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Sparrow Goudey
Sparrow (Tsalagi/Wyandot) is the founder of Healing the Circle Workshops. With over 34 years of continued sobriety, she has developed and conducts workshops throughout Southern California for both Native and non-Native communities that assist adults and adolescents, affected by drugs, alcohol, eating disorders and mental illness by incorporating curriculum, traditional arts and spirituality as tools for change, growth and recovery.
Many treatment facilities contract with Sparrow as a consultant to assist bringing their facilities into cultural excellence and establishing the best cultural congruent programming available as well as offering ongoing staff training and supervision. Working hand in hand with already established facilities or starting from the ground up.
Call 760 803-1165 or email healingthe.circle@yahoo.com for details and for more information
Sparrow is an international trainer for White Bison, Inc. and the Wellbriety Training Institute. She is a certified facilitator and trainer for Mending Broken Hearts for Adults and Youth (Healing from historical and intergenerational trauma and unresolved grief), Medicine Wheel and 12 Steps for Adults and Youth, Mothers of Tradition, Daughters of Tradition, Warrior Down/Recovery Coach, Understanding the Purpose of Life for Youth, and NACOA & Wellbriety Celebrating Families curricula and is devoted to helping individuals and communities that suffer from addiction and trauma. www.whitebison.org
She is the Rep for Wellbriety Certified Treatment Centers. Contact 760 803-1165
Sparrow is a certified Reiki Master as well as Grief Recovery Specialist and incorporates these skills into her work.
She is passionate about connecting Natives seeking recovery to culturally congruent treatment facility programs.
IF YOU ARE AN ENROLLED TRIBAL MEMBER FROM OK, AK, ND, MT OR WY AND NEED HELP GETTING INTO TREATMENT, FILL OUT THE APPLICTION ABOVE WHERE IT SAYS 'MORE'
Experiential Workshops for Growth and Healing
Offering a safe space for expression through sharing, listening, experiencing, to help break the cycles of self harming behaviors such as drugs, alcohol, eating disorders and other past or present behaviors.
workshops
Talking Circle
A traditional Native American ritual now used in many recovery programs & open to all individuals seeking help and support. After being cleansed & blessed, the Eagle feather (used to communicate truth and prayer) is passed to each participant as they share from the heart.
Power of Words/Thoughts
Discovering how each of our words and thoughts affects our outcome and experience.
Self Talk/Positive Affirmations
Identifying negative self talk statements and replacing them with positive affirmations.
Intergenerational and historical trauma/Cellular memory/epigenetics
Experiential workshop focused on possibilities of IGT, how it works, how we are affected by our ancestors experiences, unresolved grief and how to heal and stop the cycle.
Dream Catchers
Wrapping our own magical web to enhance and protect our dreamtime.
Medicine Pouches
Participants will create their own personal buckskin medicine bag. They will learn how it is used and which ‘medicines‛ to work with.
Ojos De Dios
Giving Back Creating a “Gods Eye" by winding yarn onto sticks as we think of others.
Power Sticks
A hands on workshop creating personal power sticks using a variety of materials. Time will be spent sharing about the significance our creation represents.
River Rock Painting
Clients utilize creativity by painting river rocks, to process and combat depression and anxiety, boosting self esteem.
Multi Cultural Drum Circle
A multicultural workshop allowing the heartbeat of our Mother Earth to pulse through us & be expressed with our drums, while maintaining awareness of the group as a whole and yet with separate voices.
Healthy Boundaries
Discussion and workshop on defining and creating healthy boundaries in all areas of our lives.
Medicine Wheel Philosophy
Learning about the teachings and gifts of the directions and how to use the medicine wheel to help balance our everyday lives. We will make prayer bundles representative of each direction.
Guided Meditation
Peaceful journey to a safe space through guided imagery
Connecting/Grounding to Mother Earth
Getting grounded, in touch with our Earth Mother, learning to trust and experience connection. (done outside in Nature)
Gourd Art
Using gourds to create bowls, vases, rattles, and decorations. Learning various techniques and ways to decorate.
Medicine Wheel Balance
Utilizing the 4 directions to create balance in our lives and learn to trust our innate knowledge.
Healing Through Beadwork
Participants will learn how to use beadwork as a way of peaceful processing, while creating beautiful pieces of wearable art.
Painted Feathers
Creating talking circle feathers for Cl to take home. Encouragement to utilize Talking Circles in personal home life.
Mask Making
Creating masks using various items, feathers, paints, paper mache, etc. Structured discussion of masks we wear to hide our feelings and alternatives to masking.
Cultural Competence and Congruence for Staff
An experiential, educational and healing Workshop .
*All of the above workshops are also available for your staff, to reduce burnout, provide staff enrichment and support self care.
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