This resource package aids facilitators and group participants to work a process of self-examination and action as outlined in Elaine Enns and Ched Myers’ Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization (Cascade, 2021). The goal of this work is to build capacity for personal and political practices of restorative solidarity for adult education circles, activist study groups or academic classes/cohorts. This package provides both in-person and online formats adaptable to a group’s size and nature. We have been workshopping this material for a decade, so this guide offers tested models and tools, including some developed since the book’s publication.

This Group Study resource package contains three tools:

For those interested in individual Self-Study a version of the package includes a link to stream the 9 Key Concept Videos and the Participant Workbook.

Healing Haunted Histories is available direct from Wipf & Stock in the US, use HHHGRP26 for 40% off sales prices. In Canada, purchase at discount from Common Word bookstore.

Testimonials

Here are a few written testimonies from participants in HHH online workshops held between 2021-2024:

“My heartfelt appreciation for your facilitation of a very interactive and positive learning environment! Your teaching approach, empathy, and humor have significantly expanded my perspective in so many practical ways. Moreover, your insights have enhanced my conscious awareness and deeper appreciation of my indigenous heritage, and further enlightened my understanding of how our Creator has uniquely designed all of us to be interdependent, knowing that we thrive better as collaborative parts working together to support and uplift one another. I am truly grateful for the amazing, enriching discussions and the depth with which you explored various topics.”      

–Chika Iwobi (Nigerian lawyer, immigrant to Canada)

“How grateful I am for having been through this study! I am humbled to have been with you all, and learned a great deal about my own LBS, but also gained a deeper, broader understanding of these connections. The material is superb; I commented many times to my husband that HHH was refreshingly deep, and well-researched. Elaine’s workshop leadership and vulnerability set the stage for an empowering experience. Going through the book itself I often had this odd sense of being in a place I’d never been before—learning new ways of seeing—and simultaneously being at home. I have many things to process yet!”

— Cindy Kai Anderson (consultant, adjunct faculty at George Fox University)

“Such a remarkable, life-changing book for me. I am grateful to have had the opportunity to read it with Elaine. I not only will recommend it, but place it at the top of my list for congregations that are interested in moving deeper into anti-racism work—moving from study to action, healing and repair, restorative justice and reparations.”

–Rick Ufford Chase (former moderator, Presbyterian Church USA)

“The HHH study group provided a helpful structure to read the book, to research family and church histories and their impact on Indigenous communities, and to learn about avenues for restorative justice. Even more importantly, the study group offered opportunities for prayer, story-telling and inspiration that equipped participants to actually do the work and continue in their journey towards restorative solidarity.”

—Heidi Regier Kreider (Mennonite Church US Western District Conference Minister)

“I love the attention reflected in Elaine’s workshop style. She listened and drew out components of each person’s story. This book and study represent a leaping off point for doing our own work—and what an inspiring example it is! As a framework for our own work, it is a revelation.” 

—Paris Dunning (Community Building Facilitator, St. Paul, MN)

Video testimonies from participants at the Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute, 2024