Classes & Workshops
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September 2026
Shamanic Foundations as a Personal Spiritual Practice: An Ongoing Monthly Gathering
with Gwendolyn C. Natusch, B.S.Ed., M.Ed., MSW
Sunday September 6th, 2026
1:00pm – 4:00pm
Across cultures and throughout history, shamanism has offered human beings a path of healing, inner exploration, spiritual connection, and relationship with the living world. At its heart, shamanism is not simply something to study intellectually, but a practice of direct experience, awareness, and personal transformation.
This ongoing monthly gathering is designed as an introduction to the foundations of shamanism as a personal spiritual practice and is open to both beginners and those wishing to deepen their understanding of foundational shamanic concepts and practices.
Together we will explore:
• The foundational philosophy and worldview of shamanism
• Developing a personal spiritual practice
• Nature connection and relationship with the living world
• Grounding, energetic awareness, and spiritual protection
• Journeying and altered states of consciousness
• Power animals, spirit allies, and symbolic guidance
• Intuition, signs, and synchronicity
• Healing practices and spiritual self-care
• The role of ceremony, ritual, and intention
• Personal growth, healing, and inner transformation
This monthly gathering is intended to be experiential, thoughtful, grounded, and welcoming. Participants will have opportunities for discussion, reflection, questions, and shared exploration within a respectful and supportive environment. The work during our gatherings is one that fosters inner healing, shifted perceptions and transforming wounds at the root level.
Come and meet your guides and power animal.
Come to find respite and peaceful reflection.
Come to transform & heal; to learn the tools to do just that in your own life!
Whether you are spiritually curious, beginning a healing journey, or seeking to deepen your relationship with Spirit and the natural world, you are warmly welcome
Date: Sunday September 6th, 2026
Time: 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Location: 7044 SE Birchwood Lane Stuart, FL
To Signup: Text or Call – 508-560-6891
Email: [centerforpersonalevolution@gmail.com]
Cost: $25.00 (We accept PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, Cash and checks.)
Please reach out to Gwendolyn if you would like to talk about this program, ask questions and/or sign up for this experience! Contact details below. Please note that texting is the quickest and most direct way to signup!
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Finding Your Sacred Purpose: Listening for the Life You Are Being Called to Live
with Gwendolyn C. Natusch, B.S.Ed., M.Ed., MSW
What if your purpose has been revealing itself to you all along?
In this experiential workshop, we will look back across the landscape of your life to discover the threads that have been quietly pointing toward who you are and what you are here to bring into the world. Through guided reflection, sharing, meditation, and a powerful life-review process, you will explore your successes, passions, loves, natural strengths, accomplishments, and the things you have repeatedly been drawn toward.
So often we move through life without fully claiming what is already ours. We minimize our gifts, overlook what we have accomplished, or fail to recognize the patterns that have been guiding us. In this workshop, we will gather those pieces and begin weaving them into the fabric of how you understand yourself.
When we follow the trail of what has genuinely interested us, inspired us, delighted us, and come naturally to us, something begins to emerge. Our passions and natural proclivities can become signposts, revealing a path that may have been present beneath our feet for years.
We will gather.
We will reflect.
We will share.
We will meditate.
And we will create space to see ourselves with new eyes.
You may leave not with a single sentence declaring what your purpose is, but with something richer: a deeper recognition of your gifts, a clearer understanding of the path your life has already been showing you, and a new willingness to claim the person you have become. These are the golden nuggets that glow at the entrance to your purposeful path!
Come and find the golden nuggets leading you to your purposeful path!
To Signup:
please text/call/ email to Gwendolyn at 508-560-6891 / centerforpersonalevolution@gmail.com
Texting and phone messaging is a speedier method for signup!
Date: Thursday September 24, 2026
Time: 7:00PM – 9:00PM
Location: 7044 SE Birchwood Lane
Stuart, Florida 34997
Cost: $25.00
(We accept Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, checks and cash)
The Whispered Path: A Shamanic Journey Circle
with Gwendolyn C. Natusch, B.S.Ed., M.Ed., MSW
Thursday September 17th, 2026
6:30PM – 9:00PM
In this monthly gathering we will share discussions on shamanism and have an experience of journeying to discover your power animal, connect with your guides, receive guidance, healing and revelations!
