The Animist Guide to Ancestral Dreamwork

Dreaming with the Lamented

September 25, 2025

This connective gathering is for anyone seeking meaningful ways of understanding how the landscapes of dreamtime and our ancestors who inhabit this liminal field are sources of potency, foretelling and ways of being of service. For those who bring heart awareness, presence and willingness to explore the blessedness of dreaming & ancestor veneration as restorative healing in connection with the wider field of relations, seen and unseen.

This is also for anyone who is seeking and wanting to participate in a community of dream weavers, ancestor venerators, alchemists and midwives of the soul through deeply embodied dreamwork. For those who seek to know, both intimately and through witnessing, the benefits of understanding the soul’s journey in non-ordinary reality as we sleep and wishing to embody those experiences in waking life.

Our work is rooted in an animist, earth honoring, diverse and culturally competent safe space. We will explore these liminal landscapes bringing not only holy levity to the work but also auspicious and timely-needed kindness .

Feel free to also listen to recordings later if material is of interest but you are finding amidst all the new ways of on online connecting, you just can’t do one more zoom meeting…

What's Included

What we will do

The liminal place between waking and dreaming is a land rich with your personal metaphors waiting to be witnessed, alchemised and birthed into being. In this way we become the dream midwife, the alchemist of our dreams together with your people, the lamented, the well, the ancients.  In our time together you will enjoy the safe container co-created by our focused intention to:

Create Ritual Space
Connect with ancestors and former selves through waking and dream states.

8-Week Journey through Samhain
Move through a sacred season of ancestral honoring and transformation.

Dream as Ritual
Approach dreams as lived experiences, not just symbols to interpret.

Ancestral & Spirit Guidance
Receive messages and direction from ancestors and helping spirits.

Track, Align, Act
Understand dream visitations, follow synchronicity, and act with purpose.

 

Investment

WE’RE HAPPY TO OFFER 3 PRICING OPTIONS IN CONSIDERATION OF THOSE WHO ARE IN FINANCIAL NEED.

Generating: For those folks with comfortable financial means to contribute more, we are deeply appreciative of your generosity which assists in making this accessible for those who may otherwise not be able to attend.

Sustaining: This is the actual cost for us to offer this program and sustain what we do. We are grateful if you are able to enroll at this rate.

Supported: We invite folks with leaner financial means to enjoy programs at a reduced cost and are delighted you are here.

If you need a reduction beyond what is provided or a payment plan, please reach out directly to shannon@redearthhealing.org

Generating

$295

Sustaining

$195

Supported

$125

Facilitator

Shannon Willis, M.Ed

Shannon will be your guide for this immersive. Her work lives at the wild confluence of dream midwifery, oracular listening, ancestral reverence, and ritual arts. She’s the Ritual Director at Ancestral Medicine, and an initiate in the Òrìṣà tradition of Yoruba-speaking West Africa, she has also apprenticed herself to the dreaming wisdom of her own bloodlines and to teachers of Jhanki Shamanism.

Shannon writes and weaves spiritual accompaniment for emerging leaders and cultural edge-walkers—those drawn to the holy work of remembrance, repair, and rooted resistance. She dwells with her son and their furred companions near the mist-kissed shores of the Salish Sea, on the ancestral and living lands of the Twana-Skokomish people.

Frequently Asked Questions

This course is for all level of dream tenders, those who are avid at recall and working the dream and those who are just beginning to explore their dream time. I believe we live through experiences in our dream time first and then actualize them in waking life and we can dream for our community as well. The only pathway to this is with everyone!

Once you’re enrolled, you’ll have ongoing access to the course for as long as it’s hosted on our site. While we may update or transition older teachings over time, we’ll always do our best to give plenty of notice if anything is changing. We deeply value your learning journey and aim to support your connection to this work for the long term.

A full refund is available for up to 30 days after the course begins. If helpful, please reach out as I would like to see if it’s possible to make the course work for you. Of course, you are welcome to the refund as well with no questions asked.

All Zoom calls will be recorded and made available within 48 hours.