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Niall Campbell

​Niall Campbell (also known as Phokojwe (the Jackal) is a sangoma,  a traditional doctor nyanga (medicine man), a doctor of traditional ceremonies as well as institutions as well as a Ngaka ya diKoma, a doctor of rites. He is a world-renowned specialist in men's rites of passage. 

Niall (pronounced Neil) has over 25 years of apprenticeship in ancestral and nature spirits, divination and medicinal herbalism with African teachers.   He facilitates men's rites of passage, initiations, entering adulthood and manhood and is widely regarded as one of the foremost holders of traditional ways.

He is the subject of numerous international documentaries on shamanic healers and consults, lectures and works all over the world. Please visit some of the articles or books written about him here. 

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*He is an ancestral Family Constellations specialist
* He is a traditional Doctor of Ritual and Ceremonies
* Facilitator of a large number of public & corporate courses, drawing on traditional medicine, Western complimentary medicine, and process-oriented psychology.
* Worked with indigenous Amazonian peoples, and Cree and Algonquin traditional healers in Canada in partnership with the Gaia Foundation and Gaia Amazonas.     
* Consulting with indigenous shamanic elders in the Altai region of Siberia

Since 2001 Niall and his brother Colin Campbell have run wilderness immersion trainings convened in the wilderness of South Eastern Botswana and South Africa. 

"The trainings draw lawyers, governmental policy-makers, environmental activists, indigenous elders and many others who are responding to the urgent call to action in the face of the deepening global environmental and cultural crisis.  Indigenous elders from many traditions came seeking outside help in the battle to restore their traditional knowledge systems.  They additionally sought help in rescuing from the ravages of industrial globalization the natural world within which those traditions had existed. Among the most pressing concerns addressed within the programs was the restoration of the broken relationship between our human collective and the rest of the living world."
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​Colin Campbell 

​The old rainmaker shrugged when asked why he no longer made rain. “Nobody actually makes rain,” he said. “Rain simply comes when the land is right.” There is no point in doing rituals to call the rain—no point trying to engage gracefully with nature—when we no longer accord with (or even recall) the most basic of laws. 
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​Working with shamanic elders in the Altai region of Siberia (below)

WILDERNESS WORK

Siyama House

The Campbell farm just outside Gabarone, Botswana welcomes guests for deep immersions

Remembering Stories

So I have to tell the story while we sit together. 
Sit here with me.
I have to remember. 

Limb by limb I put the pieces together. 
I weave the details with the context
I set the scene and add the players. 
I bring in the gods. 
the spirits 
the winds that blow into the landscape. 

I re-live the deeds of the ancient heroes and make them mine. 
We sit together. 
in a special kind of intimacy. 

One that only the storyteller and the listener can be in. 
Together. 
My feelings become yours. I feel you. 
I begin to have the same hopes
You cry my disappointment.

by Niall Campbell © 2021