Periagoge
Scenario

How to reconcile conflicting traditional Indigenous healing knowledge among friends

A group of us Pacific Islander friends have been trying to revive traditional healing practices in our community, but we're realizing we each learned different fragments from different elders, and some of our knowledge contradicts each other, leaving us unsure how to move forward authentically.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The work of cultural revitalization becomes complex when multiple partial truths must be woven together into authentic practice.

Your guide for this
Dipa
Dipa works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous healing traditions — Americas and Pacific?”

Peri

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