Regenerative
Masterclasses
Indigenous Wisdom for Collective Healing
with Ati Quigua, Konkankoh Joshua, and Mamerto Tindongan
In a world facing ecological breakdown and cultural fragmentation, this masterclass invites us to reconnect deeply with the wisdom held by indigenous traditions from the Ifugao tribe in the Philippines, Bafut communities in Cameroon, and Arhuaco communities in Colombia. Guided by esteemed Wisdom Keepers Mamerto Tindongan, Konkankoh Joshua, and Ati Quigua, participants will explore ancestral practices that nurture collective healing, ecological consciousness, and community resilience.
“We have all come from love ”
—Mamerto Tindongan
In this Workshop
Each session offers an embodied exploration into the sacred practices, rituals, and philosophies central to the lives of these Wisdom Keepers, encouraging us to engage with the profound interconnectedness of humanity and the natural world. This masterclass aims to equip individuals and communities with practical insights and powerful experiential tools to cultivate regenerative relationships and heal collective wounds.
Participants will develop inner and collective capacities to:
- Deepen their ecological and ancestral consciousness
- Cultivate community resilience through traditional practices
- Engage with rituals and ceremonies that foster collective healing
“Letting go means detaching from almost everything that will hinder you from being whole/empty. This includes emptying belief systems and even the idea of being grounded to the earth…” — Mamerto Tindongan
package
Receive a special discount on the lowest price when you sign up for up to three Masterclasses.
€225
Partner
If you wish to not only cover the real cost of this class, but also allow us to continue to offer scholarships to others…
€200
Ally
If you wish to cover the real cost of this Regenerative Masterclass and support our work…
€150
Friend
If you are finding it hard to make ends meet financially, but wish to learn and support global healing…
€100
Attendee
If you are from Ukraine, Palestine, a Person of Colour from the ‘Global South’ or an Indigenous leader…
€50
CLASS 1: Sacred Reciprocity — Feminine Wisdom and Earth Stewardship
WITH ATI QUIGUA (COLOMBIA)
DATE: MON. 27 OCTOBER 2025 – 17:00 - 19:00 CET / BERLIN
Ati Quigua will guide us through ancestral wisdom rooted in the feminine principles of regeneration, reciprocity, and collective responsibility from a Colombian Indigenous perspective specifically from Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
We’ll focus on:
- Indigenous feminine cosmology and its regenerative principles from the Arhuaco communities (one of the 4 communities of Sierra Nevada Kogis, Arhuacos, Kankuamos and Wiwas)
- Honoring water as sacred
- Community biocultural governance practices
Learning Outcomes:
- Deepened appreciation for feminine ecological wisdom
- Tools for implementing reciprocal community stewardship
- Practical integration of regenerative rituals and practices
Language: Spanish & English
CLASS 2: African Indigenous Wisdom — Ceremonies, and Ancestral Healing Connection
with Konkankoh Joshua (Cameroon)
DATE: WED. 29 OCTOBER 2025 – 17:00 - 19:00 CET / BERLIN
Explore the essence of African wisdom, practices, and traditions through ancestral rituals, proverbs, and ceremonies that enhance connection, community, and continuity.
We’ll focus on:
- The foundational principles of the African worldview
- Community ceremonies and rituals as anchors of collective healing
- Practical ancestral connection through libations
Learning Outcomes:
- Enhanced understanding of community-centered African wisdom
- Experiential learning of ceremonial rituals
- Strengthened skills in connecting to ancestral wisdom
Language: English
CLASS 3: Soul Healing, Earth Healing — Breathing into Wholeness
with Mamerto tindongan (Philippines)
DATE: THURS. 30 OCTOBER 2025 – 15:00 - 17:00 CET / BERLIN
Experience profound soul and Earth healing through guided breathing exercises, rooted in traditional Philippine wisdom, fostering deep inner peace and ecological consciousness.
