Embrace the Wild Wisdom of Your Eco-Cosmic Heritage
in this 8-month Leadership Journey
May 14 to Nov 12, 2024
This is the era of souls waking up. Propelled by a global crisis, we are called to embrace the mystics’ journey and re-imagine a new story for humanity that honours, loves and respects all of Life. We are being called to birth a fresh understanding of our relationship with a living Earth, Cosmos and each other.
With every part of nature under siege, we enter the most important spiritual journey of our times. One that cultivates the courage, compassion and insight needed to co-create mutually enhancing relationships with one another and all Life.
The Shamanu Mentorship is an invitation to reclaim our ecological and cosmic birthright and remember our innate interdependence within the web of life. We enter the question: How do we deepen resonance with the creative dynamics of Nature and the Universe and be the hands and hearts that enable all life and humanity to flourish?
Turning to the wild wisdom of Earth and powers of the Universe as our mentors and guides, this soul journey and call to action empowers us to be present in the healing of ourselves, our communities and the Earth with reborn clarity, wonderment and purpose.
Eco-philosophies, embodiment practices and visionary journeys are our pathways into the more-than-human world and primeval wisdom and power needed to Be the peace that will change the future.
If you feel called to an adventure full of discovery, wonder and possibility, we welcome you into this life-changing Mentorship experience.
“The Wild One is enchanted because it has been sung into the world by the world and knows this.” ~Bill Plotkin
The Practices:
The Shamanu Mentorship is an embodied integration process that supports you in finding the inspired pathways in your life, with spirit, heart, body, and mind dancing together. Sessions are highly experiential.
Eco-philosophies, Indigenous wisdom and contemporary science are brought to life with Primordial Movement, Intuitive dance, breathwork, nature meditations, Clarity Quest, Visionary journeys and community engagement.
The Process
This huge and often challenging adventure invites a profound shift of consciousness. Such a shift is a process and takes time. The 7-month format is designed to provide sufficient space, consistency, tools and support to cultivate radical ecological, social and spiritual transformation.
Core processes support movement from the familiar inner terrain to one’s creative edge, where a more vital and authentic self awaits.
Embodied practices and community help you overcome emotional resistance and pitfalls that waste vital energy.
Contemplative practices help you transform psychological blockages that prevent seeing your way forward into life-enhancing relationships, vocations and societies.
Inspired Leadership
The Mentorship offers an incubator where the fragile and tender visions of the new Story can ripen into reality for future generations to harvest. We need each other and
With the support of a conscious community and time with the land at The Living Centre, we explore leadership from the inside out. Great joy and meaning come when you realize the unique gifts that are alive within you.
Includes:
Two 2-day Residential Immersions
One 4-day Residential Immersion
One 3-day Residential Immersion
Two private one-on-one sessions with your mentor, Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera
Eight Online Group Sessions
“I feel a sense of connection and fulfillment that I didn’t know was possible. I have fallen in love with the earth again and have awakened to my purpose on this planet. I have never experienced anything so pure and real. My heart is overflowing with gratitude for this mentorship.” ~ Rhianna
The Three-Season Process
Spring: Preparing the Soil – Online
May 14 – Group Zoom meet-up – 7 pm – 9 pm. New Moon
May 28 – Group Zoom meet-up – 7 pm – 9 pm.
Course Overview
Orientation and introductions
Introducing key principles and practices
The Three Stories of our time
Introduction to the Ten Powers of the Universe
The Three Universal Imperatives
Building community processes
Elemental Meditations
“The Earth’s powers are coursing through us moment by moment. To become aware of these powers is to touch the source of Life.” ~ Brain Swimme, Cosmologists
Spring: Seeding a New Vision
June 8, 9 – Saturday 9:30 am – 9:30 pm, Sunday 9:30 am to 5 pm daily at The Living Centre, non-residential
This Session includes :
Eco-Somatic Practices – introducing Primordial Movement, The Dance of the Elements and breathwork
Old Story vs New Story: exploring context, cultural belief systems, values and indoctrinations
The Twelve Principles: understanding the role of the human in the new story
The Ayurvedic Science of The Five Sacred Elements: human and ecological expressions
Felt Awareness: your Spiritual Guidance System exercises
Deep Nature Immersion Processes
Water Purification Ceremony
Interactive and Earth meditation solo time
June 18 – Group Zoom meet-up
Integration, Q & A and group support
Summer: Growing the Vision
July 5, 6, 7, 8 – Residential Immersion at The Living Centre
The two summer sessions take us outdoors onto the Land where we can reconnect and sink into the wonders of creation.
