Karuna Live! Offering Gratitude to Turtle Island and Her Original Inhabitants 

Offering Gratitude to Turtle Island and her Original Inhabitants 

with Eduardo Duran, hosted by Melissa Moore

Saturday, November 26, 9 AM PT/ 10 AM MT

Join Karuna Training for a post-colonial one-hour discussion on the true meaning of Thanksgiving with native elder Eduardo Duran. We will explore the act of restorative compassion by offering the land and the original peoples our acknowledgments and gratitude. 

Eduardo Duran, author of Red Face Buddha and Healing the Soul Wound, defines a post-colonial approach to healing for Indigenous people. Eduardo's work is profoundly contemplative and someone who honors Native and Buddhist ways, something that will benefit all who encounter his methods. 

The discussion will open to the importance of ceremonies of gratitude, land acknowledgments, and the power of making offerings. 

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Eduardo Duran, PhD was born in northern New Mexico and at age 14 his family relocated to California. He worked in the fields as a migrant farm worker and at age 17 enlisted in the U.S. Navy where he served for 6 years on board submarines and other vessels during the Vietnam war. Once he was discharged he became interested in psychology and began his studies and at the same time began working for the Navy as an engineering psychologist.

His path took a turn after his last visit with his grandfather in that he changed career trajectory to that of becoming a clinical psychologist. He attained his PhD degree and has worked as a clinical psychologist in rural Indian country for over twenty years. He has travelled around the world sharing his insights into "soul wounding." He is author of Native American Post Colonial Psychology, Healing the Soul Wound: Counseling with American Indians and Other Native People and Buddha in Redface.