Decolonizing the Mind: Healing Through Neurodecolonization and Mindfulness

 

“Decolonizing the Mind: Healing Through Neurodecolonization and Mindfulness –

Author, educator, medical social worker and citizen of the Arikara (Sahnish) and Hidatsa Nations in North Dakota, Michael Yellow Bird, MSW, Ph.D. works with indigenous communities, teaching about healing the trauma of colonialism.

 

On January 24, 2014 he spoke about his experiences at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, sharing his ideas about how to go about doing this through techniques of mindfulness, thought and behavior which he refers to as neurodecolonization. ”

 
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#DecolonizeHistory: Storytelling & Resistance

 

“I started writing because there was an absence I was familiar with. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy – a yearning I had as a teenager… and when I get ready to write, I think I’m trying to fill that.” –Ntozake Shange

 

#DecolonizeHistory is about storytelling that disrupts space to present narratives that have been actively silenced or neglected. 

 

 

“Colonialism set the foundation for all other ‘ism’s’”

– Krysta Williams

 

 
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