In Writing with the Ancestors, attendees will be guided on how to foster a relationship with their elevated ancestors and experience a healing through writing practice. Participants will also gain access to the Ancestor In Training Syllabus, and a digital journal with bonus prompts to support their journey as Ancestors in Training.

Ancestors in Training (AIT) is an educational project and lived experience that centers sacred traditions, new technologies, intergenerational healing, and grief work. Evolving with the times, AIT as a praxis examines how to apply the lessons of the past as a means to shape a better present, and future for those that come after us. Through inquiry-based creative processes, critical race and media theories, and archival memory - Ancestors In Training allows all those who enter to leave with a better sense of self and how they relate to the world.

A smiling person wearing a bright green coat with hair in red-brown coils to her shoulders is lit by a late afternoon sun. photo credit: Victor Castro

About the Artist:

Veronica Agard (Ifáṣadùn Fásanmí) (she/her) is a poet, writer, community educator, and connector at the intersections of Black identity, wellness, representation, and culture. She experiments with creative healing modalities and puts theories learned into practice. She curated the Who Heals the Healer series and the conference of the same name and facilitates the Ancestors in Training educational project. Her initiatives are housed in her freelance platform, Vera Icon LLC. Described as living in the future, Veronica is guided by the past, and carries out her dreams in the present.