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Many challenges can impact our everyday lives impairing our ability to create or maintain homes and communities that are healthy, caring, and loving. Our bodies, minds, and spirits become fatigued and sometimes even ill facing those challenges. Today, three healing practitioners will open their Medicine Bags to share with you healing techniques indigenous to each of them: the energy of simple herbs, touch, and love. By the end of the day they hope to have taught, inspired, and supported your personal journey toward healing body, mind, and spirit! 

Marilyn Youngbird, a tribal member of the Arikara, Mandan, and Hidatsa Nations, is a renowned holistic health care practitioner, teacher, and lecturer. She has presented cultural sensitivity training seminars and traditional Native American holistic health care workshops nationally and internationally.  

Martha Mathews Libster, PhD, RN, is recognized internationally as an authority on the relationship between healing traditions and nursing practice. Author of numerous articles and books, including The Nurse-Herbalist: Integrative Insights for Holistic Practice, Dr. Libster is the founding director of The Bamboo Bridge International and the Creative Director of Golden Apple Healing Arts, LLC. 

Marilyn Johnston-Svoboda is professor emeritus of nursing at College of DuPage. Taught and mentored by many: Dora Kunz, Dr. Delores Krieger, Marilyn Youngbird, and Momfeather Erickson, Dr. Johnston has integrated the holistic value system of her Native American heritage and her Christian beliefs into her long-term practice of holistic healthcare, leading workshops, conferences, and teaching the healing modality Therapeutic Touch (TT). She is also co-author of Therapeutic Touch: A Healing Modality of Heart and Hands (Book/DVD). 

$40 guests   $35 members   $15 current students of nursing (with ID)  (Lunch on your own.) 

Pre-register by phone 630-668-1571, ext. 315 or by e-mail.

Hear Marilyn Youngbird’s talk “Connecting to the Divine through Native American Wisdom” on Thursday, April 18. SeeThursday Evening Programs!