N|om and midwifing the healing of the land

A sacred 10-day collective healing of N|om

To midwife the healing of the ancestors, land and future

N|om is an indigenous Juǀ'hoansi term for the healing energy experienced in the collective. Gathered in a circle around fire, everyone participates in the healing of collective and individual wounds.

It has been said Peace begins at birth. So, in August 2025, under the watchful light of the Peace Moon, we enter into the birth chamber of our ancient and new world, through a sacred healing journey of N|om.

Guided by a Khoi elder, the Honeyman of the Outeniqua people, and his visions over the past few years, 50 Midwives of the Earth have been selected and invited from Southern Africa and across the oceans to gather and walk a path of ceremony, land connection, and ancestral healing, on the southern coast of Africa.

The photo above shows the Honeyman with a mural of his visions on the outside of his home.

This sacred gathering is not a retreat. It is a collective rite of passage, a healing of ancestral wounds, a deep remembering of how to compost our grief, loss, and ancestral trauma into the fertile soil of peace, love, and joy. Rooted in indigenous wisdom, through ritual, storytelling, song and silence, the Midwives of the Earth will reconnect to the wisdom of the Earth and honour her sacred role as life-giver, sustainer, healer and teacher.

This ceremony is also called into being by the more-than-human wisdom-keepers and elders of the Outeniqua lands. In January 2025, two participants from the Yellowwood Tree Spirit Initiation, hosted by Ecofluency, were guided to meet with the Honeyman in the days after the initiation, and the momentum for his vision of this N|om journey rose. So, this is a co-creation with the trees, elephants, bees, eland, dragons, mountains, rivers, fire, and many other aspects of Nature.

It is an internal pilgrimage to invoke forgiveness, spiritual liberation, and transformation, not just for those who participate, but for all life.

Each step taken during these ten days is an offering to Mother Earth, a prayer of gratitude for all she provides, and a commitment to walk with reverence upon her body. She is at the center of our healing: our ceremonies are woven into her soil, nourished by her waters, guided by her winds and awoken by her fires.

The journey culminates on 9 August, in alignment with a Full Peace Moon, National Women’s Day and the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. More than a gathering, it is a rebirth moment, a weaving of ancient threads into the fabric of our shared future.

Why we need your help
Many of the Earth Midwives who carry the medicine of this work cannot afford the basic costs of participating. Your donation directly supports them by covering:
- Transport for elders and participants
- Accommodation during the journey
- Nutritious meals to sustain deep ceremonial work
- Ceremonial supplies 
- 2 days of sharing and distributing food to local communities

Your contribution ensures that those most deeply rooted in this healing work can show up fully for themselves, for their ancestors, and for us all.

How you can get involved
- Donate: Sponsor a Midwife’s journey of R6000, or give what you can
- Share: Spread the word in your networks and communities
- Hold Space: Stay connected energetically from wherever you are by joining our Whatsapp Broadcast which will keep you updated with the Midwives N|om

Be part of this movement. Help tend the fire of healing.
Your support matters more than ever.

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Some words from Dikwe/Khoi

We are here to midwife the new

The new is to be born, the new is to be received and the new is to be lived

We are here to midwife this new. With old ways, we allow ourselves to become nothingness, and in our togetherness of this nothingness, the new is born. In our togetherness of this nothingness, the new is birthed, into this world.

We are here as witnesses and we are here as conduits. This is the old becoming the new. This is the arrival of ourselves. Right here on this Earth.

And we are grateful. And we will never stop. This story will never end and we will never stop

The new is here now. And as welcome committee in our thousands, we greet her. Our child of frequency borne in light and birthed in love.
This is our work
That we have come here to do
this is the work that must be done.
As sure as the rising sun
As full as the blessed Peace moon.
We are here, and this is now

This is work of spirit, and yet we do it in our bodies, here, we welcome the embodiment of spirit into our lives and into our hearts

This flow of what is, through us - the gathered ones, here - is an almighty current of electric charge.
And so we will need to feed our bodies, to eat and rest our hearts, to sleep.
For this, we need the money, from the peoples who see our work.
And this financial and pure energetic assistance we gratefully receive

Thank you
In honour of all life
We love you