Name: Tips for Healing: "Doing the Work" - Part 1 by Gogo Nomadlozi
Duration: 7 min 14 s
Description: Rebecca discusses the importance of doing our own personal healing work, as well as the varied methods for doing so. She discusses the flaws of Eurocentric Western medicine and the importance of getting clear on our unique needs for healing processes. www.sangoma.info/.

Rebecca discusses the importance of doing our own personal healing work, as well as the varied methods for doing so. She discusses the flaws of Eurocentric Western medicine and the importance of getting clear on our unique needs for healing processes. www.sangoma.info/.

Tips for Healing: "Doing the Work" - Part 1

As a Traditional South African Healer - Sangoma, Rebecca Rogerson has been exposed to people of all ages and ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Initially trained in Soweto, South Africa, then Botswana; she has a deep respect for the cultural heritage these teachings brings. Working in Southern Africa for over two decades; she has made it her custom to learn from a wide array of modalities, seeking to do so, in a non-culturally appropriative manner. Rebecca has been an international development consultant specializing in HIV and AIDS and traditional healing and medicine in Southern Africa at community-based, medical, and national policy levels for over two decades. She has presented at various juried conferences worldwide and has earned international recognition for her work as a practitioner. Rebecca has contributed to various academic, public and private sector publications and recently authored HDEV (2017 & 2020), a human development, tertiary-level textbook. Rebecca has an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies with a thesis focus on healing practices as decolonization praxis. She taught in the Social Service Worker Program at Seneca College for almost a decade. Rebecca maintains her private practice in Ontario, incorporating her Jewish lineage and Indigenous Red Road teachings into her work. Rebecca returns to South Africa as often as she can to visit family, work with the people and to collect herbal medicine