On today's podcast I am joined by the First Nations elder Ipswa Mescacakanis Douglas Headworth. 

Ipswa is a great grandfather in the northern tribes of Canada and works at supporting his community. 

Ipswa also helps with rites of passage ceremonies with teenage boys and volunteers with the men's charity the Mankind Project. 

Today Ipswa shares his perspective on the recent "Black Lives Matter" movement. 

He talks about it from an indigenous perspective. He also talks about what we can do to reconnect to Mother Earth, how to use a talking stick and about Rites of Passage and how we bring our children up. Some of the questions that I asked Ipswa were as follows: 

1. What can we do to heal this racial divide that we currently see playing out in the world and come back in to balance with all our relations? 
2. What can we do as men (and women) to get back in touch with Mother Earth and with each other? 
3. Often I hear teachers speak about the importance of looking back and learning from our ancestors in order to move forward. What do you feel the Ancestors are saying to us at the moment? What are the key teachings in order for us to move forward? 
4. I know that you have done a lot of work with teenage boys and I would love to hear your perspective about initiation. How do we initiate teenage boys? What is needed? How do we support this generation? 
5. How do we support any projects that you are doing? 

To support Ipswa in his fundraising for Rites of Passage for teenage boys please leave a donation here: https://gf.me/u/ygfxw2 

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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems.

He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man.

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