Past Programs
Healing the Colonizer Mind Workshop Series
We at Interhelp were very pleased to partner with Louise Dunlap to offer a Healing The Colonizer Mind workshop series in 2024. We offered four workshops that explored topics from Louise’s book Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind and followed the spiral of the Work That Reconnects. We are grateful for the opportunity this series provided for cross-pollination between the communities that Louise works with and the Interhelp community. Here’s what some people said about their experience:
“This is perhaps the most powerful zoom event I have participated in.”
“I so appreciated the community space to acknowledge the legacy burdens of ancestral wounding and perpetrator grief. It served to dissipate some of the loneliness I carry around these things.”
“I felt so much less alone at the end of the three hours. I can’t believe how it flew by. Thank you so very much.”
Colonizer mind is an orientation that has caused deep wounding, suffering, and destruction to not only Indigenous peoples and the earth, but also in different ways to the perpetrators of these massive harms. Dismantling mindsets that view some humans as superior to other life and subsequently are entitled to dominate is essential work for these times. This workshop series was a powerful opportunity to do some of the necessary deep inner and outer work of healing the colonizer mind. We are so grateful for this opportunity to learn with Louise and from her wise eldership.
Interhelp was glad to be able to cover some of the overhead of the series (several hundred hours went into the preparation for and facilitation of these workshops and some of these hours were volunteered and some were paid by Interhelp) so that participants could attend these four workshops with no registration fee. Instead, participants were encouraged to make a contribution in an amount of their choosing to an Indigenous cause or organization as a material act of support.