Shadow Work with the 16 Guidelines: Uncover, Transform, Heal:-
Join Craig for a special three-part immersive series designed to go deeper into transforming the shadow side of good quality.
*Participants should be familiar with either the 16 Guidelines or Transformative Mindfulness Methods (TMM).
📅 March 17, 24, 31 (Mondays)
⏰ 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM EST (Toronto, Canada)
📍 Live on Zoom
Course Journey:
Session 1: Preparing for transformative work
- connecting with a healing space
- grounding in compassion and wisdom
- acceptance of pain and the root causes of suffering.
Session 2: Approaching and transforming our relationship to the shadow:
- welcoming the negative aspects into a healing space
- encountering resistance, introducing wisdom and compassion
- asking for help and letting go.
Session 3: integrating and healing transformed the shadow:
- welcoming and encountering resistance,
- applying and integrating new insights and feeling
- next steps and embodying transformed shadow.
Why this course?
So often in mindfulness practices, for participants and facilitators alike, deep discomfort and distress can arise. Having a toolkit to encounter stress, paint, trauma, childhood wounds or resistance of any kind is essential.
This course will introduce participants to a framework and practices that will help them meet blockages to their highest embodied potential through transformative mindfulness.
The 16 Guidelines are an indigenous set of embodied virtues that originate from Tibet. In their modern iteration they comprise a framework that can be universally accessed through our own experiences and inner wisdom. Laid out in 4 wisdom themes of how we Think, Act, Related and Create Meaning, each corresponding 4 guidelines can be used to meet challenges and transform suffering.
With each good quality also comes the potential for a shadow to arise – something that resembles the qualities but is not (semblance), a misuse of the quality (unskillful) that is tainted by unclear motivation or malicious intention, and the opposite of the quality (contra). Each of these shadow aspects has the potential to be transformed through introspection and healed by introducing wisdom and compassion.
Transformative Mindfulness Methods provides the perfect framework to dive into transforming a specific shadow that may arise.
In this workshop, participants will be encouraged to pick a specific quality with which they wish to have a deeper relationship. Over three weeks they will participate in transformative work through visualization, group discussion and didactic instruction.
Who is this for?
This course is ideal for those familiar with either the 16 Guidelines or Transformative Mindfulness Methods and who want to:
✔️ Work with inner blockages preventing their full potential
✔️ Gain new tools for healing emotional distress and resistance
✔️ Deepen their understanding of shadow work & transformation
💰 Pay What You Can (Suggested: $100 CAD)
📜 Receipts available for psychological services/social work
📩 Register: craig@essentialchange.net
Join Craig in this powerful and supportive space for deep transformation. 🌿✨
Facilitator:
Craig Mackie –Craig is a registered 16G facilitator and trainer, born in Ottawa, he has a BA in Developmental Psychology/Philosophy from the University of Alberta, an MA in Philosophy from the University of Ottawa and an MSW from the University of Toronto. He has worked in wilderness therapy and addiction treatment centers as well as schools and leadership programs for youth. He has also worked with Aboriginal men who have experienced homelessness in Toronto and multiple marginalized communities in Ottawa.
Other projects he has played a key role in include Social Rec Connect and Christie Lake Kids.
In addition to his work in individual counseling and coaching in private practice, he is the founder of Essential Change and teaches as an instructor for the Applied Mindfulness Meditation Certificate Program at the University of Toronto, Continuing Education, Faculty of Social Work.
