Healing the Shadow Practitioner Training

A two year training in Deep Process Psychotherapy and shadow work leading to qualification as a Healing The Shadow practitioner

This unique two year shadow work based training offers the opportunity to develop a new career facilitating Deep Process Psychotherapy, or to deepen and enliven your current therapeutic practice by adding Deep Process Psychotherapy to your skillset. Here’s how one of our qualified practitioners describes his experience of the training:

“There were no powerpoint presentations, no desks, no classroom with a teacher at the front; there was a circle, there were cushions and blankets, there was space and sometimes silence, and there was intimacy, and sharing and deep exploration and deep learning. Six trainees, dropping in with each other for two years, exceptionally well held with an authentic, strong, nurturing energy emanating from Marianne and her team, an energy that only ever wanted the best for each of us. Their profound awareness of the delicate depth of this work and their ability to pass this on to us with increasing levels of subtlety has been frequently awe inspiring. This work and the way it has been shared by the trainers has landed fully in my heart. They provided a wonderfully warm and predictable holding, and in that holding was a safety for me to settle, to explore, to open and to turn towards what I have always been capable of.”  Alasdair Kirk

Healing The Shadow is an organisation devoted to facilitating deep process work and supporting clients in exploring and healing their shadows. Deep Process Psychotherapy is a form of embodied psychotherapy rooted in depth psychology and archetypal theory. Our practitioners work with individual clients in sessions between 2 and 5 hours in length. These in depth sessions allow people to get to know and understand their shadow sides, hold and heal their wounded inner child, explore their fears and limitations, and move beyond the emotional issues of their past to grow into all they can be.

We are a fully established training school offering a two year training leading to qualification as a Healing The Shadow practitioner. This training will equip you with the skills needed to become a confident and competent Healing The Shadow practitioner and to facilitate Deep Process Psychotherapy for individuals. Our qualified practitioners facilitate powerful, safe and effective processes while holding the client with humanity and compassion.

The training is highly experiential and focuses not only on teaching powerful and effective techniques, but also on each individual trainee’s personal development, including the exploration and healing of their shadows. With an intake of only six trainees each year, supported by two trainers, the work is intensive and each student receives personalised attention.

Our two year trainings are suitable both for those new to working in the field of personal development and also those currently working as coaches, counsellors or therapists who wish to add these powerful techniques to their existing practice.

On completion of the two year training a third year of training is also available, which gives the additional skills required to facilitate Deep Process Psychotherapy in a group or workshop setting. We also offer further one year trainings in couples’ work and in supervision.

The Founders, Marianne Hill and Rod Boothroyd, are well known experts in the field of working with the shadow. They both have busy practices working with individual clients and together they run their hugely popular group workshops and healing journeys.

Marianne has many years of experience in training psychotherapists and counsellors to work more deeply with their clients’ shadow sides and is author of Healing The Shadow – Deep Process Psychotherapy. Rod Boothroyd is author of Warrior, Magician, Lover, King: A Guide To The Male Archetypes For The 21st Century. This book brings to the world Rod’s vast knowledge of human archetypes gained from many years of facilitating transformational process work for men. He is also author of Finding The King Within – How to Access and Embody the Power, Authority and Leadership of Your Inner King Archetype where he focuses on the King archetype and explores a new model of Kingship which combines personal power, leadership and authority in a heart centred framework.

Rod has now retired from full time teaching. However, he remains very involved in the training as an elder and mentor, interviewing prospective trainees alongside Marianne and supporting the trainees, trainers and training assistants from the sidelines.

Marianne is lead trainer on the course and leads the training with Laura Stoddart as her co trainer and Richard Martyn as her support trainer.

Based on their combined experience Marianne and Rod have designed this comprehensive training which will provide you with all the tools and techniques you need to set up as a fully qualified and confident practitioner:

1) Training in the tools used for working with and resolving emotional wounds held in the shadow, and for holding and healing the wounded inner child.

2) Training in holding clients therapeutically, both inside and outside the client session. We explore how your own shadows and the client’s shadows may play out in these interactions, and how such interactions can be used as healing opportunities.

3) A complete training in The Five Fields Framework for Authentic Communication, a way of speaking which explores conflict and allows you to express your thoughts, feelings and emotions clearly and cleanly. This framework can be used to improve relationships in every aspect of your life and work.

4) An in-depth exploration of your own shadows. The biggest asset you bring to your clients is yourself. The better you know your own shadows, and the more work you do to heal them, the better you will be able to support your clients.

5) Techniques for working with the four aspects of the personality: The Feeling Body, The Action Taker, The Heart-Centred Leader, and The Transformer. These have their roots in the concept of the four fundamental human archetypes – Lover, Warrior, Sovereign, and Magician – and they express the qualities of the four archetypes in language relevant and accessible to a wide range of clients.

The starting point is a two year course for those who would like to work with individuals in a one to one setting. There is an additional year’s training available for those who would like to go on and facilitate group workshops. We also offer postgraduate courses in relationship work and supervision.

The two year training consists of:

●  Ten experiential training weekends in each year of the course.

●  Two personal tutorials each year.

●  Structured and supported practice sessions between training weekends.

●  Small training groups of approximately six participants to ensure individual attention.

●  Many opportunities to do your own emotional process work and to explore and heal your own shadow material.

●  A well-held, safe space for personal development work.

●  Teaching in the theory and practice of working with the shadow.

●  A teaching of the essential counselling skills and psychotherapeutic theory necessary to equip you with the tools and understanding you need to build a comprehensive and professional approach to seeing clients.

●  Advice and guidance on setting up a Healing The Shadow practice.

Mentoring and supervision are available on completion of training to fully support newly qualified practitioner in setting up and running their practice in a confident, sustainable, fulfilling and enjoyable way.

The nature of this course makes it particularly suitable for individuals who are devoted to continuing their own personal development journey as well as wishing to become a fully qualified and insured practitioner.

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