Category: Social issues

• The Olympics, Polio, and the Medicine Wheel

  Considering Illness, wisdom, and the Olympics.

  Michael Watson PhD

  February 17, 2014

  First Nations, Shamanism, Social issues, Teaching

  healing, Medicine Wheel, Olympics, Shamanism

• Respect, Resilience, and Reconciliation: A Guest Post by Tree Girl

  I am so pleased to see these changes in my lifetime. I am seeing Aboriginal people becoming stronger and prouder. The young people now have more confidence and pride in their heritage and more kids are identifying as Aboriginal instead of feeling ashamed and hiding it

  Michael Watson PhD

  February 9, 2014

  First Nations, Sacred Lands, Social issues, Stories

  Aboriginal, Australia, healing, Tree Girl

• Difficult Times

  Building community in challenging times.

  Michael Watson PhD

  November 6, 2013

  First Nations, Psychotherapy, Social issues

  ancestors, ceremony, conflict, identity, psychotherapy

• October Holidays

  Here in Vermont we are enjoying a long, warm autumn. Day after day we have been greeted by bright sunlight and warm breezes. The other night there was a rare display of the aurora, which, sadly, we missed. We know that at some point the warmth will give way to cold, bright skies to seemingly…

  Michael Watson PhD

  October 13, 2013

  Healing, native american, Social issues

  appropriation, colonialism, Halloween, healing