Foundation for Shamanic Studies
Core Shamanic Training
Catherine Hughes is guest faculty for the Foundation for Shamanic Studies offering core shamanic training online and in-person in Ontario and Atlantic Canada.
In-person Workshops
The Foundation for Shamanic Studies has been offering in-person workshops in core Shamanism since the early 1980s. This trusted organization has taught 1000s of students around the world safe and ethical core shamanic practices. During Covid, we switched our teachings to an online format. We are now ready to offer in-person teaching once again while maintaining our online workshops. Both teaching streams are very effective. Please reach out with questions you might have.
If you would like more information and the listings of in-person offerings taught by Catherine Hughes, please click on the button.
Online Workshop Offerings
The Shamanic Journey:
Pathway to Knowledge & Power™
*Introductory Course*
The shamanic journey is a remarkable visionary method for entering into another reality with discipline and purpose. Using classic drumming techniques to alter consciousness, participants will be introduced to the shamanic journey to awaken one’s soul and dormant spiritual power. Travel outside of time and space into another reality and make contact with compassionate helping spirits, such as teachers and power animals, for personal wisdom and to gain knowledge to help create a better world.
The workshop offered by Catherine, on Zoom is 7 hrs. The cost of this workshop is $170 CDN, $158 for members.
Note: This workshop does not replace the Basic in-person Way of the Shaman Workshop as a prerequisite for advanced in-person training.
You can register via Paypal or Etransfer to Catherine@wayfindingspirit.com. Email me if you wish to write a cheque for payment.
Shamanic Divination in Practice
The skilled practice of shamanic divination, the process of consulting the spirits for knowledge, is an essential aspect of shamanic healing and of bringing the wisdom of the helping spirits to bear on personal, local, and global issues. This workshop offers students opportunities to practice journeying to contact their compassionate spirit helpers and to enhance their abilities to form on-topic questions and interpret the messages received. Participants will also experience classic shamanic ways to build and nurture strong relationships with their own spirits. This is an excellent follow-up workshop from the Way of the Shaman or the new online Shamanic Journey workshop. This is not the same workshop as the in-person Divination workshop
The workshop offered by Catherine Hughes is a 7-hour course. The cost of this workshop is $170 CDN, and $158 for FSS members. If you are a member reach out for the discount.
PREREQUISITES:
Either the in-person Way of the Shaman or the online The Shamanic Journey: Pathway to Power and Knowledge.
You can register through this Paypal link or Etransfer to Catherine@wayfindingspirit.com. Please email Catherine if you wish to pay by cheque.
October
3 and 10
2023
Shamanic Divination in Practice
5:30 -9:00 PM
Online
The Shamanic Worldview: Everything is Alive
The shamanic worldview underpins the ethical and effective practice of shamanism. Experiential knowledge of this worldview leads to a profound awareness of the sacred nature of our world and an awakening of compassion, resulting in a deep desire to relieve pain and suffering and restore balance and harmony.
Using journeying and experiential shamanic methods, in this online workshop you will have the opportunity to personally explore and experience the fundamental aspects of the shaman’s worldview:
- Everything is alive and has spirit
- Unity: We are part of, connected with, the totality of nature
- Independent spirituality, the shaman as “one who knows”
- The implications of these principles related to permission when doing shamanic healing and divination
The workshop offered by Catherine Hughes is a 7-hour course. The cost of this workshop is $170 CDN, and $158 for FSS members. If you are a member reach out for the discount.
October
28 and 29
2023
Shamanic Worldview
10:00 AM -2:00 PM Eastern
Online
Shamanism, Spirits and Healing
Effective shamanic practice depends upon knowledge of the spirit realms and how to access them to build strong relationships with the compassionate helping spirits. Powerful shamanic healing requires training, discipline, and experience.
In this experiential workshop, which sets the context for the Shamanic Healing Online Training Program, you will have the opportunity to personally explore:
- The three worlds of the shaman (Upper, Lower, and Middle Worlds) and the qualities of ordinary and non-ordinary reality;
- The nature of the spirits of the three worlds;
- Middle World non-ordinary reality spiritual aspects and their relationship to illness and wholeness.
Primary shamanic healing methods will be described, including shamanic extraction healing, psychopomp to help the spirits of the deceased, and soul retrieval. You will learn and practice power animal retrieval, with the chance to work with another participant to both retrieve and receive a power animal.