The Shamanic Journey ~ The Gateway to Non-Ordinary Reality
Journeying is a method for developing a personal connection to the Divine and a direct communication from the Divine to you! Shamanic journeying is the art of using rhythm and intention to enter an altered state of consciousness in order to connect with the spiritual dimension of reality.
Journeying is similar to meditation. In many ways shamanic journeying is a type of meditation, but there are pieces to the process that differentiate it from meditation.
The Journey Process
1. We begin by preparing ourselves and the space for the journey experience.
-smudging to clear our energy and space
-opening sacred space
-setting intention for the journey ahead
2. We move through a relaxation activity to move into a quieter mind. This allows participants to alter their state of mind and to begin the active journey into the spiritual/non-ordinary realms.
3. Then we journey to the beat of the drum; the heartbeat of Mother Earth.
4. When the journey is complete there is time to write down what was experienced.
5. Opportunity to share in the group what was experienced in the journey is offered
This group is a monthly, ongoing gathering. All that is shared in the circle is considered sacred and confidential.
The Whispered Path Shamanic Journey Circle invites you to journey through this safe, reliable, and transformative shamanic technique; journeying. Once you have mastered this simple process you will have a spiritual tool that will serve you for the rest of your life.
Come and join us in this monthly gathering!
We look forward to seeing you!
Please email or text Gwendolyn for a free journey booklet!
To Signup:
please text/call/ email to Gwendolyn at 508-560-6891 / centerforpersonalevolution@gmail.com
Date: Thursday September 17th, 2026
Time: 6:30PM – 9:00PM
Location: 7044 SE Birchwood Lane
Stuart, Florida 34997
Cost: $15.00
(We accept Venmo, PayPal, Zelle & Cash)
Past Classes & Workshops
Many of these workshop are offered repeatedly.
The Circle Within: A Shamanic Circle Art Process for Healing and Perception Shift
Facilitated by Gwendolyn Natusch, B.S.Ed., M.Ed., MSW
The circle has long been a sacred symbol of wholeness, transformation, and our continuing return to center. In this experiential workshop, we will combine shamanic journeying, reflection, journaling, and symbolic art to explore a personal wound, belief, emotion, or pattern that is ready to be seen differently and transformed.
Art skills are not required, but your imagination is called to join the journey!
You will reflect, share and listen withing. Then, you will create two circular images. The first will give form to the perception or experience asking to be witnessed. Through guided shamanic journeying, you will invite Spirit to reveal new understanding, healing, and possibility. The second circle will express the transformed perception and the wisdom that emerges from the process. Through this process one can see anew and be anew as healing manifests and inner peace grows.
This is not about artistic ability or creating perfect artwork. It is about allowing color, shape, and symbol to speak the language of the soul.
Sometimes the deepest parts of us do not speak first in words.
They speak through color, shape, landscape, animal, memory, movement, empty space, and symbol. They speak much as dreams do, revealing pieces of our inner experience that the thinking mind may not yet understand.
The Circle Within is an experiential workshop combining shamanic journeying, Jungian symbolic exploration, dreamwork-inspired reflection, journaling, and intuitive art-making.
Carl Jung understood the mandala, or sacred circle, as a symbol of the Self and the psyche’s movement toward greater wholeness. Circular images frequently appeared in the dreams and visions he studied, especially during periods of inner transition and psychological change.
During this workshop, you will create two circle images.
The first circle will give visible form to an emotion, wound, belief, recurring story, relationship pattern, or life experience that is asking to be witnessed.
You will then approach your image as you might approach a dream. Rather than deciding immediately what it means, you will notice its atmosphere, symbols, colors, relationships, movement, and emotional qualities.
Through guided reflection and a shamanic journey, you will invite Spirit to reveal:
- What has been hidden
- What the pattern may have been protecting
- What needs compassion or understanding
- What new perception is ready to emerge
- What wisdom or medicine may be carried forward
The second circle will become an expression of the changed perception. It may reveal greater freedom, compassion, strength, understanding, possibility, or peace. The difficulty may not disappear, but your relationship with it may begin to change.
