🎓 Course Tutor: High Priestess Willow Moon, MHA
🎯 Level:  Beginner and beyond
🔑 Prerequisites: None
🏆 Mastery Stream & Credits: Healing — ½ Credit (50 points)

📜 Course Description

Shadow work is the sacred practice of exploring and integrating the hidden, disowned, or repressed aspects of self. In this course, students will learn to meet the shadow with courage, compassion, and insight, using a blend of psychological understanding, spiritual awareness, and magickal practice.

Through reflective journaling, guided meditation, elemental and symbolic rituals, and heart-centred practices, students will cultivate the skills and inner presence to:

✨ By the end of the course, students will:

• Understand the nature of the shadow: personal, ancestral, and collective layers.

• Identify and engage with repressed aspects of self through awareness, ritual, and reflection.

• Work safely with emotional triggers, projection, and transference.

• Employ symbolic and elemental ritual as tools for transformation and integration.

• Cultivate self-compassion and meet shadow aspects with tenderness and curiosity.

• Synthesize shadow work into a personal practice of wholeness, healing, and empowerment.
  
  

📖 Course Modules:

• Lesson 1 — Meeting the Shadow: The Mirror of the Soul

• Lesson 2 — The Roots of Shadow: Personal, Ancestral & Collective Layers

• Lesson 3 — Emotion, Projection & the Alchemy of Awareness

• Lesson 4 — Rituals of Integration: Working with Symbol & Element

• Lesson 5 — Shadow Compassion: The Heart as Healer

• Lesson 6 — Soul Integration: Completing the Circle of Shadow Work
  
  

📥 Course Access Requirements

To access this course, students will need a device (computer, tablet, or smartphone) that meets the Canvas system requirements.

 👉 View system and browser requirements 

Students can also access the course on the go with the Canvas mobile app, allowing you to:

• View lessons and grades

• Submit assignments

• Track progress with the built-in calendar and to-do list

• Send and receive messages
  
  

📚 Additional Resources

• Journal or Notebook — for reflection exercises, prompts, and assignment drafts.

• Quiet Space at Home — to practice meditation, journaling, and ritual exercises.

• Optional Ritual Tools — such as candles, bowls of water, stones, feathers, or symbolic objects; helpful for experiential exercises but not required.

Also included is an optional recommended reading list which includes texts on shadow work, Jungian psychology, ritual, and self-compassion.

Join the Academy’s online Student Circle community via Facebook for shared support, discussion, and inspiration.

📝 Coursework & Submissions

This course includes quizzes for self-assessment and one final creative Shadow Integration Project worth 25 points. Assignments are submitted via the Canvas platform and are evaluated based on:

• Clarity of expression

• Creativity and originality

• Demonstrated understanding of course concepts

• Sincere effort and engagement
  
  

✍️ Coursework Load: Light
Expect to spend up to 2 hours completing assignments, in addition to journaling, reflection, and meditation practice.

🎓 Mastery Stream & Credit Information

🏠 House: Domus Curandorum
🏆 Credits Earned: ½ Credit (50 points)

This credit contributes to progression through the Healing Mastery Stream as part of structured training and advancement. To learn more about how credits support deeper initiation and skill development, visit our Training Paths page: https://www.enchantedmoonacademy.com/training-paths

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