Apprenticeship Program

SACRED COUNSEL GUIDE

In 2026 Indwelling will be offering it’s 2nd program in Sacred Counsel Guidance. Participants will learn, grow, and apprentice their way through an extremely thorough gestational period in which they will learn the art of Sacred Counsel and emerge on the other side as Guides equipped with a unique skillset that is much needed in today’s world.

Our program

Sacred Counsel as an art form is a way of being with people as they deepen into their relationships with themselves, the divine, their body, others, and the Earth. It is a pathway of embodied inner work and a holistic approach to well-being that centers the connections between the body-mind-psyche-soul-spirit and the planet. As a modality it is individualized to suit a client’s unique history, experience, needs, and intentions, and might include practices that are somatic, depth psychological, spiritual, and/or ecological in nature. 

Sacred Counsel centers the client as the expert on their own body and experiences. It is a path of reclamation in which we guide our clients to examine deep interior spaces to restore wholeness and wellbeing. It is a trauma informed, trauma conscious, and trauma responsive approach, meaning we use the wisdom of the body, including the fascial system and the nervous system as our guides when meeting our client’s needs and when offering practices or support.  

In a Sacred Counsel session, the whole person is considered rather than just looking at isolated symptoms--including but not limited to--body awareness, present state of mind, emotions, relationships, professional aspirations, daily life, sexuality, spiritual outlook, selfcare, family of origin, ancestry, and traumas.

This program is an opportunity to not only break the existing mold, but to co-create a new one that can facilitate healing and social change.

The program includes topics on depth psychology, somatics, sexology, relational dynamics, epigenetics, trauma healing, psychedelics, and more. 

Upon completion of the program participants will be well equipped to begin their own Sacred Counsel practice and to see clients.

Duration

Dates TBD (March-November 2026)

This program requires one in person weekend per month for 9 months, including 2 overnight retreat weekends in September and November. Weekend schedules will be 8A-6P Saturday and Sunday.

Retreat weekend schedule will be different, beginning 4P on Friday and ending 4P on Sunday.

All weekends will be in person. There will also be a monthly Zoom check-in for the cohort, day/time TBD.

Pricing

$4,550 - 5,550

A $500 Non-refundable Deposit Required to Register. The cost of program is a sliding scale of $4550-$5550 with payment plans available. This program is Limited to 10 participants.

Example Program Outline

March

  • Imaginal & Somatic Ways of Knowing

  • Jung’s Map of the Psyche

  • Indwelling Sacred Counsel Methodology

  • Intro to Sacred Counsel: A Holistic Approach

  • The Art of Sacred Counsel: Listening, Presence, and Space Holding

  • Embodied Dreamwork

  • Dream Circle #1

  • Spring Equinox Ritual

  • Nature Study Begins 

A full syllabus will be available along with program dates in early 2025.

Do you long to contribute to the creation of a new holistic paradigm-one centered on connection, wholeness, and relational ways of being?

Do you wish to learn new skills to offer others and to be of service during these times of upheaval and uncertainty?

Do you feel called to be a leader, to be someone who can model what true self knowledge and well-being look like, based on the lived experience of deep inner work?