SHAMANIC WORKSHOP SCHEDULE WITH MIKKAL 2009-2010



All workshops at Crows Nest Center for Shamanic Studies have a strong component of sacred ceremony and rites, chanting, ecstatic drum dancing, and medicine lodges, and community support. The descriptions of the workshops listed below focus on content and purpose of each workshop. You can register workshops and apply for advanced [level II] training through Mikkal's website www.cmichaelsmith.com







                         HEART-CENTERED SHAMANISM I





Awakening the Shaman Within I: Basic Path & Journeys Skills

                       April 24-5, $2009.   Tuition 125.00

This workshop is an entry point for those who are considering shamanic apprenticeship. It introduces the basics of shamanism including heart-centered and earth-honoring path, basics of the shamanic journey process, awakening your shaman-self and acquiring a spirit guide or power animal, and beginning to learn how to consult it and work with it. Tuition includes a follow up session on May 19, 7-8:30 pm. Tuition is kept very low for the first workshop, to allow as many people to come as possible. It will provide you with a sense of whether you want to explore this path and move into apprenticeship (advanced shamanic training).





Awakening the Shaman Within II: The Archetypal Sacred

                  June 26-8     Tuition $225.00

This workshop extends your journey skills and develop your shaman-self through journeys into selected archetypes (gods) to learn directly from them, and then into a variety of nature spirits, including trees, plants, crystals, stones in the Middle World.

The Basics of shamanic divination will also be covered. Bring a grapefruit sized stone.





Wilderness I:  Vision Quest (S. Manitou Island)

      August 7-14, 2009.   Cost $500.00 +approx 150.00 out of pocket expenses.

See the website page entitled Vision Quest for details on preparation spiritually, and for a list on what to bring. A journal form a Vision quest is available for those unable to deal with the physical rigors of backpacking in the Wilderness, or who live to far away to attend.


Shamanic Counseling & Coaching Workshop Series

This series of workshops is part of the apprenticeship program in shamanic healing, counseling and coaching sponsored by Mikkal and the CROWS NEST CENTER FOR SHAMANIC STUDIES in the Southwestern Michigan woodlands. It is open to those interested in developing shamanic healing services for the public, including classic shamanic work, shamanic psychotherapy, counseling and coaching.

Mikkal, brings to this program his background as an initiated shamanic healer in three indigenous traditions, Ecuadoran Quechua Iachak, Mexican Nahua-Toltec, and Cherokee healing systems, and as a former personal student of the late Mircea Eliade and of Robert L. Moore. As clinical and Jungian psychologist, medical anthropologist, and author of scholarly books on Shamanism, Jungian psychology, and of scientific publications in the medical and psychiatric fields. Mikkal has developed a basic theoretical system that integrates all these influences, and a number of other modern psychological resources into a Little Psychology of the Heart, that helps integrate shamanic resources with virtually any modern psychological system. He has created a 2 year apprenticeship workshop series that combines didactic, experiential learning, with shamanic ceremonial work, chanting, and supportive community (Hollow Bone Medicine Society).

The two year program leading to certification involves 3 workshops per year, plus a week long Vision Quest in the Second week of August during the first year, and attendance of the Wounded Healer Summer School, the subsequent August, run currently with the Vision Quest….this year Aug 7-14, 2009.

THE DATES FOR THE WORKSHOPS FOR 2009-2010:
September 25-27, 2009   Friday Night 7:PM to Sunday Noon.  Tuition = $325.00 USD
November 6-8, 2009       Friday Night 7:PM to Sunday Noon.   Tuition =$325.00 USD
February 12-14, 2009 Friday Night 7:PM to Sunday Noon.       Tuition = $325.00 USD


                                      Curriculumn
Each workshop involves ceremonial Fire Talks, experiential learning, dyadic partnership practice, and study in between workshops, with plenty of sacred ceremony, shamanic journeying, process journaling, and spiritual community. Some of the Content is suggested under the following three headings.

