Dancing at the Heart of the Wound

A circle for Indigenous women remembering the strength carried in our bones.

This eight-week virtual circle is for Indigenous women in helping roles: clinicians, advocates, victim service workers, Tribal Vocational Rehabilitation counselors, suicide-prevention coordinators, behavioral-health staff, ceremonial helpers, doulas, educators, and community caretakers who carry vicarious trauma alongside the grief of their own lineages. Grief in our Indigenous framework is not divided into categories. Historical grief, intergenerational grief, ambiguous loss, disenfranchised grief, vicarious trauma, and acute personal grief live in the same body. They can be held, witnessed, and moved together in circle, in ceremony, and in the body’s own remembering. This mind-body medicine skills group is not therapy, though it may prove therapeutic in nature.

Logistics:

• Eight weekly two-hour Zoom sessions
• Closed cohort of 10–12 women
• $350 for the full eight-week series
• Two full scholarships per cohort
• Brief virtual intake required
• Next cohort: 8 weeks in October -November
• Thursdays from 6-8 pm Eastern
• Contact Kimber for an intake screening at
  juniperpineconsuling@gmail.com

What we do together:

• Opening Kiva (making relatives) Ceremony
• Talking circle processing
• Intentional drawing exercises
• Mindful eating exercise
• Meditation practices
• Journaling and ancestral lineage mapping
• Somatic Shifting and body movement
• Closing ceremony and Giveaway

Apply by sending an inquiry of interest to juniperpineconsulting@gmail.com or call 907-306-0138

Note: An important exception to this confidentiality rule is if any individual expresses an intent to harm themselves or others, in which case, CMBM would be required to take immediate, additional action in support of the situation.