Intergenerational Healing and Soul Wounds: Expanding Beyond Conventional Western Views

with Eduardo Duran, PhD

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What you'll learn

  • Understand the concepts of “soul guilt” and “soul wound” and their significance in trauma work.
  • Learn how to bring awareness and healing to intergenerational trauma through the use of the genogram.
  • Explore the limitations in Western medical approaches to diagnosing and treating trauma.

About the speakers

Eduardo Duran, PhD

Eduardo Duran, PhD, is a Vietnam Veteran who started his academic training after being discharged from the US Navy. He has worked in Indigenous communities most of his professional life. Clinical work in communities has informed his theoretical and clinical approaches to psychotherapy.  His work is informed by traditional teachings from Indigenous elders that continues to unfold into an ongoing hybrid model to address individual and collective soul wounding.  Early on he was providing community psychological interventions when an Indigenous Woman Elder approached him and told him that he needed to write and publish what she heard him speak about. That meeting with the Elder has resulted in several books including: Native American Post Colonial Psychology, Healing the Soul Wound, Buddha in Redface and Quantum Coyote Dreams the Black World. The unfolding themes in these writings are an integration of traditional Indigenous and Western cosmology as these interface with the shape shifting of consciousness in our present Zeitgeist. Eduardo lives in Bozeman Montana.

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  • I’m still thinking about the comment you made about instead of clients thinking about getting rid of their diagnoses that they should get to know it.

  • Revising comment:
    Dream: After listening to Sibelius’s tone poem, “Finlandia” op. 26, when I thought “my native land,” I saw the planet Earth. The next morning, same dream. When I thought, “my native land” I saw the stars, the universe. Eduardo Duran shows me how to honor this dream*, healing not just human intergenerations but the Earth, the universe ….

  • Dream: After listening to Sibelius, “Filandia” when I thought “my native land,” I saw the planet Earth. The next morning, same dream. When I thought, “my native land” I saw the stars, the universe. Eduardo Duran shows me how to honor this dream, healing not just human intergenerations but the Earth, the universe ….

  • This was one of the most beautiful talks I have listened to in a long long time. Every part of it was precious. It really touched me so deeply. Thankyou so so much.

  • Thankyou for sharing Dr Duran’s work that he has gathered. It makes me want to share with some of the native relatives I know but am on such a low economy it’s not possible. Perhaps there will be another way. I so appreciate he learned how to free the suffering and to heal in all directions in time. Personally I see how some of the choices of my father came from being in military school and not fully know yet reasons of his father’s numbing with alcohol and abandon of family.
    But I appreciate the clarity. I will try to share the healing that came to me with Dr Duran and with you here. I need to access an email where I was reaching out to friends and those I know will understand and then find a way to send it to you.

  • Such a profound and resonating view. I thank you from the bottom of my being Dr Durand.
    The indigenous people of Australia also have this understanding of health and disease and the interconnectedness of beings and the earth. Going back to the country of birth and ancestors, is often used to heal. As well as reconnecting with people.
    I am an immigrant to Australia but I see and appreciate how much wisdom there is in the first peoples’ approaches. Thank you of reminding me of that.

  • As part of tribal communal healing we used a sacred tree. The roots of it as the beginning and branches represent the intergenerational spiritual traumas. We belive that healing is within us and we allowed therapist to journey with us. We have to learn to forgive the unforgivable in order to heal. Thank you for sharing your journey in our community way and listen to our ancestors spirits.

  • Much appreciation. I have long experienced the benefit of self-acceptance but listening to this gave me a fresh and clear view about how I might do this more: in my case thinking of chronic pain as a family member, asking it questions and making a gift to honour its role as teacher.

    • wow. this is so beautiful. May I share this with a client of mine who suffers chronic pain? 🙂 she is very open in this way and I think she would love to read that from someone else who also experiences what she does.

