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Your Inner Hero’s Journey: A Personal Growth Quest Using Parts Work & Shamanism

With Emma Claire

Connect to your higher self. Find your inner wisdom. Face your inner demons. Rescue your inner child. Restore balance to your inner world. Are you ready to answer the call to adventure? This is a course for spiritual seekers, deep feelers, imaginative dreamers, and adventurous souls who want to embark on an inner quest for psychological, emotional, and spiritual transformation through guided visualization and meditation. It is for those who want to become emotionally integrated, spiritually connected, intuitively guided, healed, whole, and self-actualized human beings. Based loosely on the framework of Joseph Campbell’s "The Hero’s Journey", this course takes a “Parts Work” approach to help you navigate your inner landscape through a storybook-like experience. Through this course, you will know yourself more deeply, love yourself more profoundly, and have a greater appreciation for all parts of you. You will learn how to regain inner peace, instead of letting your thoughts and emotions run the show. As a result, you will restore balance and wholeness to your inner world so that you can navigate life’s challenges with ease. This course is inspired by the Hero’s Journey, Internal Family Systems, shadow work, inner child work, Jungian psychology, energy work, Applied Shamanism, and Isa Gucchiardi Ph.D.'s Depth Hypnosis method. It meshes these frameworks together into a unique and innovative course that makes personal growth fun and engaging! So if you’re ready for change, answer the “call to adventure” and embark on your very own inner hero’s journey. Disclaimer: This is not a clinical, medical, or therapeutic treatment tool. Please consult with your medical provider(s) before beginning this course. By taking this course, you assume full responsibility for any risks and will not hold the creator liable for your experience.

Embark on a mystical and imaginative inner quest to connect to your higher self, find your inner wisdom, face your inner demons, rescue your inner child, and restore balance to your inner world.

12 Days

4.2k students

4.8 stars

14 min / day

English

About this course

Archetypal Encounter

Inner Child Visualization

Parts-Based Visualization

Meet your Teacher

Emma Claire

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St. Louis, MO, USA

Emma Claire is a holistic therapist, spiritual counselor, functional nutritionist, and educator who helps individuals reconnect with their inner wisdom by weaving together modern science and ancient traditions. She is passionate about healing on every level: mind, body, spirit, emotions, relationships, and environment, and supports whole-person transformation through an integration of psychology, functional medicine, and spirituality. In her work, both one-on-one and through her courses, Emma guides others toward deeper self-compassion, integration, and healing within their inner worlds. Emma's training includes IFS (Level 3), shamanic counseling, yoga, TRE, holistic nutrition, and depth hypnosis. She has also taught and practiced at a mindfulness-based healing center in Northern Thailand, supporting people from around the world on their personal growth journeys. In her free time, Emma enjoys traveling, riding her bike through the park, crafting handmade jewelry, and exploring the natural beauty of the Midwest.

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12 Days

4.2k students

4.8 stars

14 min / day

English

Lesson 1

An Introduction To Your Inner Hero’s Journey

In this first lesson, you will receive an orientation to the course. Learn about the fascinating and rich world inside of you that governs how you think, feel, and behave. Learn how we will get to know and befriend your inner characters so you can transform them from adversaries into allies and work with them for your highest good. You will end this lesson by reflecting on your own personal "call to adventure." Many students walk away from this lesson feeling curious and eager to embark on an inner adventure!

Lesson 2

Understanding Your Inner Healing Intelligence

Today, I will introduce you to the concept of your “inner healing intelligence,” which is further divided into your core self, higher self, and guide. You’ll learn about their differences, as well as their similarities, and how this powerful trio will help you navigate your inner landscape and your life as a whole. As a result of today’s lesson, you will feel more confident in your understanding of your inner healing intelligence and prepared to experience them for yourself in lessons 3 and 4.

Lesson 3

Traveling to the Upper World to Connect to Your Higher Self and Core Self

Go on a meditative quest inspired by shamanic journeying to the "upper world" to meet your higher self and be empowered with your core self. This will help you feel more centered, spiritually connected, grounded, compassionate, calm, and prepared to meet your inner characters later in the course. Today’s lesson is inspired by shamanic journeying, Depth Hypnosis, and Internal Family Systems.

