SHADOW COACHING INSTITUTE
FOUNDATIONAL CERTIFICATION
Learn the foundations of shadow work, depth psychology, and embodied practice to support meaningful, lasting transformation in clients. This training explores core shadow dynamics including archetypes, the birth and burying of the shadow, and family and relational patterns that shape behavior, identity, and connection.
Next Cohort begins September 2026
Shadow Work Changes Lives…
Shadow work reaches the parts of us many other approaches don't touch: shame, fear, grief, rage, numbness, longing. These parts don't respond to logic. They don't dissolve through insight alone.
The shadow isn't only what we fear in ourselves. It's also our golden shadow: the gifts, power, and brilliance we learned to hide because they felt too big, too much, or unsafe to claim. Reclaiming that is part of this work too.
This transformation happens through presence, through attuned relationship, embodiment, and compassion.
Practicing shadow work teaches us three essential things: Symptoms aren't the problem, they're messages. Resistance isn't pathology, it's protection. The psyche organizes itself around survival, belonging, and love, even when that organization causes pain.
Skip the unconscious and the nervous system, and inner work risks staying on the surface. Clients become articulate and self-aware, but they don’t see lasting transformation in their life and inner experience.
You've seen it:
Relational patterns that persist despite years of therapy
Practitioners burned out from managing symptoms instead of complexity
Clients who "know better" but can't live differently
Helpers who freeze when depth, dissociation, or trauma shows up in the room
The modern world isn't asking for more technique. It's asking for capacity.
Capacity to sit with ambiguity. To hold paradox. To meet what's uncomfortable without rushing to fix it. To work with what lives beneath the story.
That's what we build here.
This professional training is designed for coaches, therapists, and healing practitioners seeking depth, integrity, and real-world application.
This training is light on theory and grounded in real-world application. You’ll learn how to work with the shadow in real client sessions—using clear frameworks, embodied techniques, and relational skill. The program emphasizes how to recognize and powerfully work with shadow dynamics as they arise, how to support integration safely and skillfully, and the coaching skills needed to work at depth.
You’ll receive both foundational and experiential education in depth psychology, core coaching competencies, and ethical, trauma-informed practice. You’ll receive one-on-one mentoring, expand your capacity by exploring your own shadow, and learn a wealth of experiential tools and frameworks—so you graduate able to work with clients confidently and effectively.
This Training Is For You If You Are:
A therapist, coach, or healing practitioner
You're already working with clients and noticing the limits of cognitive or solution-focused approaches — patterns repeat despite insight. You want tools to work more effectively with emotional protection, dissociation, shame, and relational wounds, without overstepping scope or overwhelming the nervous system.
A person committed to their own inner work first
This training asks you to engage your own patterns and shadow material, not just learn techniques for others. You're approaching it with humility, curiosity, and a real commitment to your own growth.
An emerging practitioner or coach
You're early in your professional path and drawn to depth work and embodiment. You want a rigorous foundation — presence, discernment, and inner authority — before you specialize.
A professional integrating shadow work into an existing role
As an educator, leader, facilitator, or creative, you're not seeking a new title — you want greater capacity to work with emotional complexity and unconscious dynamics in groups, organizations, or communities.
This Training May Not Be the Right Fit If:
You are looking for quick tools, scripted techniques, or purely intellectual frameworks
You are uninterested in rigorously engaging in your own inner work
You prefer highly directive, outcome-driven methods without relational nuance
You are seeking certification without commitment to embodiment and integration
Shadow work requires patience, discernment, and respect for moving at the pace of each person’s nervous system. This training prioritizes depth and integrity over speed.
Foundations of Shadow Integration
Our training prepares practitioners to recognize and engage shadow material as it appears across developmental, relational, emotional, and symbolic domains. Through this framework, practitioners learn to work with origin stories and adaptations, trauma and protective patterns, relational and family dynamics, emotional intelligence, archetypal forces, and both the wounded and gifted aspects of the psyche. This integrated approach allows practitioners to meet complexity with clarity—supporting deep integration, resilience, and internal freedom.
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Training Overview
Facilitators will teach you powerful tools, concepts, and methods of doing shadow work and how to implement them in your life and business—while developing your capacity to work with complexity, resistance, and unconscious patterns in a grounded, trauma-informed way.
Foundations of Shadow Work
Mentoring and Integration Labs
Mentoring and study/support groups are a core component of the program, offering structured guidance, community learning, and practical support. These spaces help bridge theory and practice while fostering accountability and confidence.
Our live classes use a video conferencing platform. During the program, you’ll have monthly classes as well as small breakout room practices, discussions, and feedback. These classes will be highly interactive and give you ample time to ask questions, practice techniques, and go deeper into your own healing and learning.
Virtual Classes
You will attend a virtual live retreat at the beginning and end of the program. The opening retreat is designed to orient and acclimate you to the structure, depth, and expectations of the training, while the closing retreat supports integration—helping you consolidate learning, embodiment, and insight as you complete the process.
Virtual Retreats
Coaching Labs
These will be used for hands-on practice as well as an opportunity to integrate the material in a more visceral way. This space will provide you the answers to your questions and give you deeper clarity on how impactful this work can be.
The online learning space houses all your curriculum—videos, audios, and documents. It’s also where you’ll find your interactive class discussion forums, where you can interact with instructors, and where you get to know other coaches.
Online Learning Space
Program Details
(8) Monthly Modules
(32) Pre-Recorded Video/Audio Trainings with accompanying PDF’s and Tools
(8) Monthly Coaching Labs
(8) Monthly Facilitation Calls
(4) 45-60 minute Study Groups with Master Coach Instruction
(4) 45-60 minute Support Groups with one of the Mentors
(4) Private Mentor Sessions for ongoing support
(3) Private Shadow Coaching Sessions for Personal Development
Dedicated Mentor Coach throughout Training
Coaching Toolkit with Exercises, Worksheets, and Business Tools
Business Learning Modules & PDF’s to Support Your Business
Private Student Forum with 24-7 Access to the Group
2 Virtual Retreats
Access to Graduate Community after Completion of Program
September Cohort Training Calendar
Live sessions run monthly from September 2026 through April 2026 with two virtual retreats and two exam windows. Most months include one Core Training, one Coaching Lab, and one Integration Lab — roughly 4–6 hours of live time per month, plus self-paced material.
Pricing
The Foundational Certification is an investment in becoming the practitioner your clients already sense you're capable of being. Below are your options — pay in full or choose a payment plan that works for you.
Price Includes:
✓ Certificate of certification.
✓ Access to the Certified Coaches Graduate Community and Trainings.
✓ Ongoing access to all materials and resources.
✓ Access to free ongoing training when available.
✓ Highlighted as a Shadow Coach on our website.
✓ Certified Shadow Coach logo to place on marketing materials and website.
Pay in Full
$5,495
save up to $200
payment plan:
3 Months
$1,850/mo
$5,550 total
payment plan:
6 Months
$930/mo
$5,580 total
payment plan:
8 Months
$700/mo
$5,600 total
Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes, we are currently apply for CE accreditation.
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Yes, as long as you are able to carve out the time for our live calls. Everything else is self study and can be done at your convenience. We suggest carving out 3 hours per week to deeply engage with the material.
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That is totally fine. For the foundational program you do not need any previous training.
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Everything is recorded. We just ask that you try and make 80% of the calls live.
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We offer full refunds up to 30 days before we begin. After that, there are no cancellations but for emergencies we do offer that you can do the training at a later date.