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Presented by Joyce Frey, Ph.D.

PART 1: Friday, January 31, 2025 | PART 2: Friday, February 7, 2025

9-11:30am PT / 11am-1:30pm CT / 12-2:30pm ET

Event held online via Zoom, link to access provided upon registration.

The lived experience of Indigenous Peoples is often misunderstood, misdirected, and misrepresented by the mainstream cultures, even though according to the United Nations they currently comprise 6.2% of the world’s total population, or about 476 million people representing 5,000 distinct groups, and speak the majority of the 7,000 languages spoken worldwide. In this series of online presentations, participants will have the opportunity to learn more deeply about important aspects of Indigenous Cultures and gain a new appreciation of their customs and worldviews.

The last of the series is a two-part presentation that explores the role of human intelligence from ancient to the contemporary. It highlights several indigenous cultures from around the world, culminating with the Plains Cree Peoples of Canada.

Participants will engage in a virtual journey through time in an imaginary time machine stopping to visit with ancient Indigenous and Natural Wisdom concepts and on through the Greek, and Egyptian beliefs for starters. The “time machine” will continue to transport participants on to the early modern historical perceptions; ultimately arriving at its destination in our current time frame where theories and ideas of what and how human intelligence is constructed and perceived will be reviewed.

The final section of this virtual adventure of exploration will be completed in Part 2 that will reveal research conducted with the Plains Cree First Nations in Saskatchewan, Canada. Their culture, history, and beliefs are shared through the voices of thirteen (13) Elders as they tell their stories and build a model for their ideas on the topic of intelligence, a word that ironically has no direct translation into the Cree language.   

Welcome to a journey and stories told in the manner prescribed by indigenous protocols and processes as this series of cultural revelations explores the deeply rooted world from the ancient to the contemporary of Indigenous Peoples. 

Zoom link will be available on course page in “My Courses” upon event registration. 

This program, when attended in its entirety in both parts, offers 5.0 CEs for Psychologists, 5.0 IL CEUS for Counselors and Social Workers, or 5.0 BBS California CEUs for LPCCs, LPSWs, and LMFTs.

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