Tag: healing

• Ceremony

  As I sit down to write, a thunderstorm hangs on the horizon. Slowly the mountains fade from view, and the rain and the lake become indivisible. Its tea time, and the pot is on the stove. Now the rain, not yet heavy has overtaken the house. Now, the rain has quickened, soon to be torrential.…

  Michael Watson PhD

  August 6, 2014

  Healing, Shamanism

  ceremony, healing, Shamanism

• Quest

  Good morning! A lovely morning this. Storms later. Over the weekend we watched aghast as the turmoil that is the Middle East erupted into  unimaginable violence. It was as though a great storm of hatred and greed slammed into that part of the world, and no one in ether government cared about the impacts on…

  Michael Watson PhD

  July 15, 2014

  Healing, Psychotherapy, Shamanism, Stories

  Bodhisattvas, healing, psychotherapy, Shamanism

• Crucial Conversations

  Yesterday I had a long telephone conversation with a friend who is an elder and medicine woman. She was a friend of Rolling Thunder and other medicine people who have passed. Lately they’ve been showing up in her dreams, speaking with her about the state of the Earth. Some have turned their backs and ridden…

  Michael Watson PhD

  June 15, 2014

  First Nations, Healing, Psychotherapy, Shamanism

  healing, Narrative Therapy, Native American, Shamanism

• Ethics and the Healer

  Its a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a lovely day in the neighborhood…..Today is warm and sunny, a good day to clean the beach, and later today, neighbors will gather to do that. Yesterday we attended an ethics training, one of those gatherings mandated for, and, often, dreaded by, licensed professionals.

  Michael Watson PhD

  June 7, 2014

  First Nations, Healing, Psychotherapy

  ethics, healing, Indigenous, psychotherapy, worldview