Monthly Newsletter • November 2022
Center for Trauma & Embodiment at JRI
Monthly Newsletter • November 2022
Native American Heritage Month
Martin B. Pedersen • Source: Library of Congress
“November is dedicated to celebrating the rich and diverse cultures, traditions, & histories — and to acknowledging the important contributions — of Native people, as well as to educate the general public about tribes, to raise a general awareness about the unique challenges Native people have faced both historically and in the present, and the ways in which tribal citizens have worked to conquer these challenges.”
The Red Road Project
Fast Eddie (left), a pow wow dancer, is pictured with social media celebrity, Two Braids. • Source: Red Road Project
Since inception in 2013, The Red Road Project’s purpose is to document, through words & visuals, the inspiring and resilient stories of Native America. These stories, not often told, highlight the people and communities that are taking positive actions and demonstrating resilience. More often than not, we see a non-Native narrative reporting on what Indigenous cultures are or represent and this often leads to misconceptions and fueling of negative stereotypes and microaggressions.
TCTSY + Tribal Nations
In 2022, CFTE has been in collaboration with Missouri Breaks, an organization in South Dakota that works with and employs people from various Tribal Nations throughout the Dakotas.
Our collaboration has involved the scholarship enrollment of several tribal members in TCTSY foundational training and the full certification program. Together, it is our hope to find a way to make TCTSY, as an adjunctive treatment for complex trauma, both relevant and accessible in a culturally-aligned way to our Native American partners.
4th Annual Conference on
Trauma & Embodiment
April 8-9, 2023 • 100% Online
Indigenous Enterprise preserves Indigenous culture through powwow song and dance performances with the goal to progress the cultural understanding and competency of Indigenous identity. They will be a featured keynote speaker at our annual Conference on Trauma & Embodiment.
Our annual conference highlights and presents yoga, movement, and mental health facilitators delivering compelling keynotes, movement breaks, and breakout sessions, covering the application of trauma research in various contexts in which treatment is based in the body.
The conference is ASL-accessible. TCTSY practices will also be offered in Spanish & ASL. ASL registration through March 15th.
Registration Fee is a sliding-scale for resource-based accessibility. 5 CEUs are offered for LCSW, LICSW, LMHC and Massachusetts LADC. Group discount available.
Land Acknowledgement
We would like to acknowledge the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Pawtucket and Massachusett First Nations on which the Center for Trauma and Embodiment was founded.
As a collective that aspires to be trauma-informed in everything that we do, we feel it is critical to recognize that erasing Native people's by not acknowledging both their history and their living present is itself trauma. The Center for Trauma and Embodiment seeks to align itself with the struggle against the systems of oppression that have dispossessed Indigenous people of their lands and denied their rights to self-determination, work that is essential to trauma stewardship across the world.
Learn More: Text 907-312-5085 with your city or town and state to determine Native land base, or check out this interactive map.
Go further: Take action with this guide to land acknowledgement.
If you have increased access to resources, please consider contributing to CFTE’s mission. Your donations benefit our direct service initiatives for survivors of complex trauma.
Together, we can foster healing and recovery.