A sacred immersion for those called to go deeper.
There comes a point in every practitioner’s path where surface tools no longer satisfy—where you sense the real work lives beneath the patterns, stories, and personas your clients bring to the table.
This is that threshold.
The 6 month Advanced Shadow Coach Training is designed for seasoned coaches, healers, and therapists who are ready to walk into the wild, uncharted terrain of the human psyche—where resistance dissolves, truth awakens, and lasting transformation begins.
Shadow work isn’t just a modality—it’s a reclamation. It takes courage to meet what’s been hidden, and skill to guide others into that space with precision, safety, and soul.
This is your invitation to become the kind of practitioner whose presence alone invites truth to rise. To deepen your mastery. To stand apart from the noise. To create the kinds of transformational containers that don’t just spark change—they root it.
If you’re ready to evolve your practice, expand your impact, and guide others (and yourself) into deeper freedom, this path is yours to walk.
Because when you dare to go deeper, what you unearth won’t just change your clients’ lives— it will transform your own.
We are now taking inquiries for our 2025/26 Cohort!!
Natalie Gentry- Body-Centered Practitioner and Coach
I enrolled in the Shadow Coaching certification program because I found that my clients had issues that went beyond the physical paradigm; I wanted tools to support them and I wanted a skill set that would help me to shift my business to include coaching the shadow elements that clients rarely explore. What I’ve discovered was so much more. This program is also helping me to unravel challenges I’ve struggled with as well. Bottom line: the better I’m able to understand and work through my challenges and roadblocks, the better able I am to serve others. This is a wonderful program…I highly recommend it!
New to Shadow Work and want to become Certified?
If you feel called to this deep work and want to become certified then explore the Foundational Shadow Coach Certification. This 8-month comprehensive training is designed to ground you in the core theory, tools, and principles of shadow work—giving you the confidence and mastery to work powerfully with clients. This program complies with national standards for therapeutic coaching.
Many practitioners choose to enroll in both the Foundational and Advanced trainings for a truly immersive experience that transforms both your practice and your path.
If you sign up for both programs then you can receive a huge discount and
pay only $9,995.
( They must be completed within two consecutive years)
LEARN MORE ABOUT SHADOW WORK
Is Shadow Work the Missing Piece in Your Practice?
Do you feel called to guide others into deeper waters—the kind of transformation that goes beyond mindset shifts and into the soul of true healing? Are you ready to hold space not just for change, but for liberation?
If you're a psychotherapist, coach, healer, or graduate of the Wilderness Walk Foundational Shadow Coach Certification—or another seasoned practitioner—you already know that surface-level tools only go so far. Clients are longing for something more: a path inward. A way home.
Shadow Coaching is quickly becoming one of the most essential and sought-after modalities for addressing emotional pain, unconscious patterns, and unintegrated trauma. The Advanced Shadow Coach Training offers a powerful evolution of this work—integrating somatic healing, internal family systems, psychodrama, shamanic practices, and creative expression to create lasting, embodied change.
And it doesn’t stop with 1:1 sessions. These tools expand your capacity to lead transformational groups, retreats, events, and even corporate spaces with greater confidence and depth. Whether you're guiding an individual or facilitating a room full of people, you’ll learn how to meet the moment with presence, precision, and power.
A Shadow Coach doesn’t just guide from knowledge—they lead from lived experience. They are the ones who’ve walked through their own darkness and emerged with a torch in hand. They know how to navigate the unknown, how to hold space in the breaking-open, and how to walk beside others as they reclaim the parts they once left behind.
If that’s who you’re becoming—this is the training that will take you there.
Ready to take that first step?
SOME BENEFITS FROM DOING SHADOW WORK
Cultivates emotional resilience, self-acceptance, and inner peace by helping one understand their wounds, regulate their emotions, and release guilt, fear, shame, and suppressed pain.
Shadow work deepens relationships by helping one set healthy boundaries, show up authentically, release projections, and cultivate compassion—for themselves and others.
Shadow work empowers visionary leadership and bold creativity by aligning one with their truth, dissolving fear-based blocks, and unlocking the confidence to lead, create, and innovate with purpose.
Shadow work fuels personal growth by revealing the roots of self-sabotage, awakening the courage to change, and empowering one to live with purpose and intention.
THE WILDERNESS WALK ADVANCED SHADOW COACH TRAINING OVERVIEW
We will use some of the most effective healing modalities to work with the shadow including: Somatic Healing, Psychodrama, Internal Family Systems, Shamanic Practices, and Creative Expression.
