Shamanic Journeying for Personal and Community Guidance and Healing

In this series, you’ll deepen your shamanic journeying practice, with a special focus on journeying to receive guidance and healing for yourself and the communities you belong to. You’ll learn how to formulate powerful questions to journey on for yourself and the communities you belong to, gain confidence in your journeying skills, and practice integrating the insights you receive on your journeys into your everyday life.

Session 1: Journeying for personal guidance (Aug. 12)

Pre-work: Reflect on a question or challenge in your life that you want guidance on. This could be something connected to your relationships, your work life, or anything affecting you personally. During the session, you’ll learn basic journeying skills and try a journey to seek guidance on your question or challenge.

Session 2: Journeying for community guidance (Aug. 19)

Pre-work: Choose an issue or challenge that a community you belong to is dealing with. The community could be your neighborhood, your congregation, an organization you volunteer with, or any other group you’re involved with. During the session, you’ll learn more basic journeying skills and try a journey to seek guidance on what you can contribute to this community challenge.  

Session 3: Journeying for personal & community healing (Aug. 26)

Pre-work: Reflect on an area of your life for which you would like some healing. This could be something physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual—anything personal to you that you'd like to receive healing for. During the session, you’ll learn how to journey to ask for a personal healing, plus a simple practice to send healing to the communities of which you are a part.