Category: native american

• Solace for A Suffering World

  In hard times, we are invited to open our hearts, recognize our relatedness to all beings, and understand the social and historical forces creating suffering in our lives. We are invited to be bridges of healing between the generations. To open our hearts is to offer solace to a suffering world.

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 27, 2012

  Healing, native american

  healing, Joy, multigenerational, suffering

• The New Year: We Are Still Here!

  As we enter the New Year, we are asked to rekindle and nurture the fire of hope, and to remember that we are, in spite of whatever travail that we have passed through in our lives, still here.

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 2, 2012

  native american, Psychotherapy, Shamanism, Social issues

  ancestors, hope, New Years, Shamanism, Wounded Knee

• Advent: Waiting for Jesus and the Holy Ones

  May we remember during Advent, and at Christmas, the gifts we give one another with love, are also gifts to Jesus, the other Holy Ones, and the Spirits. May we each create some things of great beauty to give directly to the Christ Child and the Others, in appreciation for their care, generosity, and their…

  Michael Watson PhD

  November 27, 2011

  native american, Shamanism

  Advent, Couer d’Alenes, crow, raven, Shamanism

• Shamans, Race, and Story In Our Time of Occupation

  Shamanism and, more recently, Narrative Therapy seek to challenge the authority of colonialism and its allies in the lives of those who seek healing. They use differing tools and strategies to do so, yet often their territories overlap. Together they provide evolving maps of the technologies, visions, and behaviors of colonial practice. They challenge the…

  Michael Watson PhD

  November 9, 2011

  native american, Psychotherapy, Shamanism, Social issues

  colonialism, Narrative Therapy, Native American, Occupy Wallstreet, Self, Shamanism