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SPIRIT WEAVERS
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Kate and Stephanie
Kate and Stephanie
have taught throughout the U.S. and in Canada, and internationally, and also
offer shamanic healing services. They are co-founders of Spirit Weavers, an organization
devoted to providing experiential training in Shamanism, and offering
shamanic healing to those interested.
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Stephanie Tighe |
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Kate Durda, MA,
is a developmental psychologist, shamanic practitioner, and educator.and
graduate of the
Foundation for Shamanic Studies
Three Year Program in Advanced Shamanism and Shamanic Healing (taught by
Dr. Michael Harner and Sandy Ingerman). She
has studied various cultural forms of shamanism, including Inca (Q’ero-Peru);
Celtic; Tibetan; and Buryat (Russia); as well as some Native American
practices. She incorporates Shamanism, Esoteric Healing, and Reiki
in her work. Kate is a current board member of the Peace Education Center( PEC),
an organization devoted to peace activism. She is in the process of
organizing a 'peace & spirituality'
group as part of the PEC's work.
She had taught/presented
shamanism in many settings from children's groups to the elderly, and both
nationally and internationally at the Conflict Resolution Conference in St
Petersburg, Russia.
Stephanie Tighe,
M.S.W., has an
advanced degree in social work, is a shamanic practitioner, and a graduate of
the Foundation for Shamanic Studies Three Year Program in Advanced Shamanism
and Shamanic Healing with Dr. Michael Harner and Christina Stack.
She is also a Certified Shamanic Counselor(CSC) through training with Sandra
Harner, Ph.D. with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. She has received
training in various shamanic, spiritual, and meditative traditions from around
the globe since 1973. Stephanie also led a shamanic journeying group inside two
Michigan state prisons.
Stephanie & Kate
Additionally,
Stephanie and Kate received
training from Sandra Ingerman to teach
Medicine for the Earth,
her ground breaking new work based on her book of the same title. They
are graduates of the first Two Year Shamanic Teacher Training Program, taught by
Sandra Ingerman. They have also participated in other long term shamanic
training: a two year advanced shamanism program and a Two year "PeaceHealing"
training with with Myron Eshowsky. Also with Myron, Stephanie and Kate
were founding board members of
PATHWAYS Foundation for Peace and Healing.
Kate
and Stephanie have organized and led Shamanic Journey Circles since 1990 (Steph),
and 1996(Kate) and they currently host a Shamanic Journey Circle in Lansing.
They actively encourage and support the development of Journey Circles around
the state. They also lead ceremony and ritual for the public,
including Feast of the Dead Celebration, and Winter Solstice.
They provide a continuum of training from introduction to shamanism to an
advanced three year program. Training includes apprenticeship, residential
and non-residential short and long term formats. Please see our current and past
workshops for more information. They also serve in consulting/supervision
of interested shamanic practitioners as well.
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