Curriculum Summary

Power restoration healing What is power loss? Restoring power. Instructing the client in utilizing the recovered power.

Divination

Journeying for spiritual guidance for another person, or persons, and when this is appropriate. Alternative methods for divining spiritual guidance.

Empowerment counseling

Teaching a client to journey to receive their own direct counsel and healing from their own spirit allies. Judging when this is appropriate. Transitioning the client to working on their own or with a journey circle.

Ritual design and enactment

Building and using altars. Creating and using talismans. Creating individual and group rituals for positive transformation. Ritual work with clients.

Extraction healing

What are spiritual intrusions? How to safely remove them. The client's role in releasing intrusions. Preventing further intrusions.

Peacemaking

Indigenous methods for engaging the spirits to work with conflict and restore harmony, whether within an individual, a relationship, or a community.

Death and dying

The role of death in shamanic work. Exploring the future of the soul after death. Working with those facing death or "terminal" illness. Working with those grieving the death of a loved one. Bringing peace to the souls of the dead.

Medicine for the Earth

How to transmute personal toxins. Building spiritual power to transmute environmental toxins and cleanse the earth.

Soul retrieval healing

What is soul loss? What causes it? The roles of trauma, addiction, soul theft, giving one's soul away. Safely bringing lost soul parts back to the client's body. Supporting the post-soul retrieval integration process. Soul remembering.

Talisman creation

Ritual design

Peacemaking

Program Themes

1. *The role of the shamanic practitioner in another's healing process
   

1. *Working with your own ego, self-doubt, and spiritual development
   

1. *Shamanizing in a psychologized culture
   

1. *Working cooperatively with professionals in other healing modalities
   

1. *Practicing core shamanism in a multicultural society
   

1. *Creating effective healing relationships
   

1. *Working with religious people
   

1. *Finding and honoring your strengths; finding and honoring your weaknesses
   

1. *Boundary issues; who can you help, who do you need to refer on?
   

1. *The client's role in shamanic healing and empowerment
   

1. *Placing the client at center stage while taking care of yourself and respecting your own limits
   

1. *Creating a support system for your work with others; getting consultation
   

1. *Grounding: yourself, your client, the work  

that lays foundations for ethical practice

“With other healing programs that I had experienced over the years, it felt almost like shopping at Wal-Mart: Everything was there, and anybody could shop there. The SHAP was like going to Nordstrom’s, where you could have a personal shopper who was really going to take time to engage before you even started shopping to find out what do you bring with you, what are your resources, what are you truly looking for, and matching you up with the departments that you needed. And you could leave happy, knowing that the product you purchased is going to be of use to you.”   --Dolores Jimerson, MSW, SHAP graduate

The Shamanic Healing Apprenticeship Program provides training in core shamanic healing and empowerment methods that may be brought into your work with others, whether as part of a professional healing practice, with friends and family, or in your work place or community. In these pages, the word “client” refers to anyone whom you may be serving, no matter the relationship.