Category: Social issues

• Join the Conversation

  

  Have letters, brief videos, or artwork to share in these troubled times? Join the conversation at Journeys! We’ve fallen on hard times and people in the U.S., and the world, are deeply divided from one another. This blog is a place for conversation between artists, persons with disability, and others who want to further dialog…

  Michael Watson PhD

  February 24, 2017

  Arts, Disability, First Nations, Healing, Social issues, spirituality, Stories, Teaching

  Arts, conversation, Hard Times, healing, Social Change, stories

• What Would Jesus Do?

  

  The afternoon turned sunny; now, a couple of hours before sunset, high, thin clouds have spread across the sky. The day’s bright sun has brought unseasonably warm temperatures and snow melt. Somewhere close, I’m sure, someone is sugaring. Sugaring has long been a sacred, celebratory time here in the U.S. Northeast. It marks the last…

  Michael Watson PhD

  February 23, 2017

  native american, Sacred Lands, Social issues, spirituality

  Jesus, Native American, Social Change

• The Stories that Guide Us

  I awoke from a night filled with dreams to a day of broken overcast and seasonal chill. The late January light is much diminished by cloud and the wane sun throws no shadows. There are narratives among Native people that we are living in the fifth or sixth iteration of the world. Not unlike the…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 30, 2017

  native american, Psychotherapy, Social issues, Stories

  Native American, psychotherapy, stories

• Resisting The Urge to Demonize

  Yesterday I drove over to central Vermont to met with a long time friend I haven’t seen in a while. Just before I came to her village, I saw two very young deer standing close together near the road, watching the cars go by. I slowed down so as to be able to respond to…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 29, 2017

  Shamanism, Social issues, spirituality

  evil, healing, Shamanism