Understanding our Indigenous Neighbors
Event Category: All Events, Learning/Education, and Presentations/Discussions
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As and expat or Mexican local, do you ever wonder about the experience of our indigenous neighbors? A special Casa de la Noche guest, Dr. Donna Schindler, will share her experience with indigenous trauma in a casual interactive discussion.
Take a peek at her book, and credentials, and join us this Friday at 5PM for this special opportunity to appreciate the culture in which we live. You are invited!
FLYING HORSE
Stories of Healing the Soul Wound
DROP IN DISCUSSION
Donna Schindler is a white woman psychiatrist who has worked with indigenous peoples in New Zealand, the Navajo Nation and California for several decades. Her passion is doing historical trauma or intergenerational trauma work with Native communities. She also likes to help people from the dominant society come to understand how the traumas of the past still affect indigenous peoples today. In 2000, Donna produced the classic video, “Hozhonahaslii: Stories of Healing the Soul Wound.’ In 2020 her book, ‘Flying Horse: Stories of Healing the Soul Wound’ was published.
She has worked as a psychiatrist for 35 years with underserved populations in California, New Zealand, and the Navajo Nation. She currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband and pets—two cats, two dogs, tortoise, horse, parrot, and two donkeys, Winona and Tallulah, whose story is told in this book. She enjoys doing photography and watercolors, and fighting cholla in her spare time.
A song for the American soul… A collection of heart stories about historical trauma that offer a path toward healing for Natives and non-Natives alike.
Testimonials:
1. “This significant book captures the human experience on the Rez.”
— Frank Ramirez, National Director of Governmental Affairs,
National American Indian Veterans Inc.
2. “Flying Horse should be required reading for every non-Native, as well as every Native American.”
— Valentin Lopez, Chairperson of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band
3. “…courage and compassion …are in the air and the spaces and the tears behind the stories.”
— Reverend Matthew Fox
4.“Instead of whitewashing facts for the benefit of the perpetrators, the author provides a pathway to recovery, healing and re-birth.”
— Tina Stromsted, Ph.D., Jungian analyst, author & international teacher.
Friday June 17, 5PM, in the Sala
Casa de la Noche
Organos 19, Centro
1/2 block off Hernandez Macias
RSVP 415 152-0732 -
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