by Mary Hernandez | Mar 12, 2016 | Indigenous Groups, Organization Updates, Reflections and Commentaries
Dear CfBS friends and donors: We want to share a quick update about the crowdfunding campaign to support the T’boli teachers and school children in the LASIWWAI community. Teacher stipends, children’s meals and school uniforms were funded through the campaign. Jenita...
by Mary Hernandez | Sep 14, 2015 | Filipino Psychology
http://www.slideshare.net/yanloveaprilbordador/filipino-psychology-concepts-and-methods
by Mary Hernandez | Sep 14, 2015 | Indigenous Groups
The Center for Babaylan Studies wants to raise $10,000 to keep the LASIWWAI Learning School in Lake Sebu, South Cotabato, Philippines, open for the rest of the 2015-16 school year. Early this year, a severe drought in the T’boli area damaged the water system project...
by Jen Maramba | Jul 24, 2015 | Indigenous Groups
Stuart Schlegel’s experience in being with the Figel Teduray for two years in 1967 forever transformed his view of himself and the American/modern culture he grew up in. When viewed thru the indigenous lens of the Teduray in Figel, he came to see that the...
by Leny Strobel | Jun 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
PANAGHINABI: FRUITFUL CONVERSATIONS: BRIDGING INDIGENOUS AND CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS OF SPIRITUALITY BURR OAK LODGE, MAY 22-24, 2015, GLOUSTER, OHIO and IFUGAO HEALING HUT PROJECT in ALBANY, OHIO We give Thanks to the Ancient Ones/Our Ancestors for the guidance that was...
by Mary Hernandez | Mar 16, 2015 | Indigenous Education
Research As Ceremony – a book review by Chaya Ocampo Go of Shawn Wilson’s “Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods”, Fernwood Publishing, Halifax, 2008 The author of this book review is a Filipina graduate scholar at the UBC Institute for Gender,...
by Mary Hernandez | Feb 24, 2015 | Babaylan and Community Healing, Indigenous Education
“Based on her 30 years of study on indigenous health and practices of the Igorots, a professor from the University of the Philippines Baguio is invoking the power of spiritual healing over diseases covered by the indigenous and spiritual practices in the...
by Mary Hernandez | Feb 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
Another seminal babaylan-inspired work! Join us in learning more about the babaylan and the reasons why it is important for us to understand babaylan-inspired teachings. Here’s a short excerpt from the interview: “RD: Why crocodile’s belly? LM: The book...
by Mary Hernandez | Jan 30, 2015 | Decolonization and Filipino Identity, Events and Conference, Filipino Psychology, Kapwa and Other Indigenous and Filipino Values, Uncategorized
Now available! Listen to Leny Strobel’s keynote speech on KAPWA at the Filipino American National Historical Society by clicking on the audio file below. Join us also at the upcoming symposium on Bridging indigenous and Christian traditions of Spirituality by...
by Jen Maramba | Nov 26, 2014 | Babaylan and Community Healing, Decolonization and Filipino Identity, Events and Conference, In the News, Indigenous Education, Modern Practices, Organization Updates, Reflections and Commentaries
by Celeste Ann Castillo Llaneta in UP Forum For countless years, indigenous peoples (IPs) have lived on the fringes of society, barely mentioned even in the footnotes of history texts. The IPs, if given any attention at all, are often viewed as collateral damage in...
by Omehra | Jun 24, 2013 | Babaylan and Community Healing, Books, Talks, Papers, CDs, Websites
by Luisa A. Igloria Review of Song of the Babaylan: Living Voices, Medicines, Spiritualities of Philippine Ritualist-Oralist Healers by Grace Nono (Institute of Spirituality in Asia, 2013) In the “Invocations” chapter of her newest book, Song of the Babaylan: Living...
by Omehra | Jun 24, 2013 | Books, Talks, Papers, CDs, Websites, Cultural Studies, Historic Context
by Narcisa Paredes-Canilao, University of the Philippines Baguio and Maria Ana Babaran-Diaz, University of the Philippines Baguio http://www.discourseunit.com/arcp10/Philippines%20I%20765-783.pdf Abstract Sikolohiyang Pilipino, or efforts of Filipino psychologists and...
by Omehra | May 10, 2013 | Cultural Studies
by S. Lily Mendoza Abstract In “Educating Savages,” intercultural communication scholar Richard Morris notes with poignancy that even when Native Americans realize their “true” history, there is in such realization “a sense of curiosity, even a sense of loss, but not...
