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Nature is the creative expression of Divine. Reawakening our listening to Nature has brought us to the miracle of Plant Spirit Medicine healing. This year’s conference experience is designed to deepen our relationship and understanding of the natural world and bring the Plant Spirit Medicine healer into awareness of the tools available for this healing work which brings transformation to our clients. We invite those currently involved in the study of Plant Spirit Medicine, as well as those interested in learning more about Plant Spirit Medicine.
Join us at the 9th Annual Plant Spirit Medicine Conference, as we share, connect and grow deeper into the heart and the practice of this medicine.
Grandfather Fire at the PSM Conference?
This year’s conference is full of possibilities!
David Wiley is speaking, and an invitation has been offered to Grandfather, but a response has not been received yet.
We invite you to light a candle and offer Grandfather a prayer of invitation to join us at this event.
Come prepared with a Grandfather cigar and the Grandfather fee of $50. We’ll keep you posted!
Presenters:
David Wiley: Practice Building for the PSM Healer and Perceptions beyond the mind.
Eliot Cowan: Readings from the Second Edition of Plant Spirit Medicine.
Alison Gayek: Listening to Your Plant Oracles Part II: Letting the Divine Natural World Support Your Healing Work.
Maggie Freier: Confidentiality and Crisis Management - The Tarasoff Decision and Beyond.
Mai Duong & Kateri McCue: Power of Partnership: Support for Effective Action.
By Buffy Aakaash
As the 2013 season of programs and activities at the Blue Deer Center begin, I took a moment to connect with our new Center Manager, Ted Finkle, who comes to us from over twenty years of living within the Margaretville community. From this place, he provides a foundation of local connections as we continue to build this larger and more expansive community network starting from the center.
Buffy: What drew you to the Blue Deer Center initially?
Ted: It’s kind of interesting. I’d been studying healing arts in different capacities my whole life and I kind of reached a point in my career as a stonemason where I really needed to make a change. Read more...
By Buffy Aakaash
Years ago, when a group of people began looking for land that would become the Blue Deer Center, this place by this river called Saskawhihiwine called to them through its history. For it was said to be a powerful place of healing where the old peoples gathered to settle differences. The story goes that a great shaman was called upon to settle a severe rift between tribes in the area. He set out on a journey to ask the gods for help in what at the time seemed like a nearly impossible task. As we have retold the story,
“After consulting the nearby forests, streams, and mountains, Tesakwanachee entered the valley to the West, looking for a sign that he had reached a special place of peace-making. In the stream called Saskawhihiwine he found the sign: a perfect circle in the water. He claimed the place as neutral territory in the Onondaga tradition. A council fire was built, the dispute was settled, war was averted. The people returned to hunting and gathering their food.”
