Òṣun Consciousness™

Òṣun Consciousness is an Afro-Feminine Indigenous approach to understanding and resolving the complex social phenomenon of homelessness. This original framework birthed through Dr. Alisa is a comprehensive process of developing, strengthening, and changing consciousness.to expand cultural awareness of the needs of Black people to facilitate systems change. It also offers a framework of healing and repair for Black people who lack a sense of belonging and connection to home by providing a self-assessment of the four determinants to identify areas that could be strengthened through uncovered hidden or suppressed identities, bringing healing through incremental wholeness.

The Four Determinants Found Within The Òṣun Consciousness Framework  

• Elders Seeks to re-invoke a collective memory of social protocols and mapping of social relations from the Black Southern traditions as tools of resilience, birthed out of retention of African values that instituted practices, positions, roles, and responsibilities to sustain inter-generational family ties to keep communities safe and thriving, while also ensuring children had knowledge of self.

• Ancestors Reminds us that honoring the Ancestors is an important component of many indigenous African and other earth-based spiritual systems to invoke the embodied traditions, values, and worldview that survived the Middle Passage of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in the hearts and minds of the Ancestors who made that journey and endured.

• Culture Acknowledges the concept of cultural retention from traditional foods to continual sharing of stories through songs, dance, and drumming, and values African and Black literary arts as a part of mental wellness for Black psychological well-being in alignment with an Afro-feminine indigenous value system and an ontological relationship with the world that would warrant cultural sensitivity.

• Land Emphasizes the importance of access to land as a confirmation of self and one’s safe and secure place of being in the world while considering Earth as witness to all human affairs and a source of stability and survival.