A 6-Month Training
With the Grandmother of Interspecies Telepathic Communication
Penelope Smith
Become certified as an Animal Telepathic Communication Counselor upon satisfaction of all program requirements
Deepen Your Path as an Interspecies Communicator & Healing Presence
Build on your foundational training with Penelope Smith through advanced practices in energetic attunement, telepathic connection, body scanning, intuitive listening, and soul-to-soul communication to support animals on all levels — physical, emotional, and spiritual — strengthening their bonds with humans and co-creating a sacred, reciprocal relationship that facilitates healing for all.
Program Starts Monday, September 8, 2025
Open to a Limited Number of Participants by Application Only
Apply now and save $300 off tuition — SEE DETAILS BELOW.
Your animals depend on you to provide them with a happy life full of love, security, and wellbeing.
The better you understand them and their needs, the better you can give them the life they deserve. And vice versa — the more effectively you communicate with animals, the more positive influence they can have on their human companions.
Through your work with Penelope Smith, you’ve already embraced your natural gift for connecting with animals.
We’re excited to let you know about an extraordinary opportunity to deepen your animal communication skills with Penelope as your mentor.
If you’re ready to understand animals on a more profound level — tuning in to their thoughts, emotions, and needs, assisting them through life transitions, or even helping lost animals find their way home — this certification program invites you to develop your innate ability for animal communication and cultivate a richer, more conscious relationship with all living beings.
You won’t just be enhancing and refining your techniques and practices — you’ll be opening yourself to a more nuanced way of connecting with the world around you. You’ll feel more aligned with nature and gain a better understanding of the interconnectedness of all beings. This program is a path to profound spiritual awakening and a deeper connection with life.
Through this training, you’ll develop a heightened sensitivity to the subtle energies that connect all living beings, fostering a greater sense of harmony and understanding — enriching both your personal journey and your ability to support the animals in your life.
If you feel called to strengthen this sacred connection, you may be ready to step into the role of an Animal Telepathic Communication Counselor — becoming a clear, compassionate channel for interspecies understanding and healing.
With an advanced curriculum rooted in love, intuition, and mutual respect, you’ll elevate and refine your telepathic abilities and cultivate profound animal relationships, using holistic methods that serve as a compassionate bridge between all beings.
Rounding out this comprehensive training program, you’ll also have the opportunity to learn from a distinguished group of animal communication experts, including Tammy Billups, Val Heart, Donna Lozito, and Lynn McKenzie.
WHO IS THIS PROGRAM FOR?
The Animal Communication Certification Program is designed for dedicated animal lovers, practitioners, and professionals who are ready to cultivate their advanced interspecies communication skills. Mentorship from Penelope and her expert guest faculty in real-time will equip you to serve both animals and their human companions with wisdom, compassion, and purpose.
You’ll also refine your ability to communicate with nature and engage in co-creative partnerships with the natural world. Penelope will teach you new ways to guide animals and humans with compassion, even through life’s toughest moments.
This program is for:
- Animal Lovers: Strengthen your bond with your animal friends, understand their emotions and needs more clearly, and resolve behavioral issues using intuitive communication — experiencing a more profound, heart-centered connection with the animals in your life
- Animal Communication Practitioners: Support humans in understanding their animals’ emotional and behavioral needs, fostering a deeper connection and improving the human-animal bond through intuitive communication
- Animal Behavior Specialists: Collaborate with veterinarians, trainers, or shelters to address behavioral issues through a heightened awareness of the animal's perspective, enhancing communication and creating effective solutions
- Animal Healers and Wellness Counselors: Combine telepathic communication with energy healing modalities — like Reiki or vibrational medicine — to provide holistic care, supporting animals’ emotional and physical wellbeing
- End-of-Life Support and Grief Counselors: Offer compassionate guidance during transitions, steered by your intuition for animals and their human companions, to provide comfort and assist with end-of-life decisions, ensuring a peaceful passage
- Lost Animal Assistance Specialists: Utilize telepathy to assist in locating lost animals by tuning in to their experiences and whereabouts, offering hope and closure
- Animal Trainers: Amplify your ability to intuitively understand and respond to animals’ needs and behaviors — enhancing your training sessions, workshops, and classes with clear, compassionate communication that supports both animals and their humans in achieving desired outcomes
- Animal-Focused Writers, Media, and Communication Professionals: Share transformative experiences, stories, and insights about animal consciousness and other aspects, through books, blogs, podcasts, or social media
— Guest Faculty Tammy Billups: “Penelope’s Course
Will Be a Gift to Your Heart and a Gift to How You Relate to Animals”
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
You’ll elevate your skills, gain professional credibility, and expand your ability to support animals and their human companions with greater confidence and effectiveness.
