About the course
Six gentle steps to healing the inner child
Inner Child Healing is an in-person course of six unhurried monthly day-sessions with Sheela Hagan. Drawing on seventy years of life experience, it is deep and gentle, fun and loving — a safe, grounded space to reconnect with the child you once were.
Who it’s for
An invitation, exactly as you are
You don’t need any prior experience, and there’s nothing to “fix”. Wherever you are on your path, you’re welcome to come as you are and take the work at your own pace. It is spiritual but grounded, warm and playful, and always held with care.
The journey
The shape of our time together
Recognising your Inner Child
We begin gently — group guidelines, the Jelly Bean Tree, and learning how we know we have an inner child at all. Step one: telling the child's voice from the adult's, closed with a soothing Inner Child meditation.
- Jelly Bean Tree
- Inner Child vs Adult
- IC Meditation
Meeting your Inner Child
A guided meditation to meet the younger you, a tender look at why we learn to deny our true feelings, and a first taste of how you'd like to feel instead — with gentle Nurturing Actions homework to take away.
- Meet-your-child meditation
- How would you like to feel?
- Nurturing Actions homework
Nurturing Actions
The joyful, playful part of the journey — five small experiential acts of self-kindness, from laughing at a mistake to asking to be cared for, that give the inner child what it always needed.
- Five playful actions
- Take a risk
- Ask to be cared for
Helping & connecting
How we can actively help our inner child — connecting-with-your-child work, healing statements, and an invitation to bring a childhood photo along for next time.
- How can we help our child?
- Connecting handout
- Bring a childhood photo
Review & the Mother Wound
We look back at how far you've come — sharing what's shifted, revisiting the Jelly Bean Tree, and lingering over childhood photos together — before gently opening the deeper work of the Mother Wound, with a letter to your inner child to write at home.
- What changes have you noticed?
- Childhood photos
- The Mother Wound
Letter, release & close
Your letter to your inner child, an outdoor fire-pit release ritual, and certificates of completion — the tender payoff, and a warm goodbye.
- Letter to your child
- Fire-pit release
- Certificates
To ask a question or book your place, reach Sheela on 07954 173310