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Friday, October 10, 2025
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Southern Berkshires Friends Meeting
Facilitated by Stella Metzner
Allyship & Ancestral Healing
Family Constellation Workshop
Friday, October 10, 2025 | 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Allyship & Ancestral Healing
Family Constellation Workshop
Friday, October 10, 2025 | 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
This workshop is intentionally designed for white-identified community members who are engaging in the lifelong practice of allyship with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities. Grounded in the understanding that meaningful solidarity begins within, this healing circle offers a space to explore the intergenerational impacts of colonization, ancestral disconnection, and inherited patterns of privilege and harm.
Guided by Stella Metzner, a skilled practitioner of Family Constellation work, participants will engage a therapeutic modality rooted in systems thinking, ancestral healing, and embodied ritual. While often used to support individual healing, Family Constellation is also a profoundly powerful tool for community and collective transformation. Through somatic insight, storytelling, and group constellations, we will bring to light hidden dynamics that live beneath the surface of our lives and lineages.
This gathering will focus on the ancestral healing work needed for white-identified allies to step more fully into responsible and embodied partnership with Indigenous and BIPOC communities. Together, we will reckon with the grief and disconnection many of us carry from our own Indigenous European roots—whether Celtic, Slavic, Jewish, Nordic, or other—and reflect on the complex legacies of both colonizer and colonized within our family histories.
This circle is offered in preparation for our annual Indigenous Peoples’ Day Prayers for the Housatonic River Gathering on October 13th, as a way to deepen the integrity of our allyship through personal transformation, cultural remembrance, and collective truth-telling.