~ VISIONING BEAR CIRCLE ~

The Visioning Bear Circle is a safe place to tell your story and follow native traditions that lead to healthy lives and a healthy community.  Be part of a vibrant community of indigenous men, women, and young people working, drumming, and dreaming a safe environment to pass on our culture, wisdom, and traditions.

We meet the second and last Saturdays of each month from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Drumming, crafting, pot luck feast, and community education.

OUR GOALS: 

• To establish a highly visible and viable approach to sexual violence prevention throughout the social fabric of our intertribal community of Franklin County and the North Quabbin.
• To promote open conversations about gender-based violence that examine the role of tradition and the role of internalized oppression in the indigenous community.
• Elders mentor young people about living in harmony with all our relations.
• Establish a restorative justice approach that ensures accountability for behavior by intertribal members.

What can we do to promote these goals in our lives, families, and community?

• Talk with children in our lives about what healthy relationships are.
• Be critical of negative media images.
• Challenge language that degrades.
• Let us know your ideas! 

Email Strong Oak or call (413) 772-0871 x104.

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