This Session includes:
The Spiral of the Work that Reconnects, developed by Joanna Macy
Living Earth Conversations and the languages of nature
Stories that enhance and regenerate
One day Clarity Quest
The Cosmic Law of Love: The Universe as a relational entity
Functional and Dysfunctional Cosmologies and their impacts on leadership and ecology
Awe, wonder and reverence as intrinsic to human happiness
“The Universe shivers with wonder in the depth of the human.” ~ Brian Swimme
July 23 – Group Zoom meet-up
Integration, Q & A and group support
Leadership in a New Era
August 9, 10, 11 – 9:30 am to 5 pm daily
This Session includes:
Universal Creativity as Allurement – how the Earth calls forth creativity in the human
Universal Creativity as Cataclysm – loss and destruction as essential to the flowering of our creative power
Cherishing, protecting and nurturing our Allurements
A New Leadership paradigm for birthing a just and mutually thriving future
The Council of All Beings – a communal ritual to speak on behalf of another life-form
Earth Ritual – Creating Altars of Coherence
Allurement Meditation & Discernment Exercise
Interactive and solo time
Deepening Eco-Somatic Practices
“Wisdom teachings worldwide say there’s no greater blessing than to live the life of your soul; doing so is the source of your deepest personal fulfillment and of your greatest service to others and Earth. It’s the locus of authentic personal power.” ~Bill Plotkin
August 27 – Group Zoom meet-up
Integration, Q & A and group support
The Harvest
September 21, 22 – Saturday 9:30 am – 9:30 pm, Sunday 9:30 am to 5 pm daily at The Living Centre
The Dream of the Earth – inspiration and ethical guidance
Compassion, Courage and Insight – tools for weaving the new story in your life
The New Leadership Clarity Quest
Cultural myths that block your sacred purpose
My Choices for this Lifetime’ – The Bodhisattva Check-In
Grounding Your Dreams exercises
Interactive and solo time
Eco-Somatic practices: finding your Blisscipline
Oct 8 – Group Zoom meet-up – 7 pm – 9 pm.
Oct 29 – Group Zoom meet-up – 7 pm – 9 pm.
Nov 12 – Group Zoom meet-up – 7 pm – 9 pm.
Integration, Q & A
Private Completion Session with Lorenna
Guest Facilitators:
Danielle Denichaud
Danielle is a daughter of the Earth; student of eco-spirituality, regenerative healing praxes, herbal medicine; and the first of her family lineage born on Turtle Island. Through movement, philosophy, poetry and science, Danielle stewards embodied languages that activate wonderment, felt sense and compassion; in service to peace and the mutual thriving of all Earth kin and our shared planetary home. She has professional training in Holistic Nutrition, Ashtanga and Kundalini Yoga, Compassionate Inquiry, Trauma-honouring Somatic Processes and Medical Qi-Gong. Danielle is a PhD Candidate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Her work and research center our subjective mind-body-heart-spirit embodiments as the salient terrain to cultivate resilient languages of earth stewardship, individual wellness and relational harmony.
Shantree Kacera
Co-director and founder of The Living Centre, Shantree brings 45 years of devotion to a spiritual path rooted in an in-depth understanding of the spirit of the plant world. He brings to the course practical wisdom through the language of Ayurveda, our relationship with each Element and how they express themselves through us as health, dis-ease, inspiration and intelligence, nutritional knowledge that makes living in connection with nature easy and fulfilling and a vision of how we can each live our passion in service to the world.
