The ‘More To Life’ Programme

The programme comprises 16 live sessions with Joanna, plus pop up Q&A's, accountability pods, buddy sharing meetings, Facebook community and much more. Plus bonus ceremonies, videos, audios, workbooks.

This is an outline of the programme as we weave nature, coaching and spirit. Please note that the course is community focused and the order and content may be adjusted to better meet group needs.

Session 1 - welcome, outline and the 'why' and how of the course, introducing the Change Cycle and Seasons of Change model so you know exactly where you are in your life's journey at any time.

Session 2 - introducing shamanism as a way of connecting to spirit. Learning about spirit worlds, power animals, animism, the shamanic cosmos and finding your own place of power in nature as a starting point.

Session 3 - How to use the body compass to make ANY decision in your life from your heart or essential self.

Session 4 - Your first shamanic journey to ask for help with an issue in your life and a chance to meet your first helping spirit or power animal in the healing and peaceful 'lower world'.

Session 5 - Your first upper world shamanic journey to get advice, inspiration and wisdom about a situation in your life from your spirit teacher.

Session 6 - Eagle and Mouse and personal value statements to give you an overview of what it is you want from life, and to know how to go about getting it.

Session 7 - Noticing and loosening the limiting beliefs that hold you back using The Work and ACT methods, revisiting winter in the seasons of change.

Session 8 - Connecting to your purpose and finding your North Star, revisiting spring in the seasons of change.

Session 9 - Your next shamanic journey to ask for help on a different issue in your life from your helping spirit guide.

Session 10 - Connecting to your Land - guidance to belong and a ceremony you can do at home to help you to feel that belonging that comes through relationship

Session 11 - The shamanic rattle and your next Upper World Journey to ask for insight, guidance and teaching about a practical issue in your life from your spirit teacher.

Session 12 - Your Ideal Day - a way to access your next steps and connect more to spring in the seasons of change. Vision boards created from your heart.

Session 13 - How to get things done. Summer, taking turtle steps, doing vs being and revisiting limiting beliefs.

Session 14 - Change and transformation - looking at autumn, the elevator effect.

Session 15 - A free shamanic journey - deepening your connection and moving forward aligned with spirit and your soul.

Session 16 - Your daily practice and next steps. The closing ceremony.

As much as you need and more!

Joanna hosts the weekly sessions, and the ignition weekend.  Each session comprises teaching tools, giving you the experience of using each tool, as well as hotseat coaching and Q&A's as required.  She also insists on a personalised 1:1 intake session for each participant so you really get the most from the course. 

She also runs a moderated private Facebook group, exclusive to course members where questions can be answered live or in writing any time they arise during your training.  Additional pop up Q&A sessions will be offered if the volume of questions is sufficient (and sometimes if not, as questions often arise once the space is created and held).

Private questions may also be asked over email at any point during th course.

In short, you will get all the support you need - and probably more!

Many of us experience difficulty with this connection at first.  A lifetime of social conditioning inhibits us from this innate ability.

In over 20 years of teaching Joanna has never worked with anyone unable to connect with spirit using clear, simple methods derived from ancient, shamanic practice.  In fact, she believes this is such a part of us it's almost in our DNA!  

The tuition she provides takes you step by step, with some fun and a bit of humour so it's relaxed and enjoyable.  The exercises are repeated to enable you to get used to the set up and ask your loving, benevolent spirit helpers to connect with you.  The practice of the shamanic journey takes you there, with its drum rhythm to help deeper your connection by taking your brain gently into a 'theta' state making connection easier. Even if you have never managed this satisfactorily before the framework Joanna uses will take you to this connection - as long as you do the practice!  You will be able to ask for and receive spirit help from the very outset.

We also have time for lots of Q&A's and knowing the answers to your questions is often the first step to breaking down any barriers you may have to connection.  The way we connect to spirit is with clear boundaries.  As a medium Joanna used to be concerned as she didn't want uninvited spooks turning up in the bedroom at 3am!  With shamanic practice we only meet spirit when we set the clear intention to in the framework of the shamanic journey.  By partnering with our loving spirit helpers, you get to decide when you engage with spiritual advice and when you don't.

That's wonderful!  All are welcome from committed relgious practitioners - ministers and laypeopl - to agnostics and even atheists. 

Shamanism is not a religion.  It is a practice.  There is a fundamental understanding, through felt experience, that everything has a spirit, energy or consciousness.  

I have worked with people with diverse beliefs, from buddhists to hindhus, agnostics to christians of many denominations.  All gained a deeper understanding of spirit within their own belief system, or found new ways to greater harmony across several systems.  Great Spirit, Great Mystery, God, the divine, the Goddess, the Universe... whatever your term for it, it is the energy that comes through in spirit, and through shamanism we can learn to engage with this with reciprocity and two way communication.

In fact, it is fascinating how this weaves into the individual's relgious experiences in a supportive and empowering way.

That is completely normal.

Fears or doubts are usual when we embark on a programme of change or transition.  In fact, a little scepticism is healthy!

Because of this, during the programme Joanna engages with you fully about these so we tackle them head on.  

