Facilitation, Training & Consultation

Training - I offer a variety of grief capacity-building and trauma-informed facilitation training for helping professionals, teams, and communities to learn practical, trauma-aware, heart-centered and somatic resiliency approaches to healing and grieving through difficult times.

"I felt instantly welcomed by Shauna's warm presence and her approach to supporting others through grief is refreshing and much needed on our society. With so many helpful take-aways, I feel more more prepared to support others."  Amber Rowse-Robinson, volunteer

Facilitation - I offer grief support, ancestral healing workshops and group process experiences to support participants in personal awareness, healing support, resiliency and embodied connection, using a variety of therapeutic skills, somatic practices, and ritual healing modalities.

"I came into the space with enormous fear around having to express my emotions around my grief, and found instead it was not scary or painful due to the way it was facilitated. I was able to recognize that I need further support and gained some incredible new tools in the process." Coralee F - Grief and Recovery workshop

I have been delivering healing and educational workshops, trainings, and group process since 2010.  This includes providing consulting services for curriculum and program development. Audiences have included:

Non-profit organizations: BC Bereavement Helpline, BC Victims of Homicide, Moms Stop the Harm, Spiritual Directors International, Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Center, Inter-Cultural Association, AIDS Vancouver Island, Peers, Citizens Counselling, The Umbrella Society, John Howard Society, Power to Be, Boys and Girls Club, NEED2, Artemis Place, Kiwanis Youth Shelter, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Foster Parent Support Services, BC Schizophrenia Society, Sooke Family Resource Center, Threshold Housing, James Bay Community Project, Young Parents Support Network, Single Parent Resource Center, Garth Homer Society, Island Kids Cancer
Hospice Societies: Victoria, Nanaimo, Sechelt-Sunshine Coast, interior BC communities
Government: Aboriginal Youth Internship initiative, Child & Youth Mental Health, BC Housing, Parks and Recreation
First Nations: Victoria Native Friendship Center, Surrounded By Cedar, Nuu-Chah-Nuulth community health centers, Island Metis Family and Community Services, Snuneymuxw Health Center, WSANEC Tribal Leadership School
Educational institutions: University of Victoria, Camosun College, Sprott-Shaw College, BC School Districts of Greater Victoria, Burnaby, and North Vancouver Island
and other businesses, community events, conferences, multi-faith gatherings, and environmental activism initiatives

I currently teach locally and internationally both in-person and through online programs at Sacred Grief.  I have also been a trainer and mentor with BC Bereavement Helpline (2013-2019), the Executive Director and lead program facilitator with Learning Through Loss (2007-2019), and a teacher and mentor with Ancestral Medicine (2018-2020).

"I love the balance of experiencing ritual and learning the safety and art of facilitating groups in this delicate work. I learned more than I could have hoped. The foundational aspects of ancestral disconnection mixed with the physiological aspects of what is happening in the body was immensely important and grounding" - Heather, community member

"I feel like I have a full understanding of how to approach the topic of grief and loss with my clients" - Jenny G, Big Brothers, Big Sisters

"This training was grounded in earth and spirit and is inclusive of all faiths with wonderful supportive teaching. It was inspiring, clear and authentic" - Karen, Dharma Center

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Please reach out to book a consult and let's chat about your needs and hopes. I look forward to hearing from you.
shaunajanz@gmail.com

Below is a sample of workshops I offer:

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Facilitating Grief - Ritual Skills and Community Practices

A multi-day educational and experiential workshop to learn the skills of meaningful grief expression and healing rituals for grieving. The workshop is trauma-aware, culturally-inclusive, and animist-informed with a mix of teaching, experiential process, ritual healing, and personal and collective inquiry. This workshop offers a grief-tending framework that is relevant to supporting diverse loss contexts. People of diverse ancestral backgrounds, faith-based traditions and lived experiences are welcome. The workshop is delivered within a ritual context and invites folks to connect in with the Sacred in the way that is meaningful to them.

Companioning Others through Grief
with Dignity and Meaning

Practical and soulful approaches to supporting others through grief, loss and transition in ways that promote dignity and meaning through times of pain. Through somatic awareness, visualization, active metaphors, individual reflection, cultural understandings, and small group work, participants will gain insight into concepts and strategies to hold space for others in effective and healing ways. This workshop is for anyone interested in heart-centered therapeutic approaches to supporting others through difficult times - whether it be death of a loved one, illness, divorce, relationship endings, substance use/recovery, moving, cultural loss, major life transitions and more. 3.5hrs to multi-day.

