Grandparents & Elders in Diaspora Communities

Grandparents & Elders in Diaspora Communities

Grandparents, Great-grandparents and elders are a central part of many Diaspora families and communities. They support, give advice and often send messages down the transgenerational line when they are no longer present in the current family system .

A Family Story

Our relationships with parents and grandparents shape our current lives. For some children, grandparents were their mothers and fathers. They may have been sent to live with their 'grands' because of cultural beliefs or economic constraints. Others stayed behind with grandparents when their parents 'went ahead' often to the UK in search of better opportunities.

The relationship could be wonderful, or fraught with tension. Our parents often pass to us their lingering experiences and we must be careful not to pass these down to our children. Let me share a family story with you......

My father was a very generous man to his wife. Every birthday, mothers day, valentines day and Easter my mother would receive beautiful gifts. At Christmas, my fathers favourite time of the year ,he would go to extraordinary lengths to make sure that my mother sister and I could want for nothing.

His relationship with Christmas, came about through his grandmothers hoarding of money. In 1940's Guyana she had enough money to send him to grammar school and it would have changed his life, but she didn’t. My father resented her for the rest of his life!

There are times when patterns that emerge in the current generation cannot be explained. We may not have ever met our grandparents and only been told stories, but these ancestral legacies can creep into our lives as negative patterns acting as blocks to success.

A Range of Tools

Join us for a this transformative community workshop. We will explore grandparents and the ancestral legacies that they leave behind.

Our grandparents and great grandparents are often no longer with us, they are ancestors, those that went before us. In past generations grandparents were the elders and head of the family clan, often this remains the case in some cultures. Community life was not divorced from family life, everyone lived close to each other.

For this workshop we will use a range of tools, Diaspora Dolllies, felts, cards, shells and stones to ‘map-out’ constellations. This creative approach will enable us to have more 'Representatives' for family members and look further and wider than we often can in a ssmall group setting.

In this way we are able to map more generations and look at the relationships over generations from a different perspective. We can discuss the stories and messages that we recieved about or from our grandparents. And we can listen for suppressed or taboo conversations about life in past generations.

What You will Get from the Workshop

This approach to constellations puts the community and collective centre stage as a form of ancestral family search. We can look for insights into past generations throuigh sudden flashes of insight, or jogs to the memory in the form of dreams or messages.

You will gain insights and clarity on past ancestral relationships and entanglements. You will also hve an opportunity to reflect on how these patterns are influencing your current family system. Constellations will be chosen on the day from amongst group members.

The day will offer you an opportunity to….

• dive deep and reflect on your transgenerational family line
• reconnect to grandparents and listen to their messages
• identify where there may be negative relationships down the family line
• explore what transgenerational patterns need to be healed

Booking Details & Refund Policy

Saturday 28th February 10am - 5.30pm Ticket Price: £85

There are No Discounts or Refunds available for this workshops. As we head into 2026 this workshop is an invite to think about how ready you are to invest in you and your family wealth, mental, emotional, spiritual and financial.Elder