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Marianne Hill
Shadow Work Practitioner and Trainer
Marianne Hill is founder and director of Healing The Shadow. She works with individual clients, facilitates group workshops and runs a two year practitioner training in Healing The Shadow.
Marianne also works with couples and is passionate about creating authentic, vibrant and healing relationships. She has developed the powerful Five Fields Framework which supports individuals to communicate fully, respectfully and authentically. From this evolved the Restoring Connection Process, which is used with couples and within communities and organisations.
The articles on this site have been written by Marianne over the last ten years and cover a wide variety of topics relating to the shadow, archetypal psychology and authentic communication. Please scroll down the list of posts on the right hand side of the page to find a topic that interests you.
For more information about Marianne’s work or to book a session or workshops please visit healingtheshadow.co.uk
Practitioner Training
A Two Year Practitioner Training in Healing The Shadow
Leading to a Qualification as a Healing The Shadow practitioner
This training will be of interest to anyone wishing to pursue a path of facilitating deep emotional process work:
- You will learn how to facilitate deep process shadow work.
- You will learn a comprehensive range of skills and techniques to hold a spectrum of different types of trauma and wounding.
- You will learn to build authentic, healing relationships with your clients.
- You will learn a clear theoretical framework, central to which is the concept of the shadow, and an understanding of the four archetypes: The Heart Centred Leader, The Transformer, The Feeling Body and The Action Taker.
- You will gain all the expertise necessary for setting up in practice as a Healing The Shadow practitioner.
The next two year training starts in September 2023.
Read more about our therapeutic approach here
For full information about practitioner trainings please see the Trainings Website
Click here to view a detailed syllabus of the two year training
Click here for all the practical information about our two year training
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New Archetypes Journals!
After several years of exploring this concept we now have our first batch of professionally printed journals on order and they will be arriving in about ten days time! These journals are designed to support you in exploring the archetypes and allowing your shadow sides to speak. The journals are based on the four archetypes, The Sovereign , The Warrior , The Magician , The Lover and allow space for you to explore a particular issue by encouraging each of these four parts of you to speak. Each journal comes with a book mark that contains guiding questions to help you to get in touch with each of the archetypes in turn and to ensure that this part of you has been fully heard. The journals are wire bound, A4 sized and cost £15 each. If you would like to order one please email me on mariannehillshadowwork@
Healing The Shadow – Our Therapeutic Approach
In Healing The Shadow we have a unique approach to personal growth and healing which looks and feels very different to traditional forms of psychotherapy, counselling or coaching. With more and more people interested in training with Healing The Shadow we thought it a good idea to try to describe, as best we can, the differences between our approach and traditional ‘talking’ therapies. This piece that Rod and I have written explains the key differences, and gives you some idea of what our Healing The Shadow training involves and what a Healing The Shadow session might look like. Our Therapeutic Approach
Videos With Marianne Hill Introducing Shadow Work
A series of videos with Marianne introducing shadow work. Here she explains what our shadows are, where they come from, how we can work with them and what to expect in a shadow work session. She also describes the four archetypes worked with in Healing The Shadow and how these archetypes can inform and guide the shadow work process.
Shadow Work Podcast
If you’d like to find out more about shadow work this episode of the Big Yearning podcast gives a great introduction. Marianne is interviewed on the programme and talks about the concept of the shadow and the process of shadow work.
The Big Yearning Podcast – Episode 27 – The Shadow – Interview With Marianne Hill
Meet Marianne and Rod
The Warrior (Action Taker)
An article by Marianne Hill – Healing The Shadow Practitioner and Trainer
This article gives an introduction to the Warrior archetype. The Warrior is an aspect of ourselves that we believe we all have inside us. However, as shadows form in our early life, many of us lose touch with the full power and agency of this life affirming side of ourselves.
The Sovereign (Heart Centred Leader)
An article by Marianne Hill – Healing The Shadow Practitioner and Trainer
This article gives an introduction to the Sovereign archetype. The Sovereign is an aspect of ourselves that we all have inside us. However, as shadows form in our early life, many of us lose touch with the full and loving presence of this essential part of ourselves.
The Lover (Feeling Body)
An article by Marianne Hill – Healing The Shadow Practitioner and Trainer
This post gives an introduction to the Lover archetype. The Lover is an aspect of ourselves that we all have inside us. However, as shadows form in our early life, many of us lose touch with the sensitivity, spontaneity and vulnerability of this side of ourselves which drives – either consciously or unconsciously – many of our decisions and actions. Continue Reading