Sacred Listening: 50 Years With Native American Healers

Season #1

Bob Vetter is a cultural anthropologist who has spent the past five decades sitting with Native American elders, medicine people, and traditional healers, learning what they can teach us about healing, resilience, and living a meaningful life. Today he combines those insights with narrative medicine and transformational practices to help people become wiser healers, coaches, and mentors through his teaching, writing, and retreats.

For more information visit his website www.bobvetter.com

0:00 What is sacred listening?

1:35 The sage ritual — and why it's just anchoring

5:20 The red bandana story — a dying healer transforms

19:00 Platika — the ancient heart-to-heart talk

27:00 Healing shrapnel — why stories heal the listener

32:00 The medicine man who slammed the door

44:30 How to use sacred listening as a coach today

53:00 Soul medicine — Bob's 12-week program

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