Effective Shadow Work
Tools and Practices
During the program you will have six virtual intensives. Each intensive will be 2 half days and will include small breakout room practices, experiential exercises and powerful discussions. These intensives will be highly interactive and experiential, allowing you to gain a sense of mastery over the tools and your own personal shadow.
Six Mind Blowing Intensives
You will attend a live virtual retreat at the beginning of your process. The training will end with an in-person four night retreat as a way to complete and integrate the process.
Virtual and Live Retreat
There will be a series of 12 video trainings that will teach you the foundation of the practices and how to specifically use them with the shadow.
Video Training
The online learning space houses all your curriculum—videos, audios, and documents. It’s also where you’ll find your interactive class discussion forums, where you can interact with instructors, and where you get to know other coaches.
Online Learning Space
You will be assigned a mentor who will support your process throughout the program, and you will receive some personal shadow work coaching.
Mentoring and Personal Shadow Coaching
Lori Kaufman- Creativity Coach
If you are looking to expand your ability to support yourself and your clients as they transverse their healing journey, the Shadow Coaching Certification is for you! Suzanne and George come together to bring their expertise and passion for exploring the shadow. They provide an extensive framework for understanding and working with the shadow along with mentorship, community, and a vast library of excellent coaching tools to support your practice and strengthen your capacity to support your clients safely and with integrity.
LEARNING MODULES AND INTENSIVES
The following modalities are loaded with tools that can be used in working with the shadow. We are using bits and pieces of each of these powerful modalities so that you can build a life-changing experience for your clients.
The body holds what the mind forgets. Somatic work invites us to listen—not just with our thoughts, but with our whole being. It recognizes that trauma, stress, and emotional residue are not just psychological—they live in the tissues, the breath, the nervous system. This is why somatic work is a vital companion to shadow work.
The shadow doesn’t live in logic—it lives in sensation, impulse, contraction, and silence. To truly meet and integrate the unconscious, we must include the body. In this training, we explore how to work with the language of the body: the subtle cues, the held patterns, the wisdom stored deep within. When we bring awareness to what the body is showing us, we gain access to deeper truth, fuller integration, and more lasting transformation.
SOMATIC EXPERIENCING AND THE SHADOW
Psychodrama is a powerful, experiential modality that brings the unseen into the light—through movement, role-play, and embodied storytelling. Rather than simply talking about a memory or pattern, we step into it, giving form and voice to the parts of us that have been silenced, stuck, or frozen in time. This process allows us to not only witness but to rehearse transformation—to reclaim agency, express what was never said, and shift the narrative from within.
Because the shadow lives in the unconscious, beyond words and logic, we need embodied, action-based tools to access what’s been hidden. Psychodrama opens a doorway into deeper layers of healing by engaging the body, imagination, and nervous system—all of which hold clues to our unresolved experiences.
PSYCHODRAMA AND THE SHADOW
Within each of us lives a whole inner ecosystem—different parts, voices, and energies that carry their own stories, emotions, and roles. Internal Family Systems (IFS) offers a profound way to meet these inner parts with compassion and curiosity. Some are protectors, working hard to keep us safe. Others hold pain, shame, anger, or fear—parts of us we’ve pushed aside or learned to hide.
Shadow work invites us to turn toward these parts instead of away from them. To listen. To understand. To see which parts are leading the way—and which ones are longing to be heard, healed, or integrated. Often, these parts are in conflict with the deeper wisdom of our higher self, creating tension, resistance, and misalignment in our lives.
INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS AND THE SHADOW
Rooted in earth-based wisdom and ancient spiritual traditions, shamanic principles offer a path of remembrance—of our connection to nature, spirit, and the deeper intelligence that lives within and around us. In many indigenous cultures, shamanic practice is not separate from life—it is life. It teaches that healing is relational: with self, with others, with the land, and with the unseen world.
The shadow, by nature, creates a sense of separation—from our essence, our intuition, and our spirit. Shamanic work helps bridge that gap. Through the use of ritual, ceremony, imagery, and metaphor, we enter into the symbolic realms of the unconscious—the places where language falters, but deep truth speaks. These practices open portals to healing that are embodied, spiritual, and sacred, helping us to remember who we are beneath the layers we’ve hidden or forgotten.
SHAMANIC PRINCIPLES AND THE SHADOW
We are all innately creative—yet so many of us have learned to silence, shrink, or separate from that truth. There is a collective shadow around creativity that tells us it's reserved for artists, dancers, musicians, or performers. And in response, many people carry an individual shadow marked by denial, dismissal, or even shame around their creative expression.
