Category: Psychotherapy

• Mapping a “Separate Country”

  As we move into an epoch in which Mixed-Blood is the new norm, I am curious as to how we will explore and sort out issues of personhood and sovereignty, map and establish the permeable yet clear boundaries required for cultural and personal experiences of Self and survivance.

  Michael Watson PhD

  March 4, 2012

  First Nations, Healing, native american, Psychotherapy

  colonialism, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, healing, Melanie Benson Taylor, Mixed-blood

• 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

• The Good Road

  This way of Balance and Beauty requires much of those who would walk it. Yet it offers many rewards, and the possibility of profound healing for self, other, and Earth. It is a Good road.

  Michael Watson PhD

  November 25, 2011

  Psychotherapy, Shamanism

  darkness, healing, light, trauma