This training will prepare you to:
- Conduct one-on-one consultations to help people understand their animals’ needs, behaviors, and emotions
- Collaborate with veterinarians, trainers, or shelters to address behavioral issues through a deeper understanding of the animal’s perspective
- Integrate telepathic communication with energy healing modalities, like Reiki and vibrational medicine, to support animals’ emotional and physical wellbeing
- Assist animals and their human companions during end-of-life transitions, providing comfort and helping to make compassionate decisions throughout the death and dying process
- Specialize in helping find lost animals by tuning in to their experiences and whereabouts
- Connect with deceased animal companions, offering comfort and closure to the grieving by assuring them of their animal friend’s continued presence and sharing its messages from beyond the veil
- Raise awareness about animal consciousness and communication through your experiences, stories, and insights — in books, blogs, podcasts, or social media
- Cultivate a richer, more conscious relationship with animals, plants, and the natural world
- Develop greater empathy and intuitive skills that will benefit all areas of your life
- Experience a more profound sense of Unity Consciousness and personal healing through direct communication with other species
“Getting in touch with animals heart-to-heart and mind-to-mind is a path to wholeness. It nurtures deep places in the soul that we long to feel. It's time for us to recover this vast reservoir of healing power, wisdom, and joy. The animals are waiting, curious and hopeful, for us to awaken, listen, and learn.”
— Penelope Smith
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
The Animal Communication Certification Program is a chance to gain knowledge and skills that will help you strengthen your connections to animals and help you understand, support, and heal them.
Throughout the program, information will be conveyed to you through:
- Leading-edge practices
- Inner work for your own spiritual transformation
- A dedicated, supportive community to practice alongside
- Animal communication teachings and techniques — with guidance on how to apply them in different contexts
The faculty of The Animal Communication Certification Program, along with a team of instructional design experts, have created one of the most immersive and highly organized learning experiences offered at The Shift Network.
FOR FULL CURRICULUM DETAILS, CLICK HERE
The program begins on Monday, September 8, 2025 with a community gathering and orientation session. After the initial meeting:
Weekly Teaching Sessions are on Wednesdays at 9:00am Pacific , and Integration Sessions are on select Mondays (following a bi-weekly schedule) at 9:00am Pacific
WHAT YOU’LL RECEIVE
120-Minute Live Weekly Teaching Sessions (26 Total)
Weekly Teaching Sessions, led by esteemed lead faculty Penelope Smith, include lectures, experiential practices, Q&A, and breakout groups.
90-Minute Live Integration Sessions (8 Total)
As part of the core curriculum, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the content through live Integration Sessions led by Penelope.
90-Minute Live Guest Faculty Sessions (4 Total)
Throughout this 6-month program, there will be 4 live sessions presented by guest faculty chosen by Penelope for their depth, diversity, scholarship, and contribution to the teachings being covered. These offerings will supplement and personalize your program experience.
Video and Audio Recordings of Teachings, Integrations, and Guest Faculty Sessions
All sessions — including Teaching, Integration, and Guest Faculty — will be recorded and available for you to stream at your convenience. So if you miss a live session, you can easily watch or listen anytime, from anywhere.
Transcripts of Teachings, Integrations, and Guest Faculty Sessions
You’ll also receive complete transcriptions of each Teaching, Integration, and Guest Faculty Session.
