Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home Toko-Pa Turner Sufism Ancestral Dream work

Sufi Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home by Turner Toko-Pa ancestral dream work 2017 Nautilus Award Gold Winner Feel like you don't belong? You're not alone. The world has never been more connected, yet people are lonelier than ever. Whether we feel unworthy, alienated, or anxious about our place in the world - the absence of belonging is the great silent wound of our times. Most people think of belonging as a mythical place, and they spend a lifetime searching for it in vain. But what if belonging isn't a place at all? What if it's a skill that has been lost or forgotten? With her signature depth and eloquence, Toko-pa maps a path to Belonging from the inside out. Drawing on myth, stories and dreams, she takes us into the origins of our estrangement, reframing exile as a necessary initiation into authenticity. Then she shares the competencies of belonging: a set of ancestral practices to heal our wounds and restore true belonging to our lives and to the world. Toko-pa Turner is a Canadian writer, teacher, and dreamworker who blends the mystical tradition of Sufism with a Jungian approach to dreams. In 2001 she founded the Dream School, from which hundreds of students have since graduated. Sometimes called a Midwife of the Psyche, Toko-pa's work focuses on restoring the feminine, reciprocity with nature, honouring grief, ritual, and making beauty. She lives on a small island in the Salish Sea of British Columbia.