08/04/2026
🌸BLACK & INDIGENOUS LAND WORKING GROUP: 🌸“SZN” IN REVIEW🌸
POP and our partners at New Economy Coalition co-facilitate BIL, and we are grateful for support from The Black Solidarity Economy Fund
This month we have a special co-facilitator Keesa V. Johnson, MeDs
DATE: Friday August 7th, 11am PT, 2pm ET on Zoom- Link to intake form in BIO and on the quick link on flyer.
SPEAKER: Brenda Salgado Brenda Salgado is an Author, Facilitator, Wisdom Keeper, Healer & Organizational Consultant
TITLE OF TALK: Indigenous Prophecy, Ancestors and our Relationship with Land
OVERVIEW: Brenda will share Indigenous teachings and understanding about this time we are in, and how healing our human relationships also means healing our relationships with ancestors and with the land. If we look back far enough, we have ancestors who were Indigenous to a place, part of a lineage, even if the names or memories are lost. Every person has a biological family as well as chosen family; inherited traditions as well as chosen traditions.
To tell the truth of who we are means sharing our bigger stories: our lineages, our peoples, who and where we come from. Sharing also means involving our ancestors, becoming a part of their continuation story, and healing together with them. Ancestral healing work is essential to being in integrity with the lands that held our ancestors, the lands where we live now, and the community and healing spaces we are being called to steward in these times.
These stories are also connected beyond us, to our descendants yet to come. Our inner work and remembering is for their benefit, too. A deeper connection to each other and to the land is necessary for full healing and to help usher in a new time and new consciousness on this planet.
Brenda invites land stewards and communities to consider how they might hold this kind of deep work, helping us all come back into relationship with each other and to the land. In addition to teachings, we will engage in guided practice and have an opportunity to share in small groups what is arising from our explorations together.
BIO:
Brenda is an author, wisdom keeper and organizational and movement consultant. She has experience in transformative and spiritual development, nonprofit management, facilitation, interspiritual dialogue, mediation and circle work, movement building, and community health and social justice. Brenda has trained with various elders in ceremony and traditional medicine, and she draws on the healing powers and relationship with the natural world to guide her work. She also holds degrees in Biology, Psychology, and Animal Behavior.
She is the Founder of Nepantla Healing and Consulting , and the Nepantla Center for Healing and Renewal. In the past, she has served as Director of the Racial Healing Initiative , Director of the East Bay Meditation Center, Associate Director at Wisdom & Money, and Senior Fellow at Movement Strategy Center. She has also served on the boards of Movement Strategy Center, Lion's Roar Foundation and Unity San Leandro. She currently serves on the Advisory Board for The Charis Foundation for New Monasticism & InterSpirituality. She is author of Real World Mindfulness for Beginners: Navigate Daily Life One Practice at a Time.
Brenda is committed to co-creating a society filled with community wisdom, belonging, wholeness and beauty. She is focused on racial healing work, land and ancestral healing, sacred economics, and the weaving of mindfulness and indigenous teachings for the times we are in. She is grateful to her ancestors for their support in collective healing and liberation work.
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