Original Medicine 4-Part Series: Connecting with Beauty Through Story with Dr. Renda Dionne Madrigal

Connecting with Beauty Through Story

Join Original Medicine 4-Part Series and Dr. Renda Dionne Madrigal for an introduction to her longer 6-week program in October connecting with beauty through story. Bring an object that you resonate with from the land that you live on.

Life is hard, but it’s also beautiful. 

You live in a story whether you know it or not, and that story shapes your physical health and wellbeing into the future. It also shapes the world.  

A Story Medicine Quest begins with tapping into ancestral and archetypal strengths so you can begin to find an orientation to yourself, important archetypes, and the world that’s more rooted and aligned with your essential self (that thing that you came into this world with and that you are tasked to manifest). As you connect with your power, you develop a more meaningful life and become more focused and intentional about the story you live. That can change everything.  So, what are you waiting for? 

A Beautiful Life!  

What could you possibly gain?  

• Greater peace, ease and alignment that comes from being who you truly are. 

• Internal allies which give you the ability to more effectively meet what shows up in your life.  

• Better aim to navigate transition, loss, and change more effectively. 

• A portal to deep connection with yourself, others, and the larger world.  
  
   

A Story Medicine Quest uses Indigenous wisdom as part of your journey to become a complete human being. While the Story Medicine Quest takes six months to a year, in the fall we are going to embark on a 6-week journey focusing on gaining wisdom from the archetypes found in the old stories.

The Story Medicine Wisdom Seeking Group, which will gather for the 6-week program in October, utilizes a range of experiential processes, including embodied mindfulness, expressive arts, writing, and active imagination journeys. Participants are encouraged to engage with the old stories in a personal and reflective manner, to gain insights and understandings that can be applied to their current life situations and the world around them.  

Let’s embark on a collaborative journey to open the portal to the story you were born to live.   

• Beauty happens - savor it 

• Struggles happen - grow from them 

Lean into your one great life!

Reciprocity Contribution Levels

Benefactor:                 $30 per class

Spiritual Friend:          $20 per class

Supporter:                   $15 per class 

Community Builder:   $10 per class

No one is turned away for lack of funds, please contact info@braidedwisdom.org 

Indigenous storytelling is a sacred tradition of many Native peoples. Stories, rituals, and histories are often passed along by generations through intricately woven language and the spoken word. Therefore to honor and respect this oral practice, we will not be recording this session.

About Dr. Renda Dionne Madrigal

Dr. Renda Dionne Madrigal is a Licensed Turtle Mountain Chippewa Clinical Psychologist, a Registered Drama Therapist, the President of Mindful Practice Inc, and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner with over twenty years of experience in the field. She has been featured on the cover of Mindful Magazine and was recognized as a Powerful Woman of Mindfulness in the August 2022 edition.  

She is a mentor for the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior Mindfulness Awareness Research Center Teacher Training Program, a Stanford Certified Applied Compassion Educator/Consultant, and faculty member at the Drama Therapy Institute of Los Angeles and California Indian Nations College.  

Dr. Renda Dionne Madrigal specializes in embodied narrative and mindfulness-based practices, which combine mindfulness, somatic therapies, and storytelling to support insight, healing and growth.  

In addition to her work as a clinician, Dr. Dionne Madrigal is also a writer, with an MFA from the American Indian Institute of the Arts (May 2023), and a performer. She has appeared in Indigenous plays written by her daughters and enjoys writing fiction featuring Indigenous female protagonists who save the world. Her book, The Mindful Family Guidebook, has been listed as a Best Book of Mindfulness 2021 by Mindful Magazine. Dr. Dionne Madrigal is currently working on her next books, Story Medicine, and thriller-fantasy Silenced, featuring Indigenous women saving the world.   

About The Original Medicine 4-Part Series

This program is a psycho-spiritual cross-cultural mindfulness approach to the teachings that weave together Indigenous Wisdom, Mindfulness, and Earth-based practices in order to integrate seasons and the transitions between the seasons as cross-cultural mindfulness tools. In Indigenous societies, there are long-standing practices of honoring the sacred, cultivating stillness, embracing silence, being in nature, and conducting rituals to acknowledge the coming changes in the world around them and within themselves.  

Prior participation in previous OM 4-Part Sessions not required.

This event registration is for the Original Medicine 4-Part Series - Summer Season on Saturday, July 8 from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm (Pacific Time).

A Zoom Link will be sent on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, prior to the event. Please check your spam folder if you do not see our email with the zoom link.

If you have any questions, please email info@braidedwisdom.org.