Healing Colonial Legacies: Reconnecting with Personal & Land-Based Histories
With Deana Dartt, Heron Brae and Nancy Morris-Judd
August 31 - September 6, 2026
How can we build authentic relationships with ourselves, our communities, and the earth? This five-day workshop invites participants to reflect on past experiences and foster empathy, forgiveness, generosity, and balance in the present. Activities include cultural mapping, mindfulness, intention setting, an empathy journal, arts integration, and discussions rooted in applied decolonization.
About the Leaders
Deana Dartt
Deana Dartt, PhD (Director) is Coastal Band, Chumash, and Mestiza, descending from the indigenous people of the Californias. Her scholarly and professional work strives to address the incongruities between public understanding, representation and true acknowledgement of Native peoples, their cultures, histories, and contemporary lives. She earned her MA and PhD from the University of Oregon […]
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Heron Brae
Heron Brae is a community builder, educator, and facilitator with over 25 years of experience in grassroots intersectional anti-oppression movements. She practices peer-to-peer listening within a liberation framework and has deeply engaged in personal emotional learning, facing systems of power, and healing ancestral trauma and shame in her Celtic and Germanic lineage. As a descendant […]
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Nancy Morris-Judd
Nancy Judd is an internationally recognized artist, environmental advocate, and teaching artist. For over 20 years she has been creating art exhibitions made from trash that engage people in conversations about how we live on the earth. Nancy exhibits her work in public airports and museums and one of her pieces, the Obamanos Coat, is […]
Learn more about Nancy Morris-JuddCategories : Ghost Ranch Program, History