Dre and LION will be hosting a hands-on, restorative workshop of crafting your own soothing calendula balm. Calendula is renowned for its anti-inflammatory and skin-soothing benefits, helping to heal and rejuvenate the skin.
This traditional practice, rooted in ancient herbal medicine, has been cherished across cultures for its therapeutic and healing properties. In this session, you'll not only learn how to infuse calendula flowers into a nourishing balm but also connect with a practice that has supported wellness for generations.
This session is a space for connection, creativity, and self-care. Join us if you would like to learn or reconnect with a skill and leave with a custom-made calendula balm.
Whether you've made balms before or not, we would love to have you! The only thing needed for this session is you and your presence!
Tickets are pay what you can with ticket sales going towards covering the cost of the event and LION's Land Pot. If cost is a barrier to you attending, email sumayyah@landinournames for a free ticket.
Dre Ferdinand is a licensed social worker, artist and therapist, whose practices include movement, energy, sound, soil, and EMDR, a modality that has informed her approach which she refers to as ‘MESSE’. Dre’s practice framework is rooted in healing, social and restorative justice. Her professional journey involves aiding individuals and communities in processing and recovering from systemic harm and trauma as well as advocating for therapeutic support for social workers. Her teachings are centred on helping people navigate their internal landscape, collective care, and processing trauma. You can contact Dre at hello@dreferdinand.com or @idreferdi
Land In Our Names is a grassroots collective of Black and People of Colour getting land through reparations. Our collective is based in London, Britain, and works to reconnect Black and People of Colour to land, both in the city and in the countryside. Our work addresses the inequalities in access to land and food, and reimagines land stewardship towards climate and racial justice. We are organising toward collective ownership and land stewardship by Black and People of Colour, to heal the colonial-rooted trauma that has separated us and continues to extract from the land.
Fallow
Fallow is a series of community care workshops integrating the healing and repair element of Land In Our Names’ aims and values into our work. We believe that there is a deep need for accessible healing spaces for Black and People of Colour (BPOC) landworkers and earthworkers, climate, food, farming, land and racial justice organisers. Moreover, it is vital to connect this work to land and food, in particular political understandings of land and food that are rooted in ancestral, anti-colonial, and radical practices. We see collective care as essential in supporting food growers and other landworkers who experience physical and mental burnout from low wages and intensive physical labour. It is important for social justice organisers who similarly struggle with low wages, long hours and demanding work.