We’ll focus on:
- Exploring soul and earth interconnectedness through traditional Philippine wisdom
- Guided breathing exercises for emotional and ecological balance
Learning Outcomes:
- Practical breathing techniques for inner peace and ecological awareness
- Enhanced emotional and spiritual resilience
- Increased consciousness of the interdependence between personal and planetary health
Language: English
Contextual Anchoring:
Ati Quigua, Konkankoh Joshua, and Mamerto Tindongan served as central wisdom keepers in a UNDP Conscious Food project – “From Ubuntu to Kapwa”, each embodying indigenous knowledge systems rooted in their respective territories. Through contributions such as spiritual rituals, food-based cultural practices, and regenerative land wisdom, they helped prototype a deep design framework for transforming food systems amid colonization, conflict, and climate crises. They will each be introduced and accompanied by Margarita Zethelius, Sonita Mbah and Sarah Queblatin.
The 3 sessions offered combine learning, sharing, creative practice, and field-building.
Class 1: Sacred Reciprocity — Feminine Wisdom and Earth Stewardship
Ati Quigua will guide us through ancestral wisdom rooted in the feminine principles of regeneration, reciprocity, and collective responsibility from a Colombian Indigenous perspective specifically from Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
Date: Monday, 7 July, 5-7pm CET
Facilitator: Ati Quigua (Colombia)
We’ll focus on:
- Indigenous feminine cosmology and its regenerative principles from the Arhuaco communities (one of the 4 communities of Sierra Nevada Kogis, Arhuacos, Kankuamos and Wiwas)
- Honoring water as sacred
- Community biocultural governance practices
Learning Outcomes:
- Deepened appreciation for feminine ecological wisdom
- Tools for implementing reciprocal community stewardship
- Practical integration of regenerative rituals and practices
Class 2: African Indigenous Wisdom — Ceremonies, and Ancestral Healing Connection
Explore the essence of African wisdom, practices, and traditions through ancestral rituals, proverbs, and ceremonies that enhance connection, community, and continuity.
Date: Thursday, 10 July, 5-7pm CET
Facilitator: Konkankoh Joshua (Cameroon)
We’ll focus on:
- The foundational principles of the African worldview
- Community ceremonies and rituals as anchors of collective healing
- Practical ancestral connection through libations
Learning Outcomes:
- Enhanced understanding of community-centered African wisdom
- Experiential learning of ceremonial rituals
- Strengthened skills in connecting to ancestral wisdom
Class 3: Soul Healing, Earth Healing — Breathing into Wholeness
Experience profound soul and Earth healing through guided breathing exercises, rooted in traditional Philippine wisdom, fostering deep inner peace and ecological consciousness.
Date: Sunday, 13 July, 3-5pm CET
Facilitator: Mamerto Tindongan (Philippines)
We’ll focus on:
- Exploring soul and earth interconnectedness through traditional Philippine wisdom
- Guided breathing exercises for emotional and ecological balance
Learning Outcomes:
- Practical breathing techniques for inner peace and ecological awareness
- Enhanced emotional and spiritual resilience
- Increased consciousness of the interdependence between personal and planetary health
These 3 sessions combine learning, sharing, creative practice, and field-building.
SAVE THE DATE
Session 1: Monday, 27 Oct. 2025 - 17:00 - 19:00 CET / Berlin
Session 2: Wednesday, 29 Oct. 2025 - 17:00 - 19:00 CET / Berlin
Session 3: Thursday, 30 Oct. 2025 - 15:00 - 17:00 CET / Berlin
By the conclusion of this masterclass, participants will:
- Recognize and manage emotional challenges: Develop self-awareness to navigate personal emotional responses, reduce reactivity, and approach conflicts with greater empathy and composure.
- Live with daily awareness of the power of the heart: Integrate mindfulness and heart-centered leadership into everyday interactions, ensuring that peacebuilding is a lived practice rather than just a theoretical concept.
- Serve as a force for peace in your communities and workplaces: Apply the principles of peacebuilding to mediate disputes, foster cooperation, and contribute to a more harmonious and inclusive society.
