In this gathering, renowned Blackfoot scholar, legal thinker, and ceremonial philosopher Leroy Little Bear offers a rare window into Indigenous ways of knowing as they relate to wellbeing, healing, and mental health. Speaking from a lifetime of teaching, advocacy, and cultural stewardship, Little Bear invites us to rethink what it means to be well—not as a solitary state of balance, but as a rhythm of relationality, ceremony, and continuity with the land.

This conversation challenges dominant mental health paradigms that isolate the self from community, the mind from the body, and the human from the rest of nature. Little Bear brings forward the deep teachings of the Blackfoot worldview—a cosmology in which energy, motion, and interconnection shape understanding. He weaves stories of quantum physics, songs of the buffalo, and protocols of ceremonial life to illuminate the radical difference between Indigenous and Western knowledge systems.

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A recording will be available to SAND members and pre-registered participants only