Periagoge
Scenario

When Slavery Severed Cultural Connections Across Generations

I want to teach my children about their African heritage but slavery broke the chain of knowing, so I am trying to build culture from fragments and imagination.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Historical trauma creates unbridgeable gaps in cultural knowledge, forcing descendants to reconstruct identity from incomplete information and inherited absence.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Cultural assimilation vs. preservation?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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