• with Dr. Gary Ferguson and Dr. Allison Kelliher

Welcome these Alaska Native health leaders (naturopathic and medicinal doctors) as they lead us in a workshop promoting healthy lifeways and addressing underlying causes of domestic violence, with opportunities to gain and share a deeper understanding of how our histories and experiences contribute to more complex behavior.
Come to learn and practice healthy lifeways – drawing from our holistic and traditional ways, including use of plants, storytelling and traditional healing.
This workshop will empower participants to practice and incorporate methods for resiliency including: sharing story, drumming, mindfulness, nutrition, and plant medicine.  
Please bring  an item of significance to share about yourself as we create a safe, healing place for discussing how historical experiences contribute to our overall health.

Dr. Gary Ferguson is a licensed Naturopathic Doctor and Healthy Communities Consultant living in Anchorage, Alaska. He is a facilitator, motivational speaker, health coach and technical consultant to communities and agencies around how to more deeply address contributing factors to health, well-being. Dr. Ferguson is Aleut/Unangax, originally from the Shumagin Islands community of Sand Point, Alaska. He has a deep passion for reclaiming the indigenous medicines and healing ways of the First People of Alaska and is the co-creator of the Store Outside Your Door/Alaskan Plants as Food & Medicine Initiative. www.drgaryferguson.com

Dr. Allison Kelliher is a Koyukon Athabascan traditional healer from Nome, she is a Family Medicine and an Integrative Medicine physician. Snowcreekmedicine.com