Healing Generational Trauma
Healing Generational Trauma
Healing Generational Trauma is an experiential journey into our multigenerational stories, memories, and family lineages. Through storytelling, embodied awareness, and collective exploration, we uncover patterns and insights that can help us understand our past in new ways.
We explore how ancestral experiences and adaptations may have shaped our beliefs, relationships, identities, and ways of responding to life. By bringing these stories into conscious awareness, we create space for new perspectives, greater compassion, and generational healing.
With intentional, embodied attunement, we connect with both conscious and innate aspects of our ancestral origins. Universal themes can emerge, revealing the ways our stories connect us to one another.
These gatherings create a safe, witnessing environment for collective healing. They also offer opportunities to reconnect with ancestral wisdom and deepen our sense of belonging and purpose.
Michael describes these experiences as “Soul Archaeology”—a process of exploring the layers of our past to discover the stories, wisdom, and meaning held within them.
Discover New Perspectives Through Your Family Stories
Sessions may include:
- Guided meditation
- Small-group processes
- Journaling
- Storytelling
- Expressive arts
Through the ancient art of oral storytelling, we cultivate stories that can teach, inspire, and support healing.
Sharing Our Family Stories, Traditions & Origins Can Help Us Heal
Experience how Healing Generational Trauma can help you:
- Overcome barriers between different cultural backgrounds and discover common ground
- Understand how ancestral adaptations may have shaped survival patterns
- Explore and heal ancestral trauma through collective healing and resilience
- Uncover deeper lessons and gain new perspectives on old wounds
- Expand your sense of belonging, meaning, and acceptance
- Deepen your respect for different cultural lineages and traditions
- Reframe historical narratives and reshape your sense of meaning
- Clarify what you want to contribute and how you can serve and inspire others
- Remember and honor the wholeness of your experience and the gifts of your ancestors
Be Guided in Exploring Your Generational Story
- Accessing, tracking, and integrating multigenerational lineage stories
- Exploring how these stories affect the body and emotional experience
- Discovering universal themes and truths that connect and unify us
- Exploring inherited trauma through mindful witnessing in a safe, collective setting
- Creating more positive and empowering beliefs about your history
- Letting go of shame and negative internalized beliefs
- Developing compassion for yourself and your ancestors
- Honoring your inherited lineage while staying true to your own core truths
- Valuing and celebrating both multicultural similarities and differences
- Connecting more deeply with your body and the land and cultures you come from
- Moving toward greater wholeness and belonging
- Finding greater clarity, purpose, wisdom, and meaning in your life
The Stories We Carry
Collective storytelling creates an opportunity to explore these stories together. By sharing our experiences, we can discover connections between our individual lives and the larger stories of our families, cultures, and ancestors.
Stories We Explore Together
- Love, grief, joy, and anger
- Grandparents and extended family legacies
- Names, characters, and family identities
- Migration patterns
- Villages, cities, occupations, and socioeconomic legacies
- Ancestral geography and migration
- Generational trauma and adaptive resilience
- Inherited cultures, songs, beliefs, and traditions
- Ancestral wisdom and generational healing
- Family loyalties, alignments, and burdens
- Explicit memories and somatic or implicit memory experiences