Thirty Native women will meet October 7-10 in Council Bluffs, IA for “Mending Broken Hearts,” an intense healing and training program co-sponsored by the Office of Indigenous Ministry and the Province VI Native Network. The training will be led by White Bison and focus on women in leadership and on healing. The goal of the training is that participants will return home with skills and knowledge to start healing circles in their own communities.
Among the participants will be some of the women who have attended sessions of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women including Sarah Eagle Heart, Indigenous Missioner for Native American and Indigenous Ministries, Denyse Bergie, Jasmine Bostock and Elsie Dennis.
White Bison, founded in 1988, is dedicated to the Wellbriety Movement providing tools for people to maintain sobriety and live into wellness, including the values of Native cultures.
From their website:
“The Mending Broken Hearts for Women offers a culturally-based healing from grief, loss, and Intergenerational Trauma, especially for Native Women from the United States and Canada. We know that as Native people, especially Native Women, we have the highest rates of all the traumas, including:
- alcohol and violence related deaths,
- suicides of our loved ones,
- and the loss of our innocence and safety due to:
- physical abuse,
- sexual abuse,
- adult domestic violence,
- and rape.
We experience layer upon layer of grief and loss, stemming from these traumas. Many of us have not been taught healthy ways of processing them and healing. This training is in answer to that need.”
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