photo:Jessica Shokrian


"To follow Story is to under-stand the  path of  healing.  Each of our stories is a universe.  Each one of us  is living a story.  To  discover its  shape and essence is essential to  soul making."  
 

Deena Metzger is a poet, novelist, essayist, storyteller, teacher, healer and medicine woman who has taught and counseled for over forty years, in the process of which she has developed therapies (Healing Stories) which creatively address life threatening diseases, spiritual and emotional crises, as well as community, political and environmental disintegration.

She has spent a lifetime investigating Story as a form of knowing and healing. As a writer, she asks: Who do we have to become to find the forms and sacred language with which to meet these times?

She conducts training groups on the spiritual, creative, political and ethical aspects of healing and peacemaking, individual, community and global, drawing deeply on alliance with spirit, indigenous teachings and the many wisdom traditions. One focus is on uniting Western medical ways with indigenous medicine traditions.

With her husband, writer/healer Michael Ortiz Hill, she has introduced the concept of Daré, meaning Council, to North America. The Los Angeles Daré relies on Council, alliance with Spirit and the natural world, ancestor work, indigenous and wisdom traditions and teachings, music healing, dream telling, divination, kinship, and story telling to achieve personal transformation, community healing and social change.

She is the author of many books, including most recently, Ruin and Beauty: New and Selected Poems; From Grief Into Vision: A Council; Doors: A fiction for Jazz Horn; Entering the Ghost River: Meditations on the Theory and Practice of Healing; The Other Hand; Tree: Essays and Pieces, A Sabbath Among the Ruins, Looking for the Faces of God and Writing For Your Life.

Entire contents Copyright © 2009/2010 Deena Metzger. All rights reserved

A letter from Deena Metzger on the quest
for a viable world

A Training Proposal for the 5th World

2010 -  2012 Schedule

Click here to listen to Deena Metzger
interviewed on New Dimensions radio on
"A Healing Alliance with Animals and the
Earth" hosted by Justine Willis Toms

Deena's latest book:
Ruin and Beauty: New and Selected Poems

Tanzania Safari: Future Guardians of Peace
with an original essay Alliance in the
Selous by Deena Metzger

From Grief into Vision: A Council
Hand to Hand Press

Doors: A Fiction for Jazz Horn
Red Hen Press
    -Read the Topanga Messenger Review

Entering the Ghost River: Meditations on
 the Theory and Practice of Healing
Hand to Hand Press
    -Invoking the Holy Letters of the Aleph-
     Beit For Peace

The Other Hand
Red Hen Press

The Legacy of a Life: On Anais Nin at 105
The Hammer Museum - 2008

On ReVisioning Medicine and
the Possibilities of Miracles
The first ReVisioning Medicine Council
and a pilgrimage to Uranium
Spring 2009

Thinking About Healing
Spring 2009

Illness Heals the World
This is an edited, amended and combined text
from Keynote Addresses delivered at the annual
meetings of the American Academy of
Osteopathy, 2006, and the American Academy
of Environmental Medicine, 2005.

The Soul of Medicine
Opening Keynote Address to the annual
national meeting of the American Holistic
Medical Association, Albuquerque, NM
April 2004

We Offer You a Circle For Your Confusion,
General

Katrina - Our Chernobyl

Water Speaks to the People of the World

Becoming Peacemakers
The Whole Life Times - 2002