Three Days of Group Ritual, Teaching, and Practice
Ancestral lineage healing is the practice of relating directly with one’s blood ancestors for personal, familial, and cultural healing. It involves safely establishing relationships with wise and well ancestors and enlisting their support to deeply heal your lineages reaching far back in time.
If you’ve already done personal healing work and feel something deeper still calling, ancestral healing may be the next layer. Each of us is shaped by a tapestry of intersecting histories. We inherit not only our ancestors’ gifts, but also the burdens and unresolved threads they carried. This work tends to those threads, moving between the deeply personal and the wider cultural forces we’re woven into. Through ritual, relationship, and guided process, we work with both recent and more distant ancestors to address what has not yet been resolved. This can restore obscured blessings, shift inherited patterns, and ripple outward into your relationships with the living. The intention is simple and profound: to support healing along the lineage, for the Beloved Dead and for the life you are living now.
This Intensive is led by experienced Practitioners of the Ancestral Lineage Healing framework, developed by Dr. Daniel Foor of Ancestral Medicine.
Learn a life-long framework to relate in direct, safe, and empowering ways with your family and lineage ancestors.
Establish connections with ancestral guides and work in partnership with them for lasting personal and family healing.
Join with your ancestors to support the resolution of larger systemic, generational, and cultural wounding.
About Ballyvourney
We will gather in the wild and magical surroundings of the Gaelteacht (Irish speaking region) of Ballyvourney, Co. Cork. at the Spring Equinox, just as the land is beginning burst forth and more and more of our days are infused with light. The Mills Inn is opposite Gobnait’s ancient woodland, well and site.
We’ll gather on the Spring Equinox, as the wheel of the year turns into the season of inspiration, color, and growth. May we feel heartened and inspired as more and more of our days are infused with sunlight.
“Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine.”
Logistics
The cost of lodging and breakfast/dinner are not included in the price of registration. A small number of rooms has been reserved at the Mills Inn if you wish to stay there.
Each day, you’ll be invited to join us at the venue for an on-time start and to stay for the duration of the scheduled event.
The venue is:
The Mills Inn
Ballyvourney Cork, Ireland, P12 FF86
The Mills Inn is set amidst very beautiful hills and forest countryside, on the banks of the Sullane River for fishing and at the foot of the Derrynasaggart Mountains. Here are tranquil, undiscovered mountain trails and walkways, at the gateway to this central West Cork Gaeltacht with its own distinctive Gaelic dialect.
We’ll gather for dedicated time in group ritual for about seven hours per day over three full days (9:00-1:00 and 3:00-6:00). There will be chairs available for seating. We encourage you to bring whatever you’ll need to be comfortable. We’ll take spacious two-hour lunch breaks. Lunch is included.
We’ll approach the work in ways that are psychologically grounded, ritually safe, and culturally inclusive. Teachings and practices are led by Ashley and Catherine, and a team of trained supporters. Those new to ancestor work, adoptees, and folks with a tough experience of family are welcome. The larger circle and gathering will also be a safe space for bringing care to historical pain.
The event will be guided in English.
What to Expect:
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Over 12 guided practices in circle with drumming, song, prayer & offerings
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Three full days with teachings, different approaches to ritual, and time for live questions.
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Small breakout groups for intimate sharing and processing, anchored by trained ritualists.
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Come away with a life-long framework to relate safely with your family and lineage ancestors.
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Co-create a tangible offering of beauty for your ancestors and the larger prayer of cultural healing.
Schedule
Friday, March 19th — Sunday, March 21st
Morning Session: 9am - 1pm
Lunch Break: 1-3pm
Evening Session: 3-6pm
Please plan to arrive on time & stay for the duration of the scheduled sessions.
Our 3 days will consist of 7 hours of teaching, guided practices & group ritual. We’ll take spacious two-hour lunch breaks to enjoy nearby restaurant options.
There will be chairs available for seating, and we encourage you to bring whatever you’ll need to be comfortable.
Register to join us!
€495
Standard
Pay In Full
Our standard rate allows us to sustain our work. This typically applies if you’re employed full time, and you’re able to provide for your needs in a consistent way.
€295
Reduced*
Pay In Full
Limited reduced rates are available on a first-come-first-serve basis for local Irish folks, living in Ireland.
