• Power restoration healing: What is power loss? Restoring power; instructing client in utilizing the recovered power.
  
  
• Divination work: Journeying for spiritual guidance for another person, or persons: When is it appropriate? Alternative methods for divining spiritual guidance: working with dreams; working with nature; creating divination tools.
  
  
• Empowerment counseling: Teaching another person to journey to receive their own direct counsel and healing from their own spirit allies; judging when this approach is appropriate; transitioning the individual to working on their own or with a drumming circle.
  
  
• Ritual work: Building and using altars and shrines. Creating individual and group rituals for positive transformation. Ritual work with clients. Healing families and communities.
  
  
• Extraction healing: What are spiritual intrusions? How to safely remove them. The client's role in releasing intrusions. Preventing further intrusions.
  
  
• Peacemaking: Indigenous methods for engaging the spirits to work with conflict and restore harmony, whether within an individual, a personal relationship, or a community.
  
  
• Death & dying: The role of death in shamanic work; exploring the future of the soul after death; working with those facing death or "terminal" illness; working with those grieving the death of a loved one. Bringing peace to the souls of the dead.
  
  
• Medicine for the earth: How to transmute personal toxins. Building spiritual power for the purpose of transmuting environmental toxins, cleansing the earth of the physical poisons humans inflict.
  
  
• Soul retrieval healing: What is soul loss? What causes it? The roles of trauma, addiction, soul theft, giving one's soul away. Creating an effective container for soul retrieval healing; safely bringing lost soul parts back to the client's body; supporting the post-soul retrieval integration process. Soul remembering.

Themes that will be explored in the course of the program:

• The role of the shamanic practitioner in another's healing process
  
  
• Working cooperatively with professionals in other healing modalities
  
  
• Creating effective healing relationships
  
  
• Shamanic ethics: boundary issues; who can you help, who do you need to refer on?
  
  
• Working with your own ego, self-doubt, and spiritual development
  
  
• The client's role in shamanic healing and empowerment
  
  
• Placing the client at center stage while taking care of yourself and respecting your own limits
  
  
• Finding and honoring your strengths/talents; finding and honoring your weaknesses
  
  
• Creating a support system for your work with others; getting consultation
  
  
• Shamanizing in a psychologized culture
  
  
• Practicing core shamanism in a multicultural society
  
  
• Grounding: yourself, your client, the work