Shamanic Healing Apprenticeship Program
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THE INSTRUCTOR


The program was designed and first offered in 1995 by Lenore Norrgard, MA, a Harner Method Shamanic Counselor trained and certified by the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, and founder of Circle of the Living Earth/AIWP. She has practiced shamanic healing, counseling and teaching since 1992, and has been active in personal and social healing for more than 30 years. Lenore especially loves sharing the knowledge, skill and experience she has accumulated, sharing the journey of healing and empowerment with others.

Lenore has taught independently and through Circle of the Living Earth as well as through the following:

University of Washington Experimental College, Seattle
Durant Center for Spiritual Development, Berkeley
Mandana Community Recovery Center, Oakland
Northwest Institute of Acupunture & Oriental Medicine, Seattle
Bastyr University, Seattle
Enterbeing Spiritual Cooperative, Portland
Spiritual Activism Conference, Washington, D.C.
East West Bookshop, Seattle
New Renaissance Bookshop, Portland
Healing Waters & Sacred Spaces, Portland
Sellwood Spirit Feathers, Portland

Lenore also periodically is a guest instructor at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

Lenore was on contract with Kaiser Permanente in 2004 as one of three shamanic practitioners participating in a study funded by the National Institutes of Health to explore measuring the effects of shamanic healing on a specific patient population.