No artistic ability is required. This is not about creating perfect or beautiful artwork.
It is about creating honest artwork.
Come listen deeply, create intuitively, and discover what your inner images have been waiting to tell you.
Shamanic Journey Circle
In this monthly gathering we will share discussions on shamanism and have an experience of journeying to discover your power animal, connect with your guides, receive guidance, healing and revelations!
The Shamanic Journey ~ The Gateway to Non-Ordinary Reality
Journeying is a method for developing a personal connection to the Divine and a direct communication from the Divine to you! Shamanic journeying is the art of using rhythm and intention to enter an altered state of consciousness in order to connect with the spiritual dimension of reality.
Journeying is similar to meditation. In many ways shamanic journeying is a type of meditation, but there are pieces to the process that differentiate it from meditation.
The Journey Process
1. We begin by preparing ourselves and the space for the journey experience.
-smudging to clear our energy and space
-opening sacred space
-setting intention for the journey ahead
2. We move through a relaxation activity to move into a quieter mind. This allows participants to alter their state of mind and to begin the active journey into the spiritual/non-ordinary realms.
3. Then we journey to the beat of the drum; the heartbeat of Mother Earth.
4. When the journey is complete there is time to write down what was experienced.
5. Opportunity to share in the group what was experienced in the journey is offered
This group is a monthly, ongoing gathering. All that is shared in the circle is considered sacred and confidential.
The Whispered Path Shamanic Journey Circle invites you to journey through this safe, reliable, and transformative shamanic technique; journeying. Once you have mastered this simple process you will have a spiritual tool that will serve you for the rest of your life.
Come and join us in this monthly gathering!
We look forward to seeing you!
The Whispered Path: A Monthly Shamanic Journey Circle
with Gwendolyn C. Natusch, B.S.Ed., M.Ed., MSW
In this monthly gathering we will share discussions on shamanism and have an experience of journeying to discover your power animal, connect with your guides, receive guidance, healing and revelations!
The Shamanic Journey ~ The Gateway to Non-Ordinary Reality
Journeying is a method for developing a personal connection to the Divine and a direct communication from the Divine to you! Shamanic journeying is the art of using rhythm and intention to enter an altered state of consciousness in order to connect with the spiritual dimension of reality. Journeying is similar to meditation. In many ways shamanic journeying is a type of meditation, but there are pieces to the process that differentiate it from meditation.
The Journey Process
- We begin by preparing ourselves and the space for the journey experience.
-smudging to clear our energy and space
-opening sacred space
-setting intention for the journey ahead
- We move through a relaxation activity to move into a quieter mind. This allows participants to alter their state of mind and to begin the active journey into the spiritual/non-ordinary realms.
- Then we journey to the beat of the drum; the heartbeat of Mother
Earth.
- When the journey is complete there is time to write down what was experienced.
- Opportunity to share in the group what was experienced in the journey is offered
This group is a monthly, ongoing gathering. All that is shared in the circle is considered sacred and confidential. The Whispered Path Shamanic Journey Circle invites you to journey through this safe, reliable, and transformative shamanic technique; journeying. Once you have mastered this simple process you will have a spiritual tool that will serve you for the rest of your life.
Come and join us in this monthly gathering!
We look forward to seeing you!
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Sharing & Shamanism: An Evening of Conversation & Connection
A Gathering at Panera Bread
Join us for a warm and welcoming evening exploring the foundations of shamanism, spiritual healing, and personal transformation. This free gathering is open to both the spiritually curious, those already walking a healing path and those already on the shamanic path. Together we’ll discuss what draws people toward shamanism, explore personal experiences and questions, and create meaningful conversation in community. Gift bags and informational handouts will be provided.
Welcome to an Evening of Conversation, Connection & Exploration into Shamanism!
Have you felt drawn toward shamanism, spiritual exploration, healing work, or the deeper mysteries of life? Perhaps you’ve had experiences you cannot fully explain, feel a longing for deeper connection, or are simply curious about what shamanism truly is beyond the stereotypes often seen online or in media.
