Velma Love – Shapeshift Your Ancestral Stories to Ignite Your Divine Purpose

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Velma Love – Shapeshift Your Ancestral Stories to Ignite Your Divine Purpose

You’ve no doubt heard the phrase, “History repeats itself.”

We see evidence of it everywhere… not only in our world history, but in our families, from generation to generation, and in our own lives — and certainly in our daily news feed.

Many of us have the same unsatisfying relationships over and over, just with different people. Children of abusers often become violent adults. Innocent, unarmed young Black men continue to be senselessly killed. Mass shootings seem to be more frequent than ever. And the list of cyclical inherited patterns of behavior and their devastating repercussions goes on.

Why does this happen? What’s the mechanism that causes these destructive and tragic cycles to show up time and again, and how can we break them? Who can guide us in transforming patterns so we can stop, once and for all, the legacy of wounding — individually, in our lineage, and culturally?

This is important for all of us to consider. Especially in times like ours, we owe it to collective humanity to cultivate a deeper understanding of ourselves, where we come from, and what we’re carrying with us.

Join ancestral lineage healing practitioner Dr. Velma Love — associate professor of Interdisciplinary studies and director of the Doctor of Ministry program at the Interdenominational Theology Center in Atlanta, Georgia…

… as she guides you on a powerful and courageous 7-week journey, in which you’ll explore who your people really are, reveal the stories that formed their lives and deeply imprinted the hearts and psyches of generations that followed, and transform those patterns to cultivate significant personal and cultural evolution.

According to Velma, we embody the stories of our people. And what makes her approach truly exceptional is how she works not just with the stories of the ancestors in our family line, but also with those of our cultural ancestors.

And when you start to recognize the stories that have shaped your life and blocked you from living your truest desires, you can reshape them and create new narratives to live into — new inspiring stories that will draw you into a future of your own making and connect you to your divine purpose and personal destiny.

Much of Velma’s work has been focused on the study of African American engagements with the Odu — the Indigenous scriptures of the Yoruba people of West Africa.

Through the wisdom of that ancient tradition, compelling storytelling, and unique, potent experiential practices, Velma will help you connect to your Ori, the divine consciousness that holds your soul’s blueprint — the Godself within — that carries the creative power for you to make changes in your life.

Velma will show you how to access and receive guidance from your wise ancestors, cultural and familial, enabling you to embrace your legacy gifts and heal generational wounds that show up in your life and in society.

She’ll guide you to use meditation, self-talk, affirmations, journaling, personal ritual techniques, and more — to receive assistance from your support team in the ancestral realm in becoming anchored in a strong sense of self and expanding your co-creative power to make a difference.

Being intentional about unearthing your story provides you with deeper insight into both the blessings and burdens of your ancestors, and how they live within you and our contemporary world.

You can then heal the trauma within these stories and uncover the story you’re meant to live, courageously bringing it into existence — so your transformation moves beyond you and into our world, becoming part of the global shift in consciousness that we so desperately need.

If you’re feeling called to step forward into your personal power and prepare to release your genius into the world — as a leader in your family, a changemaker, a cultural worker, a business leader, an activist, or whatever your greatest aspiration may be…

… join Velma in a brave and rewarding space to solidify your commitment and meet your new supporting cast, both human and non-human, ready and willing to work with you to be the change you wish to see in the world.

During this 7-week intergenerational healing course, you’ll:

• Discover how to change your narrative — with the help of your wise ancestors — by healing the wounds from the stories you were born into
• Anchor yourself in your purpose and stand on your platform of power… embracing the ancestral gifts you’ve inherited to heal personal, familial, and cultural struggles
• Experience a wide variety of practices to connect with your supporting cast of ancestors to feed your soul and nurture your spirit
• Expand the notion of who your ancestors are, including both your blood and cultural relations, human and non-human
• Refine your power of intention — setting your inner guidance center to get yourself to your desired destination
• Receive shapeshifting medicines for healing by activating new storylines
• Further develop your personal ritual techniques — structuring your prayers, designing your active and quiet meditations, and identifying power spots that speak to you
• Identify the intergenerational blessing and burdens that you carry
• Participate in processes to connect with your Ori — your innate divine consciousness, which holds your soul’s blueprint… the “Godself” within
• Create a roadmap for your journey forward as a changemaker, creating a positive social impact and fulfilling your life’s purpose
• Learn how your personal transformation is related to larger cultural change
• And much more…

What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks

In this 7-week transformational intensive, Velma will guide you as you excavate the intergenerational familial and cultural stories you’re living out and receive the necessary tools to shapeshift those old narratives, so you can create a roadmap for your journey forward as a changemaker — fulfilling your life’s purpose and creating positive social impact.

