Women’s Rites of Passage Program
From Birth through Eldership
Welcome to Ohemma Ku, where women 25 and older can learn about traditional African Rites of Passage and how those rites enrich and heal our lives as women in a modern society by participating in this 6 month program.
Rites of Passage has a central role in socialization. It is the experience of significant changes or transitions that marks or identifies the movement from one stage of life, circumstances to another; and is usually accompanied by a ceremony that acknowledges the transformation from infant to adult through family and community towards self-actualization. Rites of Passage enables women to both celebrate, honor, and cope with the many changes that women face throughout their lives.
Ohemma Ku Sessions
Year 1
Welcome to Ohemma Ku, where women 25 and older can learn about traditional African Rites of Passage and how those rites enrich and heal our lives as women in a modern society by participating in this 6 month hybrid (4 virtual classes and 2 in-person) program.
Year 2
This is a special opportunity to reconnect with your Ohemma Ku family, learn how to create beautiful ceremonies, and remember our divine feminine milestones to celebrate and honor our divine self.
Acknowledgements
Ohemma Ku took flight under the collective courage, tenacity, and trusted support of COL sisters, Okomfo Yaa Nyo Oprakah, Okomfo Fofie Ketewa, Okomfo Adjua Yasmine, and Okomfo Panyin Ajua Serwaa with special thanks to Okomfo Abena Afriye. We also want to acknowledge Okomfo Nwotwewaa’s sister friends who generously donated the sacred space for the Ohemma Ku meetings to take flight; Okomfo Yaa’s talented designs; and Okomfo Fofie’s gift of transforming spaces into monuments of beauty.