Find your own answers. Through direct experience.
What is Harner Shamanic Counseling (HSC)?
Harner Shamanic Counseling is a structured way to learn shamanic journeying for your own clarification and orientation. Developed by Michael Harner on the basis of Core Shamanism, it places self-perception, inner images, and symbolic experience at the center. You learn to enter a focused altered state of consciousness and to find answers to your own questions through direct experience. What you experience there comes from within you.
How it works
With rhythmic drumming as support, you learn to direct inner attention, hold questions, perceive what arises, and integrate the experience afterwards. The method is clearly structured and comparatively easy to learn. It does not require special prior knowledge, but it does require a genuine willingness to look and engage with the process.
The role of the counselor
I teach you the technique, guide the methods, and hold the frame. I do not interpret your experiences for you. In the follow-up conversation, I support you in placing the experience. Meanings arise from your own experience and your life context.
The process
HSC usually consists of six to eight sessions. By the end, you are able to journey shamanically independently and safely and to use the method on your own. Those who want to continue exploring can follow up with supervision or deepening sessions.
What you learn
How to reliably enter the shamanic state of consciousness. How to formulate clear questions. How to perceive what is shown to you. How to build a direct, personal relationship with what you encounter there. The goal is independence, not dependence on an accompanying person.
For whom
This offer is for people who want to learn shamanic journeying in a clear and experience-based way, without cultural overlays and without spiritual exaggeration. Openness and the ability to concentrate are more helpful than prior knowledge. HSC is especially recommended when you are often confronted with questions and decisions where no one else can really help you.
Practical note
This offer is spiritual in nature and does not replace medical, psychiatric, or psychotherapeutic treatment.