Parts of
a Whole
Bridging Parts Work,
Cultural Healing, and Earth Connection
EIGHT MONDAYS
12PM LA | 3PM NYC | 21:00 BERLIN
BEGINNING APRIL 7
About the Course
In this eight-part series, join us to explore the intersection of personal healing, cultural awareness, and spirituality. The course invites you to expand your understanding of parts work—a therapeutic approach that honors the complexity of our inner world—to include alignment with animist, Earth-honoring values and anti-oppressive activism change work. Together, we will engage in practices that deepen personal healing while cultivating a broader sense of cultural and ecological responsibility.
Wholeness calls for making space in our hearts for contradiction, difference, and all that we would exile from our lives and the world.
– Daniel Foor
Uncover pathways to integrate an expansive perspective that includes nondual awareness into therapeutic practice
Develop an expanded worldview that melds the benefits of popular western modalities with the gifts of ancestral wisdom
Build skills and learn new practices to embody the truth of interconnectedness between all inner and outer aspects
Course Overview
Tamala Floyd, IFS practitioner and author of Listening When Parts Speak joins Daniel Foor for two of eight lessons as we navigate themes of identity, fear, exile, and transforming individualism. We’ll weave insights from psychotherapy, animist traditions, and movements for cultural healing. Lessons invite reflection on the impacts of colonialism, individualism, and supremacy culture on the psyche. You’ll learn ways to embrace relational, Earth-honoring approaches to personal and communal healing.
We’ll reflect on the influence of intergenerational and spiritual forces on emotional safety, consider the role of malevolent forces at play in our reality, and uncover pathways for integrating Earth-honoring and nondual awareness into therapeutic practice.
Whether you’re a therapist, holistic healer, or simply on your own path of awakening, this course invites you to expand your awareness, embrace vulnerable parts of yourself, and practice embodying the truth that all parts—inner and outer—are beautifully entangled. Together, let’s explore how parts work, when anchored in an awareness of Earth, culture, and the sacred, can help us to reclaim intimacy with life and to show up more fully for our role in the profound global changes underway.
8 live teaching calls led by Daniel Foor including two with Tamala Floyd
Small breakout groups anchored by trained ritualists
More than 12 substantive guided experiential practices
24+ carefully curated resources to accompany lessons
Lifetime access to all course materials
Access to a dedicated community discussion space
Course Curriculum
Lesson One: Animism, Activism, & Parts Work
- Compare and contrast anti-oppressive activism, animism, & parts work
- Highlight fruitful points of important synergy and deeper alignment
- Consider some of cultural bridges and intersections already in place
- Take inventory of personal biases and possible gaps in education
Lesson Two: Identity, Ownership, and “My” Parts
- Consider influences of individualism and colonialism in psychotherapy
- Explore relational approaches more congruent with animist values
- Discuss tangible ways to heal from and soften isolating individualism
- Practice understands parts as extensions of Earth and greater forces
Lesson Three: Fear, Safety, and Extreme Individualism
- Explore fear and safety in light of human supremacy and individualism
- Consider intergenerational and spirit influences on emotional safety
- Learn new ways of understanding the role of Self in psychic safety
- Practice inviting Earth and spirit support for actual and felt safety
Lesson Four: Repression, Vulnerability, and Exile
- Learn ways that intrapsychic exiling resembles supremacy culture
- Consider ways therapy can learn from anti-oppressive movements
- Explore the dynamics of exile in relation to the ancestors and Earth
- Practice ancestrally resourced listening for exiles at the threshold
Lesson Five: Evil and Malice, Inner and Outer
- Discuss the reality of malevolent forces, both human and otherwise
- Consider frameworks to balance nonduality and healthy boundaries
- Learn to integrate shadow while disentangling from harmful others
- Practice listening to intuitive and younger parts on the topic of evil
Lesson Six: Warriorship, Protectors, and Facing our Death
- Learn ways to understand protectors as manifestations of the sacred
- Connect dots between liberatory movements and warriorship energy
- Consider Death and what’s beyond through the lens of parts work
- Practice aligning protector selves with traditions of sacred warriorship
Lesson Seven: Awakening, Non-Duality, and Parts Work
- Explore non-linear, ecocentric approaches to time in relation to therapy
- Consider what happens to “parts” during nondual states and openings
- Discuss way to bring greater presence to psychotherapy and parts work
- Practice embodying the truth that all parts are also expressions of Self
Lesson Eight: At the Edges of What is Human
- Learn ways to relax back into healing intimacy with the rest of life
- Expand into fruitful alignments between animist ethics and parts work
- Discuss the acute, increasing need for healing to support Earth changes
- Practice affirming our profound entanglement with other-than-human kin
Register for Parts of a Whole
3 and 6 month payment plans available at checkout at 0% interest.
