Agreements & Registration
for the Ancestral Healing Teacher Training
Training Overview
We’re so pleased to have you in the first cohort of the 2025-2026 Teacher Training. We’re grateful for your belief in and commitment to the work ahead.
Register in two steps:
- Read and sign the agreements form
- Select a payment plan below and make your first payment
Once we received your first payment, you’re officially registered.
Register for Teacher Training
As you know, it’s core to our mission at Ancestral Medicine to keep our offerings accessible to people of diverse means, geographies, and backgrounds.
Tuition. The cost for the full training is $3,750 USD. A courtesy reduction of $250 USD is available for those who are able to pay in full when you register.
Payment Methods. Payment can be made through our website by credit/debit card or Paypal.
Payment & Recurring Plans. If you select a payment plan, your card will be automatically charged/debited each month till your tuition is paid in full.
Payment plan options are as follows. We are not able to offer custom payment plans outside of these extensive options.
We’re also happy to be able to offer a deferment with deposit. We’re committed to keeping the training as accessible as possible, and so if you’d like to defer 50% of the cost until you begin to guide intensives (including during Phase Three of your training) you may do so. The first 50% ($1875) may be paid in as many as 24 monthly installments which amounts to $79 per month. Your options are as follows.
Frequently Asked Questions
Initially we (Shannon and Daniel) set the prerequisite as “Being certified for a year before the training begins September of 2025,” however, after further discussion, we decided to address the heart of the matter (level of experience) more specifically.
The adjusted prerequisite states that you need to be complete with your certification by the start of the training on Sept 1, 2025. However, you also need to complete 60 post-certification sessions by Phase Three of the training (the part where you actually begin to guide intensives). Phase Three may begin for those who are prepared as early as July 2026.
These 60 post-certification sessions (really 100 total as you need at least 40 to be certified) can be completed at any time. Most applicants will already come to this training with this complete. In the event that you apply and are accepted and you have all other elements in place to guide intensives except this requirement, you’ll just need to wait until you have done 100 total sessions (at least 60 after certification) before proceeding, no problem.
At the heart of the matter is applicants having experience guiding ALH sessions, because an intensive, in part, is like guiding 12-40 sessions at the same time.
If anything about this adjustment is unclear, just ask. Thanks and sorry for any confusion.
Phase One lasts for 16 weeks from September 1st until mid-December 2025. In addition to 8 pre-recorded lessons, for each of the 16 weeks there is one 90-minute scheduled meet-up (8 practice exchanges + 8 live teaching and discussion calls):
- Fri, Aug 22 – First four pre-recorded lessons are released
- Week of Mon, Sept 1 – Practice exchanges for Lesson One
- Wed, Sept 10, 3pm New York – Live 90min Lesson One call
- Week of Mon, Sept 15 – Practices exchanges for Lesson Two
- Wed, Sept 24, 3pm New York – Live 90min Lesson Two call
- Week of Mon, Sept 29 – Practice exchanges for Lesson Three
- Wed, Oct 8, 3pm New York – Live 90min Lesson Three call
- Fri, Oct 10 – Second four pre-recorded lessons are released
- Week of Mon, Oct 13 – Practices exchanges for Lesson Four
- Wed, Oct 22, 3pm New York – Live 90min Lesson Four call
- Week of Mon, Oct 27 – Practice exchanges for Lesson Five
- Wed, Nov 5, 3pm New York – Live 90min Lesson Five call
- Week of Mon, Nov 10 – Practices exchanges for Lesson Six
- Wed, Nov 19, 3pm New York – Live 90min Lesson Six call
- Week of Mon, Nov 24 – Practice exchanges for Lesson Seven
- Wed, Dec 3, 3pm New York – Live 90min Lesson Seven call
- Week of Mon, Dec 8 – Practices exchanges for Lesson Eight
- Wed, Dec 17, 3pm New York – Live 90min Lesson Eight call
Live call times will tend to favor participants in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. If participants from Asia and Oceania time zones join this cycle of the training, we will proactively find ways for you to be able to join the main live calls at least sometimes which means that while these dates are stable, these proposed call times on those dates will not be finalized until July 2025.
Practice exchanges will include options to meet for one of three possible times during the week (one favorable for Asia/Oceania, three for the Americas, and two for Europe/Africa). This scheduling process will be clear, organized, and dialed in well in advance of September; however we will wait to see who joins the training before confirming final timing options.
The eight live 90min calls will be co-taught by both Shannon and Daniel. The only other meetings during Phase One are Two 30min individual mentoring sessions with Shannon, and these are scheduled directly with her.
Phase Two runs from January to June 2026 and most of the elements are asynchronous, meaning that you’ll schedule them with peers or with Shannon as your schedules permit. The three 90min teachings co-led by Daniel and Shannon will tend to favor the 3pm New York, 9pm Madrid start time, but we need to confirm who joins the training first. The monthly group supervision sessions will also flex to support time zone inclusivity and they will be recorded.
Phase Three is asynchronous in that it depends completely on your ability to organize, in some cases with others, and then carry out the six required intensives and related supervision.
If you miss a live call, you’ll need to make it up by listening to the recording and then posting a reflection in the Connection Space area dedicated for this training. We will try our best to schedule calls at times that allow for participants from diverse time zones to join live at least some of the time, and when this is not possible, we’ll have lots of grace about needing to miss. Otherwise, live attendance is expected.
