The Shamanic Approach to Therapy ®
The Shamanic Way of the New Healer
The Shamanic Approach to Therapy — ACT® (Approche Chamanique de la Thérapie) — was developed for those who wish to work with the intelligence of the Living Field in order to more fully embody their healing vocation and enrich their professional practice.
The shamanic vision considers the person as a whole and includes all systems the person is part of, aiming to re establish a healthy connection between soul, body and environment. This ancestral vision is quite aligned with the vision brought by quantum physics, which more and more recognizes that all things are interconnected. If a fundamental life principle is forgotten or if a link is broken in the great Web of Life, imbalance occurs: the broken link or principle is mirrored within the body or in the social group and manifests itself through illness, social discord or ecological problems.
When people remain dissociated from their natural connections, they lose their sense of belonging to life, or their inner coherence, and their body no longer recognizes them in their wholeness. This can result in autoimmune diseases, loss of meaning in life, depression...i.e. what we call soul loss in shamanic language.
The unbalanced situations we currently experience in most parts of the world are a sign that we are losing our healthy connections to life : it is a collective soul loss that needs to be healed. Shamanic healing not only provides resources to deal with the symptoms but also heals the roots of the dissociation.Humanity needs to retrieve its collective soul and a healthy ground for living in its rightful place on earth.
By awakening our natural capacity to collaborate with Nature's resources and to truly take care of humanity by including all their connections (to themselves and their living environment), we enrich our therapeutic path.The Shamanic Approach to Therapy offers this art of reconnection, healing deep scars and nourishing our awareness and Beauty.
Shamanic practice
to be here, connecting with the web of life
This practice is the foundation of shamanic therapy, giving access to more resources and support for richer working sessions.
Meet the shamanic vision in practice
ACT Shamanic healing for professionals
Strengthen your vitality and integrity as a therapist, support your work, your personal "Medicine".
The book
Here, at last, is a practical, evolutionary methodology for collaborating with the information fields of the universe. The Shamanic Approach to Therapy brings together quantum physics, shamanism and various therapeutic models. It does not replace any existing approach, but integrates them all into a broader systemic vision.
Essential workshops for professional practice
- Shamanic workshop 1: fundamental shamanic practices to strengthen health and security through connection to life and the earth.
- Shamanic workshop 2: central channel practice, activating nature's resources through the body for healing.
- Shamanic workshop 3: accompanying healing with rituals and the help of nature.
- Shamanic workshop 4: ancestral vision applied to a systemic diagnosis of a clinical case.
My offers to support your work
For Coaches and Health practitioners, I offer an intensive training to enrich your daily work with living tools, to enlarge and deepen your vision, to deepen the meaning of your work and develop your own talents and know-how.
Shamanic breakthrough
Live online course to learn the fundamental shamanic practice including the ancestral method of shamanic journeying, to receive guidance and healing for your work.
Advanced shamanic curriculum
An intensive course to repair forgotten links and receive the resources of the living world. Step by step, you’ll develop your innate ability to collaborate with resource spirits to heal and contribute to the development of your clients.
The ACT professional training
The ACT Shamanic Approach to Therapy is a comprehensive approach that addresses all systems involved: the individual, their unique nature and dormant potential, family, professional sphere, environment, role in society and connection with life. ACT uses techniques that enable to act on all involved levels and systems.
Shamanic healing
Shamanic healing addresses all areas of life. With the ACT methodology, the practitioner will call upon the missing natural resource, nourishing the person's various fields, removing interferences and re-informing the areas needing it.
Liliane van der Velde
As a therapist and systemic practitioner for more than 35 years, I have developed psycho-corporeal and systemic approaches to healing and transformation. It was the shamanic vision I encountered with Michael Harner in the United States that opened a broader perspective for me through collaboration with the spirits of the Living Field.
From this emerged the Shamanic Approach to Therapy (A.C.T.)®: a medicine of reconnection inspired by the intelligence and love of Nature, supporting the evolution of consciousness within the body and throughout all areas of life.
Just as shamanic spirits supported me during the many years I devoted to research and healing, I now wish to help practitioners broaden the scope of their work and access this deeper dimension of healing — not only for individual transformation, but also as a contribution to collective health and consciousness.
Broaden the scope of your work using the ressources of the Web of Life to the benefit of yourself and your client's.
What they say about it
Rich, intense, effective training, very rigorous in its simplicity. I felt supported, both in the security of the paths between the worlds and in the understanding of the process. I feel that the trainers have traveled a long way before us, and that the path is well marked out. I'm immensely grateful for what I've received. Our times call for us to get to the heart of the matter, to heal everything that is wounded or suffering; If you want to contribute to heal nature, its inhabitants and the planet, with love, clarity and joy, this course is for you!
Relief of autoimmune diseases
Since December I've had the chance to benefit from ACT sessions with Liliane. I've been treating myself naturally for over 30 years for a so-called incurable disease. I have undergone two powerful psycho-corporal therapies over several years, and benefited from wisdom teachings that have kept me alive. With the ACT therapy, I feel that healing is possible, so much so that it opens up unhoped-for prospects for reconstruction. I'm witnessing transformations I never thought possible in this life and in this body. In an atmosphere of benevolence that leaves me with an indescribable sense of well-being and gratitude after a session. I'm a doctor myself, having devoted my life to researching what fuels health or illness, and I'm overwhelmed by what this approach allows me to do, compared with everything I've known up until now.
It's a must-read!
With authenticity, accuracy and intelligence, this book guides us clearly and precisely through the different strata of the human being and what links them together.
Thanks to the synergy between the two authors, theory and practice blend seamlessly. It is a tool for holistic medicine, a scientific treatise linking quantum theory to ancestral shamanism, and a method for returning to oneself and one's Essential Nature. All in all, a work of synthesis.
For anyone interested in the shamanic path, this book, which follows in the footsteps of Michaël Harner's and Sandra Ingerman's studies and transmissions, is a must-read and... Keep by your bedside!
Relieving an asthma attack.
I also had a convincing result with ACT treatment for a young patient in hospital with severe asthma. The Spirit of Healing reopened the spasmodic bronchial tubes, and the air could flow again. Just as the pediatricians were about to transfer him to intensive care, he no longer needed respiratory assistance, much to the astonishment of his carers... I'm grateful to have encountered ACT and Liliane's teaching, because I regularly observe how this magic of the living is working for my patients.
The ACT Shamanic Approach to Therapy has changed all aspects of my life: personal, relational and professional. I see it as a method that gets us back in all our dimensions. I've always believed that therapists have a huge responsibility for who they are. I think it's essential to be as clear and evolved as possible to be able to pull our patients upwards. ACT is perfectly suited to my aim of getting my patients back on their feet and on their way!
Complementing other acquired practices, the impact of ACT Shamanic Approach to Therapy has been quite clear on my daily life. The strengthening of my link with the spirit world, the heightened awareness of my energy fields, my earth-sky connection, have nourished my connection to the sensitivity of my soul. The training also brought me this essential reminder that, as a practitioner of therapy, I must take care of myself, my energy, my bodies, my heart. And this reminder is necessary, because real, effective availability flows from this…
My experience of this intensive course has enabled me to gain a better understanding of my clients' processes. The steps taught, including resourcing, securing and containing the work around intention, are a guide to the essential conditions for accompanying people in broader and deeper work.
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* The A.C.T.® Shamanic Approach to Therapy ( Approche Chamanique de la Thérapie) was developed by Liliane van der Velde, as a result of 35 years of research. Only licenced therapists may use the name ACT.