Great schools and training programs offer learning opportunities that go far beyond the syllabus. We asked some amazing folks from the community to share stories from their educational journey with us.

Jen Fields

Shamanism is quite a bit different from other vocations in that IT chooses YOU, not the other way around. Most practitioners are brought to doing this work through a very painful initiation. Typically the life you knew prior is completely stripped away, bringing you to the doorway of the spirit realm as a source of healing. This is exactly what happened to me, and many who came before me. On the other side of the crumbling of my life (the love of my life passed away, I miscarried a child- I was unable to function because of grief so I lost my career, and subsequently, my will to live), I found myself in the arms of Spirit and Spirit alone. Shamanism requires a “clearing of the slate” in order to begin anew – what came before cannot follow you onto the new path. Read more>>

Sophia Renner

I completed my undergraduate education at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Growing up in Northern California, moving across the country for college was both exciting and a little intimidating. I didn’t start out with a set career plan, but I embraced the opportunity to explore different subjects before ultimately deciding on a major in Public Health with a minor in Sociology. I like to think of Public Health as the psychology of society. It gave me a broad understanding of how people and communities function, from environmental impacts to communication and social behavior. I truly can’t recommend it enough as a major! Read more>>

Lisa Macdonald

I signed up for the training and subsequently experienced a deep, emotional healing. It was our first practice session when my assigned partner determined that my body wanted the Biomagnetic protocol for sadness. Shortly after she placed the magnets on me, images from emotionally difficult times in my life began to surface in my mind. Examples of these flashbacks include feeling sad that my preschool classmates didn’t play with me because I didn’t speak their language and feeling sad about missing most of my senior year of high school due to reconstructive hip surgery. I didn’t realize that I carried unresolved emotional energy from these events. And I didn’t recognize that the compounding effect of these and other events in my life were weighing on me because they had become part of my baseline. Read more>>