Ancestral Institute- The "Whole" Person

09/06/2025

05/24/2025

join us on Saturday, Jun 7 @ 10:30am at Saint Lucia Community House in Brooklyn for:
In Observance of Caribbean Heritage Month, the Consulate General of Saint Lucia in New York, Saint Lucia House Foundation, Epic Village CDC, and DBGM, Inc.
present
Mental Wellness for My Caribbean Mind
Register: https://tinyurl.com/MHAw-Cbean2025
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05/11/2025

This past Thursday evening, together with Prof. Daniel Gaztambide, Psy.D., we gathered at the CUNY Graduate Center in NYC for the "Community-Centered, Data-Driven Art: Findings and Performance from the Same-Gender Loving/Gay Black Men's Study", in which we (DBGM) collaborated for the study's results reveal, and along with descriptions of its protocols and methodologies, narratives from combined interviews for the study were performed by Bernard Tarver and Isa Anastasia Rivas. The study will be presented in July at a conference and published.
Photos: flyer; monitor screenshot acknowledging study's collaborators; still shot from the performance.

04/08/2025

Register at https://tinyurl.com/ResearchReveal-2025

03/18/2025

Tomorrow, join us online at 12:00noon EST for "In Our Mothers' Tongues: A Conversation About Ancestral Healing and Maternal Figures"; and we'll hear from panelists:
Jamila Codrington, Ph.D. (US)
Michele Irving, (Belize)
Mmatshilo Motsei, Ph.D., (South Africa), and
Moderated by Adjoa Osei, Psy.D. - an Ancestral Institute's founding member.
Register at https://tinyurl.com/AI-25WebReg

02/28/2025

In Our Mothers’ Tongues:
A Conversation about Ancestral Healing and Maternal Figures

For the Ancestral Institute’s 2025 program, we are hosting a Webinar series leading up to our November 15 to 21 Gathering with the Mayan and Garifuna communities in Danriga, Belize.

The first Webinar in the series, In Our Mothers’ Tongues: A Conversation about Ancestral Healing and Maternal Figures on March 19, 2025, from 12:00noon to 1:30pm EDT, is a multidisciplinary panel exploring the concept of ancestral healing, considering physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual issues that exist within our family history, and how these patterns can shape our lives in healthy and unhealthy ways. Panelists will share about significant maternal figures in their lives and discuss how we can facilitate individual and collective healing by connecting with our ancestors and lineage.

Register: https://tinyurl.com/AI-25WebReg

11/04/2024

everyone

11/02/2024

10/24/2024

are you registered (https://tinyurl.com/AI-24-StdReg) to attend the Ancestral Institute's Gathering from Nov 8 to 10 at Casa Ruth in Puerto Rico?
Come hear presentations from Taino (Indigenous peoples), Afro-Puerto Ricans, and others from across the African Diaspora, and participate in an Ancestral Worship - and let's learn the ways our ancestors took care of their communities and themselves, and drawing on these practices to meld them with contemporary psychology to create a unique form of care for Indigenous, Black and Peoples of Color.

10/01/2024

4th Webinar in the series, presented by Mmatshepo Letsoalo, "Is there the Possibility of Collaborations between the Medical, Traditional, and Religious Healers in Mental Healthcare?" - on Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024, 11:00am EST/17:00hrs SAT