In this episode of Calling in the Healers, host Nick Pineda sits down with Rebekka Schlichting (Ioway)—filmmaker, Professor of Practice at the University of Kansas, story keeper, and community healer in Lawrence, Kansas.

Rebekka shares about how tending stories across generations and the land is part of generational healing, navigating the challenges of growing up native in Lawrence (for her mother) and growing up on the Reservation (for her) and joys of raising children in Lawrence today, working in film, and living in a world that's colonized.

Whether you’re passionate about community care, decolonizing leadership, Indigenous wisdom, or place-based healing, this conversation will remind you that healing is relational, intergenerational, and deeply rooted in place.

Listen if you’re curious about:
✅ Storytelling as a tool for personal and collective healing
✅ Navigating the preservation of traditions and cultural protocols
✅ How to connect with your lineage and local land
✅ What perspectives we get to see through native-made film
✅ An invitation to step-up how it centers the native members of its community

✨ New episodes of Calling in the Healers drop weekly, sharing local voices and hyperlocal healing stories rooted in Lawrence, Kansas—ancestral Kaw, Osage, and Shawnee land.

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