Featured Speaker: Saturday Lunch Keynote Address
Circle Wisdom and Ritual in Community Constellation; Workshop 3A (with Francesca Mason Boring)
Cosmology, Culture and Constellations; Workshop 1D (with Carolyn Zahner, MSW, LISW)
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Before his birth, in 1956, the elders of Malidoma’s village knew that his purpose in coming into this world was to carry the message of indigenous technology and spirituality to the western world, a place where modernity was growing increasingly hungry for a reconnection to ancient wisdom. Little did he know, as a young child stolen from his family and village, that the years he would spend under the harsh tutelage of the religious order would prepare the way for the eventual challenge of integrating old and new, the sacred and the mundane. For more than twenty years, Malidoma Somé has shared the wisdom of his ancestors and tribal elders, awakening a deep knowing in the hearts and bones of those who have recognized in his name, his books, his voice, the spirit world inviting the renewal of a powerful and abiding relationship with all beings on earth.
He has earned two PhD’s, from the Sorbonne, in Paris, and Brandeis University, in Boston. Dr. Somé is also an initiated elder in his village in Dano, Burkina Faso, W. Africa. He travels throughout the world bringing a message of hope, healing and reconciliation through the powerful tools of ritual and community building. Through his lectures and the introduction of ritual in a way that the western psyche can embrace, Malidoma offers life-altering medicine and the opportunity to explore the meaning of purpose within one’s community.
Publications
Ritual: Power, Healing and Community
Of Water and The Spirit
The Healing Wisdom of Africa
Numerous other books and publications