The Shamans Quest -  
Shamanic Practitioner Training

Dates and timings for 2025/26        
Friday 10.00 am start to Monday 3.00pm close

1 - Friday  11th April  –  Monday 14th April 2025
2 - Friday  18th July  –   Monday 21st July 2025
3 - Friday  24th Oct    –  Monday 27th Oct 2025
4 - Friday  13th Feb -   Monday 16th Feb  2026
 

Applications now being taken for starting April  2025. 

Download the Application form here    

I, Derek, have been teaching shamanic practice for over 22 years and I am an experienced and working shamanic healer / practitioner. I am happy to guide you through the all aspects of shamanism and the Shamans Quest Practitioner training is now in its 13th year

The Journey:
On the quest journey, the hero sets out to reach their goal, to obtain their treasure, 
accomplishing tasks along the way and then return home with it intact. 

The Shaman, on their epic journey, often with great exertion and struggles along the pathway endeavours to reach a full understanding of his or herself and to complete the quest.

On this journey, we will follow the wheel of the year, from death and rebirth, the verdant new growth to the rich harvest of our souls, exploring shamanic teachings and techniques that have been used for millennia to reach our goals. This is an in depth shamanic course where you will explore and learn in a friendly and fully supported environment. Suitable for novices setting out on their pathway as well as those that would like to explore to a greater depth the inner workings of the world of the shaman.

We will weave our story over four, 4 day sessions, starting in April through to the following February, whilst we follow the growth of the year and of ourselves and explore the journey to reach our goals.  Each session will start on the Friday morning, and ending on the Monday mid p.m.. 

The sessions will comprise practical explorations, teachings, discussions, pair and group work and solitary and shared ceremony. This will be a closed group with limited numbers and you will be required to commit to all of the four sessions with case studies to complete your training for shamanic practitioner’s certification. Alternatively you can attend fully but follow the route of personal shamanic embodiment for your own personal growth without case studies etc. You will be given full group and private support throughout by your teacher, Derek Gane, the assistants, as well as your peer group. 

I have been teaching shamanic practice for 22 years and happy to guide you through all aspects of shamanism. The Shamans Quest is now in its 13th year and is accredited with I.P.H.M. 

This training is held at The Healing Tree Centre in North Cornwall, on 18 acres of beautiful private land and woodlands and we shall spend time connecting both indoors and outside throughout all the seasons.

This programme is organic and subject to fluidity but here’s a guide to the teachings

Session 1- Creation - Air
Introduction to journeying, Energy body awareness, Ceremony of the drum, Tutelary allies, Circle of reality, Lower world journeying, Earthwalks, Upper world journeying, Meeting our Totems, Transformational Drum Healing, Smudging,  Air Ceremony. Shamanic crafting, Creating your own personal healing mesa bag.  

Session 2- Strength - Fire
Fire ceremony, Journeying, Shamanic Counselling. The wounded healer, Shamanic view of illness, and healing, Walk of attention, Merging with animals, Dance of power, Working with the elements, Healing fire ceremony. Shamanic hunter / prey, Understanding shamanic view of power, Healing bundles, Power Animal retrieval healing. Guardianship of the Grandfather. Chanupa pipe ceremony

Session 3- Expansion - Water
Earth walks and awareness, Middle world journey, Ceremony as an act, Shamanic extraction healing. Working with ancestral helpers, Ancestral healing, Responsibilities with clients. Cord cutting, Egg Cleansing, Space clearance, Water ceremonies.  Mesa Healing.  Attachments and Intrusions

Session 4 - Solidity - Earth
Understanding soul loss, Mending the fragmented soul with retrieval. Soul remembrance, Soul theft, Elementals and the Middle world, Rock seeing. The Dance of your Animal. Earth Ceremony. Sacred Heart Cacao Ceremony. Full healing integration session. Full Healing review. Completion celebration.

The Healing Tree is an approved training provider and The Shamans Quest is accredited with I.P.H.M