Share this page Because this is a shamanic healing certification series, training quality is intentionally kept high. To achieve this, you will be pleased to discover that not only are you working with me directly through the internet email assignments and feedback, and will be getting my 'ok' on your competence in each unit before I send you to the following unit. Don't worry, you can do this. The material is well prepared, and I am extremely reasonable guy who simply wants to know that you are developing well. These are not a 'fluff' courses: they are designed to provide you with a solid foundation in the core of shamanism's best practices. Because of our direct contact over the internet and because I am able to oversee your individual growth, your satisfactory incorporation of each level's training is significantly better assured. Certification is awarded at successful completion of each level. This program is an effort to make sound shamanic training as broadly accessible as possible by its internet availability and low cost. Now, everyone who has been unable to study prior to this by the lack of local availability of quality instruction and where instruction was possible, by the high cost of these classes, can now learn. It is my position that this information is naturally theirs anyway and something which they deserve to re-own. Plus, the importance of mentoring has been abandoned. The work will be given to you on a step by step basis because the foundation of study needs to be built strongly. Everything builds on what came before. It is problematic when students take side roads away from the unit’s material, however slight, and utterly confounding when students attempt to engage in middle world work because of the entirely different nature of this. I cannot responsibly supervise a student if they are doing middle world work before they have their foundation absolutely strong in both safety and ethics. The progressive order of the training confirms this foundation so that by the time middle world work is taught in the third level, the student is unquestionably clear in their own mind about safety and ethical protocols and is a solid and experienced practitioner. Course Content I never imagine this course would teach so much as it has and I would recommend anyone who feels the call to heal even if it is themselves, to take your course. It is so well worth it to find one true self.” Terri, Texas "I want to write and thank you for the Level One Shamanic Healing course. I felt that this course was excellent in getting down the beginning basics of working and understanding Shamanic work. I walked away with a keen sense of and awareness to the connection of the life force deep within me and all around everyone one of us. Learning the history, integrated with experiences in rituals and techniques, along with your passion in teaching made this course a definite stepping-stone that I can use with my everyday work as a healer for others, and myself. Just wanted to share this breakthrough experience for me and give you the sincerest thanks for bringing this opportunity to me and the many others out there who have been looking for a connection to this ancient healing work. Your passion as a teacher is inspiring and I will definitely let others know about this course!" Lorraine, California
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Shamanic Healing Training:
The Practitioner's Journey
to the True Self
Level 1 Shamanism Course
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Beginning Shamanism Training:
Level 1, Basic Skills
When you are ready to study shamanism, your education starts with this first shamanism class series. You will learn basic shamanic healing in accordance with what are considered best practices as these are broadly recognized today. This online shamanic training is designed to support a professional practice, either as strictly a shamanic practitioner, or when incorporating shamanic healing practices with other healing modalities. When you are done, you will have a thorough grounding in the core shamanism that is that most widely shared among worldwide shamanic practices. In an interesting return to original manner of shamanic training, the individualized online shamanic education reclaims the traditional, step-by-step foundation of tutoring that teachers once had with their students.
I have subtitled this first level of shamanic healing training 'the Practitioner's Journey to the True Self' because the first level of training of a shamanic practitioner invariably demands a student's self-searching. This is not something that I dreamed up, it is simply the natural course of a practitioner's development. It makes sense however, that as a person working to be of shamanic healing service to others, that it might reasonably need to rest on a strong foundation of balance, awareness, compassion and empowerment. These are aspects of one's True Self!
This basic shamanic healing course does not mean 'easy'. Perhaps a better title for it would be 'foundation' course, for it is core training in the foundation skills on which the intermediate and advanced work rests. This course will definitely require a commitment of time and focus, as classes require readings, practice sessions, and homework, and move ahead at a rate that necessitates keeping pace. However, the course's carefully orchestrated steps gradually build a solid shamanic understanding and fluency.
"This is a very special class for three reasons: Dr. Serr is a generous and patient teacher who cares about passing on knowledge, not just handing out information; you can make a fundamental difference in your life and in the lives of others with what you learn in this class, and there aren't many places you can go to learn it; I didn't know anything about healing or shamanism when I started this class, and though I expected to learn interesting things I didn't think I would really be able to do the work. I found that I really can do the work!"
Jeneen, California
Shamanic studies necessitate far more than mere techniques or an intellectual understanding. A successful practice must rest on solid journey ability, your relationships with your spirit helpers, your ethics, and the compassion of your heart. Again, no worries: these are practices that will continue to naturally grow through each class week.
