April 18, 2025 – July 8, 2025
Bloodlines & Boundaries
Ancestral Liberation amidst the Fall of Patriarchy
A 12-Week Journey into the Wounds of Patriarchy & the Reclamation of Sovereignty
There are wounds older than our names, stitched into the fabric of our bloodlines, woven through the stories our ancestors never had the chance to tell. Patriarchy is not just a system—it is an inheritance, a spectral weight pressing against our ribcages, shaping the way we love, grieve, and move through the world.
Over the next twelve weeks, we will embark on a deep excavation of the ways patriarchy has shaped our personal and ancestral landscapes. This is not just an intellectual inquiry—it is an embodied reckoning, a way of listening to the echoes of our foremothers and forefathers and discerning what belongs to us and what was imposed upon us.
This is for those who have felt the weight of history in their bones, who have seen the patterns repeat in their families, who have burned out fighting systems of harm, and who long for a way to untangle themselves from the web without severing the thread of connection.
This is about remembering what patriarchy tried to make us forget: that sovereignty is not an individual endeavor, but a deeply rooted, ancestral reclamation.
The mother-child relationship can be seen as the first relationship violated by patriarchy.
Together, we will:
Unravel the Historical Threads
Understanding the origins of patriarchal structures and their impact across generations.
Trace the
Inheritance
Exploring how the wounds of our parents, their parents, and their parents before them have shaped the ways we relate, love, and move through the world.
Engage in Shadow & Inner Child Work
Healing the ways patriarchy has fractured our personal sovereignty and disrupted our ability to self-govern with clarity and agency.
Reclaim Power & Boundaries
Developing tools to navigate cultural toxins, hold space for our own healing, and resist burnout in justice-oriented work.
Work with Elevated Ancestors & Helping Spirits
Calling upon ancestral wisdom and spiritual allies to facilitate deep, lineage-based healing.
At the end of this course, you will step forward with a clearer sense of sovereignty—rooted, unshaken, able to stand amidst the cultural wreckage with both resilience and tenderness.
You will have the tools to discern what is yours to carry and what is not, how to engage in transformation without losing yourself, and how to be a vessel of healing without burning to ash in the process.
Are you ready to remember?
Schedule
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Course Elements
- Opening Call: Tuesday, April 22nd
- 1st lesson released Friday, April 18th
- 12 pre-recorded lessons released each week on Friday afternoons 5:00pm EST.
- 12 Live 60-minute Q&A calls each Tuesday where we will gather as a community. In this space we will gather for deeper connection to the work at hand, leave spaciousness for questions and drop into ritual space to further the work as a community.
- Private Community Space An online forum hosted on Mighty Networks where we will gather virtually to deepen our connection with the work and each other. There will be a feed to ask questions about content, connect with other participants, and share experiences as you navigate through the material.
Lesson Content
Lesson One: Foundations of Patriarchal Wounding
- Uprooting: Patriarchy from historical perspective
- Personal and cultural implications
- Ritual embodiment strategies for healthy containment and release
Lesson Two: Personal Relationship to Patriarchy
- Archetypal & attachment styles and expressions of patriarchy
- Partnering with a Spirit ally for rooted healing
- Ritual for grounding, clearing and protection
Lesson Three: Unraveling Patriarchal and Personal Bias
- Discerning historical loss and defining grief passages
- Exploring cultural and personal obstacles to healing
- Ritual for transformation and titrating felt harms
Lesson Four: Wounded Healer: Meeting Your Eternal Child
- Navigating your inner child
- Sourcing wounded scripts and dismantling outdated strategies
- Ritual of reclaiming Sacred Mother
Lesson Five: Ritual Skills for Personal healing
- Foundations of sovereignty
- Creating balance through honoring current pathways
- Ritual for returning sovereignty
Lesson Six: Understanding Your Unique Ancestral Narrative
- Foundations of ancestral practice addressing cultural and intergenerational harms in relation to patriarchy
- Inventory of perceived/felt known patterns of your people
- Ritual for ancestral connection to a elevated blood lineage ancestor
Lesson Seven: Rooted Healing: Reclaiming Ancestral Practices
- Reclaiming practices of sovereignty and matrilineal wisdoms through ancestral mentorship
- Understanding narratives/nature of patriarchal burdens and their impact on your ancestors
- Ritual to repair personal & ancestral cultural harms
Lesson Eight:Ritual Containment from Felt Harms
- Discerning levels of harm woven into relational ways of showing up
- Navigating the space between embodiment and ancestral support
- Creating ritual containment from felt harms
Lesson Nine: Holding Sacred Grief
- Discerning personal and sourced ancestral grief
- Navigating grief through ritual embodiment and ancestral support
- Ritual for witnessing and honoring sacred grief
Lesson Ten: Forgiveness as Ritual
- Foundations of forgiveness
- Restorative and ritual considerations
- Forgiveness Ritual
Lesson Eleven: Towards Cultural Healing
- Defining your role in the larger collective healing
- Safety considerations – calibrating somatic awareness
- Ritual for extending blessings for personal and collective healing
Lesson Twelve: Emanation
- Vision of Restoration
- Somatic embodiment of newly claimed/informed principles
- Consecrating Holy belonging
Lesson 1: Foundations of Patriarchal Wounding
- Uprooting: Patriarchy from historical perspective
- Personal and cultural implications
- Ritual embodiment strategies for healthy containment and release
Lesson 2: Personal Relationship to Patriarchy
