Tag: stories

• The Medicine Wheel: Learning to Walk

  

  The fog is burning off. Being March, it is warm one day and cold another; rain, sun, and snow take turns moving across the landscape. Sunday marks the Vernal Equinox, a time for remembering to walk in balance. Of course, this walking is no easy task. When we watch children learn to walk, we notice…

  Michael Watson PhD

  March 17, 2016

  Healing, native american, Shamanism, Stories, Teaching

  equinox, healing, Medicine Wheel, Native American, Shamanism, stories

• At the Bird Feeder

  

   This post was published earlier this month in Into the Bardo, an online magazine. I hope you will take at look at the zine, and maybe say “hi” to the wonderful people who work so hard to being it to us! Earlier today I went out back to refill the bird feeder. I walked through…

  Michael Watson PhD

  March 8, 2016

  Climate Change, Ecopsychology, native american, Shamanism, Social issues

  animals, climate change, colonialism, healing, Shamanism, stories

• Mud Season

  Winter wanes, not that we ever really had winter this year. Still, the light arrives earlier and departs later each day, and the cold lessens. We are on the brink of mud season. For the past couple of weeks the temperature has vacillated from very cold to unseasonably warm. Each storm has brought rain instead…

  Michael Watson PhD

  February 21, 2016

  Climate Change, Stories, Travel

  mud season, stories, travel

• Dreaming an Alternative to Blame

  It is a lovely, chilly day, one of those almost perfect late winter days filled with sun and cloud, a day when one can see a long way. I’ve been having conversations with folks recently about responsibility and blame. Mostly these discussions happen around the painful moments in people’s lives. In our culture, the prevailing…

  Michael Watson PhD

  February 18, 2016

  First Nations, Healing, Psychotherapy, Shamanism, Stories

  blame, healing, Native American, Shamanism, stories