Shantree has his Ph.D. in Nutrition, is a Certified Herbalist Elder with the Ontario Herbal Association, an Ayurvedic Practitioner and Certified Permaculture teacher, and is the beloved husband of Lorenna.
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The Living Centre, Eco-spiritual Centre
Founded in 1983, The Living Centre is a 50-acre Permaculture eco-spiritual education sanctuary with wild meadows, forest, spring-fed pond and organic fruit orchards, ceremonial gardens and five natural buildings. The spacious surroundings offer a perfect setting for learning, regeneration and reconnecting.
Come prepared to be on the land as much as weather permits.
“If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.” ~ Joanna Macy
Registration & Dates:
May 14 – Group Zoom meet-up – 7 pm – 9 pm.
May 28 – Group Zoom meet-up – 7 pm – 9 pm.
June 8 – 9 – Saturday 9 – 9:30 am – 9:30 pm, Sunday 9:30 – 5 at The Living Centre (not residential)
June 18 – Group Zoom meet-up
July 5, 6, 7, 8 – Residential Immersion at The Living Centre
July 23 – Group Zoom meet-up
August 9, 10, 11 – Residential Immersion at The Living Centre
September 3 – Group Zoom meet-up
September 21, 22 – Saturday 9 – 9:30 am – 9:30 pm, Sunday 9:30 – 5 at The Living Centre (not residential)
“It is this kind of education that will take us into the future in a good way. Totally inspiring. I had no idea I had forgotten so much of who I am. It’s just good to come back home to myself and feel my part in this amazing earth community.” ~Sean
“The mentorship was incredible. The practices were amazing and the bonding of the group. It was so connecting. it was an honour to learn from you. Where the practices bring me is incredible. A feeling of the vast nothingness and everything at the same time. What my soul yearned for. My hearts so full of gratitude for the whole experience. This is amazing to be able to go there without substance. It’s validating, and now I have the experience to support me. ~ Allison
“I have been affected and changed at a very deep level – I have never felt so alive! The mentorship opened my eyes to my value and importance here on earth, the old stories,the wildness of my heart and my body and the importance of inter-connection. It offered healing, and gave me practices and insights into how to move forward as I re-story my life. It was a powerful and empowering experience!”~ Laura
“The mentorship was transformative. It took me to deep levels. I thought it would be more about movement. I didn’t realize we were going to go as deep as we did. I didn’t think I needed that on the depth that I needed it. I didn’t think those places were inside of me, but they showed up through the practices and experiences. They naturally, in a kind of organic way came forth and I could handle it. That’s what really was great. By the time I hit these deeper places I had the movement and teachings inside me so I could handle the process. It was transformative at so many levels. I’m still working with it and I will be. So thank you! It was great!” ~ Helen
“The mentorship invited me to delve into the depths of my mind, hear, body and spirit, to meet my gifts and my shadows. All of this was facilitated through loving, compassionate wisdom and tranformational holistic practices. I came back for a second year to deepen my connection, and leave with a grounded knowing and greater trust in my true self. I feel empowered to stand for what I believe in and protect all that I love.” ~ Danielle
“I leave this mentorship deeply grounded, knowing my purpose and the tools to bring my heart’s desires forward.” ~ Snappy
“The mentorship was beautiful. Each time we gathered there was a deepening with everyone where I was more and more able to drop in and be myself. The practices bring me to more joy and gratitude. Before, I would be very much about what wasn’t working and now i’m seeing what is working and what possibilities exist. They cultivatesself-assurance and a deep listening and trust in my inner knowing. It has even deepened my relationship with my husband.
