Balancing the Wheel: Recognizing Ancient Medicine and Healing
Saskatchewan HIV Conference 2015“Balancing the Wheel: Recognizing Ancient Medicine and Healing"
This Indigenous gathering is about offering sacred ways to help one achieve complete healing. Understanding the teachings of the medicine wheel as a holistic approach that can create balance, so the body can heal itself. We will provide a place of safety, a place of healing—so you will be able to find a place of healing within yourself. The body can heal itself, given the right tools, as long as the individual is committed to their own process of healing.
Keynote Speaker - Ken Cohen, M.A.
First Nations medicine is not as a thing of the past but a living and still evolving tradition, with effective tools to improve health for people living with HIV/AIDS and other challenges. A powerful complement to standard therapies, it is important that providers who work with Indigenous communities appreciate the principles, ethical values, and practices of this rich holistic healing tradition. We will explore these topics, as well as stereotypes, misconceptions, and other barriers to care and communication. Interspersed with songs and stories, Ken will share ancient and modern perspectives, including an in depth discussion of how scientific research validates First Nations medicine’s benefits. But these benefits are more than personal. Ken will note how Indigenous cultural renewal may offer the best hope for both personal and planetary survival!
Ken Cohen is a health educator, author, and traditional healer who has practiced and studied Indigenous ways for most of his 60+ years. Coming from a multi-cultural background, he was mentored by respected Native American elders and is a member of various medicine societies. Ken is also a noted Master of Chinese healing arts and speaks the Chinese language. He was one of the first to lecture about traditional healing in U.S. medical schools and has been sponsored by the Mayo Clinic, Health Canada, the Iskotew Elders Lodge, and numerous conferences. Ken is the winner of the leading international award in energy medicine, the Alyce and Elmer Green Award for Innovation and Lifetime Achievement and author of Honoring the Medicine: The Essential Guide to Native American Healing (Random House). He and his wife, Grace Alvarez Sesma, live at 3,000-meter elevation in the Colorado Rockies but generally spend the winter with family near the Mexican border. It takes the beauty of Saskatchewan to make them leave their winter hibernation!
Cancellation with a refund for the Conference registration will be accepted in writing up to January 31, 2015 and will be subject to an administration fee of 25% which will be deducted from the refund amount.
After January 31, 2015: there will be no refunds for cancelled registration or “no shows” (failure to attend) for the conference. This includes persons who register and pay in full, but do not attend the conference.
Substitutions will be permitted until February 13, 2015. All cancellations or substitutions for the conference must be submitted in writing to the ANHN office c/o The ANHN Planning Committee or emailed to .
For those that register but are paying at the door, you will be charged regular registration fees.
Registration fee includes continental breakfasts, nutrition breaks and lunches.
The Ramada Plaza has a block of conference rate rooms reserved for this conference. The deadline to book your room is January 30, 2015. Quote the group name: ALL NATIONS HOPE NETWORK. After January 30, 2015, rooms then are booked as available and at the regular rates. BOOK NOW by calling 306-569-1666 or call toll free 1-800-854-9517.