Join Us if You're
- A community member or grassroots leader
- A trauma-informed peer, coach, or facilitator
- A community member or grassroots leader
- A trauma-informed peer, coach, or facilitator
- Passionate about making mutual support more accessible
- Curious about practical trauma techniques you can share with others
- Passionate about making mutual support more accessible
- Curious about practical trauma techniques you can share with others
“When we pour libations, we are not just honoring the past—we are awakening its power to shape a better future.”
—Konkankoh Joshua
Can you really learn a whole counseling technique in a day? Yes! It was exactly like that. The best part is, it was mostly practical and less theory. I got to experience first hand how effective the technique is by dealing with my own traumas. I gained so much confidence in being able to implement the techniques that we were taught. Thank you so much for this opportunity.
– Ms. C.M, Zimbabwe, Training Participant
Working with Victor has been truly transformative. It has deepened my understanding and empowered me with tools to address trauma effectively, both for myself and others. The techniques I have been taught can be utilised on a diverse number of people and in different places. His compassionate guidance and clear teaching style made complex concepts easy to grasp and apply.
– Nomsa T, South Africa, Training Participant
I came with no expectations but with an awareness that self-understanding, wisdom and self-care were deeply needed. The journey through trauma, self-discovery and self-knowledge has been transformative not only for the ‘shutter-up’, lights on moments, but for the soulful, meditative calm it has brought. I could not recommend more highly to those in acute need. Life changing.
– Mr. F.C., United Kingdom, Client
I met Victor at a very turbulent time of my life. When I think back to how I was when I met him, to now, it’s extraordinary the difference I feel. In particular, I took a lot from our conversations about mental health and personality disorders. Our meetings were a space to explore in much detail my experiences and through his unique techniques, process the complex feelings around them.
– Ms. T.W., Mexico, Client
Rola, almost every word you spoke rang as a clear resonance in my system…soft, spacious, slow, and kind. Your sharing, your cadence was soothing and offered space for digestion.
– Attendee, The Art of Speaking Your Truth Workshop
Working with Rola has been an incredibly transformative experience. She helped me confront and dismantle deep-rooted beliefs about myself. I started with ‘I can’t do this,’ and now I leave with ‘I guess that’s possible.
– One-to-One Coaching Client
Ati Quigua
Ati Seygundiba Quigua Izquierdo is an Arhuaco indigenous leader from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, where she was trained in the Sé o Sei (Kogui-Iku) worldview by the elder mamos, which means living in harmony with the vital cycles and processes of nature. Ati Quigua holds a Public Administrator’s degree in Government and Public Policy from the Externado de Colombia University; she has served as an Indigenous Commissioner for Peace in Colombia; she is a defender of the rights of ethnic and rural populations, the rights of nature, and Buen Vivir (Good Living) at the national and international levels; a professor at various higher education institutions; and she was elected to Bogotá City Council for three terms (2004-2007, 2008-2011, and 2020-2023). She is an expert in leading, formulating, implementing, and monitoring public policies for Black, Afro-descendant, Raizal, Palenquera, Indigenous, Rrom, and rural peoples and communities.
Similarly, her work has sought to manage and facilitate spaces for dialogue with national and regional coordination bodies, including the Capital District, to truly and effectively guarantee the inclusion of gender, ethnic, and rights-based approaches, promoting profound social transformations on the path to peace.
Winner of the 2016 Daniele Po International Prize, which has an international tradition of recognizing women and associations working for the environment and human rights.
Awarded by the European Union, the Government and Parliament of Italy, the Vatican City, and the University of Bologna.
Konkankoh Joshua
Konkankoh an indigenous environmental leader from the Kingdom of Bafut, who weaves networks that enhance South-North Partnerships as a social entrepreneur and consultant providing advisory services in trust relations for quality and impact in community development, education and social governance. He founded Better World Cameroon and Bafut Ecovillage which became a UN-recognized reference center for sustainability, a model of environmentalism “the African Way”.