Schedule of Assignments,
Importance of Staying on Unit Material,
and Instructor Feedback
Unless you have a question, send in your unit assignments all at once. It is impossible to keep track of multiple submissions for the same unit. Also, it is important to recognize that although I am mentoring, there are still some constraints on my time. It can take me upwards to an hour to respond to each student sufficiently well. I do, often, respond to emails between units, but need to restrict this to the work that is currently being studied. I could arrange more time to students, but would have to increase the cost of the program. I try to respond to you the day I receive your work, often it is the following day, and only rarely, longer. I try not to work on weekends, so if I receive it on a Friday I may not be able to respond until Monday.
I certainly respond to between-unit emails, although I ask that your questions be on the material that you are working with. I try to make the material as clear as I can in the lessons themselves so that confusion has less opportunity to arise, but occasionally it does, and then I go to try to improve the lesson where the clarity is lacking so that students get everything they need without having to wonder about it.
There is a 14 day suggested deadline for submitting unit assignments in Level 1 training. Most students take up to a week on the first several units, and then anywhere from a week to a week and a half on the following ones. Therefore a maximum allowance of 2 weeks allows the heat of the work to not cool between units. This creates a sufficiently firm foundation so that everything melds together in a smooth way and firms at a steady rate.
This is a suggested time frame, as with illness, normal life obligations, needing to relocate, work demands etc., there are always things that come up in anyone’s work that can lead to longer intervals between units. By letting me know of such a situation, we can arrange for extra time, or take a break for longer. Because of the design of the series, arranging a schedule with me is easy, and in truth, the incorporation of shamanic work does necessitate a certain organic quality due to the nature of the personal changes that are being accomplished. Still, maintaining the heat in the work is important, otherwise the effects start to recede when time is stretched out.
I want to see you evolve into the powerful and professional practitioner that you will be. When you give yourself to this kind of approach, you will watch things start to unfold and develop to the degree that you might be happily surprised.
Your shamanism course will be divided between:
- reading materials that will be waiting for you in your class units, with which you will explore shamanic reality, begin the leap into a shamanic world view and proceed to learn the ways of shamanic healing
- basic shamanic rituals from around the globe that you can adapt to you needs
- essential shamanic healing practices that can be found at the center of different shamanic cultural expressions from around the world
- homework (alas, yes!) that you will email me (if you are taking this course directly from me) or post on your university's class forum (if you are taking this course through your college or university)
This homework is nothing to get all nervous about! In shamanic training, homework usually consists of experiential exercises, about which you then will be reporting. Moreover, the reading part of this coursework is not simply academic because this is a course in developing one's whole being (how one carries him or herself) and a carefully organized and sustained process of integrating an entire healing practice.
In the first 12 units (the basic shamanic healing course), you will study and begin to integrate the shaman's special posture towards the world and the particular virtues that are pursued. You will learn the generalized differences between contemporary western world views and one that is shamanic, and begin to make your own 'leap' in consciousness from one to the other. You will also learn a basic orientation to the cycles of 'ordinary reality' seasons, days and lifetimes, and begin to develop a general map of non-ordinary geography. You will learn the nature of ethics in shamanic practice, and start to develop your own code. You will consider why it is that shamanism is so misunderstood in the contemporary world, and what would constitute a shaman's integrity.
“When I started this class I was a shattered person due to a variety of reasons. Now, I am not only learning how to put myself back together slowly, and appreciate what the Universe has given me. But I am also learning how to help others and learning how to walk away from those who do me harm in some way or another and let go. THAT is a major step in my life. Thank you Steve for sticking by me when so many others would not.
Shamanic Healing Practices
Here is a list of some of what you will learn in the first 12 units,
the Level 1 basic class series:
- First, and foremost, this shamanism course trains you to have powerful, reliable, and particularly capable journeys. Shamanic healing techniques aside, the developed art of journeying is one of the most significant cornerstones of the entire shamanic healing path.
- You will learn divination through the use of natural objects, a practice that surprises most people with its far-reaching insight and illumination.
- You will learn the characteristics of shamanic reality, and how this - and the shamanic practices that stem from this - are so completely different from those of our ordinary lives.
- You are led into the spiritual geography of a shaman's world, a universe (or multiverse!) that you proceed to explore and chart as you develop your journey abilities.
- Power, and the important matter of shamanic ethics are discussed, and you will be guided in developing an your ethical code for your work that serves you and the people, animals, and other beings that you work with.
