Workshop he's doing in Germany.
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Pablo Russell and Christian Raetsch will make an appearance at the following event:
World Conference of Ethnotherapies 2006 – Concepts for Future Oct 7-8, 2006 at Munich University, Germany
The conference is organized by an Institute for Ethno-Medicine, situated in Munich.
(Translator's note: The institute is an „e.V.“, i.e. comparable to US c500something (tax exempt, donations tax deductible). As an „e.V.“,
their finances will be revised by the state regularly and their principles must meet certain requirements (e.g. the „e.V.“ means to educate the
broad public re whatever, aims at the promotion of better understanding between different nations and cultures etc). This grants them a partly
state recognized status, however, whether the education they offer is utter bs will not be examined except if they happen to get reported to
the police. Authorities will only control finances regularly, and the mission statement when applying for the „e.V.“ status, and they have to
send in copies of the minutes of annual/bi-annual general meetings of members.)
The info about the conference is to be found (German language) at:
http.//www.institut-ethnomed.de/weltkonf06.html
The aim of this conference, which apparently has had predecessors, is to give the audience an overview about traditional healing and the
different concepts of healing of various peoples; they say they invited authentic traditional healers and teachers from all over the world.
Another aim of this conference is to enable contacts and meetings among traditional healers, shamans, open-minded scientists and persons
applying modern therapy methods.
The institute says that healers and shamans appearing in this conference are experienced and honoured experts and personalities in their
respective cultures. Since their indigenous guests, however, often think, decide, and act in different dimensions, they ask participants to be prepared for changes in the programme.
In translation (texts to be found at above URL in German language):
„Pablo Russell, Blackfoot medicine man, Canada....
Following a vision he received during a vision quest at Chief Mountain – the holy mountain of the Blackfoot Indians -, he continued his work in Europe from 1997 in order to bring us the „gift of the buffalo medicine“. Meanwhile he has given speeches, done seminars, workshops and
sweat lodges in many European countries. In November 1999, he organized a conference and Pow Wow together with Four Winds Association in
Lausanne/Switzerland with aborigines, pygmies, Siberian shamans, Crow, Cheyenne, and Lakota with the aim of uniting peoples close to nature resp their representatives in an initiative to save Mother Earth.
Workshop 1
The Medicine Wheel – Aid and Healing through the Holy Circle
The term „the circle“ is a possibility to express that all things are related. This is a perspective in which one's own experience of the physical world, the world of events, of emotions, of thoughts and of
relationships is being acknowledged. The Indians called this circle of life the „Medicine Wheel“.
With the medicine wheel, Pablo Russell will give deep insights into the understanding of life and enables practical counseling. He talks about
several different stages in the life of human beings (birth, youth, grownup, old age) by showing these on the medicine wheel as well as the development and deeper meaning of love, belief, trust, and sharing within these different stages of life. Participants of this workshop will learn how to integrate this knowledge into their own life and start the path of healing – a healing taking place on all four levels, the physical, the emotional, the mental, and the spiritual levels.(Translator's note:
each workshop is to last 90 minutes.)