  • I’ve thought before that there’s a spiritual side to therapy and listening to Dr. Eduardo Duran it all makes sense; astonishingly, we’re all somehow connected. Thank you!

  • I want to express heart felt gratitude for all your good words. Also, gratitude to all of our ancestors who continue to meditate and pray for us.

    • Thankyou so so much Eduardo, this was incredibly special, I feel you have moved something deep in me and the field around me with this talk of yours. So grateful I got to listen to it.

  • Oh wow.. I think this might be the most powerful talk in this whole program! When you talked about the soul wound and that ‘human traumas also traumatise the earth, because we are the earth’, I burst into tears. Somehow I resonate so deeply with this truth. It is strange because I often say my work comes through me.. and sometimes it is even a mystery to me that I am guided by, but it is so much bigger and wiser than what the ‘mind’ can contain alone.

    I absolutely love this about fluid language and not labelling things into a fixed form, it makes so much sense. Wow. Thankyou thankyou thankyou for this talk. still listening….

  • Wow! Thanks so much. Enlightening to look our “mental illness” as an entity to work with, learn from and heal instead of remove or fight.

  • Thank you for this enlightening session Dr Durran. The marvellous initiative in the field of psychotherapy to support indigenous community by adapting and understanding their belief system at the soul level is an inspiration.This session provides a bigger picture and deeper understanding of the need to work towards bringing about shift in energy at the soul level
    Thank you

  • …..so v soulful to hear Dr. Duran channel indigenous wisdom – love his down-to-earth rendering of esoteric wisdom….. looking fwd to incorporating “dreamtime” offerings, & being able to trust that messages & guidance would be received from my ancestors…..a v deep bow….. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • Thank you, Dr. Duran. Your ancestors are surely so happy with your work, and all that you are doing will impact so many of our great grandchildren. Thank you for having the courage to do what spirit clearly sent you to do, being so receptive to the elders and spirits messages, putting in the time to help heal so many, and putting it into words that we can all understand and do. In this time of regeneration and healing, all this is a great inspiration that gave me a lot of hope and motivation.

  • Thank you Dr Duran for bringing more light to reveal the cultural differences in healing that achieve same/similar results.

  • “May the Spirit of Gratitude be with you, Dr. Duran!” In this lifetime, I “am” a “pure-bread”, first-generation German (as far as I know according to my ancestors’ genealogical research) who resonates very much with your explanation of how limiting “labeling” can be versus the more energy-freeing versions that you desribed and used as examples. Furthermore, something in me needed to hear how soul injury and trauma feed each other, and that it is up to us as individuals to heal the wounds we humans have inflicted onto Mother Earth.

  • I love this interview! Its truly amazing how Dr Duran was able to connect with the Native American culture, concepts, and thus able to transmit understandings of the value and power of emotions, leading toward healing by utilizing/adopting the concepts, practices and worldview of the tribe, leaving behind the non-Native American Western civilization (white people’s) terms an concepts. Never giving up on the goal of helping these people from a different world than himself. Learning from them in order to be helpful. He sounds like a Native American while talking of his experiences and lessons and approaches. Even bringing in elements of Buddhism that are more akin to the N.A. Culture than Western modern culture or religions. Truly a living example of client centered practice, humble / non-egoistic and compassionate approach. Fascinating and inspiring! Thank you for sharing this!

  • I feel what Dr. Duran is sharing is very wise and so true for me!
    I’m grateful for his presentation!
    “Suffering is the compost of Enlightenment” really helps me understand more about my journey here and that of others.
    Thank you

  • have gained so much from each of these podcast,i recently became a yoga teacher and each one has played out in my own life because of trauma.looking forward to having an impact in the world through my experience.

  • Fascinating. I wondered though, what happens to patients who have no children, what the significance of the genome would be, to such individuals? They can’t incorporate future generations.

    • In Metis society (Canada) elders without children may be “aunties” or “uncles”, actually related or not, but earning the relationship name through their caring actions. They contribute to nurturing younger and future generations in their communities

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