Help Finish Our Indigenous Trauma Therapy Book

 

Mos Chukma seeks funding to complete and publish their trade manual titled Hungry for the sacred: Indigenous trauma healing, reconnecting to spirit. The MCI will highlight these lessons/practices with samples of classroom activities and student artwork; and organize the work into a trade manual that can be used by educators, administrators, therapists, and other interested parties.

The Mos Chukma Institute (MCI) Arts-as-Healing pedagogy has evolved under the guidance and expertise of the MCI’s founder, Amelie Prescott. Ms. Prescott wields a unique educational mastery of both arts and science with over forty years of experience. In her capacity as a teacher, artist, psychotherapist, and healer, her work has focused specifically on at-risk and traumatized youth, in both urban and rural environments, which include Oakland, Native American Rancherias in Northern California, and New Orleans.
 
As the MCI incorporated the culmination of decades of Ms. Prescott’s work, there were two fundamental principles: 1) everyone possesses a creative spirit; and 2) everyone is designed to heal. Since 2006, the MCI team (which include collaborations with a wide range of educators, artists, and psychologists) has adhered to these principles – creativity and healing – through a spectrum of innovative classroom practices. (Sites in New Orleans: Dr. King Charter School for Science and Technology; and Joseph A. Craig School).

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