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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

 

Shamanism and Personal Transformation


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

PREREQUISITES:  

Either the in-person Way of the Shaman OR the online The Shamanic Journey: Pathway to Power and Knowledge and Shamanic Divinaton in Practice.

The workshop offered by Catherine, on Zoom is 14 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.

You can register through this Paypal link or Etransfer to Catherine@wayfindingspirit.com. Please email Catherine if you wish to pay by cheque.

 

January

6, 13, 20, 27

2026

Shamanism And Personal Transformation™


5:30 PM – 9:00 PM Eastern

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 with the totality of nature; independent spirituality of the shaman; and the implications of these principles related to effective and ethical shamanic healing and divination.

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.

A curious sheep

January

24 & 25

2026

The Shamanic Worldview


1:00 – 4:30 PM Eastern

Online




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.

February

3 & 10

2026

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


5:30 – 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.