Connor Beaton – The Shadow Course
End the loop of feeling directionless and stuck by uncovering your hidden potential
The Shadow Course is my online, on-demand training program to help you defeat the voice in your head that tells you you’re not good enough, and break free of the limitations holding you back
The Shadow Lives Within All of Us…
As the saying goes, “your pain has its own intelligence,” and this intelligence is the shadow.
It is created when we reject, deny, or disown parts of ourselves, our pasts, or our true actions.
And the truth is, the more you try and reject or avoid these parts of yourself, the more they show up and throw you off course, sabotage your best efforts to change and hold your power hostage.
The first step to reclaiming your power is to face these dark and uncomfortable parts of yourself that make you the most human. Your pathway to feeling whole and complete can only be unlocked through understanding, integrating and learning how to work with your shadow.
Connor Beaton, the founder of ManTalks, has helped thousands of people around the world take their power back using this impactful and proven system….
And now he’s bringing that wisdom to you in The Shadow Course.
Over this 8-week journey, you’ll take the first and most important step to integrating your shadow and reclaiming control in your life.
You’ll investigate the origins of your shadow, why it’s there in the first place, and how it both protects and sabotages you…
So you can finally carve your path to freedom and actualize your potential… on your terms.
We Live in a Culture That Teaches Us Strength Through Suppression.
If you suppress your pain and sadness deep enough, avoid your fears hard enough and hide your insecurities long enough… you’ll achieve the strength and resiliency to actualize your potential. This couldn’t be further from the truth.
Instead, suppression is what holds you back from moving in the direction that you truly want. It’s how your shadow takes hold of your life. It’s how it sabotages your career, your relationships, your health, your vitality, your sexuality, and your goals.
A few of the ways your shadow is sabotaging your life…
- You can’t seem to break out of self-sabotaging patternsand behaviors that ruin relationships and prevent you from growing.
- You’re missing a deeper sense of confidence so you can take ownership of your thoughts, your emotions, and your actions so you can consistently show up… even in the face of
uncertainty - You lack boundaries with people and are afraid to break free from being a “nice guy” but end up being passive aggressive or withholding from the people closest to you.
- You’re missing greater clarity, conviction, and purpose in your life as you establish a deep connection to your authentic self.
- You want to understand your anger and learn how to manage it better.
- You want to be more aware of why you react the way you do when you have a negative experience, as well as gain tools to deal with and express your emotions better.
- You want to be able to communicate with your partner better so you don’t keep getting trapped in conflict or avoid the conversation all together.
- You deal with a lot of self-sabotage in your life, and you want to get to the bottom of it so that you can resolve or overcome it.
As difficult as these things are to look at, the truth is — your greatest potential is locked up in these deep, dark recesses of your psyche…
And so it is your duty to your highest self to unplug from the programming that has allowed your shadow to take over and wreak havoc in your life and relationships.
You cannot escape your shadow.
It’s when you finally step in to do the work and move through its heaviness that you can expand your capacity for everything that matters to you… and everything you know you’re capable of.
Facing your shadow is the first step to awakening your greatest potential.
It’s my mission to guide you as you turn towards the shameful, guilty and embarrassing parts of yourself that you tend to hide. By working with your shadow, you can prevent it from working against you.
In The Shadow Course, you’ll become aware of the ways you have felt rejected, avoided, denied and projected onto others. You’ll understand how the shadow is built in pain, and flip open your “hurt locker”… so that you can transmute that energy into empowered decisions and navigate life with clarity and conviction.
What You’ll Learn In The Shadow Course
What to Expect 8 Weeks to Self Mastery Through the Gateway of Your Shadow
The Shadow Course will guide you through this process across 8 weeks of training, exercises, guided journaling and meditation. All students will have access to the course materials in perpetuity on our ManTalks training platform.
Module 1: Understanding Your Shadow
What exactly is the shadow, and how does it impact your life? When does it take control over you and why? In this first module, you’ll be introduced to the concept of the shadow and identify how your past has shaped it.
Module 2: Investigating The Origin of Your Shadow
Every shadow, has its own origin story and it continues to develop and grow within you over time. In this module, you’ll explore how the family systems and culture you grew up in — as well as the wounds that were created in that space — have shaped your shadow.
Module 3: Reactivity, Rejection & Avoidance
You’ll learn how to identify the origins of reactivity, or when the shadow is in your driver’s seat and ready to hijack, so you can maintain your cool, your boundaries, and your goals. I’ll teach you about periods of “deconstruction” when the shadow is most active. You’ll discover how surrendering to them — instead of resisting them — can actually initiate you into who you want to become.
Module 4: Meeting & Disarming Your Inner Critic and Saboteur
The Shadow personifies as your inner critic. In this module, you’ll learn how to confront your inner critic and have a constructive conversation with it so you can move from harmful self-loathing, to healthy self-evaluation.
Module 5: Working With Your Anger
In this module, you’ll explore the four primary types of anger: Explosive, Implosive, Fused, and Foreign. By understanding anger, you prevent it from hijacking you during heated moments or situations. Your goal is to move towards Embodied Clean Anger — a space where you’re able to have grounded communication, and honor your boundaries as well as others’.
Module 6: The Shadow In Relationships
You’ll identify the ways your shadow sabotages your relationships, through behaviors such as shutting down, becoming avoidant, getting clingy or feeling dependent. You’ll also learn how to move past sexual shame or disempowering fears that are blocking you from experiencing true intimacy and connection.
Module 7: Leveraging The Shadow To Uncover Your Potential
Your shadow is a space from which you can derive motivation, creativity, inspiration and empowerment. I’ll teach you to understand how you can use its powers to work in your favor so you can heal your relationship with discipline and develop a devotion towards yourself.
Module 8: Integration — Returning to Wholeness
To integrate and manage your shadow, you need to nurture your inner child, the part of your psyche that is still childlike and dependent. It’s also the gateway to healing any psychological trauma, dysfunctional patterns, and self-harming behaviors you may have developed growing up. Deep inside, your inner child is still reliant on the parenting that you received back then to guide them — and you — on how to safely function in life.
In the final module, you’ll learn how to parent yourself and resolve these issues of blame, shame and guilt that reside in your subconscious so that you can integrate your shadow. ascend beyond its harrowing grip, and return to wholeness.
About Connor Beaton
I’ve been working for almost a decade as a NY-based coach, teacher, and speaker to help men (and women) from all over the world walk thought their darkness and grow in the realms of mental clarity, relational communication, actualizing their potential and sexual intimacy.
I have a no-BS attitude coupled with compassionate understanding of our own human limitations. I’ve coached hundreds of men (and women) through private coaching, group work, workshops, retreats and masterminds.
I have shared the stage with world class speakers like Gary Vaynerchuk, Lewis Howes, Danielle LaPorte, and many more.
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