Association of Nature and Forest Therapy (ANFT)

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Shannon Gorres, MDiv, MA Claimed

Lawrence, KS, United States

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Kansas City, United States

Embodiment and Mindfulness Certifications

~Sivananda teacher, from the Sivananda Yoga and Vedanta Ashram, 2009.

~Dances of Universal Peace leader, and ordained cherag, with the Sufi Ruhaniat International, since 2014.

~Forest Therapy Guide, through the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy, provisional certification 2021, full certification 2024.

~Apprentice of Denise Ellen Hill, Spiritual Direction mentor and ACPE Supervisor, completing dozens of verbatims, book and article reviews, and live feedback, 2015-2024.

~Parent of a highly sensitive child. Through Empowered Parenting, she learned holistic child-raising. Spouse of a 25 year body-worker (massage and energy work), they constantly discuss healing. 2016-now.

Training and Degrees

2004-2006 Social Worker in Ames, Iowa. She realized the depth of cultural  structures (internal and external) on people’s approaches and abilities to respond to stressors.

2008 Masters of Latin American Studies at KU.  She studied race, gender, & politics/economics in the history of North America. Her master’s thesis used the geography of place (inter-connectedness of nature) as context for human relationships. 

2014 Masters of Divinity at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA.  She dove deeper into the ways the internal story unique to each person is also a key part of healing life narratives; and she studied spirituality, justice, and creative soul expression. She also earned a Certificate in Religion and Sexuality.

2020 Interfaith Board Certified Chaplain, proving 31 competencies in spiritual and emotional care (from common therapeutic interventions to trauma response to complex organizational analysis). She has supported hundreds of adults and children through crises and dying processes, along with grieving, angry, and disoriented families.

Life-long learner

Shannon has taken numerous trainings about white privilege and anti-racism, LGBTQ+ particularities, classism, and their intersectionality, and she continues to learn about specific ways of allyship. 

She also studies neuroscience, resiliency, compassion fatigue, and trauma-informed care. She attends two peer supervision groups a month.

She loves to swim, rollerblade, and tends a vegetable and flower garden.

Her personal life goals are: awareness, compassion, and wisdom.

She loves people, poetry, and the planet.

More About Shannon

Shannon Gorres loves digging in the roots and nourishing the soil. She continually develops her toolbox of skills to help others dig too, and play in the mud. 

Working on a continuum between healing psychological & emotional pain and spiritual awakening, Shannon helps others integrate difficult experiences into refreshed ways of being. She’s spent her lifetime building self-awareness, to shift hurtful patterns and to better know the Divine. She strives for an ever-fuller awakening into love, unity, and wholeness.

Shannon looks different, depending on the day and season. Shannon is gender fluid and uses “she” or “they” pronouns. You are welcome to show up each day as you truly feel, in any form.

Certified Guide:
Yes
Training Received From:
Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs (ANFT)*
Language(s):
English
Spanish
Title / Role:
MDiv, MA, ANFT certified guide
Certified Trail Consultant:
No

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