SEEKING CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION AS HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS, BEHAVIORAL SPECIALISTS

AND HEALERS

Jerry Buie, LCSW

By exploring the pathways of indigenous, nomadic, and traditional wisdom keepers we are invited to explore our implicit bias around issues regarding constructs around mental health, health and healing paradigms and our own self perceptions as seeing our roles as healers. What might we learn from our wisdom keepers how to find balance in self-care as we seek to facilitate care and healing in our clients? Shamanic traditions will be explored and examined, as well as constructs around Spirituality, Ancestral Wisdom, Shamanism and find practical applications in our journey as healers.

As a result of participating in this workshop, individuals will be able to:

• Explain indigenous spiritual technologies/paradigms that may enhance our sense of self care as well as client care; and,

• Participants will demonstrate an increase and sense of collective and communal adaptations required to shift the paradigm from template compliance and give increased permission to allow for dialogue and process around manners of soul and spirit as we engage with clients around holistic approaches to wellness