"The Three Year Program has changed my life on a cellular level. It has been the best experience of my life!"

Originated by Michael Harner and based upon his decades of research and experimentation, this course is the most advanced training in shamanism and shamanic healing offered by the Foundation. It is widely considered as unparalleled in the world. It involves intensive extended training in progressively higher levels of very advanced shamanism, including initiations into rare and little-known practices and principles.

About the Three Year Program:

Video with Susan Mokelke

Video with Amanda Foulger

Students say:

"It is hard to grasp that just one week ago I was passing through one of my life's transformational moments. Well, there were quite a few to be honest. The work of the Three Year Program was remarkable and awesome. It blessed me and continues to feed me, to change me, and to make me laugh (and sometimes cry!). I am so truly grateful. The spirits are singing and dancing like never before! I feel like I have a 'band of brothers and sisters' with my helping spirits and am getting more and more acquainted as the days pass." --Pete Hatherell

"I love my life now. Since I've been doing this work, I have a deep sense of my purpose on this planet. That is not something I thought I would ever have. My life is deep, purposeful, profound and fun!" --Three Year Program Participant

PREREQUISITES: The FSS Basic Workshop: The Way of the Shaman and either: 1. The FSS Two Week Shamanic Healing Intensive; or 2. At least six days of advanced FSS workshops, including Shamanic Extraction Healing Training and two other advanced FSS two-day workshops of your choice. Special consideration will be given by the Review Committee to those who have completed the Two-Week Intensive, but many exceptions will be made, and each application will be evaluated individually by the Foundation Review Committee. Do not be discouraged from applying if you have not had the Two Week course. For special offers such as delayed final week tuition payment for the Three Year Program for those completing a recent Two Week Shamanic Healing Intensive, click on the "MORE INFORMATION" link below and download the program info/app.

ONLINE PREREQUISITES OPTION: Due to the pandemic, the in-person workshops have not been available. Thus, for the East Coast Three Year and the West Coast Three Year programs beginning in May 2022 ONLY, for those who have not completed the Two Week Intensive (#1 above) or the required in-person workshops (#2 above), completing all of the following ONLINE 7-hour or 10.5-hour workshops can meet the prerequisites.*

• The Shamanic Journey: Pathway to Knowledge & Power
• Shamanic Divination in Practice
• Shamanism, Spirits, & Healing
• The Shaman As Psychopomp
• The Shamanic Extraction Healing Method
• Power Soul Retrieval Method (coming in August 2021)
• Inspired Shamanic Practice (recommended, not required)

56 FSS Continuing Education (CE) Credits available annually for three years; 168 CE credits for the program. (Link for information on how to verify acceptance of FSS CE credits with your approval board.)

Note: Those who successfully complete the Three Year program are entitled to receive the Bronze Certificate of Completion, issued upon request by the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. This workshop is one of the prerequisites to receive the FSS Silver and Gold Certificates of Completion.

Find Three Year Program of Advanced Initiations in Shamanism and Shamanic Healing™ in Your Area

The workshops calendar is updated frequently with additional offerings. If this workshop is not currently being offered in your area, check back again soon or check for other workshops now being offered in your area.