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This immersive day offers a gentle and grounded introduction to shamanism as both an ancient way of knowing and a living, practical path. It is an invitation to step out of ordinary ways of seeing and into a deeper relationship with yourself, the world around you, and the web of life to which we all belong.

Held in a small, intimate group of 3–8 participants, the day creates a safe and supportive space for exploration. No previous experience is needed—only curiosity, openness, and a willingness to explore your inner world in relationship with all that is interconnected.

We will explore some ideas about what shamanism is today, and consider how it is practiced across cultures. Through sharing and discussion, we will reflect on shamanism as a relational practice—one that listens to nature, body, spirit, and imagination as sources of wisdom and healing.

At the heart of the day is learning the shamanic journey, sometimes also called dreaming practice or active imagination. You will receive clear guidance on how to enter journey states safely and intentionally, and how to work with images, sensations, and inner guidance as meaningful experiences and metaphors. Across the day we will engage in four to five guided journey practices, with themes including connection with non-ordinary reality and journeys for insight, understanding and healing.

The rhythm of the day weaves together individual practice, group sharing, meditation, and creative expression, allowing time to integrate each experience. Group discussions offer space to speak, listen, and learn from one another, while honouring the uniqueness of each person’s journey.

Practical guidance and gentle coaching are also offered on how to integrate shamanic practices into everyday life, helping you translate inner experiences into grounded next steps. You will hopefully leave with a clearer sense of how to continue journey work on your own and how these practices might support your ongoing relationship with yourself and the wider world.

This day is experiential, reflective, and held with care—offering a supportive container in which to explore shamanic practice with respect, curiosity, and depth.

Is this day for you?

This day may be a good fit if you:

• Feel curious about shamanism and non-ordinary ways of knowing

• Are drawn to inner exploration, imagination, and symbolic experience

• Seek practical tools for insight, healing, and personal reflection

• Value learning in a small, supportive group

• Are open to exploring your inner world as part of a larger, interconnected whole

No prior experience is required—just a willingness to listen, explore, and engage with what arises.

Example Structure of the Day

(This structure may shift slightly in response to what arises on the day.)

The day starts at 10am and finishes at approximately 4.30pm

We will have plenty of time for tea breaks and a lunch break during the middle of the day.

1. Arriving, introductions, and opening the space

2. Introductory talk: shamanism and the shamanic journey

3. Hollow bone practice

4. Guided journey practices

5. Healing practice

6. Sound, voice, movement, and meditation (integrated during the day)

7. Integration and everyday application

8. Closing

About the Facilitator

My name is Mia, and my path into this work has grown from a long and intimate relationship with earth, creativity, imagination, and inner worlds. For much of my life I worked within the creative arts, specialising in ceramics and pottery, as well as art and illustration. These practices taught me to listen with my heart and hands as much as my mind and spirit, to work with form and emptiness, and to trust processes that reveal themselves through patience, attention, and relationship.

Over time, this creative grounding drew me more fully into therapeutic practice. I trained and now work as a full-time therapist, specialising in transformative coaching and Internal Family Systems (IFS) psychotherapy. My work is trauma-informed and relational, shaped by a deep respect for the nervous system and the psyche’s innate capacity for healing when met with safety, curiosity, and compassion.

Alongside this, I encountered the shamanic world, an experience that proved profoundly transformative and profoundly healing in my own life. What I met there spoke directly to the same places I had always touched through art and therapy — imagination, symbol, relationship, and the quiet guiding and compassionate connection with the unseen. Since then, I have immersed myself in ongoing shamanic training and personal practice, allowing these ways of knowing to deepen and inform my work.

My approach brings core shamanic practices into conversation with contemporary therapeutic and coaching frameworks. I am particularly drawn to practices that invite true transformation, rather than surface-level change — work that unfolds slowly, respectfully, and with care for integration, honouring both non-ordinary experience and the textures of everyday life.

As a facilitator, therapist, and therapeutic coach, I work ethically and with humility. I do not position myself as a guru or holder of wisdom, but as someone who tends the space in which wisdom can arise. My role is to support people in meeting their own inner landscapes, and in remembering their place within the interconnected web of life. Through cultivating safety, we allow sensitivity, attunement, and connection to emerge — to ourselves, to one another, and to the more-than-human world. In this way, the work gently supports a deepening of relationship and responsibility: with other humans and the other than human, with all of life, and with Mother Earth herself.