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I love getting books from authors I have not read before, as I have no expectations and can approach with a totally open mind. If your family is animist, neo-pagan, shamanic or otherwise nature-spirituality centrered this is the book for you. How we as adults can find back our own links, but especially how we as adults in a nature-based spirituality can guide our children on that path. I love the emphasis on how children are already connected to the spirit world. There are no less than 32 session plans ! All this is followed up with 13 suggested templates for personalized ceremonies. The book has a large session with practical sessions to do with kids and families. We need to teach our children the way the archetype of the sacred warrior operates and help kids to pass the initiations necessary for growing up. There is no escaping violence in this world and children fight as well as adults. Brother and sisters fight, the same way nation states and tribes fight. I absolutely loved the chapter on violence. We can rewrite our own stories and we need to be mindful of what kind of stories we tell our children. There’s an excellent chapter on the power of story.

#MY SPIRITUAL TOOLKIT HOW TO#

She also looks on how to deal with nightmares and night terrors. How to deal with children who have special needs those who have been labeled autistic and hyperactive. The writer focuses extensively on how to practice shamanism while engaging with several difficult topics, for instance:

I think these topics have to be focused on more intensively in spiritual communities. I’m especially delighted that there is an emphasis on shadow work and on “non-seperation”. The writing is fluid and well structured, and challenges the reader to look further and put into practice a healthy relation between themselves and their children, with the Sacred and with other adults.

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Chock full of exemples, simple games and rituals, anecdotes and reflections, it takes us on a tour of life, from conception to afterlife.Īlthough the book is written for work with children, it covers issues dealt with by anyone between the ages of -1 to +99. So we need manuals, we need discussion groups, we need ceremony. Shamanism is in a renaissance in the Occident and it seems that the growth of the phenomena in our society will not slow down in the immediate future.Īnd there are more and more shamanic families with new generations of children growing up with a magical and animist worldview. There are many ways to find those tools, and this book is one of them.īut as a shamanic practitioner and teacher, I need to go further. A life that’s integrated into the magic of existence and the enchantment of being. I seek ways to strengthen trust, self confidence, resilience, morals and many more tools for a person to function well in society and live a happy and fulfilling life.Īs a spiritual teacher I need to know how to provide the spiritual tools that will enable my child to reach those very goals and simultaneously life a truly soulful life. This must be extremely boring to the people I meet and work with, but try to stop me.Īs a dad and husband, seeing a lovely boy grow into a equally lovely man I want to have the tools to guide my child to adulthood. Wherever I am, I seem to be incapable of not talking about my family. I practice and teach dreaming and shamanism and I’m also a family man. Natural Born Shamans - A Spiritual Toolkit for Life.

My spiritual toolkit