Lesson 4

Traveling to the Upper World to Meet your Guide

Today, we will once again go to the upper world, this time, to connect to a powerful personal guide. Your guide will be something or someone that can be interpreted through your own worldview and will feel personally meaningful to you. This guide will provide wisdom, support, power, and healing for you in future lessons when you enter your inner world and meet your inner characters. Today’s lesson is inspired by shamanic journeying and Depth Hypnosis.

Lesson 5

Entering Your Inner World and Meeting An Inner Character

Now that you’ve connected to your higher self, core self, and guide, you are now ready to meet and befriend one part of you, an inner character. We will start off with an inner character that is genuinely helpful to you. This will help you get used to working with parts of yourself while also feeling gratitude for your strengths and gifts. Today’s lesson is inspired by Internal Family Systems, strengths-based psychology, and shamanism.

Lesson 6

Into the Shadows: Getting to Know Your Inner Daimons

Prepare to embark on a journey into the shadows. But there’s a plot twist: you’ll learn how your inner demons are not villains that need to be slain but rather misunderstood aspects of yourself. They have gifts to share that can only be revealed when you courageously befriend them. In this lesson, you'll identify a daimon you want to meet. You’ll likely walk away from this lesson feeling more compassionate and curious about your inner daimons. This lesson is inspired by IFS, shamanism, and shadow work.

Lesson 7

Facing an Inner Daimon

It is now time to get to know, befriend, and transform one of your inner daimons through a 7-step process. You’ll be using all of the tools and skills you’ve learned so far, tapping into your higher self energy and gaining wisdom from your guide to befriend a daimon that you’ll likely find isn’t as scary as you thought. In the end, many students say that they have transformed their adversary into an ally and feel much more compassionate and friendly towards it. Today’s lesson is inspired by IFS, shamanism, and shadow work.

Lesson 8

Facing the Ultimate Inner Daimon

Now that you’ve befriended one inner daimon, it’s time to go even deeper and face a stronger and more powerful inner daimon. Just like the heroes in the stories, you will face the ultimate test. Through the 7-step process, you will get to know, befriend, and transform this second inner daimon. As a result, you’ll likely feel more powerful, courageous, and like you’ve transformed an enemy into an ally. Today’s lesson is inspired by IFS, shamanism, and shadow work.

Lesson 9

Understanding Your Inner Child

Within all of us is an inner child who has wonderful gifts to offer, but who may be wounded and in need of help. Today, you’ll do a reflective exercise to learn more about your inner child, discover what they are like, and gain clarity on what they feel and need. As a result, you’ll feel closer to this important part of yourself and more prepared to meet, nurture and rescue your inner child in tomorrow’s lesson. Today’s lesson is inspired by inner child work, IFS, and NVC.

Lesson 10

The Final Challenge: Rescuing the Inner Child and Bringing Them Home

Today you will face the final challenge, which is to rescue your inner child and bring them home. You will nurture and heal your inner child so they can let go of anything they no longer need. You will likely feel more powerful, self-loving, liberated, and able to express your gifts as a result. Many people find that this is a deep, healing, and profound experience. Today’s lesson is inspired by inner child work, IFS, and NVC.

Lesson 11

The Return: Restore Wholeness Within Your Inner World

At the end of every hero’s journey, the hero is able to restore peace and balance to their inner world and return home stronger, wiser, and with gifts to share. Today, you will practice bringing all of the inner characters you’ve worked with together through a meditation so you can feel more whole and integrated. Today’s lesson is inspired by IFS and shamanism.

Lesson 12

Integrating Your Hero’s Journey Into Your Daily Life

We have reached the end of the journey. Congratulations! In this final lesson, you will learn how to integrate your hero’s journey into your daily life. You will feel a sense of completion with your journey, have clarity about how to take future journeys, and feel confident about how to bring these changes into your real life.