Skills for Healthy Conflict and Boundaries
with Dr. Daniel Foor
A four-part series from Dr. Daniel Foor
This course is on demand, and may be enjoyed at your own pace.
About the Course
Life brings plenty of opportunity to face conflict and assert healthy boundaries. Avoiding the natural flow of conflict can bring greater trouble, as will an attachment to argument or confrontational intensity. How we welcome and engage with all unavoidable aspects of life, including conflict, is no small matter. Our capacity to respond may define the course of our life and destiny.
Conflict is both inevitable and essential to fulfilling our potential here on Earth.
– Daniel Foor
Welcome Conflict, Set Boundaries
This series offers four lessons on practices to understand and navigate conflict. Teachings draw from psychology, animist ethics, diverse lineages of ritual, and immersive life training that is marriage and parenting children. The approach to the material will be grounded, culturally inclusive, and kind toward those living with hardships like relational abuse, systemic oppression, and other forms of acute danger.
The course is appropriate for anyone seeking personal growth and support, for professionals and practitioners of healing arts, and for those who wish to explore the tumultuous potential of sacred conflict. Each lesson will include multiple opportunities for guided practice and Q&A, shared in a kind and relaxed learning environment.
Four recorded 90-minute lessons, plus a bonus teaching
Access to four annual live Q&A calls with Daniel
Guided, experiential practices with each lesson
Extensive additional resources featuring diverse voices
Lifetime access to all course materials
Access to a dedicated community discussion space
Course Curriculum
Lesson One: Conflict with Spirits, Deities, and Other-than-Human Kin
- Expand on usual explorations of conflict by engaging animist perspectives
- Learn relational, Earth-honoring sensibilities for respectful conflict and killing
- Reflect on your impacts on others with a spirit of humility and gratitude
- Practice kindly turning toward the killing that you already practice to live
Lesson Two: Expanding Our Vocabulary and Skills for Conflict
- Explore and expand on threat responses of fight, flight, freeze, and fawn
- Assess your style and capacity for conflict with intent to notice growth edges
- Reflect on family and cultural conditioning around conflict and boundaries
- Practice meeting fear and threat with abundant resourcing and support
Lesson Three: Tough Teachers, Destiny, and Courage
- Learn how embracing conflict may be critical for fulfilling your destiny
- Consider the greater and lesser deaths required to live a spirit-guided life
- Explore helpful and harmful effects of viewing threats as a type of teacher
- Practice curiosity about the tough teachers between you and your potential
Lesson Four: Boundaries, Intimacy, and Non-Duality
- Deepen into non-dual or mystical orientations to healthy conflict and boundaries
- Reflect on your own capacities for open-hearted fierceness and limit-setting
- Identify ways to consciously embrace what is holy about conflict moving forward
- Practice assertion of clear boundaries from a stance of profound interconnection
For a limited time, add Inhabiting the Times for 15% off
Through June, add this six-part series to your purchase and enjoy 15% off both.
This course is for activists, thinkers, ritualists committed to cultural change, and anyone who wishes to engage in an embodied inquiry into six key persistent cultural troubles, and the pragmatic actions and antidotes to each. Both courses support each other when enjoyed together. You’ll learn ways to effectively resource yourself to work for systemic change by better understanding the intersections of ritual, psychology and complex systems.
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Enjoy both Inhabiting the Times and Skills for Healthy Conflict and Boundaries for 15% off when purchased together. This offer is good for a limited time only. Usually $240.
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Get both Animist Psychology ($165) and Rituals for Healing Trauma ($75) at 15% off if you purchase them together for a limited time only. This rate is good through March 31, 2025.
Daniel Foor
Daniel is a doctor of psychology, experienced ritualist, and the author of Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing. He is an initiate in the Òrìṣà tradition of Yoruba-speaking West Africa and has learned from teachers of Mahayana Buddhism, Islamic Sufism, and the older ways of his English and German ancestors. Daniel is passionate about training aspiring leaders and change makers in the intersections of cultural healing, animist ethics, and applied ritual arts. He lives with his wife and two daughters near Granada, Spain in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Frequently Asked Questions
This course is designed to explore mental health and ritual topics through an animist lens, and participants may find themselves reflecting on tender or vulnerable topics like trauma, bonding, psychosis, and belonging. The course is not a replacement for direct, living support and/or professional medical advice, and enrollment does automatically include access to our Community Forum—an online discussion group of students past and present, including supportive members from Ancestral Medicine’s Practitioner Network and Ancestral Medicine staff. Sharing experiences, reflecting on practices, and making connections in this private online community can provide one form of support.
Ancestral Medicine offerings are rooted in feminist, decolonizing, anti-racist, LGBTQI-friendly, class-aware, international, Earth-honoring ethics and a heart-aware and non-dogmatic spirit that seeks to honor each participant’s unique life experiences and ancestral storylines. Resources included with each lesson favor ancestrally and geographically diverse voices both within and outside the field of psychology, and the online Community Forum includes BIPOC and LGBTQ-only discussion spaces.
All of our lesson videos have auto-generated closed captioning, as well as a full transcript and additional downloadable audio-only versions. If you have needs not met here, please feel free to reach out to us with suggestions at info@ancestralmedicine.org.
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