Introduction to Healing the Mother Wound: Healing Retreat
Join Prospect Park Alliance and wellness practitioner Michelle Mathison for a deeply nourishing and transformative afternoon of healing, reflection, and ancestral repair as we gather to explore the Mother Wound, a wound that affects us personally, generationally, and collectively.
This half-day retreat will take place at the powerful and historic Lefferts House, an 18th-century Dutch colonial home located in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. Once worked by enslaved people, this land holds ancestral memory. To gather here in community is a sacred act of reclamation and repair. This retreat is a collaboration between a diverse group of trauma-informed healers, therapists, and ceremonialists. Our shared intention is to provide a rich, layered experience that touches mind, body, soul and lineage.
Whether you’re navigating challenges in your relationship with your mother, processing grief or abandonment, or seeking to end cycles of pain passed through generations, this space is for you. This retreat brings together a powerful team of practitioners, each with a unique modality, presence, and passion for collective healing. Practitioners include: Michelle Mathison, Family Constellations facilitator with a deep focus on generational trauma; Sandra Rowe, Ceremonial Cacao practitioner; Noderea John, Clinical Social Worker passionate about community-based healing, Candice S. Watkins, Licensed Professional Counselor.
Together, we will co-create a safe, heart-led space where healing can unfold through a blend of embodied practices and ancestral wisdom. Our agenda will be part structured, part intuitively guided. You can expect:
- Generational Trauma Healing
- Ceremonial Cacao Circle
- Healing Conversations on the Mother Wound
- Movement-Based Healing Practices
- Delicious Nourishment
- A Supportive, Intimate Group of 25 Participants
What to Bring: A journal and pen, water bottle, comfortable clothing for movement, and anything that helps you feel grounded (crystals, sacred objects, etc.).
This event is part of ReImagine Lefferts, Prospect Park Alliance’s initiative to re-envision the mission and programming of the Lefferts Historic House museum to focus on exploring the lives, resistance and resilience of the Indigenous people of Lenapehoking, whose unceded ancestral lands the park and house rests upon, and the Africans enslaved by the Lefferts family.