A FREE THREE-DAY INTERACTIVE MASTERCLASS

MEET YOUR
PRACTITIONER SHADOW

Discover the parts of your shadow that are secretly sabotaging how you work with clients, how visible you allow yourself to become, and how much you're willing to receive.

For coaches, yoga teachers, therapists, bodyworkers, and healing practitioners of every kind.

nov 17, Tuesday- 2PM PST/3PM MT/5PM EST 
nov 18, Wednesday- 9AM PST/10AM MT/12PM EST
nov 19, Thursday- 11AM PST/12PM MT/2PM EST
November 23, Monday - 12PM PST/1PM MT/3PM EST (only for the Integration Pass holders)

Led by Suzanne Hanna, licensed psychotherapist, founder of the Shadow Coaching Institute.

What Is Your Practitioner Shadow?

Every practitioner brings more than their training and techniques into their work. We also bring our personal histories, internalized beliefs, emotional patterns, and protective strategies: the adaptations we learned to keep connection, belonging, and approval. They become so familiar that we no longer notice them, and they don't disappear when we become healing practitioners.

They can influence the clients we feel most comfortable with, the situations that activate us, the boundaries we struggle to maintain, the opportunities we avoid, and even our relationship with money and professional success.

At the Shadow Coaching Institute, we believe that developing greater awareness of these unconscious patterns is an essential part of becoming a more grounded, effective, and authentic practitioner.

And that’s exactly what we’ll be exploring during this 3-day live experience.

Discover the Patterns Blocking
the Three Main Areas of Your Work

1

tuesday, NOVEMBER 17

Your Shadow with Clients

Explore how unconscious beliefs, emotional triggers, personal history, and protective strategies influence the way you work with clients. We'll examine why certain people or situations activate us, how our need for approval or responsibility can shape professional boundaries, and what our reactions may reveal about ourselves.

The opportunity: Greater self-awareness, stronger boundaries, and more grounded, intentional client relationships.

2

wednesday, NOVEMBER 18

Your Shadow with Visibility

Explore what happens internally when you're asked to be seen, communicate your expertise, promote your work, or take up more space professionally. We'll examine patterns connected to self-worth, fear of judgment, imposter syndrome, and the tension between wanting to make a difference and feeling exposed when we become more visible.

The opportunity: A greater capacity to share your work, trust your voice, and navigate the vulnerability that accompanies professional growth.

3

thursday, NOVEMBER 19

Your Shadow with Money and Receiving

Explore the beliefs and emotional patterns that influence how you charge, set financial boundaries, receive compensation, and relate to success. We'll look at the relationship between money, worthiness, responsibility, and the discomfort that can arise when our businesses begin to grow.

The opportunity: A healthier relationship with receiving, greater clarity about your financial patterns, and a more sustainable approach to your work.

Three Areas of Your Work. Often the Same Pattern Beneath Them.

What if the part of you that struggles to say no to a client is the same part that hesitates to raise your fees? What if your discomfort with being visible is connected to the same early experiences that taught you it was safer to stay small, keep others happy, or avoid disappointing people?

Our unconscious patterns rarely exist in isolation. Throughout these three days, we'll connect the patterns influencing your client relationships, your willingness to be seen, and your relationship with money.

Because when you recognize the pattern beneath the behavior, you create the opportunity for conscious choice.

Awareness is the beginning. Experience helps us recognize what we haven't yet seen.

HOW IT WORKS

Understanding our patterns intellectually is valuable, but recognizing how they operate in real time opens a different level of awareness. Rather than only discussing shadow work as a concept, you'll have opportunities to notice how your own patterns arise and explore what they may be revealing.

This three-day experience combines teaching, frameworks, body-based awareness practices, and live coaching demonstrations. 

  • Short, focused sessions: about 60 minutes each + time for questions

  • Body-based awareness practices: simple guided practices to notice your shadow as it arises. 

  • Live coaching demonstrations: watch Suzanne coach participants in real time and see how this work looks in action. Being coached is always voluntary.