Supporter
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This rate helps us make our work accessible to those with modest means and applies if you have investments, a retirement plan, and/or access to economic abundance.
Standard
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Our standard rate allows us to sustain our work. This typically applies if you’re employed in the Global North, and you’re able to provide for your needs in a consistent way.
Reduced
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This rate applies if you’re relatively less economically advantaged in the ways listed under “standard rate” or that cost is simply out of reach for you financially.
If none of these rates are accessible to you and you’re called to this work, we offer a limited number of scholarships.
Applications will close on Sunday, January 12. Replies may take time due to high volume, but all replies will be sent by Tuesday, January 14.
Course Schedule
Main teaching calls
Eight Mondays beginning April 7 through May 26
Call time: 12PM LA | 3PM NYC | 21:00 BERLIN
TAMALA FLOYD WILL JOIN ON APRIL 14 AND 28 FOR LESSONS TWO AND FOUR
CLASS STRUCTURE
- 60 min teachings with time for guided practice and Q&A
- Followed by 30 min of small breakout groups held by trained practitioners
All eight calls, minus breakout sessions, will be recorded and available to you in perpetuity.
About the Instructors
Daniel Foor
Founder and Director at Ancestral Medicine and Course Teacher
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.
Tamala Floyd
Author, Professor, and Course Teacher
with over 20 years of experience, Tamala received her Master of Social Work from the University of Southern California. She is the author of Listening When Parts Speak, a book that interweaves concepts from Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) with the power of ancestor wisdom to support people on their healing journey. The process she describes in her book makes generations’ worth of ancestor wisdom accessible and increases access to healing energy on individual and generational levels. As a psychotherapist, Tamala’s work focuses on women’s trauma, mothering, and relationship issues. Learn more about her book and her practice on her website.
Frequently Asked Questions
Main Teaching Calls | 90 min | Tuesdays
12PM LA | 3PM NYC | 21:00 BERLIN
– 8 Mondays, April 7 through May 26
– Tamala Floyd will join Daniel to co-teach on April 14 and 28
CLASS STRUCTURE
– 60 min teachings with time for guided practice and Q&A
– Followed by 30 min of small breakout groups held by trained practitioners
Call 1: April 7 with Daniel
Call 2: April 14 with Daniel and Tamala
Call 3: April 21 with Daniel
Call 4: April 28 with Daniel and Tamala
Call 5: May 5 with Daniel
Call 6: May 12 with Daniel
Call 7: May 19 with Daniel
Call 8: May 26 with Daniel
The timing of the main calls favor participants in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Practice and Ritual Support calls favor the Americas, Asia, and Oceania. Thanks to our international community of learners for your understanding around the challenges of time-zone inclusivity. All who register get lifetime access to recordings, and you’re welcome to send in questions for our teaching team to answer during live calls or in written form.
To the very best of our ability, yes. All Ancestral Medicine offerings seek to embody an anti-racist, feminist, LGBTQ-celebrating, decolonizing, and Earth-honoring ethic. They are also class-aware and internationally conscious. We offer a heartfelt, non-dogmatic approach that seeks to honor each participant’s unique life experiences and ancestral storylines. Resources included with each lesson favor ancestrally and geographically diverse voices, and the online Community Forum includes BIPOC, SWANA, and LGBTQ-only discussion spaces. Additionally, the course will include ancestrally and culturally diverse call anchors, guest teachers, and break-out group supporters with the option of being in a BIPOC, LGBTQ, or SWANA small breakout group.
This course directly names and creates a welcoming space for exploration of vulnerable topics related to family and lineage violence and harm in the world. The material may stir complicated emotions for some participants. In addition to the weekly Writing and Ritual Support Call, additional support may be important as the course is not a replacement for personal therapy or spiritual care.
Enrollment includes 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.
Please also consider reaching out to someone in the Ancestral Medicine Practitioner Network for one-on-one support and guidance. Most are available for private individualized sessions, and many are willing to provide low-cost sessions to support financial accessibility needs.
All of our lesson videos have automatic closed captioning, as well 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.
Should you wish to withdraw from an online course or shift your registration to a future iteration, please contact us at info@ancestralmedicine.org to request a full refund within the refund window of that specific course. For our 8-week courses, you can request a refund up to 7 days after the course start date. See our Terms & Conditions.
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