Shadow Work That Actually Works
A free 90-minute live session on the unconscious patterns surfacing right now - the reactivity, the numbing, the certainty about who's to blame - with Norma Burton, founder of Journey to Completion™.
Guided by 30 years of private practice in depth psychology, Jungian analysis, and organizational change.
If the world feels unsteady, you might be living from an old pattern
Collective stress doesn't just raise your heart rate. It reaches for whatever in you is already unresolved.
You snap at people who did nothing but remind you of someone who did.
You check the news for information and leave with a nervous system on high alert.
You've gotten very good at feeling nothing at all.
You take on more control at work and at home, certain no one else can hold it.
Some days you can barely get off the couch, and you can't say exactly why.
You're very sure you already know who's to blame for how hard this all feels.
The parts of you that go quiet in ordinary times don't stay quiet in times like these
Carl Jung called it the shadow - the parts of ourselves we learned to disown because, at some point, they felt too big, too much, or too dangerous to show. In steady times, the shadow mostly stays out of sight, running quietly in the background.
Political strain, economic pressure, a news cycle that never lets up - none of it creates your shadow. It just turns up the volume on it. What you're calling anxiety about the world may also be an old pattern, finally loud enough to notice.
What ninety minutes with Norma can move
See the Pattern
Recognize which of your reactions belong to right now - and which belong to a much older story.
Reclaim the Energy
Stop spending your power on defending, numbing, or controlling - and get it back for your actual life.
Respond, Don't Reenact
Leave with one practice for meeting whatever's next from steadiness, instead of habit.
What shifts when people do this work
Seeing her own stress patterns at work - and how they rippled out to the people around her - gave her a new sense of responsibility for her impact on others.
Emily Gould Law Professor, Columbia UniversityWhere he once burned energy and adrenaline dreading his own presentations, he now brings his work into the world with ease, and feels real joy sharing what he knows.
Doug McKegney Executive CoachShe no longer feels she has to hide who she is to be accepted. She describes a new sense of wholeness, and of being fully in charge of her own life.
Carole Levy Corporate ConsultantHow the 90 minutes unfolds
The Anatomy of a Trigger
Why the nervous system reaches for an old pattern before it reaches for the truth.
Naming Your Pattern
A live diagnostic exercise drawn from the Journey to Completion methodology.
The Integration Practice
A simple daily practice for metabolizing what today keeps stirring up.
Live Q&A
Bring your own pattern. Leave with real, specific reflection - not generic advice.
Norma Nakai Burton
Norma founded Journey to Completion™ in 1996. Since then, thousands of leaders have used it to create an authentic, lasting shift - in themselves and in the cultures of the organizations they lead.
Her approach draws on thirty years of private consulting practice, graduate training in organizational systems change, psychology, and world religions, and years of study in Jungian analysis. It also carries what she was given permission to integrate from the Huichol of Mexico, Mikyo Buddhists of Japan, and Seneca Iroquois traditions, after years spent in study with their elders.
Work Highlights
- Founder, International Alliance for Spirit at Work
- Corporate consultant to leadership teams and organizations
- Senior Minister, Unity in Ashland
- Director, National Headquarters of the Battered Women's Movement
- Director, Thich Nhat Hanh's Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Academic Background
- M.Div. & MA, PhD (abd) - Graduate Theological Union & Pacific School of Religion, in Buddhist Psychology and Comparative Religions
- Post-graduate study in Neurobiology and Somatic Psychology, Santa Barbara Graduate Institute
- Advanced training in Systems Change and Trauma Healing
This talk is built for people who are done reacting the same way and calling it personality
Leaders and executives whose reactivity is starting to cost them trust.
Coaches, therapists, and healers who want deeper tools for this cultural moment.
HR and culture leads trying to steady teams that feel fragmented.
Anyone who senses that the old patterns are no longer serving them - or anyone else.
Your seat is reserved the moment you say yes
Free · 90 minutes · Live via Zoom · Kept small on purpose