Module 1: Recognizing the Ancestral Story You Carry

In this opening session, you’ll start to excavate the personal, ancestral, and cultural narratives you carry.

Your ancestors are not just your familial line, and your ancestral stories come from many different beings. In fact, your entire cultural history helped shape you as an individual.

Learn how to get in touch with your personal narratives and the context from which they took shape and form in your life story.

You’ll consider your origin story by asking yourself: Who are my people? How did they walk in the world? What cultural elements of their lives helped shape mine?

These inquiries will help you explore aspects of the ancestral realm you may not have considered before, and you’ll gain an expanded understanding and notion of the power that you carry within your own consciousness.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• A Divine Consciousness meditation, where you’ll connect with a spirit helper and ask to align with and attune to your Ori, the sacred blueprint with which you came into the world
• The blueprint of your soul and why you came into this existence
• What it means to connect with your Ori and why it’s important
• A different way to know yourself and your ancestors, and how the ancestors that shaped your divine story are much more than your familial blood lineage
• That time is not linear, and how what you experience in this time didn’t start with you in this time — so you can recognize your ancestral past in the present
• What phantom narratives are and how to identify them in your life

Module 2: Accepting & Owning Your Full Story 

Owning your story means accepting all of it… the parts of you that you’re proud of, and those you’d rather forget about.

Explore when you were called into your story — what the setting was, who was there, and who’s part of it now.

Owning your story requires you to take time to walk around your inner landscape and see what sticks and stones are there, as well as what jewels are present… and what forgotten resources might be available to you.

You’ll have a whole new sense of connectivity, and you’ll see how you can co-create stories that are more expansive than you’ve ever realized.

You’ll come away knowing more about yourself, with a greater sense of belonging, and with wider awareness of where you are in the story that you’re living right now.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• Velma’s This Is Us meditation, which takes you to the time you were called into the story you’re presently living
• Which of your ancestors are characters in your story, and what roles they play in your supporting cast
• The concept of EGBE — a heart-centered gathering of people who come together for a specific purpose — and how participating in this kind of group can impact your ancestor story
• How to own your story as an individual and as part of the collective
• The affinity groups in the spirit world you belong to

Module 3: Assessing the Intergenerational Patterns in Your Story

In this session, you’ll make contact with a spirit guide and assess the spiritual wellbeing of your four primary ancestral lines.

You’ll gain new clarity on what it means to do ancestral lineage healing work, and why it’s incredibly valuable to offer regular ancestral reverence.

This is your opportunity to ask your ancestors when trouble began in your lineage, how it was expressed, and where it affects the current generation. Only then can you learn how to shapeshift the intergenerational narrative.

You may discover trauma you didn’t realize you’re carrying from past generations.

This session will expand your awareness and knowledge of what an ancestral healing practice can look like.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• An ancestral meditation, in which you’ll ask a well ancestor questions about the gifts, blessings, and challenges of your line
• Who is part of your 4 ancestral lines
• How to connect with an ancestor in the spirit world on your own
• What an ancestral plan looks like, and how it’s helpful
• The intergenerational patterns of your ancestors
• Your legacy gifts and blessings, as well as your burdens and challenges
• Shapeshifting medicines for healing by activating new storylines

Module 4: Choosing How to Edit Your Ancestral Story

Why would you want to edit your ancestral story? Can you really change what happened in the past?

It’s important to remember that the past continues to live in the present, and if you don’t change the narratives of the past, you’ll recycle them in new forms.

You are your ancestors and they are you. The stories you don’t like are still a part of your legacy. It’s best to know them rather than be blindsided by them — and it’s best to shapeshift them rather than ignore them.

You’ll practice “dropping in” to connect and dialogue with wise and well ancestors for guidance on certain aspects of your life.

When you review your family stories and consider the joys and sorrows buried in your lineage, you’ll likely find parts you want to embrace and others you want to banish.

