Shadow Hunters Training
Spring 2025
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A Boot Camp for men to work on their Shadow
How would you like to learn to...
Build emotional maturity & resilience
Are you at the mercy of their emotions, being ruled by anger, anxiety, shutdown, fear and deep shame. Are you caught in a loop of blaming others for how your life is? Instead of trying to avoid these emotions you will learn how to face them, learn from them and work with them in a mature and healthy way, becoming a safer and more trustable man in the process.
Develop relationship with your inner child and inner critic
Many of us did not have an emotionally stable home when growing up and so our inner child is still looking for love and safety in our adult years. We may also be relentlessly attacked by our inner critic that continually berates and shames us. When we develop relationship with these parts of us, we learn to heal them and take care of them.
Challenge unconscious habits that are keeping you stuck in life
Are there habits in your life you are constantly repeating? Many times these habits are caused by shadow or unconscious patterns that we are not aware of are driving us. We will give a lot of space to understanding these behaviours and the root cause of them so you can move beyond them.
Does This Sound familiar?
- Lashing out at those closest to you even when you don't want to?
- Shutting down and blaming others for how you feel?
- Feel numbed or unable to put words on how you feel?
- Feel overwhelmed and stressed with life?
- Feel like you are stuck or there is an invisible force holding you back
This is shadow at play. When we are unaware of our triggers, childhood dynamics and habitual patterns that are unconsciously playing out in our lives.
Until we turn and face our shadow we tend to be swept along by life, wishing things could be different but pretty powerless to do anything about it.
Hi im Niall
Mens work Facilitator and Mentor....
My mens work Journey began in March 2015 when I was Initiated into the Mankind Project. I have spent the last 9 years deeply immersed in mens work. Ongoing mens groups, trainings and weekend retreats with MKP, A Band of Brothers, Sacred Sons and other mens organisations.
Learning to look at, understand and be challenged in my Shadow has been the most rewarding journey I have gone on. It has lead me to deep insight of my habitual patterns, helped me build trust in myself and managing emotions and helped me to understand why I am the way I an through looking my childhood history.
Have You Ever Wondered...
Why you do the things that you do?
Why one second you are fine and the next second you may feel rage or anger or shutdown. Or shame that stops you dead in your tracks.
Why you are always looking for attention form others and needing others approval before starting projects or doing something out of the ordinary.
Why you keep repeating patterns and habits even if you know they aren't serving you and have promised yourself countless times that you will change?
Why you are overly obsessed with women and need to be either dating women or in a relationship to feel ok?
The answers may lie in your shadow, the parts of us that we hide, repress and deny...
Imagine if you faced all the parts of you that you've been hiding from?
That you know yourself and your patterns so well that you are able to make decisions that align with your dreams and goals and not be caught in your past.
That you trust yourself so deeply in intimate relationships because you know you have the tools to deal with any triggers or challenges you faced.
That you aren't scared of your emotions such as shame, anger and fear and that you know how to live your life with joy and openness.
Facing your shadow is a way to do all this. It is not easy work, but it may be the most rewarding thing you do in your adult life.
Join the waitlistYou will learn how to...
#1
Work with your triggers, shutdown & emotional reactions
Learn tools so you can regulate yourself more in reaction or triggers. Learning to communicate honestly what is going on for you and respond instead of reacting.
#2
Face difficult emotions like fear, shame and anger
Emotions are messengers, they are there to give you information. Learn to understand and become more open to your difficult emotions and see what they are trying to tell you.
#3
Develop relationships with your inner child and inner critic
Learn to take care of your little boy inside and stand up to your inner critic. Taking responsibility for these parts of you means you do not let them rule your inner life. You learn to father your inner child and have clear boundaries around your inner critic.
#4
Identify core beliefs and habits that are keeping you stuck in life
With support you will be guided into the shadows that are running your life and encouraged to make changes to break out of these habits and patterns.
The Impact of this work on mens lives...
“The biggest impact was around my voice...”
“Shadow hunters has given me a greater understanding of myself, my triggers and why I do the things I do. The biggest impact for me was around my voice, expressing how I feel, what I want and what I don’t want.”
~ G Patterson, Athlone
“I explored emotions I usually do not allow myself to...”
“This course is an opportunity to come more into your authentic self and return the parts of us we had to hide when we were young because we wanted to be accepted and loved in our family. I loved all parts of this course and would happily do another course with Niall as the facilitator.
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~ A Kavanagh, Dublin
“An opportunity to reconcile with the parts of myself that have been denied...”
“Thank you for offering the opportunity to reconcile with the parts of myself that have been denied, and for providing a safe and compassionate space to do so. This has been a challenging yet profound healing experience. ”
~ J Rushe, Athlone
What is Shadow you ask?
Good question!
When we are children we have a natural openness and curiosity to the world. A joy in just living and being alive.
As we get older we learn from our parents, school teachers or friends that there are parts of us that are not allowed.
We are told that we are, too loud, too lazy, too boisterous, too emotional.
We may be taught that to receive love or care from our parents we have to be a 'good boy.' To be part of a peer group we have to put on an act. For our brothers or sisters to play with us we have to do certain things.
We learn to hide repress and deny parts of ourselves so that we are still able to still receive love and acceptance.
As an adult
At a certain point in our lives we have put so many parts of us into shadow that we don't know who we are. We react to people around us. Get triggered by our partners and children. We don't know what we want and what we like. We want to be a man but we are still living a life of 'good boy' and looking for approval from women, peers, boss. Looking to others to validate our existence.
Here comes the choice point:
Do you want to continue this trajectory in your life or do you want to face and reclaim all these parts of you that you have locked away. draining your life of joy, purpose and love.
Only you can make this choice...
Ready to take a 9 week deep dive into your Shadow?
Here's whats included...
Shadow Materials & Teachings
Weekly recorded material, meditations and journalling prompts to help you become more aware of your shadow and how it plays out in your life.
Group Shadow Sessions
Group mentoring calls to fully support you to unearth areas in your life that you are holding yourself back and shadow is at play.
Embodied Shadow Practice
Practice shadow exercises with other men to fully embody how to respond when triggered, react or go into shutdown. Meet and develop relationship with your inner child and inner critic.
"At some point on a mans journey he becomes tired of looking over his shoulder and realises he must turn and face his shadow."
~ N Graham
Are you ready?
Shadow Hunters is back Spring 2025
Is it time for you to face your shadows?
The parts of you that have been keeping you back in life?
Join the waitlist below to be notified when the doors are open.
You may also receive info about other offerings around Shadow that may be supportive for you.
