Community Healing Council with Dean Hoaglin and Elvina Charley

About the Session:

In most cultures, the symbol of a circle represents wholeness, and the potential for unity. When we come together as an intentional community, for personal development and healing, we are honoring the sacred. We will cultivate the collective practice of listening, witnessing, and holding space for the whole as we heal ourselves by acknowledging what needs to be healed. We will work with the Seasons, Elements, and Nature as direct mirrors for the healing process. Indigenous cultures recognize that the healing of self is connected to the whole community.

The council is a sacred space where we can practice being in community in an open, authentic, and compassionate way.

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About the Teachers

Dean Hoaglin

Dean is a lineal descendant of the Tamal’ko Coast Miwok of the Huukuiko Band from the village of Etcha Tamal (Nicasio, CA), with ancestral ties to Olumpali (Novato, CA) and Liwanelowa (Sausalito, CA). For more than 25 years, he has worked in social services promoting health, wellness, and education for local Native people.

Elvina Charley

Elvina Charley, Ed.S. is Diné (Navajo), a school psychologist practitioner who integrates mindfulness as a part of serving children and youth. Charley has been practicing mindfulness since 2013, introduced to her by Bonnie Duran, Ph.D. to heal from historical trauma. She found parallels between her Diné philosophy of life – Sa’ah naaghái bik’eh hózhóón and Buddhism. Charley continues to cultivate her through personal practice, Spirit Rock and Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center. She taught and assisted in Retreat as Ceremony an Indigenous Mindfulness retreats as cultural knowledge keeper.