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Postpartum Healing Journey For Modern Grandmothers

Afrika Ikalafe Pluriversity

Postpartum Healing Journey For Modern Grandmothers

Becoming a grandmother often awakens memories of our own pregnancies, births, and early mothering. Many women carry unspoken stories of how they were mothered or how they mothered under pressure, often with limited support, or within systems that did not honour their bodies.

This healing journey is an invitation to pause, remember, and tend to your own story of mothering, so that you may support new mothers with greater presence and care.

We hold postpartum care as intergenerational work. Healing the grandmother is not separate from supporting the new mother. It is the ground from which cultural safety can become part of the medicalised definition of safe birth.
When a grandmother heals what she carried, care changes shape across generations.

Online Course

3 August 2026 – 31 August 2026

Who is this journey for?

This circle is for:

  • Grandmothers who wish to support new mothers.
  • Grandmothers who carry the stirring of their own birth experience and feel a need to tend to them.
  • Grandmothers who are navigating modern health care, hospital protocols, medical advice and shifting social norms.

The Journey Structure

This is a 5-week journey, weaving together three living threads each week:

  • Healing the grandmother – reflection, retrieval, and tending to your own story
  • Indigenous postpartum knowledge – ancestral wisdom and its disruptions
  • Practical reclamation – how to support mothers within modern realities

How the journey unfolds

  • Five live, facilitated online sessions (2 hours each)
  • A small, reflective online healing circle
  • Guided practices, reflection prompts, and shared learning
  • Session recordings available for replay for a limited time

Weekly Flow

  • Week 1: The Healing Power of Birth Stories
  • Week 2: Honouring the Hands That Caught Babies
  • Week 3: Mothering the Mother- Choices and Boundaries
  • Week 4: Navigating Modern Medical Systems and Cultural Constraints
  • Week 5: Restoring the role of the grandmother as the custodian of knowledge

Course Payment Packages

    R5500Once Off
    • Full payment prior to commencement
    • Final payment must be completed before the course begins.
    R2750
    • Full payment prior to commencement
    • Final payment must be completed before the course begins.
    R1375
    • Full payment prior to commencement
    • Final payment must be completed before the course begins.