LUCID DREAMING LUCID LIVING Shadow Work
Free 5-Day Course
The parts of you you've turned away from are asking to be met.
A free five-day course in shadow work for a moment that keeps asking more of us than we feel we have. Learn to meet what's unconscious in you - instead of being run by it.
5 short sessions l no cost l start anytime
Right now, the world keeps handing us reasons to brace, react, and armor up. Shadow work isn't an escape from that - it's how you stop meeting hard times with the same automatic patterns that got you here.
— Norma Burton, on why this course exists now
Why this approach works
This is a pathway a way deeper in.
Beyond your story
It doesn't stop at your personal history. It works with the deeper, shared patterns underneath - so the change isn't just insight, it's a felt shift.
Built to last
Not a mood boost or a single breakthrough. Each session moves you one layer closer to a pattern that stays changed, not just quieted for a week
Speaks to the unconscious
Most reactions live below conscious thought. This course meets you there directly, instead of asking you to think your way out of a feeling.
The five sessions
A short journey, in five parts
DAY 01 - Naming what you avoid
Identify the reactions, moods, and shutdowns you've learned to explain away - and where they're actually coming from.
DAY 02 - Tracing the pattern's origin
Identify the reactions, moods, and shutdowns you've learned to explain away - and where they're actually coming from.
DAY 03 - Sitting with it, not fixing it
A guided practice in staying present with a difficult part of yourself long enough for it to stop needing to be hidden.
DAY 04 - Reclaiming the power in it
What you've suppressed usually carries real strength. Learn to take that energy back on your own terms
DAY 05 - Carrying it into daily life
A simple practice for staying in relationship with your own shadow, so old patterns don't quietly creep back in.
Your guide
Depth psychology, three lineages, and a career spent inside organizations
Norma Burton has spent years guiding leaders and individuals through the patterns that quietly undermine them - work she calls the Journey to Completion. It draws on depth psychology, current organizational-change research, and applied neuroscience.
It also carries something rarer: after years of study, Norma was given permission by tradition-holders to bring in wisdom from the Huichol of Mexico, Mikyo Buddhism of Japan, and her own Seneca Iroquois lineage.
This free course is a distilled entry point into that same work - built for a moment when a lot of people are carrying more than usual, and looking for something more durable than another coping trick.
DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY
HUICHOL TRADITION
MIKYO BUDDHISM
SENECA IROQUOIS LINEAGE
APPLIED NEUROSCIENCE
From the wider practice
What this work has done for others
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"I saw my stress patterns around work and how this influences how I show up. More importantly, through the group work, I could see how this impacts others, and this allowed me to take responsibility for my impact. Norma’s skill in navigating between working with us as individuals and as a group made all the difference in facilitating change that lasts."
- Emily Gould
Law Professor at Columbia University
"The Journey to Completion taught me how to engage and stay present. I used to feel emotionally challenged in bringing my work into the world. I would waste energy, adrenaline and time before my presentations. Now, instead of being intimidated by my work, I’m attracted to it. I feel extreme joy in presenting what I know with no inhibition."
- Doug McKegney
Executive Coach
"My own life story was overlapping my professional life. My family had let me down, and I felt I didn’t count. That was always there in the background. Now I can show up in the world as I am without hiding myself and being ashamed. There is a sense of wholeness. The Journey to Completion is not another submission to something. I am totally free. I am the one with the power. Norma showed me how to take my power back. I am the one in charge."
- Carole Levy
Corporate Consultant
Before you begin
Questions people ask
Do I need any experience with shadow work or therapy?
No. The course is built for a first encounter with this work - you don't need any prior background in psychology, therapy, or spiritual practice.
How much time does each session take?
Each of the five sessions is designed to take 20–30 minutes, including a short guided practice you can return to afterward.
Is this really free?
Yes. The five-day course is free. It's also an entry point into Norma's individual coaching and cohort work, if you want to go further afterward.
What if something difficult comes up?
The course is paced to let material surface gently, with grounding practices built in. It isn't a substitute for therapy - if you're currently in crisis, please reach out to a mental health professional first.
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