About this Event
Embracing Endings for QTBIPOC & COMRADES
$595.00
Embracing Endings for QTBIPOC & COMRADES quantityAdd to cartIn this 6-week course, we will support folks in facing and embracing endings. Each week we will take time to remember traditional, nature-based ways of relating to the end. Together, we will explore what it means to live, love, grieve, and let go. With the assistance of the ancestors, plants, ceremony, and each other, we will be in the practice of facing, feeling, and integrating the inevitable outcome of death. This class is for death workers, healers, and/or grievers looking to make a relationship with death.
Please note: Though grief is welcome in this course, it is not a grief support group or therapy. Because of the nature of the content of this program, we encourage everyone to be self-reflective about whether this is the time and space for them to do this work.
What to expect:
- Weekly exploration of different death-related topics (including prompts and meditations for looking at our own relationship to loss and endings, remembering nature-based ways of relating to grief, and delving deeper into subjects such as sudden death and the many types of grief, etc)
- Weaving in of the foundations of Curanderismo (a holistic earth-based health care system that works to keep all elements of our being in balance) as support in the process of facing loss
- Weekly medicine-making demo of herbal & floral remedies and rituals that help while we face and feel our way through life and death
- Foundations for connecting and building relationship with ancestors
- Weekly at home heartwork assignments that support in making relationship with death
- Personal check-in & closing time each session
- Final class presentations and reflections
We strongly encourage folks to attend these classes weekly. Your attendance will allow you to get the most out of the content, experience the process of building this sacred container, and be least disruptive to the community.What is QTBIPOC? QTBIPOC means that someone identifies as ‘Queer or Trans’ AND as a ‘Black, Indigenous Person of Color.’ Though we use these acronym throughout our work, we recognize their limitations. Additionally, we recognize that there are a wide range of identities and vocabulary that people use to describe their sexualities and genders. We honor and center people who identify as LQBTQIA2S+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or gender expansive, queer and/or questioning, intersex, asexual, two-spirit, and more).
Who is a Comrade? Comrades are folks who may not hold QTBIPOC identities but who honor and center those who are most marginalized, understanding that true liberation is collective.Instructors will reach out via email after sign up for you to complete a class intake form to enroll you in the class.May 11, May 18, June 1, June 8, June 15 & June 22
6:30-9pm
Berkeley Herbal Center
$595
- Payment plans and tuition accommodations are available upon request
About the Instructors:
Floripondio Bio: Gualikuya Mariposa (they/them) and Batul True Heart (they/them) are Two-Spirit, Queer, and Indigenous traditional healers, community herbalists, and death companions. They met in Huchiun aka Oakland in 2015 as students of Cecemmana, a three-year clinical herbalism program at Ancestral Apothecary school, founded by Atava Garcia-Swiecicki. Their friendship grew over the years as they got to know the plants, sat in ceremony, and continued to follow their ancestral medicine journeys. For years, Batul and Gualikuya have been making relations and learning with elders and other traditional healers in the practice of Cuaranderismo, a holistic, earth-based health-care system that works to keep all elements of our being in balance. For five years they co-taught the Curanderx Toolkit at Ancestral Apothecary. Through their recent project, Floripondio End of Life Planning and Services, Gualikuya and Batul offer culturally-conscious death care and education to Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and all Comrades, honoring traditional medicine practices. With deep listening, presence, and the support of the elements and their ancestors, Batul and Gualikuya specialize in holding space for individuals during times of transition. You can learn more about Floripondio here.
Gualikuya Bio: Gualikuya (they/them) is a community herbalist, death & grief companion, postpartum support person, and traditional medicine practitioner. Gualikuya is Two-Spirit, Afro-descendant, Taino and mixed European with roots in Borikén (Puerto Rico) and Poland. For over 21 years they have been providing community care with a deep commitment to our collective healing and liberation. They co-founded Floripondio End of Life Planning and Services and their own project, Remedios Healing Services. Sitting at the portals of life and death, they honor their well ancestors, the whispers of their dreams and teachings of the plants.
Batul Bio: Batul True Heart (they/them) is a Two-Spirit, Yaqui-Chicane & Panamanian descended traditional medicine practitioner, community herbalist, death companion, & emotional release practitioner. Through their co-project, Floripondio, they support dying and grieving people from an earth-based ceremonial and ancestral perspective. They are also a plant person, medicine maker, and the creator of Maaso Medicina: Flower medicine for Ancestral, Generational, & Personal Pain. Most recently they have been offering inner child work through the body via Emotional Release Therapy.
Purchase tickets at https://www.berkeleyherbalcenter.org/product/embracing-endings-for-qtbipoc-comrades/
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Berkeley Herbal Center, 1250 Addison Street, Berkeley, United States
USD 636.76
