May newsletter and new program!

[Lewis MehlMadrona]

Dear Friends,

As usual, you are on my mailing list because we have corresponded.  .
You get automatically added when I respond.  If you  don't want to be on my
mailing list, let me know, and I will take you  off.  If you asked to be
taken off and weren't, my apologies.  Computers do strange things and
sometimes get the best of me.  Let me  know, and I'll try again.  Also, I'm still responding to requests from the end of March, so if you wrote me after that, trust that it will get done.

I'm announcing an exciting (at least i think so) new program through Southwest
College in New Mexico.  It's called Community-Based Cross-Cultural Health and
Healing.  It's entirely on-line and is designed as a certificate program for
people who have at least a B.A. or B.S.  The program is 24 quarter credits
(equivalent to 18 semester credits) and is graduate level.  I am currently
working to also get CME's and CEU's.  The program was designed for health care
practitioners who are working in communities in which the culture is not the
one in which they were born.  One of the courses is a mentorship program that
lasts the duration of the program with a local elder or community-designated
expert (who may not have any degrees) and one of the courses provides
assistance to spend a quarter starting to learn the language most commonly
spoken in the community (sometimes with a local resident).  The other four
courses are described on my web site under My Projects for cross-cultural
training or at http://groups.google.com/group/crossculturaltraining.  We are
still getting all the details written down on websites, but students can now
enroll for the first on-line course which is indigenous models of mind and
mental health.  Please tell anyone who might be interested about this program.

Remember to check my website at http;//mehlmadrona.mysite.com for upcoming
events.  Also, on my web site are various cyber-communities i am starting to
build to facilate communication among those of us who are trying to change
medicine and psychiatry and who are working to bring indigenous healing ideas
into mainstream society.  Check out these communities under "my projects" on
the web site and remember that anyone can join and help.  I am trying to build
some grass-roots research sites and capability for studies of indigenous
diabetes and traditional healing (and more), since some of our projects do not
fit the rigid framework expected by governmental funding agencies.  We can also
generate pilot data together so that we can fit into the mold of the NIH or
CIHR.

In May, I will be online for an online conference on May 18th with Association for Guided Imagery, and in Toronto on the 25th-26th for the Integrative Medicine conference.  Details are on my web site at http://mehlmadrona.mysite.com on "My Events."

 

In June, I will be in Portland, Oregon at New Renaissance Book Store (7pm) and on the Thom Hartmann radio program (morning) on the 11th, the spirituality and social work conference in Fredericton, New Brunswick on the 19th, and at the Aviana Retreat Center on the 20th-22nd in Harrisburg, PA.

 

In July I will be teaching a weekend (plus on-line) course at Johnson State College in Vermont on the 23-25th and in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for Creativity and Madness conference from July 30th to August 3rd.

 

Here is a list of some of the cyber-communities I am building.  Your help is
needed.  The URL to check it out is
http://groups.google.com/group/....

Replace the .... with the name of the group you wish to view.

Coyote Medicine is my general discussion group that anyone can join
coyotewisdom is a discussion group for my students and colleagues
aboriginalmind is for a class I have been teaching and will probably continue \
   to build a book around this topic.
crossculturaltraining is for the collaborative training program I am trying to
   develop across multiple institutions for cross-cultural mental health.
indigenous-diabetes is for collaborative research on diabetes in conmmunities.
traditionalhealing is for research on that topic for both researchers and
   healers
integrativeclinicalresearch is a general protocol for a combination narrative
   and quantitative study of healing.

I also just published a paper on 'Exceptional Survivors from Cancer who work
with Aboriginal Healers.'  it will appear in the Journal of Complementary and
Alternative Medicine. Let me know if you want to see it.

I'm also asking "graduates" of my healing retreats to contact  me.  I've
lost track of some of you and wish to know how you're doing  and to do more
follow-up on what the retreat meant to you.
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Let me know what you are doing.

Lewis Mehl-Madrona
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