- You will learn how to develop your own power, and fill out the 'whole' potentially empowered person that you were meant to be. You will meet your spirit helpers in animal form, and gather those who are particularly suited to work with you in a healing practice.
- As a crucially important member of your healing 'team', you will meet your True Self... an experience one never forgets, and that alone, leaves many people forever grateful that they took this course.
- You will learn personal and group rituals of practitioner and sacred space preparation. For instance, you will learn rituals of personal cleansing prior to shamanic work, and how to open a circle of healing and safety where your work can be done.
- Importantly, you will learn how to do power animal retrieval for another, so you can bring back such power for your client in a wonderful and time-honored way.
Since this course series is devoted to developing you as a person who is taking the role of a healer, you will learn such rituals as personal cleansing with sage. Since you will be working with other people, you will learn how to cleanse another person, as well as the procedure for Calling in the Directions, which is often done when more than one person is present. Since people will be coming to you for answers and direction, you will explore how to communicate with clients as you begin to prepare for the shaman’s role. You will learn to sing your Soul Song, and begin to practice the ritual embodiment of power through dance.
The most important basic technique you will learn in this first series is skilled shamanic journeying, as the ability you gain here will empower all of the work that follows. Since you are developing yourself as a person as well as a shamanic practitioner, you will start to connect with your power animals and your non-ordinary teachers, and start deepening relationships with these spirits as you begin to form your healing 'team'. You will also learn how to merge with a spirit helper and explore the complex nature of this practice. You will meet your true self, which some count as the most important experience in the entire course series. Finally, you will learn basic shamanic divination through natural objects (in this case a rock), and how to empower another person through a power animal retrieval.
This is a serious course of shamanic training that will provide you with a strong foundation. Here, you will gain the spiritual orientation, basic practices, shamanic rituals, journeying ability and begin to meet your healing spirit helpers. This is more than enough in and of itself to leave you with a powerful spiritual practice that you can carry with you for as long as you desire.
However, a strong foundation like this serves another purpose, which is to prepare anyone to pursue deeper development and comprehensive training in shamanic healing when they know this is their calling. Since such upper division courses rely on the information and shamanic training experiences of Level 1, the basic shamanic healing course is a necessary prerequisite to the more advanced trainings of Levels 2 and 3. For those who choose to continue to study shamanism, with dedicated effort, these could be completed in a year cycle. It normally takes at least that
Email me and I would be happy to answer any questions about the course or enrolment at:
drserr@shamanism-101.com
I am honored to be working with you on your path. When you are ready to begin, just go to the Tuition Payment page (click on this link, or find it at the top of each page under the 'Learn Shamanism' menu), make your payment and send me an email.
When you are ready to study a particular unit, I will send you the link to go to that unit's web page. Then, after going to that unit's web page, save the address in your 'favorites' or better yet, save the link on your desktop (on your browsers toolbar, click file > send > shortcut to desktop). Then rename the link with the unit number. This will provide you with easy access to each unit throughout the course.
Your next lesson is sent when I have had a chance to review your current unit's work, and I attach it with the course location, username and password at the bottom of my feedback and analysis of your work.
Twelve shamanism class units comprise Level 1 and lead to Basic certification. You will be certified after passing the final assignment of each level. Since I am certifying your education, I must receive from you, and 'ok' each completed unit assignment before I can advance you to the following unit.
Supplies
There are some items that will be necessary for training, including a couple of books and other materials that will support your practice. Many items are often already around the home, though some may take some research to find.
For the complete list of supplies needed for training, go to the Shamanic Supplies page (through this link, or the main link at the top of the page).
Enrolment Steps:
(The following is just a quick overview. Go to the Enrolment Steps page to learn how to enrol (accessed through this link or at the main link on the top of the pages)
1) There is a brief enrolment application form...
2) It is confidential. Fill it out with some detail, click 'submit', and it will be sent to me...
3) I will review it and send you an email to invite you into the course or if I need more information. Once admitted, you can make your payment at the Tuition Payment page.)
4) Once payment has been made, I will send you a welcome letter with starting information and the link to your first class, along with your course user name and password to access the lessons. There will also be books you will need, and supplies to gather. I have included a list of these on the Shamanic Supplies page.
If your college is already offering this series with me, you are fortunate, as you are also earning college credits! If you would like to see this series offered through your college or university, ask your college to contact me to bring this course online to them. It is already set up as online training with colleges and fits perfectly in a 12 week semester. Other students have been able to receive credit for these courses by setting up their own independent study course through their college.
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