Valerie Cloud Clearer Schwan RinglandDr Valerie Cloud Clearer Schwan Ringland is a Frisian-Sumerian/Jewish woman. Her spiritual name is Wulkenkloorjer (Cloud Clearer) because she works to clear internal clouds polluting the mind to enable learning and healing. She is an Indigenous scienist, medicine woman, researcher, writer and community member. Valerie has lived experience knowledge of intense trauma, grief and loss, health challenges, spiritual crises and conflict resolution. She has more than a decade of experience in healing work and has done apprenticeships in Indigenous healing methods, including ceremonial dancing, earthing ceremonies, dreamwork, sweat lodge ceremonies and sacred circle keeping.In terms of Western education Valerie has a PhD in social work, for which she did a dissertation on Indigenous trauma healing, as well as certifications in mediation and restorative justice. She also has more than a decade of experience in facilitation, research and social policy and practice around the world, including in Australia, the US, India, South Africa and Peru. She lectures at the University of Peace in the Masters of Indigenous Science and Peace Studies Program, and works as a researcher, spiritual social worker and blogger through Earth Ethos from her home on Yuin country on the south coast of NSW, Australia. Read More Read Less