Category: First Nations

• 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

• Salmon and Raven

  “She’s (Raven) always minding the business of the rest of the world, eavesdropping, weighing voice and action against consequence. She minds the business of the two-leggeds the most. They’re all a bunch of loose  cannons. Humans are capable of wanting things which defy their needs, counter their interests and destroy the very spiritual sensibility the…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 24, 2012

  First Nations, Healing, Nature, Shamanism

  Lee Maracle, raven, Salmon, stories

• The Work of Epiphany

  The Feast of the Epiphany invites us to awaken to a changed world, to take hope, and to accept the task at hand. We are all denizens of this bright blue planet, all kin. Ultimately, we share the same fate. There is no where else to go.

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 7, 2012

  Climate Change, First Nations, Psychotherapy, Shamanism

  Bangladesh, climate change, Epiphany, India, Indigenous Peoples

• 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