The workshop offered by Catherine Hughes is a 7-hour course. The cost of this workshop is $170 CDN, and $158 for FSS members. If you are a member reach out for the discount.
PREREQUISITES:
Either the in-person Way of the Shaman or the online The Shamanic Journey: Pathway to Power and Knowledge and Divination in Practice
You can register through this Paypal link or Etransfer to Catherine@wayfindingspirit.com. Please email Catherine if you wish to pay by cheque.
November
21 and 28
2023
Shamanism, Spirits, and Healing
5:30 – 9:00 PM Eastern
Online
Shamanism and Personal Transformtion
Shamanism has much to offer those seeking personal knowledge and emotional and spiritual maturity. Shamanism & Personal Transformation teaches us how to work with our spirit helpers and in ordinary reality to transform personal attitudes, emotions, and blocks to living a fulfilled and inspired life. Exercises are provided to help participants see and move beyond personal limitations to a centered and compassionate state of being. In so doing, we bring these qualities into the world to the benefit and ultimate transformation of our Earth and its inhabitants.
This workshop offers practical methods to gain and apply wisdom from the spirits to your personal life:
- Reconnect with your soul’s purpose and discover your role in the larger context of our world
- Practice applying shamanic divination/journeying methods to personal issues using a standard problem-solving process
- Uncover personal attitudes and emotions that block and limit personal growth and wholeness
- Use shamanic divination to discover how to move beyond your limitations to live a compassionate and transformative life
The workshop offered by Catherine Hughes is a 10.5-hour course. The cost of this workshop is $240 CDN, and $222 for FSS members. If you are a member reach out for the discount.
PREREQUISITES:
Either the in-person Way of the Shaman or the online The Shamanic Journey: Pathway to Power and Knowledge and Shamanic Divination in Practice
You can register through this Paypal link or Etransfer to Catherine@wayfindingspirit.com. Please email Catherine if you wish to pay by cheque.
January
9,16,23,30
2024
Shamanism and Personal Transformation
5:30 -8:30 PM Eastern
Online
Shaman as Psychopomp
Shamans are concerned with the human soul, with healing during life and assisting the soul’s passage out of the Middle World after death. Familiar with the realms of the dead, a shaman can act as a psychopomp – a conductor of souls. A trained shamanic practitioner is able to guide the soul of a deceased person out of the Middle World to a place where the soul can receive help in taking the next step on its path. The focus of this training is on learning and practicing the psychopomp method.
In this fully experiential workshop, you will have the opportunity to:
- Explore what happens for human souls from a core shamanic perspective after they leave the body – the “destiny of human souls” in the Upper, Lower, and Middle Worlds
- Learn and practice the psychopomp method to help the souls of the deceased out of the Middle World to a better place
- How to locate a soul in the Middle World that may be stuck and in need of help
- How to obtain the soul’s permission to offer shamanic assistance
- How to guide the soul to a place in the Upper or Lower World where it will be helped to continue on its journey
The workshop offered by Catherine Hughes is a 10.5-hour course. The cost of this workshop is $240 CDN, and $222 for FSS members. If you are a member reach out for the discount.
PREREQUISITES:
Either the in-person Way of the Shaman or the online The Shamanic Journey: Pathway to Power and Knowledge and Shamanic Divination in Practice and Shamanism, Spirits, and Healing
You can register through this Paypal link or Etransfer to Catherine@wayfindingspirit.com. Please email Catherine if you wish to pay by cheque.
January
13 and 14
2024
Shaman as Psychopomp
10:00 – 4:00 PM PM Eastern
Online
Workshop Registration and Policies
Payment can be made by cheque, by E-transfer to catherine@wayfindingspirit.com, or by using your credit or debit card with PayPal. You do not need to have a PayPal account. Please contact me if you are a member and the discount will be applied to your etransfer or refunded through Paypal. The Foundation is offering workshop discounts for members on the online series, you can find out more about this by visiting their website https://shamanism.org/join/index.html.
Refund Policy: A full refund is given up to 14 days before the workshop, after the 14 days your fee may be applied to a future workshop.
The Foundation for Shamanic Studies has a policy the workshop participants must be 18 years of age or older.