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Finding Belonging Amidst Cultural Severance
June 10 @ 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
Finding Belonging Amidst Cultural Severance with Lydia Violet Harutoonian
Tuesday June 10, 2025
- Pacific time: 10am-12pm
- Mountain time: 11am-1pm
- Central time: 12pm-2pm
- Eastern time: 1pm-3pm
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This event is a part of the Liberation Learning Series which runs bi-weekly on Tuesdays from June 10 to September 30, 2025.
Join us for this song-filled and interactive webinar that draws from Lydia Violet’s Tending the Bones curriculum to tend diasporic healing and find wisdom that lives in our ancestral and cultural reconnection.
About the event
To be diasporic means to be a member of any group of people who have been dispersed outside their traditional homeland. Many of the world’s population, including the majority of North American residents, exist within a diaspora.
This dispersion often brings with it a sense of ancestral cultural separation, with which comes disorientation from land, language, and tradition, as well as assimilation into modern capitalism and materialism.
However, we do not need to resign ourselves to this process: by studying the past, we can inform our way forward.
People have always stored their lessons and medicines in stories and songs—and every culture has a thread in the timeless tapestry of humanity. What is yours?
Through song and story, we’ll create space to listen for what still lives in the bones—and remember pathways of belonging that colonization will not erase.
This webinar will include teachings, vocalization, and a Q & A with Lydia.
In this session, you will:
- Cultivate practices for ancestral reconnection rooted in Lydia Violet’s Tending the Bones framework, drawing on ancestral cultural research as pathways to belonging.
- Explore the emotional and spiritual impacts of cultural severance and how to hold space for diasporic healing within yourself and your communities.
- Leave with embodied tools and reflections to support your ongoing journey of reclaiming lineage, place, and purpose amidst colonization.
About your presenter
Lydia Violet Harutoonian
Lydia Violet Harutoonian is an Iranian-Armenian-American musician, educator, and facilitator devoted to cultural healing, ecological renewal, and the restoration of ancestral wisdom. For over 16 years, she has been a dedicated student of Joanna Macy, facilitating The Work That Reconnects across many communities, weaving together systems thinking, deep ecology, and emotional resilience in the face of global crisis.
Lydia is the founder of the School for The Great Turning, a learning community where music, activism, and spiritual practice meet. Her work often focuses on diasporic healing and right relationship, creating spaces for people to reconnect with their cultural roots while engaging the challenges of our time. With training in ecopsychology and trauma-informed facilitation, she offers grounded emotional support to individuals and communities navigating burnout, grief, and the psychological weight of living in ecological crisis.
Through her signature program Tending the Bones, Lydia guides participants in exploring the impacts of cultural severance and the possibilities of ancestral reconnection. Blending song, story, and group process, the curriculum supports people in tending their lineages with care—uncovering threads of resilience, healing, and belonging in the midst of our collective turning.
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