A Gathering of Native American Healers: Exploring the Interface of Indigenous Tradition and Professional Practice

摘要: This article reports insights from a 4-day Gathering of Native American Healers at the University Michigan in October 2010. event convened 18 traditional healers, clinically trained service providers, and cross-cultural mental health researchers for structured group dialogue to advance professional knowledge about integration Indigenous healing practices conventional treatments community-based services Americans. Our thematic analysis transcripts five Roundtable sessions afforded several key understandings pertaining services. First, with reference healing, importance rampant relationality, various personal qualities, spirituality, maintenance life culture were accentuated by participants. Second, healers practice effectively, participants posited that these individuals must maintain wellness, cultivate profound practices, recognize intrinsic potential within all human beings, work community rather than themselves. In speaking possibilities challenges collaboration between biomedical therapeutic approaches, recommended implementation cultural programming, observance mutuality respect, clear honest communication, need awareness differences as unique be collaboratively overcome.