This is an important recognition for those who want to be part of the shift in consciousness. When you don’t change the core story, it will sprout up in new ways, whether personal or cultural or both.

This session will introduce you to a tried and true process you can use anytime to touch base with the wellspring of ancestral wisdom you carry.

You’ll learn to alchemize the troubling stories by unlocking the medicine in the blessings you carry.

In this module you’ll:

• Discover new insights into your alignment story
• Explore strategies for cultivating and nurturing ancestral support systems
• Learn to identify and connect with cultural ancestors
• Develop a stronger sense of trust and intuition for connecting with familial and cultural ancestors
• Become more intentional about uncovering your full ancestral story

Module 5: Mapping a New Story for Your Life

Benefit this week from a reflective pause — the Sankofa practice of glancing backward to remember what’s valuable to bring forward into your future.

The Sankofa practice takes its name from the Sankofa bird who, with his feet planted firmly facing forward, turns his head and looks back before taking flight. It’s a moment of remembering wise sayings from family elders or those who are now in the ancestral realm.

You’ll repeat this exercise as long as you have words of wisdom coming through, thereby sharpening your capacity to hear what they have to say.

This practice is a way of honoring your ancestors… a method you can revisit time and again to serve as a resource in your life and work.

In this module you’ll:

• Participate in the Sankofa practice to map a new story for your future
• Discover which plotlines in your life you want to change
• Learn how to “ghostbust” your phantom narratives
• Seed and nurture new plotlines to carry your life forward
• Deepen your trust of your inner guidance

Module 6: Authoring Your New Story to Make a Cultural Contribution

What’s the new story you want to create? What’s the setting? Who are the members of your supporting cast… human and otherwise? Who are the villains? Who are your allies?

Learn what it means to author a new story that will enable you to make personal contributions to the emergence of a new cultural story.

You’ll cultivate the fortitude you need to co-create the new story that you’re ready to live into.

You’ll recognize the mindset changes required and be willing to make them… and discover your strength, beauty, personal medicine, and ways to release it in the world.

You’ll practice remembering what you already know, drawing from ancient wisdoms for the Asé (capacity to make things happen) — to evolve personal and cultural stories that can help create change.

You’ll learn to craft your new story, adorn it, embellish it, and infuse it with the elemental energies that bring it to life.

And, as you craft your new story, you’ll become adept at turning your active imagination into a vision with unlimited possibilities… and become what author Jean Houston describes as “the possible human for the possible society.”

In this module you’ll:

• Be guided in a meditation to visit a spirit guide and use your imagination with journal prompts
• Gain greater clarity about your gifts and the confidence needed to release them into the world
• Develop the mindset you need to write a new story with the wisdom of your ancestors
• Come to understand where you are in your story and who your supporting cast of characters are
• Discover what your Asé power is and why it helps you remember what you already know about how to create personal and cultural change
• Explore how symbols, music, poems, and prayer can move you toward a new story and vision for yourself

Module 7: Customizing & Programming Your Personal Story 

Programming your new story requires intentionality and repetitive self-talk.

This session provides an opportunity for you to design your customized personal story-shifting ritual.

Ritualizing your story invites in the power of Spirit to hold space with you, and helps you remember you’re not alone. Without this continual support, your brain will default to your old story, and you’ll find yourself forgetting to water the garden you’ve just planted.

Your programming plan may include affirmations you repeat to yourself as part of a nighttime or morning ritual. Velma will offer instructions on meditative writing, journaling, and dream incubation.

In this closing module, you’ll receive the tools, reinforcement, inspiration, and commitment you need to move forward with the next chapter of your life.

You’ll reflect on the work you’ve completed during the past seven weeks and offer gratitude to the spirit allies and ancestral guides who’ve been part of your team.

You’ll check in with your Ori to determine your level of alignment, fine-tune your operating frequency, and listen for instructions.

You’ll leave this course feeling resourced, supported, and ready to shape your future. You’ll take the magic dust with you, toss it about, and walk in it, knowing that there’s always more where that came from.