Trauma-Informed Facilitation -
Foundations for Guiding Groups

Foundational skills and approaches that bring a trauma-informed lens to the art of facilitating group process. This training offers a pragmatic framework that helps create safety and awareness in groups, and supports skillful presence and attunement to group process and pacing. Through trauma and nervous system psycho-education, experiential learning, self-reflection, and small group discussion, participants will gain knowledge and ready-to-use tools to integrate into their facilitation roles right away. 3.5hrs to full day.

The Heart of Belonging -
Ancestral Healing and Connection

By coming into relationship with our ancestors, we connect with a source of guidance, support and love in our lives and deepen our belonging. These relationships contribute to the healing of inter-generational wounds and patterns and re-enlivening ancestral wisdom and practices so that we may become a more wholesome force for personal and collective healing. Workshops are one, two or three-day offerings, and combine  teaching, experiential practice, ritual, song, movement, and guided trance/visioning. The training is a trauma-aware, and culturally-inclusive ritual container that embraces the relationship of ancestral reclamation towards personal and cultural healing.

When Our Heart Breaks Open to Ecological Loss - Grief Ritual

The despair that is for the destruction of our other-than-human kin in these times is inescapable. This is a grief that doesn't go away, however it is vital to have ongoing places to release and express this despair if we are to remain open and responsive to meeting the needs of our times. Ritual within community is one way to provide a transformative container to meet our heartbreak and allow its expression and release; to allow the reservoir to flow.  I welcome you to gather with others in a community ritual to pay homage to that which has been lost, is disappearing, and that which may feel too difficult to name. Our time consists of Council practice, personal reflection, writing exercises, small group sharing, singing, and a collective grief ceremony around the community altar. 3.5hrs to multi-day.

Rituals of Belonging - An Immersion into Praise and Connection

Belonging. One word, 9 letters, and yet a portal to immense feelings of longing and loss for many of us. It is both personal and collective. This longing may be rooted in personal experiences, ancestral memories, and/or within the broader symptoms of Western modernity - a collective wounding that weaves throughout our lives in ways that can both be named, and in ways that reach beyond our words and knowing. It can be difficult to name those things we came into the world anticipating, and yet never receiving. All we know is something is missing. We will explore ancestral connection, soul movements, and respectful animist relationships with the more-than-humans and place, Council practice, ceremonial dialogue, and offering practice as pathways to nurture belonging in our own lives, and in our broader communities. 1 -2 days

What Others Are Saying...

"Shauna’s vibrancy and authenticity and deep listening skills all serve her well in meeting people where they’re at, and encouraging them along their individual journey. This was one of the best workshops I have ever taken - and I have taken a lot, so I don’t say that lightly!" - Lana Friesen, Healing practitioner, Powell River

"The depth of community building, vulnerability, and safe ritual container in such a short time blew me away. I learned more than imagined due to the exceptional communication skills and balance of the intuitive and cognitive. Shauna's skill as a facilitator and ritualist is unparalleled" - Ash Schoep, Climate Change & Consciousness

I felt very seen, met, held and given the full permission of being with trauma/grief while also learning. Amazing. Shauna's knowledge, awareness, compassion and enthusiasm for this deep work brought our community together in a way it's never known and planted healthy, hopeful seeds for a revolutionary vision in our Valley" - Kris Drummond, Bozeman Renewal Network

"Shauna is a gifted and balanced teacher. Her practical, grounded yet deeply intuitive nature allowed everyone in our group to relate to her in their own way, and she held our ritual container with such safety and support. I feel blessed to have had her as a leader in this work!" - MT, Calgary

"Shauna, you are a true facilitator. Thank you for your gift of space-holding, your knowledge and experience, your ability to genuinely include everyone in such a graceful and uplifting way... All if it! It was such an honor to be present to this, and each person in the room contributed valuable insights; a sense of community naturally emerged from the evening." - Sally Ross. Fairfield Gonzales Community Association

"Shauna is a master at creating a safe space in which to explore and heal the difficult emotions - those which our culture and society typically encourage us to avoid. This work is so important" - Lori Race, Mandala Heart Center