Ancestral Medicine Practitioner Network

2024 Biennial Renewal

Welcome! We’re so glad you’ve come to renew your status with the Ancestral Medicine Practitioner Network.

WHAT’S A RENEWAL?

To stay in the network, all practitioners and trainees must engage in either Continuing Education (for practitioners) or a Renewal of Trainee Status (for those not yet certified) every two years. Renewal years are the even years: 2024, 2026, 2028, etc…

WHY DO I NEED TO RENEW?

We have no annual fee, as do other similar programs. Instead, we ask you to log your required Continuing Education (CE) hours to maintain your certification (or trainee status if you’re not yet certified) and to share some other basic information.

We have considered at times whether to charge a membership fee, and we continue in the conviction that we would rather foster a convergence of practitioners who are simply glad to be part of an international network, and who remain committed to their ongoing growth and learning. In this spirit, we request a basic ethic of honoring goodwill and a commitment to ongoing growth and learning in exchange for free membership.

HOW DO I RENEW?

We ask that you fill out a three-part form that includes a brief questionnaire. Completing the form doesn’t need to take more than 20 minutes, once every two years.

The form confirms your current contact info for the directory and documents your CE requirements.
The questionnaire helps us to better understand the roles the practices are playing in your life. It’s also an opportunity to offer feedback or make suggestions for how the organization can best serve you as a member.

THE REQUIREMENTS

Requirements for practitioners (meaning those who have completed their certification) and those who are still in training are similar but not identical. We ask that practitioners complete ten hours of continuing education, and trainees complete five, each within a two-year period.

More on what counts, deadlines, and other details below.

Why Stay In the Network?

Our intent is that the Network be personally and professionally enriching, rewarding, and full of opportunities for engagement and connection. Here’s what your free membership includes.

listing in the AM practitioner
directory

upon certification or when offering low-income sessions as a practitioner-in-training

Invitation to Network-only spaces and gatherings

including peer communities and networking, through the Ancestral Medicine Connection Space

Access to a growing archive of Continuing Education teachings

on matters of culture, ritual, and healing (currently 60+ hrs with over 75 global presenters)

Opportunities for both paid and volunteer roles

in online courses, public teachings, in-person intensives, and other forms of org support

Invitation to an Ancestral Medicine quarterly meeting

to discuss the development of the Network and larger organization

Practitioner Network monthly newsletter with invitations

to ongoing CE offerings featuring international guests along with other Network opportunities

Consideration for referrals via inquiries to AM Staff

from prospective clients, interviews, and teaching opportunities

Inclusion in and
access to the
network

an awesome, international, multi-cultural collegial group of ritualists and healers; a source of free, responsive professional support

Invitation to a practitioner network quarterly meeting

to AM practitioner network quarterly meeting

General Requirements for Practitioner Network Membership

All practitioners and trainees must:

Bring a spirit of collegial respect to AM staff and others in the Practitioner Network

Be willing to engage directly, in good faith, and in a timely way to seek resolution of any concerns that arise with AM policies, staff, or colleagues

Adhere to the Ancestral Healing Practitioner Code of Ethics

Adhere to policies in the current Ancestral Lineage Healing Practitioner Training Manual

Adhere to requirements for the certification process and ongoing Network membership

Summary of requirements and due dates:

To the heart of the matter, for ongoing membership, every other year:

Practitioners must complete ten hours of Continuing Education
Trainees must complete five hours of Continuing Education + one hour-long ancestral healing check-in session with a certified AM practitioner that includes a reflection on that session in your renewal form (we call this your Renewal of Trainee Status or RTS)
All practitioners and trainees from Cohorts One-Six are required in 2024 to attend:

- Wed, Sept 11, 2024 Continuing Education session co-anchored by Daniel Foor and Shannon Willis. If you’re unable to join live, you can listen to the recording afterward or read the transcription and then comment here in the Network Discussion Space to receive credit.

Cohorts One-Six (2016 – 2023) requirements are due on or before December 31, 2024. Any approved learning from Jan 1, 2023 – Dec 31, 2024 can apply.

Please note: If you are currently a trainee from Cohorts 1-6 and you anticipate completing your certification in 2024, you can either opt for the 5-hour RTS process pre-certification; or complete the remaining five for 10 CEU hours at any point afterward and complete that version of the form by the end of 2024.

What counts as a CE credit?

One hour = one credit.

Continuing Education that can be applied toward your requirements include teachings, trainings, and/or mentorship in:

Ritual arts
Cultural and/or family healing
Somatics and body-focused healing
History, language, and work for systemic change
Supporting Ancestral Medicine Practitioner Training intensives, online courses, or in-person intensives
Engagement with Continuing Education teachings available to you for free through the Practitioner Network portal, provided those teachings were not previously in your training and you’re seeking out topics that address gaps in your cultural knowledge
Major creative and/or ritual undertakings that require developing new capacities

If cost is a barrier to fulfilling your requirements, let us know.
We’re committed to this process being both accessible and truly useful. If you have something in mind, and you’re not sure if it will count toward your requirements, please email minerva@ancestralmedicine.org.

