Divination and body mapping
Divination and Body Mapping Divination is a ritual-based methodology grounded in African cosmologies that conceptualise the body as a repository of personal, intergenerational, and collective memory. The methodology is designed to generate meaning through embodied sensation and symbolic inquiry rather than prediction.
Other than challenging the Cartesian separation of the body, mind and soul, this approach resists the exclusive focus on biomedical and Western psychological frameworks which tend to locate meaning solely at the level of the individual.
Practice involves the following steps:
This intervention consists of 4 sessions of a trauma-informed somatic experiencing approach which weaves together all strands of my academic training, ancestral gifts and lived experience.
