Conference Day 1 (In-Person)
Saturday, October 4, 2025
9:00AM-9:30AM
Registration/Breakfast
9:45AM-10:00AM
Welcome
10:00AM-11:00AM
Workshop Block #1
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Facilitated by: Johnette Ellis
In this workshop, we’ll engage herbs as allies to amplify both spoken and written word. With dandelion tincture, rosemary, and lavender as guides, participants will honor ancestral poets, invoke memory, and create a collective poem as living medicine.
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Facilitated by: Erika Parker-Smith
In this workshop, participants will explore the Dagara Medicine Wheel and discover their elemental connections through guided practices. With this insight, we’ll craft personalized mojo bags or talismans using plantcestors, minerals, and sacred objects for protection, boundaries, or clear intentions. Each participant will leave with their element map, a custom talisman, and a ritual invocation to continue the practice at home.
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Facilitated by: Sol (KC) Canton
In this workshop, we’ll honor el humo sagrado—sacred smoke—as ancestral technology for prayer, cleansing, and spirit connection. Participants will learn about aromatic plantitas and craft their own incense blends (loose, cone, and stick) while sharing stories of ancestral smoke medicine. Together, we’ll explore both the spiritual and physical benefits of smoke, staying open to the messages it carries.
11:00AM-11:15AM
Break
11:15AM-12:15PM
Workshop Block #2
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Facilitated by: Dara Pressley
In this workshop, we’ll explore the body as a living archive of lineage, where inherited patterns shape our health and spirit. Through plant medicine and ancestral intelligence, participants will learn practices to decode and reprogram trauma—bridging the language of science and spirit.
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Facilitated by: Lorraine Pellicier
In this workshop, we’ll honor the women who came before us by creating La Madama spirit dolls—sacred offerings rooted in ancestral power. Through a meditative process of stitching, filling with herbs, roots, and intention, participants will connect with matrilineal wisdom, explore traditions of spirit dolls, and craft a keepsake to carry forward as a gift for future generations.
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Facilitated by: Rana Snipe Berry
In this workshop, Black women, femmes, and non-binary participants are invited to reclaim wellness through ancestral herbal knowledge and poetic self-expression. Guided by grounding rituals, plant-based care, and writing practices, we’ll explore body sovereignty, resilience, and collective healing—holding space for truth, grief, and joy.
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Facilitated by: Jude Hobdy
In this workshop, we’ll explore music and vibration as ancestral medicine, tuning ourselves as instruments of the divine. Guided by plant allies, participants will commune with herbs that support embodied, heart-centered expression and deepen connection to Spirit’s messages.
12:15PM-1:15PM
Lunch
1:30PM-3:15PM
Panel
3:15PM-3:40PM
Break
3:45PM-4:45PM
Workshop Block #3
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Facilitated by: Kamil Donaldson and Telicia Barksdale
In this workshop, you’ll be guided through a Sound Bath and Reiki journey focused on the Root, Throat, and Crown Chakras. Together, we’ll explore how grounding, truth, and divine wisdom create a bridge between Earth and Spirit.
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Facilitated by: Alisha Lettman
In this workshop, participants are invited to ignite the light of their spirit and activate their dreaming capacity through Tawaku Upina—an ancient liquid tobacco hapé of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
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Facilitated by: Kafayat J Alli-Balogun
In this workshop, we’ll step into Yoruba plant spirit medicine, where herbs are portals, protectors, and ancestral messengers. Rooted in the cosmology of Ifá, Orisha, and Egúngún, participants will learn the uses of plants like bitter leaf, basil, lemongrass, and rue for protection, clarity, and ancestral dialogue—while crafting a blessed spiritual bath or tea to take home.
4:50PM-5:15PM
Closing Remarks
Conference Day 1 (Virtual)
Saturday, October 4, 2025
9:45AM-10:00AM
Welcome
10:00AM-11:00AM
Workshop Block #1
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Facilitated by: Natalie Strafaci
In this workshop, we’ll explore dreamwork as a powerful way to connect with our ancestors. Participants will learn about the history and significance of dreams, practices to create an intentional dream container, and supportive tools like plant medicine, altar rituals, and journaling prompts.
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Facilitated by: Risë Wilson
In this workshop, we’ll explore ancestral wisdom carried by our snake and butterfly kin—teachers of transformation, liminality, and grace in change. With the support of Pluto, Saturn, and Venus plants, participants will craft an herbal salve as a cocoon of protection and renewal.
11:00AM-11:15AM
Break
11:15AM-12:15PM
Workshop Block #2
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Facilitated by: Marrissa Chatman
In this workshop, we honor the legacy of Dr. James Still, a renowned 19th-century herbalist and healer known as the Black Doctor of the Pines. Through storytelling, multimedia, and medicine-making with locally sourced herbs, participants will explore themes of resilience, community care, and ancestral healing. A featured interview with historian and descendant Samuel Still III will offer personal insight into Dr. Still’s enduring impact.