This free gathering is an opportunity to come together in a relaxed and welcoming environment to explore the foundations of shamanism and the spiritual journey. Whether you are completely new to shamanism, have studied for years, or are simply spiritually curious, you are warmly welcome.
During our evening together we will discuss:
-The foundations and philosophy of shamanism
-What draws people toward spiritual and healing paths
-Personal experiences and perspectives around shamanic practice
-The role of healing, connection, Spirit, nature, and inner transformation
-Questions participants may have about shamanism and spiritual practice
There will also be time for open discussion and Q&A.
Gift bags and informational handouts will be provided to participants.
This is intended to be a gentle, respectful, open-hearted gathering where people can connect, learn, share, and explore together in community.
Plant Communication the Shamanic Way:
Listening to the Living World
with Shamanic Practitioner Gwendolyn C. Natusch, B.S.Ed., M.Ed., MSW
Long before modern life disconnected us from the rhythms of the Earth, human beings sat quietly with plants, trees, roots, flowers, and forests and understood that life was speaking continuously.
The shamanic path teaches that plants are not objects, but living presences with intelligence, medicine, and memory. Across many shamanic traditions, plants have long been regarded as teachers, healers, allies, and living beings with their own wisdom and spirit.
This is not a class about botany, although one might assume this; it is a gathering about relationship. A quiet remembering that the Earth has always been speaking and that somewhere deep inside us, we still know how to listen. This is a soul-led class, rooted in reverence—not just for the plant, but for the emotions, wounds, and awakenings that the plants help us tend.
We will explore the foundations of plant communication through a shamanic lens and discuss how human beings can begin developing deeper awareness, intuition, and relationship with the natural world. We will also journey and have an experience communicating with the plants!
Together we will explore:
-How shamans traditionally connect with plant spirits
-Listening, sensing, and intuitive awareness practices
-The role of plants in healing and spiritual practice
-Developing a loving and personal relationship with nature
– Journeying to the plants to experience this connection and relationship
-Sharing of Personal experiences, questions, and discussion
This gathering is open to both beginners and those already walking a shamanic or spiritual path. No previous experience is required, only curiosity and openness.
Come with a favorite plant, a cup of tea, or simply a willingness to listen differently to the living world around you.
Shamanic Foundations as a Personal Spiritual Practice:
An Ongoing Monthly Gathering
with Gwendolyn C. Natusch, B.S.Ed., M.Ed., MSW
Across cultures and throughout history, shamanism has offered human beings a path of healing, inner exploration, spiritual connection, and relationship with the living world. At its heart, shamanism is not simply something to study intellectually, but a practice of direct experience, awareness, and personal transformation.
This ongoing monthly gathering is designed as an introduction to the foundations of shamanism as a personal spiritual practice and is open to both beginners and those wishing to deepen their understanding of foundational shamanic concepts and practices.
Together we will explore:
• The foundational philosophy and worldview of shamanism
• Developing a personal spiritual practice
• Nature connection and relationship with the living world
• Grounding, energetic awareness, and spiritual protection
• Journeying and altered states of consciousness
• Power animals, spirit allies, and symbolic guidance
• Intuition, signs, and synchronicity
• Healing practices and spiritual self-care
• The role of ceremony, ritual, and intention
• Personal growth, healing, and inner transformation
This monthly gathering is intended to be experiential, thoughtful, grounded, and welcoming. Participants will have opportunities for discussion, reflection, questions, and shared exploration within a respectful and supportive environment. The work during our gatherings is one that fosters inner healing, shifted perceptions and transforming wounds at the root level.
Come and meet your guides and power animal.
Come to find respite and peaceful reflection.
Come to transform and heal and to learn the tools to do just that in your own life!
Whether you are spiritually curious, beginning a healing journey, or seeking to deepen your relationship with Spirit and the natural world, you are warmly welcome.
Shamanism as a Personal Spiritual Practice: A Four Class Series
with Gwendolyn C. Natusch, M.Ed., MSW
In this four-class series we will explore, discover and deepen your knowledge and understanding of shamanism as a personal spiritual practice. You will discover, connect with and deepen your relationships with your power animal(s) and spirit helpers/guides. You will learn the art of interpretation and magic of the language of the Soul.