We humbly ask that you proactively take care of the relevant requirements as we are a small team that takes no delight in pestering Network members.
If the Dec 31, 2024 deadline passes and, after repeated efforts, we are still unable to reach you, after a one-month grace period we will move the status of your certification to inactive (starting Feb 1, 2025). After another five months (Jul 1, 2025), if requirements are not remedied, you will be removed from the Network.

Membership Renewal Form

Ancestral Medicine Practitioner Network 2024

This form has three sections:
Section 1: Basic information + questionnaire (same for everyone)
Section 2: CE requirements (you select which applies to you, the Practitioner or Trainee version)
Section 3: Request for feedback (same for everyone)

Your results will not be saved along the way.
For this reason, we recommend completing everything all at once only after you’ve completed your requirements.

What to expect:
Click through to the link and fill out the form > then submit it. You’ll receive an auto-reply to acknowledge that we received your form, and we’ll follow up with a personalized response typically in 2-3 weeks.

If anything about this process or form is unclear, please contact minerva@ancestralmedicine.org.

Basic Information & Questionnaire (Section #1 of 3)

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Basic Information

Name(Required)

First Last

Email(Required)

Use your most up to date email that you would like Ancestral Medicine to use for all communications; if we have a different email on record, we will change your contact to match the email you enter here.

In what country or countries do you currently reside?(Required)

Have you completed your certification process?(Required)

If you’re not yet certified, have you received permission from Ancestral Medicine to begin to guide public sessions as a trainee?(Required)

Is completion of your certification process an active goal for you? If not, please say a little on why not. If so, are there ways we can help?(Required)

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Confirm Your Directory Profile & Tags are Current

If, for any reason, you are not currently listed in the Practitioner Directory, feel free to disregard this section.

Otherwise, please make sure your directory info is current:

1) Visit the directory and check your bio pic and bio. If you like what’s there, no action needed. If you have updates, please send them to minerva@ancestralmedicine.org<. Photos should be square and at least 300x300p. Bios can be up to 100 words.

2) Go here to see your tags. You’ll also be able to see the tags others have selected. To help, we also created a fake profile for a fictional highly multicultural demi-god called “A+ Culture Person.” Click on your profile, and on A+ Culture Person to see all the tags selected and possible. If you’d like to update your tags, email minerva@ancestralmedicine.org with your new preferences.

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Questionnaire

These questions are only for information gathering and help Ancestral Medicine to understand the impact and reach of Ancestral Lineage Healing practices.

Questionnaire

These questions are only for information gathering and help Ancestral Medicine to understand the impact and reach of Ancestral Lineage Healing practices.

Please estimate how many public sessions of Ancestral Lineage Healing you’ve guided since Jan 1, 2023(Required)

Have you done any ALH introductory teachings or talks since Jan 1, 2023? If so, anything you’d like to share about how those went?(Required)

Have you guided any circles/group process in ALH since Jan 1, 2023? If so, how did they go? If not, is this something you’re actively considering?(Required)

Have you guided any other teachings that center or strongly include ALH that were carried out in dialogue with Ancestral Medicine staff since Jan 1, 2023? If so, please say a little about what those were and how they went.(Required)

Have you guided any other teachings that center or strongly include ALH that were not done in dialogue with Ancestral Medicine since Jan 1, 2023? If so, please say a little about what those were and how they went.(Required)

Are there any other projects (e.g., writing, art, research) that strongly include ALH that feel important to mention?(Required)

Anything else you’d like us to understand about how you’re utilizing what you learned through the training or about the reach of the work?(Required)

Remember that Ancestral Medicine has modest grant money/stipends for folks to bring ALH work into new environments. We also have some funds to support new translations of the book into languages not already represented (German, Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, etc).

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Continuing Education Requirement (Section #2 of 3)

This section will appear after you answer above “Have you completed your certification process?” as the info is different for practitioner and practitioners-in-training.

Continuing Education (10 hours, only for Certified Practitioners)

How have you fulfilled your 10 required CEU hours in the period from Jan 1, 2023 - Dec 31, 2024? Note that 2.5 hours of this time will be accounted for with the required teaching and ancestral check-in (details below). For each submission/source of continuing education, please share 1)the nature of the learning, 2)approximate dates (month is fine), and 3)amount/hours spent. Please also share a short reflection (at least two sentences and a short paragraph or two is plenty) on the ways in which this continuing education supported your learning as a practitioner of ancestral healing arts.(Required)

One hour of the 10 required includes you checking in with your ancestors about your relationship to them and to this particular body of work/practices. This can occur solo or with any practitioner of your choosing. The intent is to make sure you’re keeping pathways of relationship open and clear with them and also with the organization. Please share a few reflections from the check-in with your people (inc. any ways this relates to your ongoing membership in the Ancestral Medicine Practitioner Network).(Required)

