A Healing Town

I first became aware that Brandon was viewed by people as a healing town when a single mom described her view of Brandon to me at the University. She said,

Brandon is like a pool with a bunch of rivers flowing into it from the area around it. Floating down those rivers are rafts with single moms, each with their clutch of kids and belongings, heading to Brandon to get their lives put back together for one reason or another. Winnipeg is too big for them, but Brandon is small enough to be manageable but large enough to be anonymous in. There are bright lights but not too many to be intimidating. There are plenty of social service supports, and once you get on your feet, there is a college and University to get trained, and a host of entry-level jobs to get a start. However, once you outgrow your first job there is nothing else - either you go back home, you join the healing team at Brandon, or you move on to another city. But it is a great place to get healed.

The second indication of it being viewed as a healing center was when a healing Evangelist came here a few years ago. He worked out of the Church around the corner from me. He came for three weeks and stayed five, meeting every night of the week Twenty-one thousand people went through that place in five weeks. I have never seen such a parade of folks wanting healing, nor did I realize just how many of us are creaking around this world with one ailment or another. They drove in from all over the province as well as the neighboring states and provinces. I heard later that the same healer went to Prince Albert Saskatchewan a couple of years later. He went for three weeks and stayed three days. He said, 'I can't work here, people have no expectation of getting healed in this town'.

Brandon is a regional center for health services as well as a supply hub for a host of government and commercial services. I believe it is viewed as being more than just a supply hub, I believe it is viewed as being a healing center as well.

Media Based Solutions

• Capacity Building
• Healing Use of Media

Further Resources

The web resources give some idea of the scope of expectations people have about places, programs and aspects of healing.

• Google search for healing town
• Google search for healing
• Aboriginal Healing
• Holistic healing
• Art as a healing force
• Galalee Spas
• book- This Ain't No Healin' Town (Toronto)
• Center for Attitudinal Healing
• Crisis Grief and Healing
• Grief Healing
• Healing potential of art
• Healing Touch International
• Healing Well.com
• Holistic healing
• Journey of Healing Australia
• Bankok
• Portrait of an artist
• Riez
• Sesamie Street
• Val Venosta
• Zoence

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