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Activities:
The Intercultural Institute of Montreal (Canada)
and Sachamama Centre of Lamas (Peru) are jointly offering
A two-week Summer Workshop
A wonderful opportunity to combine your summer
break
and professional development through intercultural learning
Mental Health
and Shamanic Spirituality: exploring
intercultural approaches to healing practices in mental health
DATE: 7th to 19th of June, 2011
PLACE: Sachamama
Center, Lamas, Peru ( Welcome
to the Sachamama Centre )
LANGUAGES: The program will be conducted in three
languages: Englilsh, French and Spanish
Workshop Leaders:
- Kalpana Das:
Executive Director of Intercultural Institute of Montreal (www.iim.qc.ca),
Quebec, Canada. She is known internationally for her intercultural
training programs and for innovative research-action projects
on intercultural alternatives for social action.
- Frédérique
Apffel-Marglin: Founder/Director of Sachamama
Center, Lamas, Peru, (www.centrosachamama.org/sachamama_e.htm)
and Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Emerita, Smith College,
Northampton, Massachusetts, USA and author of several books critiquing
the dominance of the modern paradigm of knowledge. Her latest
book is entitled Subversive Spiritualities: How Rituals Enact
the World, Oxford University Press, New York (in press).
- Lissie Wahl:
Peruvian anthropologist with 30 years of
work on Intercultural Health, Global Warming and Productive Conservation
in the Peruvian Amazon among the Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations,
from a local to international level. Currently Research Fellow
at the department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard
Medical School.
Introduction:
Workshop participants will travel to the small colonial town of
Lamas, in the department of San Martin, in the tropical eastern
foothills of the Andes to the Northeast of Lima, to be introduced
to traditional shamanic forms of healing. They will reside in Center
Sachamama, a non-profit organization that collaborates with the
local indigenous group, the Kichwa-Lamista.
Goal:
The goal of this workshop is firstly to expose practitioners in
mental health care from the North to the local shamanic spiritual
knowledge and practices of healing. Secondly, participants are invited
to engage in exploring methods for intercultural practices in their
respective fields.
Eligible participants:
The program is designed for the participants who are actually involved
in care giving in mental health in institutional or community context,
such as psychiatry, psychotherapy, counseling, art therapy. We also
invite students in these fields of studies as well as other related
fields. Community workers who are interested in mental health in
its global sense are also welcome.
Methodology for the Workshop:
An experience and process based approach will be followed through
out the workshop. Personal and professional experiences of the participants
in regard to their encounter with other cultures will constitute
the back-drop for the learning process. This will be complemented
with an introduction and immersion sessions in indigenous and mestizo
cultures through various activities such as shamanic rituals, arts
and crafts. We shall draw on the local resources among the Kichwa-Lamista
leaders as well as the resources of Takiwasi Center located in the
nearby city of Tarapoto. (www.takiwasi.com) This Center has for
the last eighteen years been successfully employing in its mental
health practice a combination of indigenous plants and ceremonies
and Western psychotherapy among other methods.
During the free day, participants will have the opportunity to explore
local sites of interest.
Note: Interested participants will have
the opportunity to experience the Ayahuasca plant shamanic ceremony
if they desire to do so after workshop work hours by contacting
Takiwasi Center ( www.takiwasi.com
).
Program content:
- Interculturality: personal experiences, nature
of interculturality, notions, and process
- Interculturality and mental health: socio- political
issues
- Amazonian indigenous reality: social, cultural
political and health issues
- Immersion in shamanic rituals
- Lectures on Indigenous healing traditions and
intercultural practices at Takiwasi Center
- Other models of intercultural practices: Intercultural
Institute of Montreal and Indigenous Peoples’ Organization
Practical Information:
- Cost: $2000 USD
registration, room and board, local travels, activities and lectures
(excepting free day’s optional excursions)
- Number of participants: minimum 10,
maximum 20
- Deadline for registration: May 7th ,
2011 ( registration will open on January 30th , 2011)
- Detailed program and registration form will
be available on-line as of January 15, 2011 at: www.iim.qc.ca
- Interested students may contact us for information
regarding sources of funding.
Other information:
- Please note: Participants are requested
to purchase their ticket from their place of departure to Tarapoto
directly
- Transportation will be provided from the Tarapoto
airport to Sachamama Center. Representatives of Sachamama will
meet the participants at the Tarapoto airport
- Participants are advised to obtain information
regarding vaccination. No vaccinations are required by the Peruvian
authorities. Peru is environmentally extremely diverse. Lamas
in the High Amazon is blessed with a very healthy climate; there
is no malaria, nor yellow fever there. Participants may consider
hepatitis protection.
Contact persons at the IIM :
For further information on the program, please contact: Mrs Kalpana
Das at 514-288-7229 or e-mail: kalpadas@hotmail.com
For registration and logistics please contact Mrs Véronique
Jourdain, Program Assistant at the Intercultural Institute of Montreal:
Telephone: 514-288-7229
Fax: 514-844-6800
E-mail: vjourdain@iim.qc.ca
Mrs Frédérique Apffel Marglin
at 1-617-547-8070 (Boston, USA) or +(51-42) 543004 (landline at
Sachamama in Peru),
E -mail: fmarglin@smith.edu
or apffel.marglin@gmail.com
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