What is healing and how does one do it?

Today I am at the New York Open Center. It's so busy on the streets of Soho. Christmas has come to New York City! Everyone is bustling. And there are so many workshops and practitioner trainings to attend. Everyone has a technique or a theory. I feel a bit daunted, since I have a non-theory, more or less. My theory is that healing emerges through dialogue and that anyone can do it. That's a hard sell for a workshop. It's easier to pick a technique -- heal yourself through reiki, core shamanic practice, reflexology, numerology, iridology, ayurveda, etc. I'm doing some of that myself when I teach Cherokee bodywork, though I try to teach it as a non-technique, a way of following energy and not a strict set of procedures that one does. My sense is that we are upside down in North America. We need to develop our own abilities to follow energy and to sense spirit and listen to spirit more than we need to learn algorithms. We need to form communities of like-minded healers, start healing circles, dialogue with each other and let the emergent properties of systems hold forth. I think about John Charles, a Cree healer in Saskatchewan, who has never attended one of these workshops and who is a man you would definitely want praying for you. We'll see what happens tonight in my workshop on Native American healing amidst the cacophany and excitement that is New York, so different from Sturgeon Lake First Nation.