The Shamanic Method™
Healing is not instinct.
It is architecture.
Insight alone is not enough.
It must be integrated.
The Shamanic Practitioner Certification™ is a six-month practitioner training for therapists, coaches, facilitators, and guides who are called to support transformational work with depth, clarity, and ethical responsibility.
Rooted in The Shamanic Method™—a body of work developed through decades of disciplined apprenticeship and more than 10,000 hours guiding individuals through profound transformation—this training cultivates the perceptual skill required to work at the deeper layers of human experience.
Vonetta has guided more than 800 transformational retreats worldwide and has presented elements of this work in academic settings including the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Graduate School of Social Work.
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This certification develops perception.
Rooted in The Shamanic Method™, the training builds inner architecture, refines perception, and develops structured facilitation.
Grounded in ancient shamanic traditions and informed by decades of disciplined apprenticeship, it translates Indigenous healing principles into a framework suited for modern therapeutic and transformational practice.
Practitioners learn to track the root of imbalance, restore alignment across inner systems, and steward transformational work with cultural responsibility and psychological maturity.
This is awareness training in service of wholeness and coherence.
Practitioner Development Framework
DISCERN
Learn to track the architecture of identity, defense patterns, unconscious contracts, relational dynamics, and ancestral imprints. Develop the capacity to identify root causes rather than reacting to surface expression.
STABILIZE
Cultivate nervous system steadiness and relational presence. Strengthen your ability to remain grounded and perceptive during high-intensity transformational processes.
INTEGRATE
Translate intuitive insight into structured methodology. Develop repeatable processes that support lasting transformation.
TRANSMIT
Refine how you hold space, guide process, and steward healing work with ethical clarity and responsible leadership.
The Medicine Wheel Framework™
Within the certification, practitioners learn to work with the Medicine Wheel Framework™, a model that maps transformation across four primary domains of human experience:
Spirit
Heart
Body
Mind
Center: Identity
Identity represents the organizing axis of consciousness from which perception, meaning, and behavior emerge.
By learning to recognize where imbalance appears within this system, practitioners guide processes that restore coherence across inner and outer life.
Through structured teachings, guided practice, and live twice-weekly mentorship, participants develop the discernment and responsibility required to steward transformational work in a rapidly changing world.
This training is offered through an application process to ensure alignment with the depth and responsibility the work requires.
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Jordan Marks
psychotherapist, founder, MindbodyLA
My work sessions are more powerful.
So many tears coming from my clients.
My body wisdom is louder.
I am keeping up with the meditation.
I am exercising, loving myself with reverence.
I have now embarked on a life changing journey and our work together has been an incredible catalyst.
Tamika Bowen
intuitive guide, strategist, writer
Through the frameworks covered in this course, I’ve gained the tools and capacity to make my work sacred, where discipline became devotion. It is – without question – the best investment I have made towards self-mastery in years.
My work with Vonetta has catalyzed my life’s purpose and grounded me in who I am today. Vonetta is a passionate, creative problem solver and community builder with a salient understanding of and respect for ancient teachings and wisdom. She is a true visionary, deeply rooted in her soul’s mission to usher in a world grounded in peace, justice, healing, and transformation.
Miriam Brown
psychologist, MA, LMFT
Danny Coster
lead industrial designer, Apple Inc., VP design, GoPro
Vonetta is a gifted facilitator. Her intuitive sensibility and supportive generosity has brought illumination and safe harbor to many in our courageous community. Vonetta has supported my work and knowing.
Chahe Demian
senior director, Apple
My journey of self discovery started with Vonetta’s program. Her guidance and mentorship provided the tools for me to achieve happiness and success in both my personal and professional lives. Years later, the program has stayed with me. I tap into the tools every day to get insights and ask small and big questions. I continue to utilize the skills I learned to take better care of myself and be present in the moment.
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Patrick Sullivan
philosopher, herbalist
Vonetta has clearly done her personal inner work at such depth that she exudes a core authenticity that engenders trust and makes her work so much more effective. She employs an array of subtle but powerful techniques. Following the Retreat we were given an excellent Integration Manual to maintain and enhance the progress we had made. I can thoroughly recommend Vonetta as a consummate professional.