Online Community
Our exclusive online community is the perfect place to continue the discussion about your program materials and interact with your fellow participants to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
LEAD FACULTY
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Penelope SmithGrandmother of Interspecies Telepathic Communication
GUEST FACULTY
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Tammy BillupsCertified Interface Therapist, Author & Holistic Healer for Animals and People
Val HeartAnimal Communicator and Master Healer
Donna LozitoInterspecies Animal Communicator
Lynn McKenzieAuthor and Animal Energy® Certification Training Program Creator
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT OUR FACULTY
“We are all blessed by your work, Penelope, and your role as our pioneering leader.”
We are all blessed by your work, Penelope, and your role as our pioneering leader. Without your forging the path so long ago — and continuing it for all these years — we who have followed in your footsteps would have to work 10 times harder to build credibility and trust and learn on our own. St. Francis is an important guide in spirit for my work, but you are the main being who made this work possible for us all on the Earth plane at this time. This is a powerful gift you have given the animals, their people, and all of us who now walk in your initial footsteps.
— Teresa Wagner, founder of the Animal Loss and Grief Support certification program
“[Penelope is] a gift from God to this planet!”
Penelope, you helped build the foundation on which I now stand and so many future generations of animal communicators will be sent skyward on the wings of your teachings. You are a gift from God to this planet! You were channeling Divine Mother healing magic long before the rest of us and daring to face controversy your entire life in order to manifest more truth and tenderness in this world. You’ve made an enormous difference on this planet, and I just want to thank you from every little whiskered angel whose life you touched.
— Amelia Kinkade, animal communicator and author of The Language of Miracles
“Penelope, you were walking the path of Oneness long before it became a buzzword.”
Penelope, you were walking the path of Oneness long before it became a buzzword. Thank you for laying the groundwork throughout your life and showing others what is possible. You opened the doors and gave others, like me, the confidence to trust, walk through, and keep sharing these incredible awakenings with others.
— Sandra Mendelson, CLT, CPT, HC, animal channel, communicator, and author
“... passion, awareness, and commitment to animal communication.”
Penelope Smith, I believe, was brought to this world to be the pioneer and founder of reconnection communication between humans and all creation. One is truly blessed to meet her and experience her passion, awareness, and commitment to animal communication. Animal communication is so important to the changes we are experiencing in this world spiritually.
— Rev. Karen Kober, RN, CHT
“[Penelope] is able to master the skill of witnessing as animals do.”
Penelope Smith is the grandmother of animal communication. Long before it was in vogue to be an animal communicator, Penelope was courageous enough to let the world know that, “Yes, animals do speak!” What is most precious about Penelope’s work is that she is the practice of compassion for all beings. Penelope is gifted with a very big soul ability to accept all beings in love. She is able to come from a place of zero agenda and just get who animals and people are. Instead of fixing, she is listening. Instead of debating, she perceives. She is able to master the skill of witnessing as animals do. As you learn more about her work you can begin to gain this skill yourself.
— Dr. Laurie Moore, PhD, CHT
“I will treasure this teacher and this course forever.”
I have been trying for two years now to learn to communicate with animals, with no luck. Thanks to Penelope and The Shift Network course, I am now communicating with animals! I will treasure this teacher and this course forever. I couldn’t have done it without Penelope or Shift!
— Julia Farnham, California
CURRICULUM DETAILS
Weekly Teaching Sessions are on Wednesdays at 9:00am Pacific, and Integration Sessions are on select Mondays (following a bi-weekly schedule) at 9:00am Pacific.
For more information, click here.
Unit 1: Strengthen & Refine Your Interspecies Telepathic Communication Skills by Cultivating a Steady, Healing Presence (September 8 to October 20, 2025)
As your journey begins, you’ll cultivate a centered, receptive, and compassionate presence that allows animals and their human companions to feel comfortable opening up and working with you.
You’ll learn to set aside your own ideas, agendas, judgments, preconceptions, emotional stress, anxieties, projections, and conflicting energies to become an open communication channel with others.
Penelope will guide you in avoiding emotional entanglement, ensuring you have clarity of perception and can effectively provide assistance. She’ll also help you develop a steady, healing presence — focused on truly listening and accurately conveying animal messages.