1:00PM-1:15PM
Elixir Block
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Facilitated by: Regina Kankinza
In this elixir, participants will be guided on a gentle meditative journey to listen through the womb and bones—ancestral archives of memory and wisdom. Using breathwork, touch, and affirmations, we’ll connect with maternal or ancestral threads, inviting messages from lineage and body. Open to all who feel called to deepen their healing through embodied listening.
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Facilitated by: Binta Dixon
Understanding the intricate workings of the body and nature as symbiotic is a form of ancestral technology. Often, when we think about slowing down in a patriarchal, capitalist society, we immediately think of slow movement, slow to respond, and slow to action.
Reclaiming sacred pace is not always about inactivity; it is instead concerned with deep presence, reverence, and the capacity to respond to and be true to what life is asking of us in each moment.
Medicine that helps us deepen our presence also nourishes and supports our bodies and minds, enabling us to regularly attune to the call of spirit, our bodies, and our lives. In this state, we become time benders, able to stretch one minute out into a space of endless possibility.
In this elixir, we will make an aromatic anointing oil that can be used alone or with groups to support reducing anxiety, opening to a sacred pace, and bending time. We don’t have to rush to do deep, impactful work. We will create a collective poem as we sit with our herbal elixir to infuse the medicine with the sound vibration of timelessness. -
Facilitated by: Krystal Miller
1:30PM-3:15PM
Panel
3:30PM-4:30PM
Workshop Block #3
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Facilitated by: Baba Chris (Christopher Gooden)
In this workshop, we will discuss the composition of soil and how our ancestors used soil to communicate with their descendants, how to heal, how to stay connected with the source, and how to embrace the power carried through time.
Conference Day 2 (Virtual)
Sunday, October 5, 2025
10:00AM-10:30AM
Welcome & Opening
10:30AM-12:00PM
Workshop Block #1
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Facilitated by: Ona McGovern
In this workshop, participants will explore prayer as a form of ancestral alchemy—an act of creation, transformation, and liberation. Together, we’ll honor prayer as both a personal and collective practice, connect with plant allies, and explore how our ancestors utilized prayer as a tool for healing and liberation. The session will also include writing a prayer together.
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Facilitated by: Alysia Mann Carey
12:00PM-1:00PM
Lunch
12:00PM-12:45PM
Apothecary Showcase #1
12:45PM-1:00PM
Elixir Block #1
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Facilitated by: Binta Dixon
In this elixir, we’ll craft an aromatic anointing oil to ease anxiety, open sacred space, and bend our sense of time. As the elixir is infused, participants will create a collective poem—charging the medicine with the sound vibration of timelessness.
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Facilitated by: Khayla Deans and Brittaney Robinson-Whitenhill
In this elixir, participants will prepare body, mind, and space to tune into ancestral wisdom through writing. With herbal recipes and supportive practices, we’ll open portals for connection, explore how to channel ancestral messages, and activate journaling as a living practice.
1:00PM-1:30PM
Empress Karen & Baba Reflection + Q&A
1:30PM-3:00PM
Workshop Block #2
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Facilitated by: Sadies Yanes and Ericka Mabrie
In this workshop, we’ll reconnect to tarot as an ancestral technology of divination, beyond colonial distortions. Participants will explore the history and magic of tarot, learn practices for clear and embodied readings, and discover how herbs can support a deeper connection with Spirit and the divine.
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Facilitated by: Kelly Pacumio and Vivian Mac
In this workshop, participants will explore rice and mugwort as ancestral technologies of healing, nourishment, and connection across cultures and diaspora. Through shared stories, medicine-making practices such as Suman and mugwort foot baths, and reflections on lineage, we’ll deepen our relationship with these plants and inspire a reconnection to ancestral wisdom.
3:00PM-3:15PM
Apothecary Showcase #2
3:15PM-3:30PM
Elixir Block #2
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Facilitated by: Lorainne Pellicier
In this elixir, participants will learn how to use an egg for spiritual diagnosis and aura cleansing. This live demonstration will guide you step by step, offering tools to keep your aura light, clear, and bright.
3:30PM-5:00PM
Workshop Block #3
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Facilitated by: Julie Moody-Freeman
In this workshop, attendees will explore Galactic Starseed lineages connected to their natal planets. We’ll uncover the histories and energies of key star systems, while sharing recommendations for herbal and health practices, along with a free resource to help identify your Starseed lineage.
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Facilitated by: Laura Shmishkiss
In this workshop, we’ll explore the rich history of herbalism in Jewish traditions—medicinal, spiritual, and cultural. Together we’ll learn about herbs and rituals across the diaspora, share stories from our own communities, and create herbal amulets as vessels of protection, healing, and possibility. Open to all backgrounds.