Circle of the Living Earth-AIWP
  • Circle of the Living Earth
  • Social Healing
    • Social Healing Initiatives
    • AMERICAN UBUNTU, a healing story for our times
    • Coronation of The Collective Heart
  • Articles
    • Sacred Activism; Shining Lessons from Standing Rock
    • Shamanic Activism: Jonathan Horwitz Talks with Lenore Norrgard
    • Ritual & Activism: The Alchemy of Social Transformation
    • Medicine for the Earth: A Conversation with Sandra Ingerman
    • Dreaming the Dark: Celebrating Our Source
  • Soul Retrieval
  • Contact
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Circle of the Living Earth-AIWP engages in a number of causes worthy of your support. We are a 501(c)(3), so your donation is tax-deductible.
Social Healing Initiatives

Part of the crucial work of shamans in indigenous cultures is to create and maintain balance among humans, as well as between humans and the rest of Creation. The web of life needs tending, and the web of human relations needs deep healing.

Here are some of our social healing initiatives over the years:


  • Annual Dreaming the Dark healing rituals at Winter Solstice
  • Shamanism for Activists trainings
  • Reweaving the Web journey circles, to seek guidance from the compassionate spirits in healing social wounds
  • A community healing ritual for Portland's tense Alberta Street neighborhood, which was undergoing gentrification; with the Northeast Portland Interfaith Peace Group
  • Provided shamanic representation and leadership in interfaith spiritual organizations, including Enterbeing; the national Network of Spiritual Progressives; and the Northeast Portland Interfaith Peace Group 
  • Healing rituals for the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, for a massacre site in the U.S. South, and for the Middle East
  • A public, interfaith peacemaking ritual across from the U.S. White House for the D.C. Spiritual Activism Conference, to heal the history of violence in the name of religion; with Myron Eshowsky
  • Convened a World Cafe-style gathering of 100 diverse stakeholders in the gentrifying inner Northeast Portland neighborhoods, to bring about candid exchange on how to create inclusive neighborhoods in which everyone can thrive; with the Northeast Portland Interfaith Peace Group
  • Our Ancestors, Ourselves: Healing Our Collective History workshops
  • Coronation of the Collective Heart, a public, participatory peacemaking ritual for the Peace and Justice Studies Association national conference, Building Cultures of Peace
  • AMERICAN UBUNTU, a healing story for our times - feature film project

Lenore's article, Ritual and Activism: The Alchemy of Social Transformation, published both in The Sacred Hoop and in Alternatives Magazine, discusses the role of ritual in social healing.

Lenore's inspirational contribution to an Institute of Noetic Sciences panel, Science, Faith and Activism for a New Cosmology, also is available. When you make a donation of $50 or more, we'll send you a CD of her talk!

We are grateful for your support of our current social healing initiative -- make a tax-deductible donation in any amount,  and we'll send you a receipt for your tax records.
If you prefer to make your tax-deductible donation offline, you can mail your check to:

Circle of the Living Earth-AIWP
P.O. Box 1547
Freeland, WA 98249

We will send you a receipt for your tax records.

 Thank you for your kind generosity in helping us to heal our world!

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Whidbey Island, WA
Berkeley, CA




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Affiliations:
Shamanic Teachers
Foundation for Shamanic Studies
Assoc. for the Integration of the Whole Person