Allowing myself to consider leadership in a way that is natural to me and my style and my voice and not thinking that I have to be something other than who I am to be a effective was amazing.” ~ Sherri
“I want to acknowledge the uniqueness of this experience. As a spiritual seeker I’ve been on other journeys. This one gave me what I’ve been looking for. Every cell in my body now knows that creating a more beautiful world IS possible – now. My whole life is different now.” ~ Cherrelle
“The mentorship has been transformational, helping me to bring more awareness and care to my relationships with myself, the Elements and natural world. I have learned so many tools and truths that help me participate more fully in Life and the healing of our sacred Mother Earth. Thank you from the bottom of my boundless, wild heart!!” ~ Cassandra
“This mentorship has deeply supported my path of connection with myself and Earth. Living with integrity and significance!” ~
“Thank you for holding space and leading such insightful experiences. I am so pleased that I came for the third year. I am in such a different place inside myself.” ~ Margy
Taking the Shamanu mentorship for 2 years with Lorenna has completely changed my life and my perspective on life itself. This mentorship was the invitation I needed to restore my life back into harmony with the Earth.I explored what it really means to embody and become the ecological self. With the motive of benefiting the ‘whole’ through the soul connection we humans have with nature, reclaiming my wild heart. ~ M.
“As the months of the mentorship progressed it was like an exciting adventure into myself, requiring me to open as I worked through my personal limitations. There was space to be with my own thoughts and felt experiences, as well as many flowing conversations with others to learn deeply from!I feel that I have re-emerge as a leader of compassion and insight, coming to the world from a place of love and wholeness, with a new recognition of my joys and gifts and strong connection back to the rhythms of nature! I am ready to lead and hold a new way of living to support and care for all life on this wonderful Earth! My deepest gratitude for Lorenna and her passion of bringing her deep heart into peoples lives. I now have friendships that will last a lifetime, and that include the elements themselves. Lorenna is a beautiful and gracious teacher, leading with her connection and love for the Earth. I am so inspired by her and by what a dynamic, influential, vigorous and joyful women she is. Thank you!” ~ Kaleigh
“The experience and openness of Lorenna; her guidance; the group connection and support; all this created a safe place for me to explore the depth of my wild soul. I am a new person because of this Mentorship.” ~Nancy
“I am still digesting the impact this mentorship has had on me. It has helped me shed some longstanding self-limiting mental scripts and step more fully into my radiance. To learn how to better listen to and acton the wisdom of life. Thank you for a very rewarding and profound, diverse and deliciously nourishing transformative learning experience.” ~Willo
Deep tropical jungles of Southeast Asia in august
“My favourite were the really intense thought provoking questions. They made me really search myself and think about how I feel and see things. All I would like to say is a huge thank you for bringing out my Shamble Warrior! and to feel the new beautiful world my heart knows is possible, making that my goal and dream for the Earth!” ~ Karen
“This is my 3rd Shamanu mentorship. Every time it’s a new experience and help me explore new aspects of my ecological self and deepen into Earth’s wisdom. As part of the Teacher Training Program this time, I had a chance to work more closely with Lorenna to learn how to support the group mentorship progress, to prepare and offer presentations. Lorenna is a kind and supportive mentor. She is generous in her teaching and honest in her feedback. At the end of my teacher training program, I have a sense that I received more than a Certificate of Completion. I gained in this strong and wonderful women a kind-hearted friend and a mentor for life. ~ Nancy
“The experience allowed me to realize and feel the beauty and wonder more deeply. I see the world with a fresh pair of eyes and a more open heart; ready to receive and give more freely.” ~Melanie
“I cannot express in words the value of this type of education. It has given me a stronger connection to my environment, my community and myself.It has inspired me, helped me to find direction and opened avenues to the ways in which I can contribute to the community and the environment around me.” ~Carol
“Lorenna shared so much on so many levels, from her experience and research. She is one of the wisest and most generous women I have ever met, and helps me uncover answers to the most important questions I have about life. It all was immensely healing and nourishing.” -Donna
