{"id":479,"date":"2013-02-22T10:04:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T18:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deenametzger.net\/pages\/?page_id=479"},"modified":"2026-01-13T15:23:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T23:23:35","slug":"healers-intensive-vision-training-and-initiation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/deenametzger.net\/pages\/special-events-2\/healers-intensive-vision-training-and-initiation\/","title":{"rendered":"Healers’ Intensive: Vision, Training and Initiation – On The Land"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Announcing the 27th Annual Healing and Healers’ Intensive<\/h3>\r\n

To Meet These Times<\/h4>\r\n

With Deena Metzger<\/h3>\r\n

Training, Initiation, Transformation
JUNE 20 – 26, 2026<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n

On Behalf of Individuals, Communities and the Earth<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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Year after year we have gathered to learn, explore and vision healing ways on behalf of a broken world.\u00a0Each year the need has been greater but still we have been graced with possibility. Indigenous people have always known how to live in right relationship to the Earth as part of communities of all beings, both visible and invisible while imperialist and contemporary cultures have warred against such knowledge and its practice. The result is the Anthropocene and the varieties and consequences of the relentless actions against all life.\u00a0But this need not be the future.<\/div>\r\n
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This intensive is envisioned as a circle, a small group of men and women gathering, to devote themselves to the work of carrying healing at a time of great threat as we are called to face war and violence, environmental collapse and the unimaginable, through A.I., run amok.<\/div>\r\n
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We gather as a community in relationship to the natural word and to\u00a0the spirits that make themselves known so we might develop healing ways and consciousness in alliance with non human intelligences.\u00a0In this way, interaction becomes a method and a medicine as we recognize the spiritual obligation to do whatever we can to mitigate the clear and present dangers of our culture and ways of life.\u00a0Ultimately we all have to entirely change our minds and how we live. We begin this exploration as well.\u00a0Though these are difficult and challenging tasks, they are also luminous and soulful paths. This week is an intensive immersion in a mystery school for the real world.<\/div>\r\n
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For 27 years, physicians, psychologists, therapists, health practitioners, healers, educators, social and cultural workers, ministers, shamans, peacebuilders, writers, journalists, musicians and others have gathered together to be part of a courageous visioning community. How shall we meet this critical moment on behalf of a future? This work provides opportunities for each participant to find the often pathless path to which he\/she\/they are called and set out to walk it.\u00a0<\/div>\r\n
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This is a good time to register, many have already done so. I expect we will fill very soon. Looking forward to gathering with you soon.<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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This work is based on the\u00a019 Ways to a Viable Future for all Beings<\/a>,\u00a0dream guidance, divination, heart understanding, intellectual rigor and deep listening to earth and spirit. See the full text of the\u00a019 Ways<\/a>\u00a0on Deena Metzger\u2019s blog\u00a0Ruin and Beauty<\/a>.<\/div>\r\n
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We will begin at 9:00 a.m. PST\/12:00 p.m. EST and end at 9:00 p.m. PST\/12:00 p.m. EST. The group sessions will include teachings, Council, explorations, storytelling and small breakout group sessions. There will also be non-scheduled time for listening and writing, being with nature and scheduled individual appointments with Deena. The Intensive includes time in silence.<\/div>\r\n
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FEES, APPLICATION PROCESS, AND REGISTRATION: <\/strong><\/p>\r\n

The fee for the Intensive is based on a sliding scale. A deposit reserves a space once the application process is completed. Payment plans are possible under special conditions. After registration and before the event you will be provided a zoom meeting ID.<\/div>\r\n
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If you have not worked with Deena before, please apply by sending a letter of intention that might include references to your work and commitments, and some of your dreams, background and interests to Jude Weber and Deena Metzger.<\/div>\r\n
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Deena has been exploring healing and training healers for forty years. She first convened the Healers’ Intensive and Dar\u00e9, community gatherings on behalf of personal, community and environmental healing, in 1999, (now online). She published the internationally circulating mastectomy poster depicting healing from cancer in 1981. Since 2004, she has gathered physicians, health and mental health practitioners, healers and medicine people for ReVisioning Medicine and similar gatherings, beginning 2019 for ReVersing Extinction. In 2023, she and Cynthia Travis and Annie Licata launched a dynamic website introducing Literature of Restoration.\u00a0<\/div>\r\n

TEXTS FOR THE INTENSIVE:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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To prepare for the Intensive make yourself familiar with her work and concerns by selecting reading from the following work particularly related to Healing: Her latest novel,\u00a0La Vieja: A journal of Fire<\/a>,\u00a0A Rain of Night Birds<\/a>\u00a0on climate change and restoration, the award-winning novel\u00a0La Negra y Blanca<\/a>; the novel\u00a0Feral<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Entering the Ghost River: Meditations on the Theory and Practice of Healing<\/a>;\u00a0Ruin and Beauty: New and Selected Poems<\/a>;\u00a0The Other Hand<\/a>; a novel,\u00a0Writing For Your Life<\/a>;\u00a0Tree: Essays and Pieces<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals<\/a>, and her Substack essay, Other Ways Of Knowing: Challenging A.I.<\/a><\/div>\r\n
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Additional Reading\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The book\u00a0Bright Green Lies\u00a0by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and Max Wilbert, Jack D. Forbes,\u00a0Columbus and Other Cannibals\u00a0and Gregory Cajete,\u00a0Native Science, Robin Wall Kimmerer,\u00a0Braiding Sweetgrass, Rupa Marya, Raj Patel,\u00a0Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice.<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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By application only – For information on fees<\/a> or to apply please call Jude Weber\u00a0at 310.985.3740 or email\u00a0her<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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