Dates: January 6 – February 10
The Healing the Past, Choosing the Future Course consists of six pre-recorded modules (each consisting of theory and practices) with accompanying course materials, four two-hour long live sessions (attendance at these are optional), and bonus recordings as needed.
On the course, we explore:
- Healing Family and Ancestral Burdens: Understand what family and ancestral burdens are and learn techniques to uncover and heal them.
- Personal Unburdening: Explore fort-holder strategies and experience a special family constellation approach for personal unburdening.
- Understanding the Multiverse: Explore the concept of the multiverse and understand how we navigate and end up in a particular reality.
- Recapitulation Practices: Discover methods to break free from past conditioning, enabling more conscious choices in the present.
- Journeying to the Past: Journey back in time to provide support and healing to our younger selves.
- Choosing the Future: Understand the elements within our control and those requiring an adult response, our response-ability
- Learn to work with our future selves for support and guidance
- … and much more
IN THis COURSE:
HEALING THE PAST: ANCESTRAL BURDENS
An ancestral burden encompasses emotional, psychological, or cultural challenges transmitted from one generation to the next. These burdens vary from personal ones, those rooted in our individual histories, to collective burdens shared by larger groups or cultures. The loss of shamanism deprived us of the knowledge of how to heal ancestral burdens. This course guides you in learning safe and effective methods, including journeying to our ancestors and doing an unburdening ritual.
JOURNEYING TO OUR PAST SELVES
By doing a shamanic journey to the past and supporting our younger selves, we create alternative, healthier timelines where we responded in healthier ways. This, in turn, lightens the burden of the past and allows us to make more conscious choices in the present.
This practice isn’t about altering the past but creating different timelines where healthier versions of yourself exist. As we engage in this process, we become more aware that there isn’t just one “I”; there are numerous versions in slightly different universes. Creating healthier versions of ourself can help move us to timelines where we live a more authentic, soulful and happy life.
WE LIVE IN A MULTIVERSE
In shamanic terms, we live in a multiverse – at any moment, there are several possible futures. Why we end up in a particular reality is often a result of unconscious decision-making, influenced by patterns of behavior, choices, and stories that often operate beneath conscious awareness.
Many different shamanic traditions see the past as a tendril or a tentacle, moving in a spiral motion, entering our lower back from behind, just opposite our belly button. This tendril samples future possibilities, gravitating toward familiar scenarios based on past experiences. In the course, you’ll learn practical techniques to get to grips with this tentacle, ending the cycle of recreating the past and start to live more consciously.
CHOOSING THE FUTURE
Choice is about understanding what we can control, stepping into that awareness, then embracing our power and taking responsibility for the choices and decisions that are ours to make. Simultaneously, it’s crucial to acknowledge the aspects beyond our control and resist the urge to try and manipulate them. Instead, we have a response-ability — we can choose how we respond to those uncontrollable elements.
We will look at a shamanic practice that can help with this process, including connecting with future versions of ourselves for guidance and support in decision-making.
... AND HOW this can help us live better lives and make more conscious choices in the present.
DETAILS
The course starts on January 6th, 2023, and consists of:
- 6 pre-recorded teaching videos
with accompanying learning resources, released on or about January 6, 13, 20, 27, February 3, and 10. - 4 live experiential and community sessions
focusing on journeying, discussion, and community. These are two hours long, start at 2 pm (UK time), on the following Saturdays: January 13, 20, February 3, and 10. - A website forum and (an optional) Signal group
where students can ask questions, discuss topics, share experiences and additional resources, and get support, encouragement, and a sense of community. - Free bonus videos
as needed, addressing students’ questions and offer additional teaching.
THE CURRICULUM
(MIGHT BE SUBJECT TO CHANGE)
THE FUNDATION
- Time and the multiverse, from a shamanic perspective.
- Time-travelling in journeys.
- The different parts-of-self involved on time-healing (particularly the difference between lost soul parts, fort-holder parts, and inherited burdens.
- How to disentangle and consciously entangle with different realities and versions of self.
- Middle-world journeying, including protection issues.
- Parts-of-self, (and parts-of-more-than-self, and not-parts-of-self).
UNBURDENING SELF
- Family history and dynamics.
- Identifying parts-of-self and not-parts-of-self.
- What we are responsible for, and what we aren’t; what we can change, and what we can’t.
- Recapitulation techniques.
ANCESTRAL BURDENS
- The difference between Ancestors and ancestors.
- How many ancestors we have (we are all related).
- What happens when we die.
- The unquiet dead and psycopomping (helping the dead find peace).
- Ethics and permission when working with the dead.
- Mythos and logos – what is factually true, and what is metaphor.
THE FUTURE
- How we want to live rest of our own life.
- Choosing the reality we end up in.
- Death as a Guide in shamanism. Coming to terms with death.
- Types of grief including personal griefs (such as the loss of what we have loved, the places in us that have not known love, and that we didn’t receive the things we expected or hoped for), ancestral griefs, ecological grief.
- How grief heals us.
FUTURE SELVES
- The future is a multiverse!
- Working with future selves as m-w guides.
- How we choose what we want, and what parts-of-self do this.
- Making more conscious and aware choices.
- How to fashion one’s direction and purpose in Soul and Spirit.
- How to live a good life (a Leaf that contributes to the Tree).
VISION OF A FUTURE
- Remembering the future is a multiverse.
- Different versions of humanity’s future.
- Communicating with the far future.
- Active hope, peaceful acceptance.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
LIVE & PRE-RECORDED ONLINE TRAINING
- Zoom Online Sessions With Founder of Therapeutic Shamanism, Paul Francis.
- Live Shamanic Journeying.
- Study in the Comfort of Your Own Home.
SUPPORT BETWEEN SESSIONS
- Detailed Course Notes.
- Video Recording of Every Class.
- Submit Your Questions for the Next Session and Discuss with Peers.
- Learn at Your Own Pace.
YOUR SHAMANIC TRIBE
- Meet Like Minded People.
- Connect Between Sessions on Website Forum and (optional Signal group).
- Deepen the Connection in Break-Out Rooms During Live Sessions.
WHAT OUR STUDENTS SAY?
ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS
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JOIN US!
To attend the ‘Healing the past, choosing the future’ course, you need to have completed one of the college’s online First Steps courses. The ‘Healing the past, choosing the future’ course consists of 6 pre-recorded theory sessions and 4 two-hour long live sessions.
Theory pre-recorded sessions will be released on or before:
January 6, 13, 20, 27, February 3, and 10.
The live (experiential/community) sessions:
January 13, 20, February 3, and 10.
They will be 2 hours long, and start at 2pm (UK time).
The closing date for enrolment is Saturday 6th of January. The course is highly unlikely to be repeated until 2026 at the earliest, so please do take this opportunity to book (remember, once booked, you can always work through the recordings at your own pace, and with no time limits).
Payment by installments. We are committed to keeping our courses as affordable as we can, and this course is way cheaper than almost any comparable one. However, please remember that (depending on what country you are from) PayPal offers the option of spreading the payment over 3 monthly instalments. There is no fee at all for this, nor any interest incurred.