Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD

Lewis Mehl-Madrona graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine and trained in family medicine, psychiatry, and clinical psychology. He completed his residencies in family medicine and in psychiatry at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He has been on the faculties of several medical schools, most recently as associate professor of family medicine at the University of New England. He continues to work with aboriginal communities to develop uniquely aboriginal styles of healing and health care for use in those communities. He is the author of Coyote Medicine, Coyote Healing, and Coyote Wisdom, a trilogy of books on what Native culture has to offer the modern world. His goal is to bring the wisdom of indigenous peoples about healing back into mainstream medicine and to transform medicine and psychology through this wisdom coupled with more European derived narrative traditions.

Barbara Mainguy, LMSW, LCPC

Barbara Mainguy is a psychotherapist and education director for the Coyote Institute for Studies of Change and Transformation. Her interests include doing psychotherapy with people who have been diagnosed as psychotic, working with people who are having chronic pain, and exploring the interface between art and psychotherapy and healing. She is co-author with Lewis Mehl-Madrona of the book Remapping Your Mind: the Neuroscience of Self-Transformation through Story. Barbara studied psychology and philosophy at the University of Toronto and received a Master's degree in Creative Arts Psychotherapy at Concordia University. Prior to that, she worked as an artist and artist in residence in the mental health system. She received her M.S.W. from the University of Maine. Barbara loves stars, trees, and understanding the human mind. She believes dogs might be the answer to most things. She is happiest when she is able to follow the wanderings of her insatiable curiosity.

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• Students

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• Anyone who works or plans to work with people experiencing mental health-related challenges

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