“This is the most transformation I have ever felt inside and out. Really, I am speechless, and grateful to the core. I am ready to start my life with reciprocity, strength, LOVE, peace, plant power and embracing our big beautiful, strange, wonderful Earth. Thank you!”~ Robbie
“It’s been a journey of joy!!” ~Caitlin
” Fantastic! I am not used to sharingin community. The Completely Connected process and buddy system was an excellent support throughout the Mentorship. The philosophies were powerful helping me to see the hidden indoctrinations for the patriarchy and heal some roots wounds and false beliefs. The sacred reconciliation practice was powerful and very important for my health and vitality. Thank you!” ~Danielle
“I need these things to get out of my head and into my body, as well as the community component, in which I come alive and blossom. And there is so much to be said for your perspective and approach, the way you combine practices with an understanding of transition, energy work, etc. Not to mention the delicious way you push and support, in non-judgement. And of course being there on the land that you have both so lovingly tended, is delicious also.” ~ Blake
“The Shamanu Training gave me the tools to feel my soul, it gave me the strength and the courage to own my spirit, and the sacred space to re-connect to a deep sense of who I really am and the steps I need to take to reach a potential that is grounded in the Earth and steeped in wildness, love, joy, and a deep sense of self.” ~Jayme
“It’s difficult to pinpoint what I liked the best – it was the weaving together of all the processes – movement, sounding, nature connection, people connection and the wisdom shared and energy we built together.” ~Tracey
“I entered this mentorship with an open mind and heart. The space was filled with truths and wisdom that I needed to listen into.I watched us all learn and grow. I needed the two years for its magic to speak to and through me. Mine now forever! In gratitude.” ~Vivianne
“Very life-altering. I feel so much love for every living being. The one-on-one sessions with Lorenna between our weekends helped me be true to myself and she was able to recommend the processes that would help me the most.” ~Melanie
“Awwwesome! The mentorship has helped me to awaken parts of myself that have a great service to the world. Without the depth, meaning, support, community, possibility, I would have continued a destructive lifestyle. It was so amazing to be here with such beautiful people.” ~ Carly
“The Shamanu: Wild Earth, Wild Heart mentorship has been an unforgettable, life changing experience. I left with a new purpose; one that is based on fulfillment and finding my true self. I yearned for a deeper connection, and Lorenna was able to guide me into finding mindfulness and direction. What this course is about is finding the true and deeper meaning to life. Finding ones purpose and passion. Lorenna teaches you how to follow your heart, listen to your soul, and truly build happiness within. Grow love for yourself, the planet, and every human being around you. TO BE TRULY YOU!” ~Shannon
“I felt my intertwining with the earth, my connection to my larger self, and to others. We are not separate. I felt it, and can accept it. This I remember every day now, and carry with me.” ~A
“The Shamanu Wild Heart, Wild Heart Mentorship was incredibly transformational for me. Lorenna’s deep caring and passion for living a connected life inspired me. It was such a good balance of learning, personal healing and inspiration. I feel like I can really make a difference in the world by living in this reconnected way.” ~Kim
Danielle is a daughter of the Earth; student of eco-spirituality, regenerative healing praxes, herbal medicine; and the first of her family lineage born on Turtle Island. Through movement, philosophy, poetry and science, Danielle stewards embodied languages that activate wonderment, felt sense and compassion; in service to peace and the mutual thriving of all Earth kin and our shared planetary home. She has professional training in Holistic Nutrition, Ashtanga and Kundalini Yoga, Compassionate Inquiry, Trauma-honouring Somatic Processes and Medical Qi-Gong. Danielle is a PhD Candidate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Her work and research center our subjective mind-body-heart-spirit 
Co-director and founder of The Living Centre, Shantree brings 45 years of devotion to a spiritual path rooted in an in-depth understanding of the spirit of the plant world. He brings to the course practical wisdom through the language of Ayurveda, our relationship with each Element and how they express themselves through us as health, dis-ease, inspiration and intelligence, nutritional knowledge that makes living in connection with nature easy and fulfilling and a vision of how we can each live our passion in service to the world.
