Afrika Ikalafe Pluriversity
Onsite Course for Women and Men
24 – 28 September 2025
Location: TBA
For the past two decades, Dr Mmatshilo Motsei has been facilitating healing circles for women and men separately. Dubbed Conversations with my womb, healing circles for women were meant to reveal the impact of women’s oppression and historical debasement of women’s bodies on their sense of self and wellbeing. For men, healing circles focused on involving men as part of the solution to violence against women.
What has emerged from these years of separate conversations with women and men is an existence of an impasse which is largely fueled by wounds we carry from the past. This can be a result of our cultural childhood conditioning or trauma sustained from families of origin. The fact that gendered violence is not simply biologically determined but culturally prescribed and the fact that systemic violence is also subjected to boys and men requires an expansive intervention that focuses on healing the wounded feminine and masculine energies.
For the first time in 2025, Afrika Ikalafe Pluriversity is offering a course that creates space for women and men to heal together and separately. Other than focusing on cultural prescriptions of gendered masculinities and femininities, one of the key highlights of the course is to heal mother and father wounds, with a specific focus on how such wounds impact on the girl and boy child, respectively.
During the six months, participants will engage in talking cure, creative writing, facilitated online healing sessions and African spiritual counselling. The course combines art, literature, psychology, divination and Indigenous African wisdom.
