Do The Shadow Work

Do The Shadow Work

Workshop
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 - 19:00 to 20:30
Life
Spiritual
Wellbeing
Alternatives says: 
Book launch and mini-workshop!
Description: 

To celebrate the launch of his new book Do The Shadow Work bestselling Hay House author Charlie Morley returns to Alternatives for a deep dive into shadow work and how it can help us transform fear into love and shame into acceptance.

Our shadow is the part of us that we hide from others: our shame, our fears and our wounds, but also our inner gold, our unexpressed talents and our untapped potential. To do the shadow work is to transform the energy of the shadow into the power of awakening.

Charlie will explore his highly practical new book (based on his 2017 work Dreaming through Darkness) and talk us through the guided meditations, mask work, art therapy, eye gazing and creative writing exercises it contains. Charlie will also lead the audience through several shadow work practices so this will be a mini-workshop as well as a book launch.

We'll explore:

  • How we create and project our shadow
  • How to find and express the golden or “positive “ shadow
  • Techniques to transform fear & shame into loving awareness
  • How to begin integrating our sexual, ancestral and childhood shadows.

 

There will also be an interactive  Q&A and book signing after the talk.

About the speaker, Charlie Morley.

Charlie Morley is a bestselling author and teacher of lucid dreaming, shadow integration and Mindfulness of Dream & Sleep.

Charlie formally became a Buddhist at the age of 19 and lived at the Kagyu Samye Dzong Buddhist Centre for 7 years. He’s been lucid dreaming for over 25 years and was “authorised to teach” within the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism by Lama Yeshe Rinpoche in 2008. Since then, he has written four books that have been translated into over 15 languages and has run workshops and retreats in more than 20 countries.

He’s spoken at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, taught workshops for the NHS, Reuters News Agency, and the Army Air Corps, and presented his work with military veterans on Sky News and at the Ministry of Defence Mindfulness Symposium.

In 2018, he was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to research PTSD treatment in military veterans and continues to teach workshops for people with trauma-affected sleep. These teachings form the core of his latest book Wake Up to Sleep.

In a world first, he trained a group of therapists to use lucid dreaming with their clients, a training that formed the basis of his 100-hour Lucid Dream Facilitator Training, which is now offered every two years.

In 2023, the first scientific study into Charlie’s methods was published in the peer-reviewed journal Traumatology in which 85% of participants experienced “a remarkable decrease in Post Traumatic Stress Symptoms” within 1 week by using lucid dreaming alone.

In 2026 Charlie will offer the first Post Graduate Diploma in Lucid Dreaming at Karuna Dartmoor.

In his past life, he trained and worked as an actor and scriptwriter before running a hip-hop collective called THROWDOWN throughout his 20s.

He now lives in London with his partner, Chloe, a mini-dachshund named Waffles, and a huge chow-chow named Bao.

When he’s not teaching, he enjoys kickboxing, surfing, and pretending to meditate.

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18:30
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19:00
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20:30
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