Gisela Wendling's Blog

The Sundance Ceremony of the North American Great Plains People (which includes territories of the Cree people in Canada) is a pra...

* How can a person immersed in western society recover an indigenous worldview? What are the ways that indigenous and non-indige...

Rites of Passage and Wisdom Emerging

A couple of months ago I participated in the Wisdom Emerging retreat at IONS with Alan Briskin, Lauren Artress and Angeles Arrie

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That Old Man

In only a few minutes, this video conveys in powerful images and simple language how the Aboriginal people and their

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Women’s Business, Women’s Ceremony – Two

Women’s Business is sacred business and it is secret business. During the ceremony important cultural k

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Women’s Business, Women’s Ceremony – One

Ceremonies are a collective healing response to the elemental and existential experiences of being human. As we dance, pray, cha...

Rites of Passage: Pivoting at the Edge with Spirit

Please feel free to download Understanding Rites of Passages. for a more conceptual overview, its traditional use and applicatio...

Dreamtime or Time for Dreaming – Two

Sometime after the painting Incubation: Lizard Dreaming was done, I looked online to find any references to animal to

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Dreamtime or Time for Dreaming – One

I made the painting, Incubation: Lizard Dreaming, two months after I arrived in Australia. Making this painting was my first explo...

Parliament of World Religions – Two

(This is the second part of a two-part post.)

After the introductory remarks to the session Maama—The Untouchables Ones: From Ca...

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