Frequently Asked Questions
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The lineage healing intensive closely follows the first nine chapters of Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing as participants connect and partner with ancestral guides to support any among the dead still in need of assistance. Our signature online course Ancestral Lineage Healing also follows the steps of the lineage healing process, and these are the fundamental steps that practitioners are trained to guide in individual session work.
The process itself originated from years of in-person events, and there is an alchemy to multi-day group ritual that is unlike any of the other approaches to the work.
It’s important to note that the lineage healing intensive is fundamentally different from the Ancestral Healing Practitioner Training. Participants at intensives learn life-long skills for personally accessing ancestral support. However, this three-day intensive is not a substitute for the nearly year-long professional training that practitioners undertake in how to guide this work for others.
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This approach is experiential, rooted in an ethic of kindness, and welcoming to people of diverse ancestries and any spiritual background (or lack thereof). Consistent with our organizational core values, intensives are rooted in feminist, decolonizing, anti-racist, LGBTQ-inclusive, class-aware, Earth-honoring ethics.
We seek to embody these values in ways that are non-dogmatic, warm-hearted, and encouraging of the vulnerability that supports depth ritual work. Participants work directly with their own lineage ancestors, and are not expected to hold space for others beyond showing up in a mindful way during group shares. Attendees work alongside one another, each in their own space and personal process.
Each intensive also weaves in explicit respect and healing for the histories of place. Without shame or judgment, we aim to hold a safe, supportive space for healing and reconciliation.
A diverse range of ancestral lineages, identities, and personal lived experiences are represented by the facilitators and supporters.
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Participants can expect an in-depth experience and should be personally well resourced. In addition to the lead teaching from Ashley and Teagan, there will be two to three ritual supporters from the Ancestral Medicine Practitioner Network helping to anchor the event. Even with the care from a coordinated and culturally welcoming team, when guiding a group ritual for three full days, there are still limitations to the level of individualized support we will be able to provide.
If you have doubts about whether the intensive is a good container for your depth work, be in dialogue with the team beforehand. The intensive is not a substitute for personal therapy.
We expect there to be about 6 folks per supporter.
In addition to the in-person support during the time of the intensive, many participants find working with an individual practitioner to be beneficial. To connect with practitioners or practitioners-in-training, see this link for the Ancestral Medicine Practitioner Directory.
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25% of the overall cost is a non-refundable deposit.
If you need to cancel, please let us know as soon as you can. If something changes and you can’t join us, the closer cancellations are to the date of the event, the more difficult it is for us to fill the seats. The remaining registration payment may be refunded as follows:
A 75% refund is available for cancellations made anytime before Jan 18 2027 (60 days before we gather). A 50% refund is available for cancellations made between 30 and 60 days before the intensive begins. There are no refunds available for cancellations made after Feb 18 2017 (less than 30 days before the intensive begins). We reserve the option to extend flexibility on this policy especially in cases where an open space has been filled. In-person intensives require significant organizational resources and these policies help to ensure these offerings remain sustainable.
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If you are traveling from out of town and looking for a place to stay, we warmly suggest our venue, The Mills Inn.
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You can email hello@ashleywaverley.com for any thing else you may need!
Meet Your Facilitators
Ashley Waverley
Ashley is a ritualist and writer who helps you feel less alone, lost, and broken through connection with your ancestors and soul. She supports individuals in building relationships with the seen and unseen. Her work centers adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, walking alongside them through the stabilization, healing, and integration of these experiences. At the core, she changes peoples hearts and minds by sharing what has changed hers. Her ancestors are from France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Scotland. Ashley lives on Mohegan land in Connecticut, USA.
Catherine Dunne
Catherine’s ancestors are all from the province of Munster in the South West of Ireland. Catherine was born on the lands of the Lanapé people known as Queens New York, to her 2 immigrant parents. She grew up with one foot in New York and the other in her grandparents home in North Cork. Catherine returned to Ireland to study and live in her early 20s and has been rooted in Cork and now Kerry for the last 35 plus years. She has worked as a therapist, trainer and clinical supervisor and ancestral lineage healing practitioner, as well as holding embodied community dance and movement spaces. When Catherine isn’t holding space for others she can be found walking her dogs, gardening and enjoying the company of friends family and the spirits of the wild.