Shamanic Journey Guide Training
Program - Fall, 2006
with Edie Stone, MA, LPC,
Certified Shamanic Journey Guide
- Expand and deepen your personal
experience with Shamanic Journeys
- Learn to facilitate
clients' experience in shamanic states of consciousness
- Learn and practice safe, powerful
techniques to use with clients to induce, guide, deepen and integrate
shamanic journeys
- Receive instruction and feedback in a
small, supportive group
- Develop connection in a
community of healers
If you have missed
the open houses, but you are
interested in
the training, please call Edie at 303-415-3755.
Practicum starts Oct.
4.
OPEN HOUSE -- Wed, Sept 30, 7 pm
- Information on the Journey Guide Training
- Demonstration of the Heart Vision Shamanic Journey process.
- Edie Stone's office
- 2027 Broadway, # H
- Boulder, CO 80304
- 1/2 block of Pearl Street Mall, below Om Time Yoga
Come if you are curious about this deeply healing process, for either
personal exploration or professional growth.
Free. Please RSVP to reserve your space
The shamanic journey guide training
program consists of:
1. Introductory
Workshop -- possibly will be offered again Oct 8,
call now to confirm
303-415-3755
an overview of shamanism
group journeys, demonstration,
and guided practice sessions
2. Practicum
-- twice-monthly supervised practice sessions
Wed evenings,
7 pm, 2x a month
OCT-DEC 6
sessions, $250 non-credit, $280 credit
Oct 4, 18
Nov 1, 15
Dec TBA
3. Monthly
consultation group
After the
practicum, a core group who want to continue with a
consultation /
supervised practice / peer support group,
1x month,
starting in Dec or Jan
Credit and
non-credit options.
CEU credits available if desired, through Colorado
School of Counseling Hypnotherapy.
Shamanic Journey Guide
Practicum: 17 CEUs, $280
http://www.coloradohypnotherapy.com/class_schedule_continue.html
The Path of the Shaman:
Aug 5-6, 2006, $280, 2 Days, 17 CEUs
- Experience and learn to facilitate shamanic journeys, using the
Heart Vision guided journey process.
- Receive information about the shamanic state of consciousness
(SSC), traditional and modern shamanic methods, and the role of
ceremony, ritual form and intention in support of deep Transpersonal
Experience.
- Reconnect with your own Spirit Guides in group and individual
journeys. Learn and practice safe, powerful techniques to use with
clients to induce, guide, deepen and integrate shamanic journeys.
- We will also discuss ethical guidelines regarding the use of
shamanic journeys in counseling practice.
- Taught by Edie Stone, MA, LPC, Certified Shamanic Journey Guide
Shamanic Journey Guide Practicum: $280
Starts October 4, 2006
Evening classes + practice
sessions, 17
CEUs
- Expand and deepen your personal experience with Shamanic Journeys
- Develop professional skills for guiding clients in shamanic
states of consciousness.
- Power Recovery Journeys and other special topics in the Heart
Vision guided journey process
- This practicum is a prerequisite for the Soul Retrieval Workshop.
- Taught by Edie Stone, MA, LPC, in her office, 2027 Broadway,
Suite H, in Boulder, CO.
DATES FOR PRACTICUM:
Oct 4, 18
Nov 1, 15
Dec TBA
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Shamanic Journey Guide
Skills
Students will move at their own pace, depending on background, skills,
and aptitude.
Students will mark their individual progress on this skill set:
Outcome Skills and Mastery for Heart Vision
Shamanic Journey Guides
Knowledge and
awareness
- Understanding of professional boundaries and confidentiality
- Professional responsibilities, including duty to report
- Knowledge of types of journeys, and what is appropriate when
- Awareness of cultural issues
- Knowledge of overlapping symptoms between shamanic and
psychological symptoms
- e.g., similarity of power loss and depression, or soul
loss and PTSD
- Basic knowledge and precautions with trauma
- How to integrate Heart Vision journeys with own practice
Presence and
self awareness
- Able to be present when client is experiencing intense emotional
states
- Able to ground oneself
- Empathy versus confluence
- Able to speak and pray from the heart
- Awareness of and willingness to work with own shadow, defenses,
biases, and beliefs
- Commitment to personal growth and spiritual practice
- Guided practice, feedback, and support -- individual and group
- Consultation and supervision available with Edie
Journey
experiences
- Students will complete at least one journey with Edie
- Students will complete a series of short journeys with each other
in triads
- Client, Guide, and Observer roles
- Discussion and supportive critique
- Edie in Observer role to begin with, then
student Observers
- Students will complete a Power Recovery and Soul Retrieval
journey, either with Edie or with each other
Skills
and techniques
Communication skills
- Reflective listening and other communication skills
- Exploring appropriate spiritual language for each client
- Emotional reflection
Shamanic tools and concepts
- Creating (invoking) sacred space
- Creating a working altar or mesa
- Use of smudges and essential oils
- Use of sound tools -- drum, rattles, chimes, Tibetan bowl
- Use of feathers, stones, crystals
Setting intention
- Overview and function
- Types of intentions for various issues
- Key phrases
- Finding patterns to be released
- Maintaining versus giving away power
- Setting intention in motion
Preparing client for journey
- Activating the intention
- Contract -- commitment to return to this
reality
- No alcohol or recreational drugs
Finding the doorway
- Body awareness
- Aromatherapy
Induction for journey
- Creating safety
- Relaxation -- what to observe
- Grounding and Earth energy
- Sky energy
- Prayer
- Invitation to Spirit Guides
- Doorway
Other portals for entry into journeys
- Dreams
- Gestalt
- Body awareness
- Past life drama
Beginning stages of journey
- How to handle blocks and “resistance” --
honoring defenses
- Greeting Spirit Guides
- Exchange of gifts
Deepening the journey
- Emotional reflection
- Empowering the client
- Aromatherapy
- Sound tools
- Giving voice to the body
- Sections of the intention
Special states
- Shapeshifting, merging
- Somatic or kinesthetic awareness and expression
- Energy flows
- Sacred witness place for trauma
- Past life experiences and issues
- Spirit attachments and releasement
- Potty breaks and other disruptions
Commitments
-
OK to negotiate with Guides, make sure it is doable
-
Sealing the commitment
Closing the journey
- Check if intention is
complete
- Journey review option
- Gathering in and sealing the journey --
Tibetan bowl
Integration 1
- Sweetgrass
- Gratitude
- Final gifts, commitments, and suggestions for
practice
- Integration prompts
- Weaving the bridge between that world and this
- Accessing state-dependent memory
Return
- Return through parallel stages of entry
- Earth, Sky, Prayer, body energy
- Grounding, gradually returning to this realm
- Greeting the newly returned journeyer
- Initial processing
- Double check if client is grounded and ready
to leave
Integration 2 -- Follow up session
- The intention
continues
- Old patterns and
self-sabotage
- Commitments
- Art, music, dance,
movement expression
- Exploration of the
nature of animal helpers in the wild
- Avoid
interpretation!