  • Powerful Frameworks so you can notice your own patterns arise and explore what they may be revealing

  • Private Interactive Facebook Group, this is where we can connect, share stories and questions that arise.

WANT TO GO DEEPER?

Add the Integration Pass once you sign up

The three-day masterclass introduces you to your practitioner shadow. The Integration Pass creates additional space to explore what you've discovered and begin applying that awareness to your work.

On November 23rd Monday - 12PMPST/1PMMT/3PMEST, you'll join a 90-minute live small-group Integration Day. This is where we'll do real, hands-on coaching and explore your deeper questions. 

Space is limited to [25] participants.

Your Integration Pass includes

  • Integration Day: a 90-minute live small-group session, November 23rd Monday - 12PM PST/1PM MT/3PM EST

  • Lifetime access to the recordings

  • A $97 credit toward a qualifying SCI program, if you decide to continue

You'll see the option right after you register for the free sessions.

WHO IS THIS FOR?

If you help people grow, heal, or change, this is for you.

Coaches · Therapists & counselors · Somatic practitioners · Bodyworkers · Yoga teachers · Wellness practitioners

We invite curiosity, openness, and a willingness to explore your own internal experience.

What Becomes Possible When You Begin Recognizing Your Practitioner Shadow?

✓ Greater awareness of the unconscious patterns affecting your client relationships and professional boundaries.

✓ A better understanding of what happens internally when you become more visible or step into greater leadership.

✓ Insight into the beliefs and emotional responses influencing your relationship with money and receiving.

✓ Practical exercises for noticing activation and responding with greater awareness.

✓ A clearer understanding of how your own inner work supports your effectiveness and sustainability as a practitioner.

MEET YOUR FACILITATOR

Suzanne Hanna

Suzanne Hanna is a psychotherapist, Therapeutic Shadow Coach, author, and founder of the Shadow Coaching Institute. For more than 30 years, she has worked with individuals and healing professionals to explore the unconscious patterns that influence their relationships, choices, emotional responses, and capacity for meaningful change.

Through decades of clinical work, teaching, and her own personal journey, Suzanne came to recognize that professional training and intellectual understanding are only part of what makes an effective helping professional. The parts of ourselves we have learned to hide, suppress, or protect can continue influencing the way we support others, establish boundaries, communicate our value, and build our businesses.

She founded the Shadow Coaching Institute to bring greater depth, awareness, and integration into the education of therapists, coaches, and healing practitioners.

During this three-day experience, Suzanne will guide participants through a practical and experiential introduction to the practitioner shadow, offering a deeper understanding of how our personal patterns can influence our professional lives.

A Personal Invitation from Suzanne

After more than three decades of working with people, one thing has become increasingly clear to me: the work we do within ourselves influences the work we do with others.

We can continue learning techniques, collecting certifications, and developing new professional skills, and all of those things have value. But if we aren't willing to explore the unconscious patterns shaping our own responses, decisions, and relationships, there may be important parts of our professional development that remain unexplored.

I created this three-day experience because I believe the people doing the work of helping others deserve opportunities to explore themselves with the same curiosity, compassion, and commitment they bring to those they serve.

I'd love for you to join us,. 

Your shadow is already part of your work. Come meet it.

Frequently Asked Questions

Join us for a free three-day interactive masterclass exploring the unconscious aspects of yourself that influence your work, your relationships with clients, and your capacity to grow.

Meet Your Practitioner Shadow

nov 17, Tuesday- 2PM PST/3PM MT/5PM EST 
nov 18, Wednesday- 9AM PST/10AM MT/12PM EST
nov 19, Thursday- 11AM PST/12PM MT/2PM EST
November 23, Monday - 12PM PST/1PM MT/3PM EST (only for the Integration Pass holders)

At the Shadow Coaching Institute, we believe that developing greater awareness of these unconscious patterns is an essential part of becoming a more grounded, effective, and authentic practitioner.