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Foundation for Shamanic Studies

Online Core Shamanic Training

Catherine Hughes is a faculty member for the Foundation for Shamanic Studies offering core shamanic training online and in-person in Ontario and Atlantic Canada.

In-person Workshop Information


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.

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Online Core Shamanic Training

 

Inspired Shamanic Practice: Essentials of Effective and Principled Shamanic Healing™


This workshop combines lecture, small group discussion, interactive exercises, and journeying.

An effective shamanic healing practice depends on a combination of factors, including authentic and rigorous training in methods and direct experience with clients. As a spiritual healing method, the pragmatic aspects of the profession may be easily overlooked, and yet can make the difference between a valuable experience and a profoundly healing one from the client’s viewpoint.

A well-designed container for your healing practice that supports your clients and inspires you, can considerably enhance the effectiveness of your work. This training is appropriate for those beginning a shamanic practice who want to see what issues to consider and how to plan their future practice. It can be especially helpful for seasoned healers to dialogue with other practitioners and to help deepen their own work. NOTE: Some students who are very new to the work find it beneficial to have had more training and practice (particularly in the healing methods such as psychopomp work, extraction, and soul retrieval) before taking this workshop.

Purpose of the workshop: To help you develop an ethical, effective shamanic practice that has integrity and is based on respect for all beings; to offer you guidelines and ways of deciding for yourself regarding ethical issues—such as whether there is permission to do shamanic healing work in a specific situation—rather than “one size fits all” rules or answers; and to increase the professionalism of the practice by helping you create a supportive “container” that enhances your practice, including appropriate boundaries, safety, and freedom to practice within that container.

What will be covered: Ethical issues such as permission, talking with and screening potential clients, what to do before and after a session; brief legal considerations (not legal advice*); practicing with integrity and respect; and some pragmatic aspects of an effective shamanic practice.

What will not be covered: Shamanic healing and divination methodologies; marketing issues and strategies.

The workshop offered by Catherine, on Zoom is 7 hours of training.  The cost of this workshop is $170 CDN + HST for a total = $192.10, $158 for members + HST = 178.54. Please reach out to me to apply the discount if paying by Paypal.

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.

March/April

25 and 1 

2025

Inspired Shamanic Practice: Essentials of Effective and Principled Shamanic Healing™


5:30 – 9:00 PM Eastern

Online




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Shamanism For Inspired Local and Global Change™


 

In these challenging times, shamanic work, when combined with ordinary reality knowledge and action, can make an immense contribution toward effective long-term solutions for community and global problems. Shamanic divination—asking the fully compassionate spirits for answers to questions—is particularly helpful in providing inspired and workable ways to address complex issues in ordinary reality.

This workshop offers practical methods to gain and apply wisdom from the spirits to resolve persistent problems facing humanity, our precious Earth, and its inhabitants.

In this workshop, you will:

  • Practice applying shamanic divination/journeying methods to the problem-solving process
  • Use shamanic divination to gain insight into real-world issues you care about
  • Examine ethical guidelines and issues of permission
  • Look at some of the personal benefits of spirit-inspired community action
  • Explore possible ways to ethically bring the power of the compassionate spirits to our world

NOTE: Participants must be able to successfully journey to contact at least one helping spirit from the Upper or Lower Worlds.

NOTE: Participants must be able to successfully journey to contact at least one helping spirit from the Upper or Lower Worlds.

 

The workshop offered by Catherine, on Zoom is 7 hours of training.  The cost of this workshop is $310 CDN + HST for a total = $350.30, $286. for members + HST = $323.18. Please reach out to me to apply the discount if paying by Paypal.

PREREQUISITES:  

Either the in-person Way of the Shaman OR 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.

May

7, 14, 21, 28

2025

Shamanism For Inspired Local and Global Change™


5:30 PM – 9:00 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.