Born in Northern Ireland, raised beside the slave castles in Ghana and working all her adult life in the diversity of Toronto Canada, Eimear O’Neill cares about collective healing from the traumatic effects of the structures of dominance wrecking our habitat, our Earth. These include colonisation, white bodied supremacy, extractive capitalism and global hoarding of resources by an elite few. She integrates indigenous ways of knowing, and artful research, with trauma-informed ways of seeing and healing historical wounds at personal and collective levels.

Since 2004, Eimear has been creative director of the Spirit Matters gatherings and co-director of the Transformative Learning Centre. Teaching integral transformative learning, community healing and peace building along with her therapy practice, Eimear uses a community and collective healing lens in all her work. Hosting gatherings connecting indigenous peoples and re-rooting people in their own ancestral past, is core to that healing. Such gatherings virtual or in person, help to transform participants’ consciousness around climate change, racism and other historic and traumatic wounds. Working with other experienced facilitators, she uses and researches systemic constellations, Hedge Schools and other transformative practices in collective healing.