One hour and a half of the CE requirement for certified practitioners consists of the Required All-Network CE Teaching teaching co-led by Daniel Foor and Shannon Willis on Wed, Sept 11, 2024 from 12-1:30pm Vancouver // 3-4:30pm New York // 21:00-22:30 Berlin. This Network-wide gathering will cover important organizational developments, but mostly center common challenges in the ALH practice and ways to remedy those challenges. If you’re unable to join live, you can receive credit through listening to the recording (found in the Network Portal - see link below) and posting a reflection in the Network Discussion Space (see link below). If you are completing this form before Sept 11, 2024, just note that you won’t receive a final approval until after the September gathering (we take attendance) but you can still complete and submit this form with everything else.(Required)

Links: Network Portal Recording & Network Discussion Space

Renewal of Trainee Status (5 hours, only for Trainees/Practitioners-in-Training)

How have you filled your 5 total hours of continuing education required for the RTS in the period from Jan 1, 2023 - Dec 31, 2024? Note that half of this time (2.5 hours) will be accounted for with the required teaching and ancestral session (details below).(Required)

For each submission/source of continuing education, please share 1)the nature of the learning, 2)approximate dates (month is fine), and 3)amount/hours spent. Please also share a short reflection (at least two sentences and a short paragraph or two is plenty) on the ways in which this continuing education supported your learning as a practitioner of ancestral healing arts.

One hour of the 5 RTS hours includes you checking in with your ancestors about both your relationship to them and to this body of work/practices. This needs to occur through one session with any certified practitioner in the AM Network. Please share with whom you completed your one-hour session and a few self-reflective highlights from this check-in with your people (including ways this relates to your ongoing certification process/the AM Practitioner Network).(Required)

One hour and a half of the RTS requirement consists of the teaching co-led by Daniel Foor and Shannon Willis on Wed, Sept 11, 2024 from 12-1:30pm Vancouver // 3-4:30pm New York // 21:00-22:30 Berlin. This Network-wide gathering will cover important organizational developments, but mostly center common challenges in the ALH practice and ways to remedy those challenges. If you’re unable to join live, you can receive credit through listening to the recording (found in the Network Portal - see link below) and posting a reflection in the Network Discussion Space (see link below). If you are completing this form before Sept 11, 2024, just note that you won’t receive a final approval until after the September gathering (we take attendance) but you can still complete and submit this form with everything else.(Required)

Links: Network Portal Recording & Network Discussion Space

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Feedback for Ancestral Medicine Staff (Section #3 of 3)

Is there anything you would like AM Staff to know about your experience of fulfilling your Continuing Education or Renewal of Trainee Status this cycle?(Required)

How is your general feeling about the direction of the organization and the Ancestral Medicine Practitioner Network? Feel welcome to elaborate.(Required)

Are there things you have found challenging with the organization in the past two years that feel unresolved or that you’d like us to know about? Feel welcome, if you’d like, to also suggest remedies.(Required)

We also welcome entirely new ideas and inspirations. Anything you’ve wondered about that you’d just like to pass along?(Required)

Any final thoughts, reflections, feedback, or ways you feel we could more fully inhabit our values and mission in the world?(Required)

Ancestral Medicine Practitioner Network

2024 Biennial Renewal

WHAT’S A RENEWAL?

WHY DO I NEED TO RENEW?

HOW DO I RENEW?

THE REQUIREMENTS

Why Stay In the Network?

listing in the AM practitioner directory

Invitation to Network-only spaces and gatherings

Access to a growing archive of Continuing Education teachings

Opportunities for both paid and volunteer roles

Invitation to an Ancestral Medicine quarterly meeting

Practitioner Network monthly newsletter with invitations

Consideration for referrals via inquiries to AM Staff

Inclusion in and access to the network

Invitation to a practitioner network quarterly meeting

General Requirements for Practitioner Network Membership

Summary of requirements and due dates:

What counts as a CE credit?

Membership Renewal Form

Ancestral Medicine Practitioner Network 2024

Basic Information & Questionnaire (Section #1 of 3)

Basic Information

Basic Information

Confirm Your Directory Profile & Tags are Current

Confirm Your Directory Profile & Tags are Current

Questionnaire

Questionnaire

Continuing Education Requirement (Section #2 of 3)

Continuing Education Requirement (Section #2 of 3)

Continuing Education (10 hours, only for Certified Practitioners)

Renewal of Trainee Status (5 hours, only for Trainees/Practitioners-in-Training)

Feedback for Ancestral Medicine Staff (Section #3 of 3)

Feedback for Ancestral Medicine Staff (Section #3 of 3)

listing in the AM practitioner
directory

Inclusion in and
access to the
network