medicine wheel workshop (july 8-10 in 3 parts)

The Medicine Wheel is a millennia-old First Nations tool for self awareness and development. Based on the importance of storytelling in Native oral cultures, the Medicine Wheel challenges us to seek out and tell our life stories as a way to deepen our own self-understanding.

A Medicine Wheel is a diagram of a series of circuits within a circle. Each circuit represents ways in which we can interpret and understand our life story. Nature and the environment are important concepts in the Medicine Wheel as symbols of our life journey, and our state of wholeness, balance, and healing.

Through his or her own life experience, every First Nations elder develops his or her own Medicine Wheel model, which is passed down to younger generations. In keeping with this tradition, Sister Dorothy Bob, a First Nations elder and the facilitator of this workshop, shares the wisdom of the Medicine Wheel within the context of her own story in keeping with the oral traditions of her teacher – her grandmother. She also invites participants to share about their lived stories through the use of the Medicine Wheel. Participants go away from this experience enriched with new insights for their own personal healing.

Dinner is included the workshop package for each night.