In this session, you’ll:

• Fine-tune your personal story-shifting ritual
• Discover several phantom narrative ghost-busting strategies — ways to be alert to blindspots, hidden minefields, emotional triggers, and unseen shadows
• Further develop your personal ritual techniques — structuring your prayers, designing your active and quiet meditations, and identifying power spots that speak to you
• Create sample affirmations — short statements that help you focus your energy
• Develop tips for self-talk — ways to check yourself and pivot when you find yourself in a default thought pattern that’s not consistent with your new story
• Refine your power of intention — setting your inner guidance center to get you to your desired destination

Plus… you’ll receive these bonuses too!

Sleep on It

Audio Meditation From Dr. Velma Love

Sleep on It is an instructional recording that offers a step-by-step guide to opening ancestral communication portals through dreamwork and downloads during sleep. Based on the teachings of Will Coleman, PhD (Baba Esuyemi Ifayemi), in his community class on Tribal Hoodoo, this meditation practice has been field-tested by students around the globe. This short teaching will have you waking up with amazing answers to questions you posed before falling asleep.

Family Reunion Rituals: Litany of Light Procession

PDF Guide From Dr. Velma Love

This guide can be used as a model for designing your own customized family reunion rituals that go beyond simply calling on the names of your deceased loved ones. Complete with thought-provoking questions, a list of necessary materials, and tips for conceptualizing and framing rituals, it is sure to engage, inspire, delight, and create a sense of belonging. It holds the key to infusing your family reunions with new energy and profound value.

Ancestral Memory: A Medicine Story

Audio Teaching From Dr. Velma Love

Listen in as Velma relays an ancient tale that highlights the importance of ancestral memory and reverence… a memory story from the Ifá corpus of sacred literature — the Odu Ogbe Irete — told to Velma by a priest of Ifá. This story recounts the journey of three generations of women. The first two generations carried out family traditions. The third, Egunbola, found no value in her traditional cultural practices, and she was determined to abandon them until she received a startling wakeup call. Egunbola’s experience powerfully demonstrates the significance of ancestral practices.

What People Are Saying About Dr. Velma Love…

“I have replaced old pain with new joy, and for the first time in a very long time I have clarity about my spiritual path.”
My work with Dr. Love has been the answer to so many prayers that I have prayed, the witness to sermons I have written to myself, and the manifestation of affirmations that I have posted. Through a chance Zoom meeting that turned out to be a providential moment, I first learned about ancestral lineage healing work. Through my sessions working with Dr. Love, I have found peace, forgiveness, and reconciliation with estranged loved ones. I have replaced old pain with new joy, and for the first time in a very long time I have clarity about my spiritual path. I am deeply grateful for this experience. — Steven Latture, retired educator, New York City

“Dr. Velma Love is a truly gifted healer and guide in ancestral reverence practices.”
Dr. Velma Love is a truly gifted healer and guide in ancestral reverence practices. Her ancestral circles provided a rich, grounded container to deepen intimacy with elder spiritual guides and ancestors in service to personal and collective healing. She has a tremendous gift for weaving in the intuitive sparks that create a communal fabric. Her gentle encouragement and support enabled me to cultivate a deeper trust in my own intuition, which offered greater clarity around the ways to live in greater alignment with my vocation and my inherited gifts. I highly recommend joining in on one of her ancestral circle offerings. — Amber McZeal, Ancestral Circle participant

An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Training, Shapeshift Your Ancestral Stories to Ignite Your Divine Purpose

We feel honored that Dr. Velma Love has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online training. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with an ancestral lineage healing practitioner whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and transform ourselves and our world.

If you’re serious about healing old personal and cultural wounds and creating positive social impact as you fulfill your life’s purpose, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training.

About Dr. Velma Love

Dr. Velma Love is an educator, cultural activist, ritual artist, storyteller, ancestral lineage healing practitioner, and changemaker. The author of Divining the Self: A Study in Yoruba Myth and Human Consciousness, she is the Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program and Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Her research interests center on sacred texts in society, ancestral memory, the intergenerational transmission of cultural trauma, and the healing power of story for personal and social transformation.

She is founder and president of Story Catalysts, LLC, the only story-change company that leverages ancient African wisdom symbols and systems, proven true through the test of time, to catalyze personal and social transformation. As a certified Ancestral Lineage Healing Practitioner, a Narrative Coach, and a Dagara Cowrie Shell Diviner, Velma teaches her clients and students to connect with their inner guidance system, the innate divine consciousness known as the “Ori” (oh ree), to catalyze personal and social transformation.

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