Community Healing Council with Dean Hoaglin and Dr. Renda Dionne Madrigal
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.
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.
Dr. Renda Dionne Madrigal
Renda Dionne Madrigal, Ph.D., is a Turtle Mountain Chippewa, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, TA/Advisor for the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Mindfulness Awareness Research Center Teacher Training Program, certified with the International Mindfulness Teachers Association, Stanford Certified Applied Mindfulness Compassion Educator/Consultant, Registered Drama Therapist, and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. She was featured on the cover of the February 2018 edition of Mindful Magazine and is featured as a 2022 Powerful Woman of Mindfulness (August edition). She is faculty at the Drama Therapy Institute of Los Angeles and California Indian Nations College, President of Mindful Practice Inc., and is getting her MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Dr. Dionne Madrigal specializes in embodied mindfulness practices and Story Medicine. She has been a Licensed Clinical Psychologist for over twenty-five years. She combines mindfulness, somatic (body-based) therapies, and story in her collaborative coaching programs. She is involved in healing theatre and has appeared in indigenous plays written by her daughters, Menil and Her Heart and Wildflower: Indigenous Spirit. In her spare time, she enjoys writing fiction featuring Indigenous female protagonists who save the world. Her book The Mindful Family Guidebook is available through Parallax Press and Penguin Random House and was listed as a Best Book of Mindfulness 2021 by Mindful Magazine. She is currently working on her next book Story Medicine. Learn more at https://mindfulpracticeinc.com/.