Shamanism, Jung, and Transpersonal Basics
Basic Jungian psychological concepts are discussed and many of them learned experientially through journey work. The relation between the collective unconscious,  and the shamanic spirit world, relationship between soul loss, and personal unconscious and Shadow Work with shamanic resources. Relationship between complexes, problem patterns, and shamanic soul loss and retrieval. Learn the Basic archetypes and gods of mythology directly through journey work, and discover how they help your client activate and bring potentials and facets of self on line. Importance of symbol, talisman making, felt-sensing and soul recovery and integration leading to increased wholeness.

Heart Psychology:
Integrating Psychological and Shamanic Languages and Resources so that you have an accessible and easy to use language for clients and supervisors or third parties. Heart psychology embraces virtually any depth psychology and resource, honors the shamanic heart path and correlates with the Jungian individuation process. It has methods for rapid assessment, helping the client find and begin using their hearts to create a life they want.
It brings a sharp and penetrating set of Core Questions to rapidly identify whatever is the way of the client living their heart path. Taps focusing oriented resources and felt-sensing to track or stalk down and remove problem patterns and anything in the way of the kind of life or goal the client really wants. The Iachak component of heart theory and practice stresses using the capacity to find and use the heart to live, and to protect it. The Nahua- Toltec component uses penetrating tools to transform the mind into a servant of the heart, instead of being its master.

Client Skills: Based in Heart Psychology, Focusing oriented listening skills, Core Questions, coaching protocols for rapid assessment and client planning are taught. Assessment and Treatment Strategies regarding the exact problem and successfully removing (extracting or dissolving) it and fid a satisfying and workable way forward.
Learn the heart-psych method of analysis of a problem, and how to find a way forward.
Assessment and Pinpointing Likely Areas of Soul Loss and Intrusion
Clinical and Coaching Methods for treating soul loss and how to integrate classic soul retrieval and extraction clinically and via long distance heart-centered coaching.
Talisman, Symbols, Myth, and Art Therapy, Music Therapy Resources for retrieving and integrating part selves and repressed potentials.
Use of the shamanic journey with clients for assessment and intervention.
Using your Spirit Guides to help you in assessment and in assisting your client.
Teaching Clients to journey…issues, contraindications, etc.
Professional Ethics and Referral


Bonus Event (Optional)
Apprentices who wish to assist Mikkal in ceremonies in Cogolin, France, at the Center Trimurti, March 8-15, 2010 can attend at small tuition and boarding rate, being responsible for their airfare. Meet Shamans from around the world, from Siberia to Europe, to South America, assist in their ceremonies as well.

For more information or to register, Contact Mikkal (aka C. Michael Smith, Ph.D.) at www.cmichaelsmith.com, email: ShamanicAR@aol.com, or via tele (269) 845-0626

Crows Nest is a Wilderness Retreat Center. You can bring a tent, sleeping bag and camp out in the woodland campsites, the guest house is available on a limited basis, and you may prefer an area motels --although most camp out at Crows Nest, and it is free.

Baymont Inn & Suites (269) 782-4270   www. baymontinns.com  (moderate priced and nice.)

Peck Motel (269) 782-2188 (cheap but clean).

If you are flying into South Bend Indiana Regional Airport, arrangements should be made in Advance with Crows Nest to pick you up and shuttle you to Crows Nest.

What to Bring to a Workshop. Generally you receive specific details after you have registered, or upon request. For single day events bring a bag lunch, for over-night and longer workshops we pitch in a food, usually have a larged cooked meal, and breakfast is provided. In addition to sleeping bags, you may want to bring a cushion or pillow, warm socks and lose clothinig, a bathing suit if a Sweat Lodge is planned, and yourt drum, rattle or other instrument for drum circles and Fire Ceremonies. Bring a bandana or eye pillow, a water bottle, a journal and a pen. A flash light and layered clothing are recommended for early spring late fall, and winter. Please contact Mikkal if you have quesitons. ShamanicAR@aol.com

Registration:

To register or inquire about this workshop, print of or copy the details onto an email and send to Mikkal at ShamanicAR@aol.com.

USD Funds are payable by check to C. Michael Smith, Ph.D. and mail to 333 North Second St, Suite 304, Niles, MI 49120

Tele (269) 845-0626

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