, Worcester, Mass in 1977 with a BA in Theatre Arts, After a 20 year career in broadcast journalism , television, radio and cable…life presented the opportunity to explore shamanism, women’s history, movement, pan-Africanism and Wise woman Traditions. Sangoma has taught at numerous summer camps and Earthskills gatherings, including as Director and primary instructor for 180 “at risk” youth between 9-14 in the Camp Champion, summer program in Thomson, Ga. Sangoma has more than 30 years in her priesthood, female rites of passage programs, women’s wisdom councils and weekend empowerment retreats. An artist, facilitator, and cultural preservationist, we are honored to have Sangoma’s leadership.

Trevanna Frost Grenfell

Trevanna lives and works in Penobscot Territory in the north woods of Maine, where she grew up alternately poking around in the forest and holed up in bed reading books. These days, she still does both of those things, but spends most of her time helping to run The Wildwood Path, a school for adults who want to develop deep nature connection as an avenue for social change. Trevanna is honored to be continually wrestling with big questions and challenges around how to live, work, and learn in integrity and for the sake of liberation. If you're interested in developing living systems thinking capacity through direct relationship and profound awareness with the living world, get in touch!

The Time of the Lone Wolf is Over: Community Practices for Honoring Grief

(1h 31m 31s)
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