Giving and Receiving Healing Together in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Health professionals can also be healers. The focus of this workshop is to combine health professionals who wish to develop their healing abilities and capacities with a select group of people who wish to receive healing in the magical environment of Vermont. We will explore how to be healers, what is healing, how to give and receive healing, and the limits of the hierarchical organization of conventional medicine. We will work to bring out our inner healers and to explore what motivates change and transformation.
We will explore ceremony and ritual, body-centered healing techniques including Cherokee bodywork, guided imagery and visualization, hypnosis, energy medicine, narrative dialogical approaches, talking circles, sweat lodges, and more. We will explore the process of finding spirit guidance for our work, and wonder how all of our healing work can be grounded in spirituality and community.
The leaders have pursued healing and the development of healing relationships throughout their careers. Lewis Mehl-Madrona MD, PhD, narrative practitioner, physician and psychologist, who draws his approach to life from his Lakota and Cherokee roots. He is the author of numerous books, including Coyote Medicine and Healing the Mind through the Power of Story. For the past 30 years, Lewis has been giving workshops helping people to reach their inner stories, guiding them to the remarkable journey of their lives. He will draw upon his experience as a physician healing both the body and the mind through narrative. Barbara Mainguy MFA, MA, writer, filmmaker, artist and drama therapist, will bring her teaching to stories that are hidden in our bodies, guiding exploration through dance, play and creative processes to discover the storytellers within us. Bob Smith, LMT, has found creative approaches to bodywork and healing the body for many years now, even as he has also been steeped in Native American culture through his own personal studies and his spiritual practice. He lives and works in Jamestown, New York.
Participants can fly into Hartford, CT, and we will arrange transportation or they can rent a car. Amtrak comes directly to Brattleboro.
Suggested donation to Coyote Institute for the event is $995 U.S. for the week.
A variety of types of lodging are available in our area. We will help you find a lodging that fits your budget. If enough people are interested, we may be able to rent a house for the week, so contact us as early as possible.
To register, call 802-451-0002 or Lewis at 808-772-1099. You may register via credit card or send a check to P.O. Box 578, Brattleboro, VT 05302, USA. You may also send funds through paypal to info@coyoteinstitute.us.
Email info@coyoteinstitute@us for more information.
Note: Because this is a Coyote Institute event, no one will be turned away so long as you can get to Vermont. We can't finance your food and lodging, but you're not required to stay with us and you may pay whatever you can for the experience. We hope some will donate more to offset those who donate less.
We will focus more on how to do healing and will do healing work with each other. Though one must keep in mind Yogi Berra's saying that theoretically, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, the two are often quite different. This experience gives us an opportunity to visit some ideas of therapeutic narrative practices and to put those ideas into practice within a community that we form as we work. Within an atmosphere of congeniality and collegiality, we will work to improve each other's skills and practices so that we may all return to our ordinary lives all the more effective. We will practice with large group work leading into drama, ceremony, and/or ritual for healing. We will endeavor to create an extraordinary experience. In the peaceful beauty of the Green mountains, we will journey into your heart to find the stories that speak to your deepest self, stories that entertain, provoke, delight, teach and heal.
Our aim is to combine the regenerative power of a healing retreat with creative power of storytelling. Collectively, we will travel through the meaning and mystery of the story, its power to transform reality.
In the evening, tell your story of the day or listen to others' incredible journeys.