- Archetypal & attachment styles and expressions of patriarchy
- Partnering with a Spirit ally for rooted healing
- Ritual for grounding, clearing and protection
Lesson 3: Unraveling Patriarchal and Personal Bias
- Discerning historical loss and defining grief passages
- Exploring cultural and personal obstacles to healing
- Ritual for transformation and titrating felt harms
Lesson 4: Wounded Healer: Meeting Your Eternal Child
- Navigating your inner child
- Sourcing wounded scripts and dismantling outdated strategies
- Ritual of reclaiming Sacred Mother
Lesson 5: Ritual Skills for Personal healing
- Foundations of sovereignty
- Creating balance through honoring current pathways
- Ritual for returning sovereignty
Lesson 6: Understanding Your Unique Ancestral Narrative
- Foundations of ancestral practice addressing cultural and intergenerational harms in relation to patriarchy
- Inventory of perceived/felt known patterns of your people
- Ritual for ancestral connection to a elevated blood lineage ancestor
Lesson 7: Rooted Healing: Reclaiming Ancestral Practices
- Reclaiming practices of sovereignty and matrilineal wisdoms through ancestral mentorship
- Understanding narratives/nature of patriarchal burdens and their impact on your ancestors
- Ritual to repair personal & ancestral cultural harms
Lesson 8: Ritual Containment from Felt Harms
- Discerning levels of harm woven into relational ways of showing up
- Navigating the space between embodiment and ancestral support
- Creating ritual containment from felt harms
Lesson 9: Holding Sacred Grief
- Discerning personal and sourced ancestral grief
- Navigating grief through ritual embodiment and ancestral support
- Ritual for witnessing and honoring sacred grief
Lesson 10: Forgiveness as Ritual
- Foundations of forgiveness
- Restorative and ritual considerations
- Forgiveness Ritual
Lesson 11: Towards Cultural Healing
- Defining your role in the larger collective healing
- Safety considerations – calibrating somatic awareness
- Ritual for extending blessings for personal and collective healing
Lesson 12: Emanation
- Vision of Restoration
- Somatic embodiment of newly claimed/informed principles
- Consecrating Holy belonging
INVESTMENT
This course is offered on a sliding scale. Please provide an offering that best represents your financial considerations. If you need a reduction beyond what is provided or a payment plan, please reach out directly to shannon@redearthhealing.org
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About the Instructor
Shannon Willis, M.Ed
Shannon is a dedicated animist and ritualist, helping others achieve clarity, connection and rootedness through the exploration of liminal landscapes of the seen and unseen. Through heart-centered ritual aimed at re-establishing balance and personal sovereignty, her work is found at the intersection of dream midwifery, oracular mediumship, ritual and ancestral reverence.
She lives on the historic lands of the Creek/Muskogee Peoples in Athens, Ga. Her recent and older people of blood and bone hail from the England, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium, France, West Africa and Cherokee and Kaskaskia/Illini nations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this course for me?
This great question came in! I’ve examined power and control dynamics, the root cause of which is patriarchy across cultural and personal lines of race, gender, age, ability, religious affinity and more through trauma-informed approaches for most of my professional life. As we are all affected by it, It applies to everyone, and because of this, with heartfelt enthusiasm, I offer this course to everyone regardless of gender in earnest hope of bringing clarity and healing for personal and collective harmony. consequatur.
Where did the notion “culture love and mutuality” come from?
“Culture of love and mutuality” is a concept coined by bell hooks, acclaimed feminist theorist, She explains that patriarchy is organized around domination and power, whereas feminism is organized around a culture of love and mutuality.
Will we be focusing on a particular blood lineage to bring to wellness?
Yes, this course is designed to address a blood lineage Ancestral line which has the most significant impact to you as it relates to patriarchal wounding. This can be a lineage that you have previously brought to wellness through the Ancestral Medicine lineage healing approach, or one you have yet to address.
When does the course start and finish?
The course begins Friday, April 18th with the first lesson release. The course ends on Tuesday, July 8th with the last Q&A call.
You mention integration weeks in the schedule, what do you mean by that?
There are 13 calls and 12 lessons full of potent content throughout the course. Having offered this both in person and online, we discovered that it is beneficial to take a breather from time to time to allow for integration and resourcing. Scheduled breaks will be the week of August 22nd and September 26th-October 9th.
How long do I have access to the course?
How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like – across any and all devices you own.
Are refunds possible if I’m unhappy with the course?
A full refund is available for up to 30 days after the course begins. If helpful, please reach out as I would like to see if it’s possible to make the course work for you. Of course, you are welcome to the refund as well with no questions asked.
Are there pre-requisites to enroll in this course?
Prior experience with personal healing work and spiritual practice is recommended and includes skilled experience with navigating interpersonal terrain through journeying and having a deepening relationship with spiritual allies (such as helping spirits, elevated ancestors, deities and other unseen sources of support, If you’ve yet to have this requirement and would like support with this, please reach out and we can book a session together before the course begins.
What if I can’t make the live Zoom calls?
All Zoom calls will be recorded and made available within 48 hours in the course portal.