The Shadow Quest by Tim Kelley and Beth Scanzani

Before you begin your journey, you need to understand where you’re going and why. You also need to pack for the trip! Most people have a very limited understanding of terms like “shadow” and “unconscious.” Many also fear their dark places, leaving them forever controlled by the aspects of themselves that they refuse to see or hear. Clearing up these misunderstandings will demystify the shadow and begin to illuminate the aspects of yourself you’ve been rejecting.

In this module, you’ll:

• Enhance your understanding and appreciation of the unconscious aspects of your psyche
• Explore the ways that reclaiming the unknown, forgotten, and disowned aspects of your fully expressed being can transform your experience of yourself, your life and your key relationships
• Increase your clarity about the consequences of neglecting this essential work for you and others
• Learn about the compelling, engaging, and Self-supportive processes and systems that are available to support you in The Shadow Quest

You’ll take many “dives” into the shadow, experiencing a variety of techniques. What are you looking for? How will you know when you’ve found it? And what will your newfound awareness of your unconscious allow you to be and do? Once you begin to understand how the unconscious works, you’ll see how essential a grasp of it is to have fulfilling, long-lasting, intimate relationships.

In this module, you’ll:

• Expand your understanding of the dynamics of equilibrium, opposites, and wholeness and how these natural forces affect you and the world around you (This is especially important for change agents!)
• Understand how your personal work reintegrating shadow aspects of yourself impacts the collective
• Learn to notice the clues that show you when your shadow has risen up
• Identify potential obstacles and challenges along your path

Most people are stopped by their fears before they’re able to begin an exploration of their shadow. Learn to identify and clear the fears blocking your path. These same techniques can be used to clear your fears of any goal, dream, or purpose! You’ll also need to establish practices and support that will carry you through this program. Many people are stopped on their journey because of fear, doubt, and lack of adequate preparation and self-care. Clearing these obstacles will create a smooth path forward for your growth and development.

In this module, you’ll:

• Identify the conscious and unconscious fears that block your progress on your path
• Learn powerful tools that can remove fear and resistance to any goal, vision, dream, or purpose
• Identify the key conditions that will allow you to transform yourself into a powerful agent for actualizing your purpose
• Explore ways to practice self-care as you encounter your shadow

Every person, relationship, and event in your life is reflecting your unconscious back to you, if you only know what to look for! Learn to spot the telltale signs. And once you know you’re facing yourself, learn how to discover and integrate the disowned aspects of yourself that are asking to be reclaimed. Until you’ve mastered this key skill, your unconscious will constantly color and skew your relationships with your loved ones, boss, employees, and clients.

In this module, you’ll:

• Learn how shadow aspects of the psyche are created
• Understand why certain aspects of your humanity were suppressed and “disowned”
• Expand your perspectives about the impact of disowning aspects of who you are, including qualities you truly admire and wish you had more of
• Learn to use the people and events around you to identify and integrate lost aspects of yourself
• Discover additional techniques for clearing the fears, doubts, and limiting beliefs that can block your path to your dreams and purpose

As a child, you learned to suppress certain things, especially when confronted with challenging and painful experiences. Learn how these formative wounds cost you much of who you really are, and how to reclaim the selves that you left behind. Leaving your childhood wounds in your shadow means that your every decision and motive is rooted in avoidance of early trauma.

In this module, you’ll:

• Access greater clarity about the wounds you received in childhood (and beyond) and how they run your life every day
• Explore how your psyche’s well-intended attempts to respond to wounding events has resulted in limited self-expression and freedom, difficulty in relationships, and resistance to realizing your full potential
• Lean how to unlock the doors that imprison your disowned and discarded shadow to allow greater access to your emotions, full self-expression and confidence — and all the freedom, intimacy, and vitality this brings
• Transform your ego’s appreciation for and relationship with your core wounds, so you access an exciting new way of living that’s no longer driven by your patterns

Dreams provide the most direct possible channel to the unconscious. Interpreting this raw shadow material can be very challenging, though, unless you know what to look for! This module is a window into the extraordinary world of images and symbols, the native language of the unconscious. This advanced form of work with the unconscious will open up whole new realms of beauty, power, and resource!

In this module, you’ll:

• Expand your understanding of dreams and dreaming as messages from your unconscious
• Learn to interpret personal, collective, and universal dream symbols
• Learn practical and useful techniques to increase dream recall
• Practice incubating dreams to receive guidance and growth in specific areas
• Explore “waking dreams” as a way to become aware of your unconscious in everyday life

Having explored your personal unconscious, you’ll begin to see the vast forces moving through humanity, the world, and universe. And you’ll be ready to equip yourself to continue the lifelong practice of exploring and identifying your shadow, and that of the larger collective. The ultimate goal of exploring the unconscious is a new and vaster sense of self, one more fully capable of manifesting your purpose and changing the world.

In this module, you’ll:

• Expand your love, appreciation, and compassion for all parts of yourself and humanity
• Explore how the illusion of separateness and polarization manifests internally and in the world
• Deepen your appreciation of the nature of consciousness, nonduality, and transpersonal identity
• Imagine who you can be and what you can accomplish as you reclaim more and more of your beautiful, fully-expressed being and share your precious self in the world
• Develop ongoing practices and support systems to continue to rediscover and integrate more and more of your shadow

More information about Self Help:

Self-help or self-improvement is a self-guided improvement—economically, intellectually, or emotionally—often with a substantial psychological basis.
Many different self-help group programs exist, each with its own focus, techniques, associated beliefs, proponents and in some cases, leaders.
Concepts and terms originating in self-help culture and Twelve-Step culture, such as recovery, dysfunctional families, and codependency have become firmly integrated in mainstream language.

Self-help often utilizes publicly available information or support groups, on the Internet as well as in person, where people in similar situations join together.
From early examples in self-driven legal practice and home-spun advice, the connotations of the word have spread and often apply particularly to education, business,
psychology and psychotherapy, commonly distributed through the popular genre of self-help books.
According to the APA Dictionary of Psychology, potential benefits of self-help groups that professionals may not be able to provide include friendship,
emotional support, experiential knowledge, identity, meaningful roles, and a sense of belonging.