Together as a group, discoveries of the spirit worlds will be made and shared. Direct Divine Revelation will be opened up to you and you will hold in your heart deep, revealing and personally profound insights and guidance from those in spirit who guide, support and love you. You will learn the foundation skills and tools for shamanism and be prepared to step onto the path into your own practice at the summation of these classes.
You will learn…
-clearing and cleansing practices
-discover your power animal and guides
-learn shamanic cosmology
-learn the ancient technology of journeying
-create your shamanic practice tools
-discover a deeper part of yourself
-journey outside of time into the sacred
Week One’s Class: We will introduce, discuss and share personal experiences and practice and goals of learning in this first class. All will be invited to share their experience, knowledge and curiosity about shamanism. This first class will introduce the shamanic framework of worlds, the basics of journeying and to have a journey experience. Those who are versed in shamanism and journeying who attend are invited to share their knowledge and experience in this circle that recognizes that all who attend bring knowledge be they completely new and in this stance offering the newness of this experience and practice or if you are practicing this form of spirituality that is earth based for decades. Each perspective is valued and valuable! This class will also cover the basics of smudging, burning other materials that also clear, uplift and cleanse space and self. Other more internal means of clearing and balancing will also be offered.
Week Two’s Class: In this class power animals, spirit guides, archetypes and the language of the soul will be offered. Clarity on how to set journey intentions, how to gather the wisdom from the spirit world and also ways in which you can deepen your connection with your spirit family are offered. This class will also offer shamanic ceremony and activities to deepen these things. Also, we will cover how to open and close sacred space and to call up our song and spirit to come to our sacred circle. There will be a shamanic activity for deep clearing within that is a Siberian technique that is richly healing in its ability to elevate and transform from within.
Week Three’s Class: This third class will offer participants an opportunity to journey & Divine for others in the group. Also, shamanic topics will be shared such as: Journeying to the Upper World, the role of death and transformation in the shamanic worldview. We will participate in an initiation journey and strengthen our spiritual self.
Week Four’s Class: In our four class participants will be offered more information on shamanic topics, discuss and pose their questions, participate in ceremony and insightful activity.
Duration: This class runs once a week for 4 weeks
Dates: February 23rd, March 2, March 9th and March 16th
Time: 7:00pm to 9:30pm
Cost: $100.00 for this four class series ($25.00 per class)
Signup: is for all four classes. The classes do not stand alone.
Location: The Center for Personal Evolution Online Zoom Classroom
To Sign up please:
Text/Call: 508-560-6891
Email: centerforpersonalevolutio@gmail.com
Payment Methods:
We accept PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, Cash & Checks
Checks made payable to Center for Personal Evolution or Gwendolyn C. Natusch and mail to 6200 Cardinal Drive New Bern, NC 28560.
Class Cost: $100.00 for this four class series ($25.00 per class)
Signup is for all four classes.
Hosted by: The Center for Personal Evolution
www.centerforpersonalevolution.com
508-560-6891
To discover more about Gwendolyn C. Natusch please visit: https://centerforpersonalevolution.com/about/
Chakra Meditation & Singing Crystal Bowls Monthly Gathering
with Gwendolyn C. Natusch, B.S.Ed., M.Ed., MSW
In this deeply relaxing chakra meditation participants will begin with gentle breathing and relaxation. The Singing Chakra Crystal Bowls will be played to balance the 7 chakras through toning the sound of each chakra. This guided meditation through the chakras grounds you and brings in Divine Light connecting you to God, Creator, Source, Great Spirit and balances the masculine and feminine within you. Through this experience each participant will energize and open their chakras, clearing each energy center and releasing that which no longer serves them.
The guided meditation will also take you to your inner sanctuary where you will meet with those in Spirit who love you, support you and are for you. To some these loving, spiritual supporters appear as angels, archetypes, loving animals or religious avatars. It is unique to each individual. This experience brings insight, resolution, and balancing to our inner experience and thought. It is rejuvenation, energizing and deeply calming.
Come and experience it for yourself!
Day: Once a month on Friday Evenings
Dates: TBA monthly
Time: 7:00 to 9:00pm
Cost: $20.00
For More Information or to Register:
Please text or call Gwendolyn at 508-560-6891 or email via centerforpersonalevolution@gmail.com.
