Since I started learning from you in early 2020, I feel such gratitude for what has come in as a result of your teachings. I now have a reliable and natural connection to four elevated ancestors. I have an established sense of how grief is an anchor for my activist work. Oh, "anchor" really doesn't capture it...it's like grief is what makes it all work. Most times now, this collective grief just wants to live as a ground-ness, a catalytic backdrop, a distortion-preventer, and a friend who waves in and out. I am so very grateful to you for the ways you have opened these aspects up for my growth and exploration. I can see how they have given me so much capacity to be in dynamic, intimate community--something that is essential for me.

Candace Tkachuck - participant in Sacred Grief learning paths

Shauna is a nurturing and present facilitator that cares about each individual and tends to the whole beautifully. She balances science, learned experience and spirit-guided wisdom in her training to create content that is relatable on all levels. She ushers the group to stay present in difficult spaces, while honouring any individual's needs that arise. She is joyful, real and powerful. I highly recommend working with her.

Mindy Taylor - participant in Michigan Grief Ritual training

Shauna Janz holds a safe and spacious environment in which to learn in. Her courses opened a door of which I had been standing in front of for a very long while. Shauna is a fiercely grounded and tender facilitator whose knowledge and understanding of grief, ancestral healing, and ritual, seems unending. You can feel her embodied understanding of what it means to hold space for folx interested in transforming grief. She took the 'woo woo' out of things that I have been interested in for decades and put the “WOW” back in. I am forever grateful and look forward to continuing to learn with her .

Traci Foster- Artistic Director and Mentor

I am a psychotherapist often working with folks managing and healing their trauma responses and histories alongside the interconnection with unexpressed grief, which prompted me to join this training. Some of the content was not new to me, but that which was I was able to use immediately in my sessions, while the refresher of content also enhanced my practice. What ended up being a powerful lesson was Shauna's facilitation, which was rooted in compassion and clear and direct communication. Her holding of our and her boundaries created a tangible honesty that left me never having to question her intentions or capacity, allowing me to fully root into the content. This lived lesson served as a powerful example for myself as facilitator and container holder for others, an example that is often not present in teaching, healing or co-creating spaces.

Alice Hacker - LCSW

I've taken several classes centred around ancestral healing; some were "apolitical" and created deeply unsafe containers, so I came in pretty skeptical about signing up for this. Shauna and this program exceeded my expectations. She relayed the information in very clear ways, while leaving lots of room for mystery. She facilitated beautiful live calls, and radically modelled how to allow grief into the space. Decolonization, dismantling white supremacy, and what ancestral healing means for folks who have colonizer ancestors was at the forefront of her work. As someone with settler colonizer ancestors, her compassion and rigour in working with the deep, complex questions around decolonization was really good medicine.

A.W. - Performing Artist, Director, Activist