Ancestors in Training: An Aborisa's Guide to Beginning Your Ancestral Healing Journey
Veronica Agard
Jan 2027 · North Atlantic Books
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Bridging Indigenous wisdom and African Traditional Religions, this book is an offering, a reclamation, and revelatory invitation into the deeply rooted work of intergenerational healing.
Includes a framework of 6 archetypes to help guide your ancestral healing journey: discover which gifts, roles, and responsibilities are uniquely yours
How can we live lives that our descendents and the next seven generations can be proud of? How can we walk with integrity in the face of an uncertain future? How can we enact legacies of care, healing, and responsibility?
Ancestors in Training is a living cosmology that explores how we inherit, embody, and transform ancestral legacies in a world shaped by colonialism, displacement, and resistance—and a spiritual guidebook to reclaiming Indigenous wisdom roots and the teachings of African Traditional Religions.
Author Veronica Agard identifies six archetypes to help you step into your sacred responsibility as an ancestor—and to understand how you’ve been shaped by the past; what you’re stewarding now; and what you’re called to heal, evolve, or transform for future generations.
Written for readers in Black Diaspora and Indigenous communities, Ancestors in Training offers rituals, reflections, and ancestral wayfinding practices. Agard guides you to cultivate diasporic memory, connect deeply to your ancestral lifeways, and interrupt cycles of intergenerational trauma so that you—and your descendants—can heal and thrive.
Includes a framework of 6 archetypes to help guide your ancestral healing journey: discover which gifts, roles, and responsibilities are uniquely yours
How can we live lives that our descendents and the next seven generations can be proud of? How can we walk with integrity in the face of an uncertain future? How can we enact legacies of care, healing, and responsibility?
Ancestors in Training is a living cosmology that explores how we inherit, embody, and transform ancestral legacies in a world shaped by colonialism, displacement, and resistance—and a spiritual guidebook to reclaiming Indigenous wisdom roots and the teachings of African Traditional Religions.
Author Veronica Agard identifies six archetypes to help you step into your sacred responsibility as an ancestor—and to understand how you’ve been shaped by the past; what you’re stewarding now; and what you’re called to heal, evolve, or transform for future generations.
- The Dream Carrier
- The Cycle Breaker
- The Wayfinder
- The Archivist
- The Firekeeper
- The Root Tender
Written for readers in Black Diaspora and Indigenous communities, Ancestors in Training offers rituals, reflections, and ancestral wayfinding practices. Agard guides you to cultivate diasporic memory, connect deeply to your ancestral lifeways, and interrupt cycles of intergenerational trauma so that you—and your descendants—can heal and thrive.
Bridging Indigenous wisdom and African Traditional Religions, this book is an offering, a reclamation, and revelatory invitation into the deeply rooted work of intergenerational healing.
Includes a framework of 6 archetypes to help guide your ancestral healing journey: discover which gifts, role...
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About the author
Veronica Agard (Ifáṣadùn Fásanmí) is a writer, educator, and cultural strategist whose work bridges ancestral healing, storytelling, and collective memory. With over 13 years of practice, she is the creator of Ancestors in Training™, a platform dedicated to ancestral healing, legacy work, and community care.
In 2012, Veronica founded Sister Circle Collective, a grassroots feminist organization creating healing and organizing spaces for Black and Brown women, femmes, and nonbinary people. She later created Who Heals the Healer?, a conference and series supporting activists, educators, and cultural workers, and stewarded the Reparations Wellness Clinics, offering free and low-cost holistic care for Black communities on a reparative justice model. A member of the End Rape On Campus Speakers Series, she has spoken at Temple University, Denison University, and the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.
In 2012, Veronica founded Sister Circle Collective, a grassroots feminist organization creating healing and organizing spaces for Black and Brown women, femmes, and nonbinary people. She later created Who Heals the Healer?, a conference and series supporting activists, educators, and cultural workers, and stewarded the Reparations Wellness Clinics, offering free and low-cost holistic care for Black communities on a reparative justice model. A member of the End Rape On Campus Speakers Series, she has spoken at Temple University, Denison University, and the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.
Veronica Agard (Ifáṣadùn Fásanmí) is a writer, educator, and cultural strategist whose work bridges ancestral healing, storytelling, and collective memory. With over 13 years of practice, she is the creator of Ancestors in Training™, a platform dedicated to ancestral healing, legacy work, and com...
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