Film: If an Owl Calls Your Name + 5 days Indigenous Healing online gathering

Started by Blueberry, December 05, 2025, 10:15:00 PM

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December 05, 2025, 10:15:00 PM
Copying from an email I got:

When Dr. Patricia June Vickers began working with survivors of residential schools in Canada, she saw something that modern science could not fully name.
 
Their pain wasn't just in their minds. It lived in their bodies, in their breath, in the way they carried silence.
 
Neuroscience calls it trauma. Her people call it disconnection from Spirit.
 
So she began to bridge the two.
 
Between 1831 and 1996, over 150,000 Indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families and placed in government-run schools designed to erase their culture, language, and identity.
 
As a trauma therapist and hereditary healer of the Tlingit and Haida lineages, Patricia developed ways of working that bring together neurobiology and ceremony, somatic awareness and ancestral prayer.
 
She understood something profound: the nervous system, like the land, remembers everything. Healing doesn't come from analysis or effort, but from returning to relationship.
 
This is the wisdom at the heart of the new film If An Owl Calls Your Name, where Patricia, her brother Roy Henry Vickers, and other Elders and healers from the Esk'etemc, Gitxsan, and Wet'suwet'en territories share what they know:
 
Healing isn't something we do. It's something we remember.
 
The land, the language, the drum - these are not metaphors for wellness. They are the original medicine.
 
When the people reconnect to them, the brain begins to reorganize, the body finds safety again, and Spirit returns to the center.
 
This is healing. This is ceremony.
 
Our friends at Science & Non Duality are presenting the global premiere of this profound film, created in collaboration with Indigenous communities who are reclaiming land, language, and spirit.
 
The Global Premiere: December 9-13
 
The premiere is a 5-day journey that includes:
 
🎥 Community screenings of the film
🔥 Daily live sessions with Indigenous Elders, healers, and activists
⏱️ 48-hour access to all talks if you can't attend live
 
You can join by offering a donation of any amount, including $0. Half of all net proceeds go directly back to the Indigenous communities featured in the film.
 
Reserve your spot for the premiere.
 
This film was made with the same care it documents - slowly, respectfully, with every conversation guided by sacred relationships.
 
What you'll witness is transformation. The profound work of remembering what was never truly lost.
 
Join the global premiere.
 
Warmly,
 
Eric Forbis
Co-Founder, Best Year of Your Life Summit

Blueberry says: TRIGGER WARNING to film - Survivors of community and generational trauma speak in the film, as I've noticed in the 2-min trailer. otoh it could be interesting to hear how a different people with different traditions than the 'first world' countries so many of us are in understand trauma to be and how they view healing.

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