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.
The clan gatherings are cultural group therapy sessions I run each quarter for kin of the southern diaspora (Australia and New Zealand). At each gathering there is a prompt given which allows kin the space to validate and gather with each other as each shares their lived experience of this topic in a culturally safe, trauma-informed and therapeutic space. These are spaces I facilitate in honour of people’s sovereignty through lived wisdom, which allows for the rich and beautiful diversity of ancestral connection to be felt within community relationship.
Ancestral Song
Remembering the Sacred lores, Folk Practices and Stories of Lineage
Our final Clan Gathering for 2026 will be held right in time for the Spring Equinox, a perfect moment to meet our ancestors at the threshold. This month we will be speaking about the sacred lores and traditions which define cultural relationship. Here we will be exploring what lores we have forgotten through loss of language, folk practice and ancient mythologies, and why it is important we remember them again for modern times. This is a chance for clan and kin to re-member the dismembered folk lores and memory held within their bloodlines.
September 17th, 7pm-9pm AEST (Online)
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 18th 7pm-9pm AEST, Online
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….