Art & Soul Presents – The Healing Art of Mandalas: Learning the Language of Your Soul
with Gwendolyn C. Natusch, M.Ed., MSW
Saturday March 27th, 2021
1pm to 3:30pm
The Healing Art of Mandalas: Learning the Language of Your Soul
Mandala’s are sacred pieces of artwork which are used to evoke healing, spiritual development and meditation. The word Mandala means ‘sacred circle’ and is derived from the word ‘mandra’ which means ‘container of essence’.
Carl Jung also used Mandala’s as a tool for healing and even instructed individuals to create their own. He discovered that the symbols from these personally created circle art pieces that these mandalas were able to be subconsciously absorbed into the individuals mind, bringing about healing and self-reflection.
The very nature of creating a mandala is healing and symbolic. The shapes and colors you create in your mandala art will reflect your inner self. In this we bring our personal expression into play through color, shape, feeling and emotion Through guided meditation, art and group connection we will create our own transformative mandalas.
“Invite transformation in your life through this Mandala Creation Process!”
Please note that you must sign up by 17th, 2021 because materials are included in the price of the class and a box of your supplies will be mailed to you!
To sign up: please email, text or call 508-560-6891 centerforpersonalevolution@gmail.com
Cost: $40.00
Location: The Center for Personal Evolution
Monthly Shamanic Journey Circle Gathering
with Gwendolyn C. Natusch, M.Ed., MSW
Friday March 5th, 2021
6:30 – 8:45pm
In this gathering we will share discussions on shamanism, learn the foundational concepts of shamanic cosmology and have an experience of journeying to discover your power animal, connect with your guides, receive guidance, healing and revelations!
Come and join us and acquire a skill and tool that will deepen
your awareness as well as your spiritual practice!
The Shamanic Journey ~ The Gateway to Non-Ordinary Reality
Journeying is a method for developing a personal connecting to the Divine and a direct communication from the Divine to you! Shamanic journeying is the art of using rhythm and intention to enter an altered state of consciousness in order to connect with the spiritual dimension of reality. With Experiencing the Shamanic Journey, you are invited to learn this safe, reliable, and transformative technique. Once you have mastered this simple process you will have a spiritual tool that will serve you for the rest of your life.
Come and join us for journeying in our community!
To Sign up please email, text or call Gwendolyn at 508-560-6891 or centerforpersonalevolution@gmail.com
I look forward to connecting with you!
Gwendolyn
The Divine Mystery School
with Gwendolyn C. Natusch, B.S.Ed., M.Ed., MSW
A four week experience that transforms!
The experience of The Divine Mystery School is one that offers you an experience of your deeper self. This series of four classes offers you the opportunity to explore and answer that call with you and answer that inner hunger to connect with yourself, a higher power/Divine Source, and to have a support system of other like minded individuals that you will work, play and grow with. Explore your intuitive self, dip into your healing journey, and feel the support of others on this very same journey who are like minded!
Each of us longs to create a life that allows our essence and spiritual life to find rich, fertile ground to thrive in. In this class participants will discover many tools that are practical and that will offer fresh interpretations of the old and tired norms that help you, the seeker, to create a life you love and to bring forth your authentic self more freely and in a more empowered stance.
Come and begin, or continue, your journey of creating the life you love while you dance in your own arms!
Over the course of the Divine Mystery School you will be offered a wide range of experiential modalities to explore and to glean insight. During the class you will walk into experiences and learning that organically will open you to deeper insights and your own natural intuitive nature.
Benefits of the Divine Mystery School Experience
-Tools to know yourself in a deeper way
-Exploration and Organic Development of Your Intuition
-Connecting with your spiritual guidance
-Hearing your story/Transforming your story
-Community connection to like minded individuals
-Authenticity
-Self Love
Dates: TBA
Evenings 6:30 to 9:00pm
Cost: $100.00 for all four classes
Location: Center for Personal Evolution
To Sign up: Text, call or email Gwendolyn at: 508-560-6891 or Email: centerforpersonalevolution@gmail.com