If you miss any practice exchange sessions during Phase One of the training, you’ll need to proactively make these up before proceeding to Phase Two of the training. Likewise, you’ll need to complete Phase Two requirements before guiding intensives.
Our default understanding of this is that teachers and teachers-in-training are 100% responsible for carrying out all aspects of the intensives they guide, period.
That said, we are in active questioning about different possible ways that Ancestral Medicine could promote or possibly produce (meaning also handle registration) for some intensives. In any of those scenarios, participation in this system would be entirely optional for teachers or teachers-in-training and there would be clear agreements on the nature of the reciprocity with Ancestral Medicine. And we wish to be very clear that we are not able to promise either form of involvement (marketing or event production) which means that any potential applicant should anticipate being fully responsible for reaching new audiences and handling all aspects of event production.
As stated above, producing this training at a level of quality that we feel is warranted is a demanding undertaking, and we don’t anticipate making money on the process. We’re doing it because it’s needed and the right next step for the growth of the work.
With payment plans and the option to defer up to half of payment until guiding intensives, we’re able to reduce the monthly investment to as low as $79/month. If that still results in the training being inaccessible, speak with us directly and we’ll see what may be possible.
Applicants who led or co-led intensives before the pandemic (2018-2019) or in various ways since may petition for their prior experience to apply to certain elements of the training, and we’ll evaluate this on a case by case basis. We’re hopeful this more thorough and structured training will be received as an encouragement to refine ritual skills and mastery of the material in a connective, collegial atmosphere.
We’re excited about this approach! Basically, during the training process your notes will be visible to others in the training and you’ll also be contributing actively to the notes for others. Of course this will require kindness and maturity, but it’s a teacher training, we’re all adults, and these qualities are expected.
With this approach, our aim is also to recognize that others in the training are a valuable source of perspective, wisdom, and refinement. Of course we recognize that being supportively critiqued by peers may feel vulnerable, and we believe the outcome will be stronger, more confident teachers.
We will make full effort from our side to resolve these challenges in reasonable ways while still staying true to the spirit of the training. In certain cases, especially when there is only one teacher-in-training of any given language, we understand that we will need to make accommodations in the training structure (e.g., relying less on co-led intensives, making adjustments around supporter ratios). We will address these concerns as they arise in reasonable ways through dialogue with trainees, and we encourage applicants to address any anticipated concerns early in the application process.
This training really does center the three-day Ancestral Lineage Healing Intensive format as it’s well-established, field tested, and effective. That said, examples of variations could include guiding the work in a somewhat longer (e.g., five day) residential retreat format; weaving the intensive with a higher degree of movement, song, and creative expression; including elements of nature reconnection; and offering the intensive for specific groups only (e.g., women only, BIPOC only). As with the Practitioner Training, the general guideline is to first learn to guide the intensive as taught (meaning to complete one’s certification), and if moved to consider adaptations, at that point to then be in dialogue with Ancestral Medicine leadership.
This training does not enable you to teach or train other practitioners of Ancestral Lineage Healing to guide intensives, nor does it allow you to train people to become practitioners of Ancestral Lineage Healing. In the framework of the three roles of practitioner (already well established), teacher (what this training is about), and trainer, the important distinction here is that you are not becoming a trainer.
Trainers, when this role is fleshed out, will be the people who train both new teachers and practitioners. As of 2025 the two trainers are Daniel and Shannon. Eventually the people who complete this training and become experienced teachers will be those that Ancestral Medicine will consider looking to to guide things like the Ancestral Healing Practitioner Training or this Teacher Training, but that will take time to gradually develop. We are excited to finally be ready to systematically develop the “teacher” role.
Serving as a teacher of Ancestral Lineage Healing hinges upon also being a practitioner, so you’ll need to do all the usual things to maintain your practitioner certification (every-two-year renewal, following ethical guidelines).
You’ll need to sign the agreements form for the Teacher Training (available by late April) and to honor the guidelines there. Expect all that to be very similar in spirit to the agreements form for the Practitioner Training.
There will be a training manual for teachers that will include some additional ethical guidelines distinct to guiding group ritual and to teaching this work. At least the ethical guidelines part, if not the complete manual, will be available before August 1, 2025, and if you don’t feel in alignment with anything there, we can discuss. And if we don’t arrive at resolution, we can simply offer a full refund before the training begins.
Because teachers are unlikely to complete certification before 2027, we haven’t addressed the topic of Continuing Education in detail, but the likely form this will take is an additional section to complete on the every-two-years renewal form and also to attend (or listen afterward to) a 90minutes discussion among teachers every two years to make sure that lines of communication stay open. The rough time expectation of all that will be not more than an average of two hours per year.
Yes, it’s possible. We see this basically like our ethical guidelines for practitioners. If there are concerns that arise that can’t be easily addressed, Ancestral Medicine can create an Action Plan which will either result in concerns being addressed or us parting ways. Since Cohort Four, with well over 200 new practitioners, we’ve had two Action Plans; one led to resolution and one led to parting ways. Which is to say that it’s not common that this comes up, but we have a well articulated process for it. While waiting for us to pull together the Teachers Manual, you can review the Conflict and Resolution section of the Practitioner Training Manual.
Before the first lessons are released on August 22, we’re happy to process a full refund minus a $150 administrative fee. For the first 30 days after the first lessons are released, we can process a refund minus $400. After the first month of the training, we are not obligated to refund payment made toward the training, and, per usual, we’re going to be reasonable people if you decide not to continue. See our Terms & Conditions and the training agreements form for granular details.
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