Clan Gatherings
Cultural Group Therapy Sessions
In Celtic-Gaelic languages, the word ‘Clan’ holds great significance. Its direct translation means ‘children,’ the ones who’s decent is interwoven with each other, within the fabric of the great grandmother, An Cailleach’s tartan. In Gaelic lores clans were not determined by blood, but by kinship. It is in honour of these woven kinship threads that Mollie invites you to her Clan Gatherings; cultural group therapy sessions to explore the blood and heart.
Mollie seeks to ensure all folk have access to cultural wellbeing that reconnects to cultural lores, integrates intergenerational grief and trauma, redefines family and community connection, sits comfortably with death and decolonises relationship with self, others and our world. Every session, a theme relating to ancestral reconnection and cultural wellbeing is chosen to gently guide conversation in a group setting, allowing kin to share their experiences of this journey in a culturally safe, trauma-informed and therapeutic space.
Sitting in the Womb of Death
Processing Grief & Loss
This session is all about getting cosy with grief, death and loss. In our modern world, many of us have become separated from the true nature of death which has taught us to fear her presence. Not allowing space for grief can be harmful and rids us of the opportunity to honour the losses in our lives which remind us of our capacity for connection and love. Cultural grieving returns us to spaces where connections can be formed in our darkest hours. Join us this March as we sit in the womb of death….
March 21st 7pm-9pm, East Geelong
Fractured Lineages
Reauthoring Cultural Dismemberment and Finding Belonging in the Diaspora
Who are you if you neither belong to the lands you live on, nor live on the lands from which your blood runs? How do we as kin of the southern diaspora grapple with the grief and trauma of cultural dismemberment in this liminal ‘no man’s land?’ This month, join us in this online gathering as we speak to the experiences of grief and trauma from bloodlines of cultural dismemberment, and how we can begin to integrate and re-weave these intergenerational stories as part of our unique cultural narrative.
June 20th 7pm-9pm, Online
