About Kaja Gulič

Hi!

I am Kaja Gulič, a shamanic practitioner, EMCC-accredited coach and part of the teaching team at the Three Ravens College of Therapeutic Shamanism and Core Animism, and the author of The Journey Companion, the first of the Therapeutic Shamanism Companions.

Stories have always fascinated me. I spent my childhood writing songs, building imaginative worlds and annoying adults with complicated questions. I was always eager to learn and wanted to understand people: how we see the world, how we make sense of what happens to us, and why we live as we do.

That curiosity has followed me through quite different fields. At a performing arts grammar school, I explored stories through music and performance. I then studied law, completing a master’s degree with honours in International Humanitarian Law. Through law, I became interested in the stories whole cultures live by: what we consider right and wrong, whose lives and experiences we value, and how these beliefs become the rules we expect people to follow. Later, working in digital marketing, I came to appreciate the responsibility that comes with storytelling, and what it takes to communicate in ways that are engaging and truthful, with care for the influence our words can have.

Kaja Gulič, author of The Journey Companion

HOW I CAME TO THIS WORK

Gradually, my attention turned towards the stories we carry about ourselves: the ones that tell us what we have to achieve, what we must hide, or who we need to become to be loved. I had followed some of those stories very faithfully myself. When the life I had worked hard to build began coming apart, I needed to question the ideas I had been living by, what it had cost me to live up to them, and whether it was a life I could feel at home in.

That search eventually brought me to Paul Francis’s books. Here was a way of approaching shamanism that was psychologically informed, practical and open to questioning. I could bring my need to understand things with me, and also begin learning through experiences I could not have arrived at by thinking them through.

Through this work, I began to feel more at home in my body and more part of the life around me. Reconnection stopped being an idea and became something I could experience, in relationships beyond the human world that I could discover and deepen.

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She has a deep and truly profound understanding of this work and great skill, and is someone I hold in the highest possible regard as a peer.

Paul Francis, founder of the Three Ravens College

TEACHING, RESEARCH AND MY OWN PRACTICE

I began training at the Three Ravens College of Therapeutic Shamanism and Core Animism in 2020. Over time, being a student grew into working alongside Paul Francis and Cat Anderson as part of the College’s teaching team. Today, I support students, co-facilitate study groups and take part in research exploring how shamanism and animism can find a place in our culture again, as ways of living, healing and reconnecting with the wider world.

I have had my own private practice since 2024. My work brings together Therapeutic Shamanism, parts-of-self work and coaching, in which I hold EMCC accreditation at Practitioner level. I chose to train in coaching because I believe that what we discover through inner work needs to help us live better. There comes a point where understanding ourselves is only the beginning, and we have to find out what we are going to do with it.

My love of stories remains part of this: helping people recognise the stories they have learned to live by, and find more freedom to choose their own. Stories are how we learn, connect and find our purpose. I believe we need better ones, both for ourselves and for the world we share, and I want to be part of that change.

I live in Slovenia with my husband, Rok, and our three children. When I am not running after them, you might find me at the piano or wrapped in a cosy blanket with a book in my hands. I still love learning, and still tend to ask more questions than there is time to answer.

You can find out more about my own practice at kajagulic.com.

My books

Therapeutic Shamanism Companions

Study guides that go alongside the books in Paul Francis’s Therapeutic Shamanism series, with exercises, reflections and practical help with the places where people commonly get stuck.