Thank you for your interest in the Spirit Canoe School of Shamanism. These programs were developed to help people move forward with their shamanic studies during the pandemic years. They have since been superseded by publicly offered FSS online workshops and the return of FSS in-person workshops and residential programs. Please visit the FSS Website for information, or contact me at rstaufer@gmail.com if you have questions. Many blessings for your journeys!

The Spirit Canoe School of Shamanism was created to support practitioners and students of core shamanism1 during a time when the normal course of in-person study with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies is on hiatus due to the coronavirus. Centered around the new and developing FSS online workshops, the SCSS provides a program of two-day workshops, one-on-one mentoring and bi-weekly practice groups in a community of fellow students and group facilitators.

The SCSS First Year program, Intermediate Shamanic Training, consists of 12 two-day intensives, meeting one weekend each month, and two bi-monthly practice groups which meet for two hours on Wednesday evenings. The program is centered around the Foundation for Shamanic Studies online Shamanic Healing Series, and includes several additional subjects. Please click on the link below to see the course outline, prerequisites, course descriptions and schedule.

The SCSS Second Year program, Advanced Shamanic Training, includes four quarterly two-day intensives, a continuation of the bi-monthly practice groups, and monthly advanced individual mentoring with Robbie during the months when there is no two-day workshop. The individual mentoring sessions are one hour long, and will focus on particular areas of shamanism and shamanic practice that are of interest to each person. Please click on the link below to see the course outline, course descriptions and schedule.

In the third year, Advanced Shamanic Training & Facilitator Internship, the SCSS program offers a six-month course in facilitator training for people who want to learn to lead the SCSS practice groups, or who want to offer core shamanic drumming circles in their communities. The second half of the year continues with an additional six-month course of advanced individual mentoring, to support participants to go deeper in their practice, and in their relationships with their helping spirits. Course descriptions and schedule will be made available in the near future.

The SCSS is currently accepting applications for the School of Shamanism First Year Program. Please click on the link below to learn more.

 
 
 

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  1 Core shamanism is a phrase coined by Michael Harner, Ph.D. and defined in Cave and Cosmos: Shamanic Encounters with Another Reality (2013, pg. 2,46) as consisting of "the universal, near-universal and common features of shamanism, together with journeys to other worlds, a distinguishing feature of shamanism."