Join Tlingit traditional healer, certified massage therapist, Historical Trauma and Healing trainer and ethnoherbalist Meda DeWitt for a virtual discussion of traditional healing practices and the importance of coming-of-age ceremonies, menstruation hut and women's rituals within Tlingit culture, past and present. Dewitt will be reconstructing a Tlingit seclusion hut win September at SEED Lab, as a space to learn about the importance of seclusion rituals in Indigenous lifeways. Dewitt will host workshops in the hut September through November and will share knowledge about the purpose of ceremony, as well as how these practices connect people to land, to ancestral knowledge, and to each other.

Traditional Healing & Coming of Age: A Conversation with Meda DeWitt