Some come from a place of misguided belief - we all have thoughtst that aren't true that hold us stuck.  We work through this with deliberate tools to gently loosen their impact.

You will know, deep in your body, if this course is for you.  Your head may say otherwise.  Thoughts like 'I'm not ready', 'I don't have time', 'I can't afford it' may pop up.  These are all normal.  But by listening to the body (which you will learn more about in the programme) we get to the truth.  You may sense this already - in which case, trust it.  

If you cannot work it out, book a free explore call with Joanna and ask her to take you through the mini body compass so you can use your body to decide if the course will help you.  Your body compass may say yes, or no, and there will be no pressure to book or to sway you.  You body is a deep source of wisdom and provides access to your heart.

We all have a life purpose.  You, your neighbour, your boss, your cat, your maiden aunt.  We just might not know what it is.

The More to LIfe programme takes you step by step through many methods - a smorgasbord - to help you find your next steps.  Even if you don't like them all, you'll find several that work for you.

Sometimes our 'life purpose' hits us like a bolt from the blue - like a neon sign shouting 'become a vegan cupcake moghul' or 'set up a hedgehog and owl rescue centre'.

Sometimes it's more like a satnav screen.  We can see the next junction and turning ahead, but not a lot more.  To mix metaphors, it's then just a question of following each breadcrumb - what joanna referes to as the 'breadcrumbs of our heart'.

Either way takes us towards the life purpose that we were born to fulfil.  It is a dynamic, not static state.  It changes and morphs as we do.  We know we're in it when we feel more ease, peace and joy.  When work starts to feel like play.  And when serendipitous magical events happen.

Our job is to learn how to find each step and take tiny action towards it all at a pace that is sustainable and rigth for each of us.

This programme brings you connection to your inner knowing, creating clarity with tools to connect you to spirit, nature, your heart, your soul or essence so that you get to try many ways and find out for yourself what works for YOU.

We are often drawn to wilderness, to large swathes of land or sea that connect us to our true selves.  This is rather like having a wise friend, or great teacher, to show us the way.

We also live amongst neighbours and family.  The land around us is often more like this.  In a way it's our true community.  Wildness is reassuringly connecting, but our local yard, patch of grass, rooftop terrace or park may form the 'land community' we live within.

We can deepen our relationship with this land, the nature around it, even if it's covered with buildings, tarmac or shopping centres.  And wherever we are, we still have the chance to spot the sun, the moon, the sky and breathe the air gifted to us by plants, trees and leaves of nature.  We are always connected. 

And of course, you may wish to travel to fill yourself up with wild, wild nature. And that is wonderful too.

We never want you to be unhappy. 

The programme is designed to provide a strong and heart-centred container for you to learn and explore your life purpose.

Joanna does everything she can to enable you to have a deep yet grounded experience, with opportunities for your unique personality, learning style and expression to come to the fore.  It is high touch, with lots of contact time, and space for connection, questions and participant centred training.

However, if after the first live call you don't feel it's for you then simply email Joanna before the live week 2 class to let her know you're not satisfied and you'll recieve a full refund.

The programme is designed to offer you a wide range of tools to help you to connect to your heart, to nature and to spirit.  In this mix you will find many ways forward towards your life purpose, regardless of previous life experience and training.  You will be encourgaged to take these tools and weave them into a personal daily and weekly practice in order to step towards your life purpose during and beyond the programme.

Opportunities to ask questions - in class, via the Facebook group, email and pop up Q&A's will help you explore any stumbling blocks as you learn to implement the tools.

The best way to get the most from it is to do the homework of practicing the tools and asking your questions as they occur.

You will get the most from this probramme if you attend as many  livesessions as you can (you should aim for at least 80%) so that you can ask questions and experience hotseat 1:1 coaching and be held while you 'have a go' at the class tools.

Homeplay (much nicer than homework!) is given each week, that relates to the tools.  

You can choose how much or how little you do, but aim to include a daily and weekly practice to get the most from the programme.

Integration weeks - such as UK half term, US thanksgiving and Christmas, are deliberately woven in to offer you the chance to choose what to do with them.  You can rest or catch up if you wish.  Or you can continue the practices on your own to see where you neeed more support in develping a sustainable practice for yourself.  

You are treated as an adult, in charge of your own pace of training as Joanna believes you have the wisdom and the knowledge within to make the best decisions for yourself.  And of course the More to Life Programme will teach you how to learn this knowledge and access your inner wisdom!

How perfect is your life right now?

If it's spot on in every way then you probably don't need this programme (although you'll have fun, gain access to communicating with spirit and some incredible sacred nature practices and Wayfinder tools!)

If there's still some room for improvement then take a look around your life.  How is it dragging you down mentally, emotionally, spiritually.  What is the cost of staying just as you are?  

Imagine if you have everything you wanted, a life full of purpose and joy.  What is the gap between that and the live you have now.

That is what you have to lose if you don't  change your life.  It's all here waiting for you to take the plunge and do something different.

That's easy!  

Enroll now - the sooner you book on the more early bird bonuses you're entitled to!

Still have questions?

Book a free, no obligation explore call with Joanna to ask all your questions.  Not making a decision takes energy, so use this time to get clear on your decision either way.