Fire and Sand wins Humanitarian Award

Check out the video trailer for the book: A powerful glimpse into the depths of the work!

do what you love, do it well, do it whenever and where ever you can…

The Trauma Research Foundation and Bessel van der Kolk would like to extend a warm invitation to the 32nd Annual Boston International Trauma Conference Psychological Trauma: Neuroscience, embodiment and the restoration of the self. It will be held online this year May 26th – 29th, 2021. I am pleased to share that I’ll be presenting…

Mahalo to Sandplay Therapists of Hawaiʻi (STH), YWCA Kauaʻi, and the International Society for Sandplay Therapy (ISST) for making it possible to bring sandplay foundations training to Kauaʻi, March 8-9, 2025, along with a series of online workshops (March 6, April 17, May 15, & June 26, 2025). The group is super enthusiastic and skilled….

We are so excited about the premier of Fire and Sand:  Healing in the Wake of the 2018 Kilauea Eruption.  It will show at the historic Palace Theater in Hilo, Hawai`i on Dec 4th, 2018.  Doors open at 6:30 pm.  It has been an inspired documentary brought to you by Little Feather Films and Black Sand Neuro. …

Fire and Sand documents healing in the community of lower Puna, Hawai’i Island, in the wake of the 2018 Kilauea eruption. Through exploration of the living mythology of Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of the volcano, the inner and outer landscapes of traumatic loss, hope, and new beginnings are revealed.
Local kumus (teachers), students, residents and helpers are featured…