Category: Shamanism

• Equinox Ceremony

    Last Sunday, we, JourneyWorks, hosted an Equinox gathering. The afternoon included prayers and blessings for the Earth, Japan, and the Middle East, and gratitude for the new harvest. Many participants brought gifts of appreciation to Pachamama. Our friends Richard, a Six Nations elder, and Dee, an Abenaki elder and medicine woman,  spoke about their…

  Michael Watson PhD

  March 25, 2011

  First Nations, native american, Shamanism

  ceremony, equinox, Prayer Flags, Prayers

• This Sunday: Equinox Ceremony and Prayers and Blessings for Japan and the Middle East

  This Sunday marks the Spring Equinox, traditionally a time to remember, and return, to balance. This year, the Equinox arrives during a period of great suffering and imbalance in the world. All are invited to join us, at JourneyWorks, for a time of storytelling and ceremony. Together, we will acknowledge our debt to, and appreciation…

  Michael Watson PhD

  March 17, 2011

  First Nations, Healing, native american, Shamanism

  Equnox. Japan, Middle East

• Just Therapy Revisited

  Just Therapies acknowledge the hardships created by unfair, or unjust, cultural practices. They also encourage clients to create a life that is meaningful, even in the face of brutal social realities. Arising from Indigenous experience, and generalized to marginalized persons everywhere, Just Therapy seeks to be both visionary and good medicine.

  Michael Watson PhD

  March 5, 2011

  First Nations, Psychotherapy, Shamanism

  depresion, Just Therapy, social justice, visionary experience, visions

• Ceremonies of Renewal

  Today is one of those spectacular late winter days, where the sun sits high in the southern sky, just in the treetops, and light snow falls in large flakes. There is enough light through the thin clouds to cast shadows across the snow covered landscape. The seed in the bird feeder dwindles steadily as the…

  Michael Watson PhD

  February 27, 2011

  First Nations, Healing, Other Subjects, Psychotherapy, Shamanism

  ceremony, Family Therapy, Inuit Shamanism and Christianity