Shadow Work® and Shadow Types®

The Shadow Types system identifies 12 innate tendencies that we all have. Our personality results from which of these tendencies or traits we prefer or feel at home acting from and which ones we tend to avoid. The Shadow Types survey gives you a profile of your own, unique combination of these tendencies as well as your dominant Shadow Type.  The Shadow Types survey is a great tool for gaining personal knowledge and freedom!

Interested in learning more about your Shadow Type?  Reach out, let's connect and get your survey set up!

 

Why do Shadow Work®?

We believe we all have repressed parts of ourselves, which were likely repressed earlier in life for a good reason.  Later on those repressed parts can start to leak out on accident or possibly prevent you from accessing your voice or parts of yourself you now need or desire and would serve you well to reclaim.  

Shadow Work® is a very effective tool that guides people into the land of their shadows to reclaim that energy and give you the power of choice over how you use that energy now.  

This process makes you as the participant expert of the process while the facilitators follow your lead with masterfully designed questions intended to tap into your wisdom regarding what is safe and best for you.

Shadow Work® is fully based on a consent model.  It is designed to prevent facilitators from projecting our own stuff onto you as the participant.  You decide what you want to have happen, what is best and safe for you, and what you want out of your process.

Why do Shadow Work® within a group context?

Some say they receive more healing from being part of someone else's Shadow Work® process than their own.  Group participants have the opportunity to serve as role players for another participants, and this provides you an opportunity for growth and healing in addition to your own Shadow Work® process.

Each person that witnesses and mirrors back to you the healing and transformation you make, increases the integration of the healing and change taking place in you.  

Group process allows for greater co-regulation.  We now know humans rarely self regulate, but instead seek energy outside of us to co-regulate with others (human, animals, and nature).

Shadow Work® requires the best practice of co-facilitation and for this particular weekend you will benefit from the expertise of 4 amazing facilitators who bring their unique gifts together to provide you with the strongest container possible to support you in your healing and growth.  

A few examples of what people report they have gotten out of Shadow Work®?

Liberation to be their whole authentic self!

Deeper understanding, self awareness, and clarity about them self and a difficult situation.

Reclaiming their power, life force, and their voice!

Inner peace 

Greater joy

Radical self love and self acceptance

Don't hesitate... make this commitment to yourself and you won't regret it.

Contact me with questions and interest!

​Below are two of my often co-conspirators of Shadow Work® Weekends!

 

Kristin is a White Southern Appalachian American queer cis-woman of European ancestry committed to partnering with organizations, groups, and individuals seeking a greater holistic sense of well-being by implementing liberatory relationship-based frameworks. 

Kristin has a long history as a therapist, coach, and facilitator working with individuals, families, and groups in healing from trauma, reclaiming one's power and "gold" from shadows (aspects that have been rejected, projected or repressed parts of oneself), and leveling up to grow and be in alignment living their best lives.

​Kristin works nationally as a trainer and consultant for organizations, groups, and individuals with predominantly White identified people decolonizing and embodying a culture that aligns with liberatory values. She worked much of the past 9 years in Asheville, NC at Buncombe County DHHS, most recently as a Resiliency Coordinator and organizing member of the Racial Equity Group in Social Services, and Neutral Facilitator of Child and Family Team meetings in Child Protective Services to advocate for children and families and support social workers, community providers and supports to build a resilient, healthy community free of violence, abuse and neglect.  

Kristin has worked within the non-profit, private, and government sectors specializing in women’s empowerment, therapy, domestic violence, child protective services, anti-racism, spirit-centered work, LGBTQIA2S+ initiatives, youth work, leadership development, and holistic healing. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a MSW from Smith College School for Social Work with background studies in Shadow Work® and Naturopathic Medicine at Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine.

David Vanderveen: 

 

David has been helping people identify and overcome core struggles in their lives for over 20 years.  As the Executive Director of a residential recovery program in South Bend, Indiana he works on a daily basis with people who are learning to transform their shadows of addiction, shame and pain into light.  David has been incorporating Shadow Work principles and practices into the recovery program, and facilitates weekly Shadow Work sessions with clients of the program.

David is also a certified Weekend Leader with Battle Cry International, and regularly facilitates Shadow Work® processes for men attending Battle Cry weekends.

David lives in Granger, Indiana with his lovely wife Katrina, his becoming-an-adult-way-too-fast daughter Kate (17 years old), and his thinks-he’s-already-an-adult son Jack (15 years old).

Katie Chiaravolloti:

Katie Chiaravolloti is a commitment to unearthing true self and bringing forth consciousness with curiosity and love.  She is a queer, cis-gendered Soul Guide, an Emotional Baggage Hander and a Creatrix of Sacred Space. Having studied under Ann Sousa, an initiated elder of the West African Dagara Tradition, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés Réyes, ALisa Starkweather, and within the teachings of BodySoulRhythm (Marion Woodman, Anne Skinner, and Mary Hamilton), Katie believes that making space for one’s own inner wisdom (especially in community/groups settings) weaves the path toward healing.  Katie walks as a witness and guide for folks to discover and harness the gold that lives hidden in the shadowy places. She is a Shadow Types® Practitioner and on a path toward Shadow Work® Facilitation and Coaching. It is her hope and prayer that as one integrates one’s own healing, the ripples of love and care will blossom out to family, friends, and community. Katie is part of the transition team holding the thread of hope for the world we are creating.  She can be found in South Jersey, weaving communities in healing ceremonies and is always up for an adventure.  Katie has been partnered for over 25 years and is mama to three young men who have been catalysts for consensual parenting, living a vibrant life, and transforming generational pain and trauma into a lineage of love and liberation.  She is a child-led, earth-based, secular homeschooling mama who has co-created and co-led various learning laboratories over the years. Co-creating embodied, healing spaces and ceremonies calls deeply to her being. 

For more information or to schedule a one on one session, please reach out here!