Mamerto Tindongan
Mamerto Lagitan Tindongan is from the Ifugao tribe in the Cordillera region in northern Philippines. He is an eighth generation Mumbaki, native priest of the Baki spirituality, and he was initiated into this role by his father in 2011, though he grew up with the tradition since childhood. Baki is Ifugao’s spirituality, which is the ancestral Filipino way of relating with nature spirits, deities, and ancestors. He spent over 20 years in the United States, and continues to travel worldwide to teach and guide students in the indigenous lifestyle and simple living of the Ifugao. He has been a woodcarver since childhood and now lives outside Banaue, Ifugao in a small town close to where he grew up. When he is not traveling and teaching, he is working to regenerate abandoned rice fields using organic practices, and documenting the traditional healing rituals of the region through the Ifugao Center for Living Culture.
Margarita O. Zethelius
Margarita Zethelius is offering facilitation & supporting the work of Ati Quigua.
She is an activist for life. She works to create places, programs and life change experiences that bring together care for Mother Earth and the wellbeing for humans. Biologist with MSc in Conservation and Rural Development. For the last 25 years she has been involved in the development of several alternative programs, including ecotourism, environmental education projects, creation of new private reserves, ecovillages, networking and educational strategies developed by local communities in the face of Climate Change and highly violent environments.
She has served on the boards of directors of the Global Network of Ecovillages GEN, the Council for Sustainable Settlements of America Latina CASA and GAIA Education. Organizations supporting the design and implementation of sustainable community development initiatives. Founder and co director of Falun Natural Reserve in the Andean region, the UBUNTU Center for Experimentation and Training in Regeneration in the Rosario Islands, and the organization Alianzas para la Abundancia, in Colombia. Currently she is one of the representatives of CASA Latina in the Global Ecovillage Network GEN.
Sonita Mbah
Sonita Mbah is walking alongside and supporting the leadership of Konkankoh.
She serves as Communications Coordinator at The Pocket Project and holds a Masters in World Heritage Studies. She is a passionate food grower, Permaculture designer and facilitator. For over 10 years, she was the Administrator of Better World Cameroon and co-initiator of Bafut Ecovillage, an off-grid learning center North West of Cameroon. As Executive Secretary of the Global Ecovillage Network Africa, she brings regenerative community and social enterprise development to several African communities. In 2017, Sonita received the Gender Just Climate Solutions Award by the Women and Gender Constituency for empowering women on the earthen cook stove technology and in 2021, the One World Award for her work on fostering Organic / Agro-ecological practices within the Ecovillage Movement.
Sonita holds a Diploma of Applied Permaculture Design from the German Permaculture Academy. She is a trained Regenerative Development Practitioner and has taught Permaculture Design Courses (PDC), Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) and Permaculture Teachers Trainings (PTT) across more than 10 countries in Europe and Africa. Driven by her passion for healing colonial trauma, Sonita took the Principles of Collective Trauma Healing course with Thomas Hübl.
Sarah Queblatin
Sarah Queblatin is supporting the leadership of Mamerto Tindongan.
Sarah is a regenerative design and development specialist weaving experiences in the fields of peace building, biocultural heritage, environmental education, mental health, and humanitarian innovation for around 20 years. Her life-long practice is in restoring and re-storying narratives of place and belonging with a trauma informed approach to ecosystem regeneration and leadership. She is currently a freelance consultant on regenerative strategy, facilitation, and learning. Her current project is leading the development and delivery of a bioregional governance training for the Asia – Pacific region.
Sarah founded Living Story Landscapes, harnessing cultural memory and imagination in climate and conflict vulnerable communities weaving the arts and culture with traditional ecological knowledge and permaculture. Prior to that, she started Green Releaf Initiative in the Philippines working with regenerative design in disasters and displacement. She serves as an inner council member for UNDP’s Conscious Food Systems Alliance, wisdom council for Global Ecovillage Network Oceania and Asia, founding member and advisor for Permaculture for Refugees, among other regenerative networks and movements. Sarah also serves as a juror for the LUSH Spring Prize and the Voice for Regeneration award by Unearthodox.