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The "Ancestors" Retreat Outline


This unknown artist depiction captures an aspect of our "Ancestors" Sankofa retreat 2021. It reminds me of the mothers. The Big Mama's, Grandma's, Mama's, and Aunties that have influenced my life. I hope you are able to recollect that figure in your life that encouraged and motivated you. Who is that person for you? Comment below and honor them here.


The Ancestors Inaugural Program (In Progress)


  • Exploring an "Afrikan Way of Being" Bringing Ubuntu, Sawubona, Sankofa, and Griot into our consciousness.

  • Cultivating Compassion to Encouragement and racial dignity (black racial esteem)

  • Griots Sing (The power of music and dance)

  • Afrikan Naming Ceremony

  • Sankofa-Griot Looking back - "Speaking Love into your Trauma™" remembered experiences

  • Griots honoring resilience and "Speaking love into your future™"

  • Black Nurture

Making the best of 2020. See you on retreat 2021


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The Afrikan Way of Being ™
Sankofa Retreats are a series of year round retreat gatherings of Afrikans of the diaspora for the purpose of...
 
  • Healing racial trauma through Afrikan identity.
  • Honoring our birthright as Afrikans. It is our "Right of Passage".​​
  • To connect with our ancestors and our heritage. 
  • To secure our legacy.
 
We may not all make it back to the Motherland but we can begin with honoring our belonging to the Afrikan way of being.
 
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The Sankofa Retreats

Your bridge to Afrika

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RETREAT 1

ANCESTORS

Connecting with our roots

and our family lineage while exploring our

Afrikan culture 

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RETREAT 2

HERITAGE

Developing an enriched

"Afrikan Way of Being" 

through an inherited 

self identity 

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RETREAT 3

LEGACY

Planting seeds of compassion, nurturing family and black culture to foster healing for generations to come

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Your Host

Keita Kora is your founding host and is the Managing Director of Seven Circles Retreat Center where the Sankofa Retreats are held.

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Kelly Baker is a LMFT as well as a Yoga instructor. Her company is Onyx Trauma Healing Center.

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Lakiba Pitman is a adjunct professor working on her PHD and is a certified USC Cultivating Compassion Instructor.

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Host: You will meet other program facilitators that make this overall experience possible.

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Managing Director

Keita Kora

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LMFT

Kelly Baker

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Adjunct Professor

Lakiba Pitman

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Sankofa Journals

The Sankofa Journals are curated Afro-Centric articles designed to inspire, educated, inform, and to get us thinking about our place in the world. The three volumes are:

 

Keita's Volume 1 and feature Afrikan history, music, repatriation, and more.

 

The Emancipate Afrika volume features over 100 articles on the freedom of colonized Afrikan peoples.

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The Diaspora volume among others highlights the return home and a way of Afrikan being. 

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The Afrikan Soul

Music moves the soul the following selection are the sounds of the Sankofa Retreats. We have curated music that will stir the soul.

 

Our ancestors are from all over Afrika - the soul of our being has its start in Afrika. The Afrikan soul has been carried into our modern music and has become our Blues, R&B, RAP, Soul music, and every other genre of music from the Afrikan experience.

 

I could go on...but just listen to the Sankofa Retreat sampler playlist.

The Sankofa Retreat Playlist

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