Shadow work invites us to reclaim what’s been exiled—including the natural, generative spark that lives in every human being. Creativity isn’t just about painting or performing—it shows up in business, strategy, cooking, parenting, storytelling, innovation, and how we shape the world around us. Whether it flows through art, spreadsheets, or software, creativity is a sacred impulse toward expression, connection, and life itself.
CREATIVITY AND THE SHADOW
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PROGRAM DETAILS
Can be taken from anywhere in the world!
Virtual Online Shadow Coach Training
Coaching toolkit
Private student forum with 24-7 access
Virtual and live in-person retreat
Access to educational librafry
Access to graduate program upon completion
(6) Monthly Modules
(12) Pre-recorded video-audio trainings with accompanying PDFs and tools
(6) 2 half-day intensives with founders and other trainers
(3) Private mentoring sessions for accountability and personal shadow coaching
Book a call to get started!
Beginning is EASY!
“Unless we do conscious work on it, the shadow is almost always projected: That is, it is neatly laid on someone or something else so we do not have to take responsibility for it.”
– Robert Johnson
FOUNDERS AND FACILITATORS
Suzanne Hanna
Suzanne is a licensed psychotherapist, seasoned shadow coach, writer and speaker. She the founder and creator of The Wilderness Walk, an experiential hero’s journey through the fears of the subconscious mind and the pain of the wounded heart. She designed the journeys to help others integrate ALL aspects of their being, both the light and dark. Her three and nine-week journeys are changing lives all over the world and leading people on a path toward internal freedom. Suzanne co-founded the Shadow Coach Certification Program in order to create more impact and global healing. Suzanne works with courageous souls who want to embody the best versions of themselves and be a positive ripple in this world for others. She has a passion for the mountains, animals and nature. She is currently working on her first book.
George Herrick
George Herrick is co-creator of the original Wilderness Walk, and since then has been a creative contributor as well as a powerful collaborator with Suzanne. George is the founder of SoulDeep Living, a coaching process that supports people in taking courageous action toward the life that matters most to them. His classes, retreats and coaching lead others through transformational experiences and creative expression to live inspired lives. A life and recovery coach, artist, initiated shamanic practitioner and ceremonialist, George works with people who want a deeper connection to their soul and express their personal, human divinity with compassion, wisdom and a sense of service to something greater than themselves. He is the author of the best-selling book, “STONE WARRIOR; Confronting Life’s Dark Challenges with Stone Art and Meditation,” about his journey through the shadows of recovery from cancer and addiction.
Andrea Arledge
Andrea Arledge is not just a Registered Nurse with over 16 years of experience; she is a pioneering Shadow Coach who blends her deep medical knowledge with holistic practices to guide individuals on transformative journeys. With a rich background in holistic nutrition, somatic healing, and emotional health, Andrea empowers people to break free from the limiting stories that keep them stuck, helping them embrace their true selves and live authentically. Andrea is passionate about normalizing the full spectrum of human emotions and creating spaces where people can explore their inner landscapes without judgment. Her unique blend of skills and compassionate guidance helps clients navigate their emotional worlds with courage and integrity, leading them to profound internal liberation and empowerment.
“Shadow work is the way to illumination. When we become aware of all that is buried within us, that which is lurking beneath the surface no longer has power over us.”
― Aletheia Luna
FOR ALL THOSE WHO HAVE COMPLETED THE ADVANCED TRAINING WILL RECEIVE:
✓ Certificate of completion
✓ Access to graduate community
✓ Ongoing access to material and resources
✓ Highlighted on our website
✓ Ongoing Supervision
✓ Access to an ever expanding library of educational videos.
(Payment Plans Available)
Investment
$4,995 USD
Carolyn Carlson-Intuitive Massage Therapist, Creative Healer & Shadow Coach
Having done Shadow work over the past 6 years in my personal journey work, I knew that I wanted to be able to bring it to others in my professional offerings. The information I am learning and the tangible tools that I am being given have helped me to feel comfortable in my coaching sessions with others. The material is provided in a multi-tiered approach so that all learning styles can engage and become enriched in the certification process. If you are seeking a quality, well-rounded Shadow Coaching Certification look no further.
To receive a certificate of completion for the advanced training participants must complete the following:
Completion of required self-study videos and objectives in the online learning space.
Attend a minimum of 80% of the intensives LIVE.
Schedule 3 personal development and mentorship calls with your assigned leader.
Record three 30-minute coaching sessions using the modalities taught to review with your mentor and coach.
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2025 Shadow Coach Training Application
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