Unit 1 will include two Integration Sessions led by Penelope.
The Unit 1 Guest Faculty Session will focus on helping you identify how you operate as an intuitive being and uncover any energetic or emotional blocks that may be limiting your ability to fully connect with animals. Led by Tammy Billups, certified interface therapist (bioenergetics), author, and holistic healer for animals and people.
In this unit, you’ll:
- Get centered, grounded, and ready for telepathic connection
- Improve your accuracy in differentiating your thoughts and feelings from telepathic communication with animals
- Cultivate an open heart and clear mind to receive messages with depth
- Strengthen your trust in your intuitive communication skills through validation and feedback
- Maintain a neutral, sacred space to foster compassionate partnerships with animals and their human companions
Unit 2: Add Practices & Techniques to Your Counseling & Healing Toolbox for More Effective, Integrated Solutions (October 22 to December 8, 2025)
Go beyond simply listening and relaying what animals communicate and actively assist with more complex emotional and spiritual issues.
Penelope will guide you in using powerful yet simple counseling techniques to address or resolve most emotional and spiritual traumas in animals.
You’ll discover how past lives affect how an animal experiences life and relationships with people — and when it’s helpful to further explore that. Expanding your alliance with the natural world will deepen your awareness, enhance your healing abilities, and broaden the challenges you can navigate.
Unit 2 will include two Integration Sessions led by Penelope.
The Unit 2 Guest Faculty Session will focus on Chakra Balancingfor animals and their humans. Led by Lynn McKenzie, animal communication expert, trainer, and author.
In this unit, you’ll learn how to:
- Counsel animals to ease or heal past trauma that’s impacting them now
- Explore past lives for healing and enhanced awareness
- Use telepathic sensing and energetic healing techniques to balance and restore the wellbeing of animals
- Work with power animals and shamanic journeys for healing and problem solving
- Develop partnerships with the natural world for personal, professional, and planetary service
Unit 3: Learn Problem-Solving Techniques to Resolve the Wide Spectrum of Issues That Can Arise in Consultations (December 10, 2025 to February 4, 2026)
Explore how to navigate the full spectrum of challenges that can arise in animal communication consultations — including behavioral issues, health concerns, trauma, abuse, life transitions, and the complexities of dying, death, and reincarnation.
Penelope will guide your understanding of the deeper influences of family dynamics, environmental shifts, and the energetic bonds between animals and their human companions. By seeing each situation from the animal’s perspective, you’ll discover what they need for healing, balance, and a harmonious relationship with their person (or people).
You’ll develop skills to work with emotional and behavioral issues, interpret an animal’s perspective on health and physical concerns, and navigate the emotional and spiritual aspects of illness and end-of-life transitions.
Additionally, you’ll explore methods for easing major life changes — such as moving or traveling — and understand the relationship between nutrition, environment, and wellbeing.
Penelope will introduce techniques for locating lost animals and for recognizing how an animal’s current health and behavior may be a reflection of their person’s emotional and energetic state.
Unit 3 will include one Integration Session led by Penelope.
The Unit 3 Guest Faculty Session covers homeopathy for animals. Led by Donna Lozito, animal communicator and certified homeopath.
In this unit, you’ll learn how to:
- Communicate effectively with people to understand their animal's history and the key aspects of their concerns
- Discern how an animal feels, and how to be receptive to anything they might wish to communicate
- Ensure a person’s questions are answered in harmony with the animal’s perspective
- Ask the right questions to get to the root cause of an issue as you assess and handle other elements of the problem
- Educate others and create a program for people to work with their animal companions for healing and greater harmony
- Review and study a variety of consultation cases
Unit 4: Create an Ethical, Sustainable, Thriving Professional Animal Communication Practice (February 9 to March 2, 2026)
Go beyond developing your skills as an animal communicator and build a thriving, ethical, and sustainable practice that serves both human and animal clients with integrity and care.
Penelope will guide you in establishing a practice that is aligned with your values, grounded in ethical principles, and legally sound. You’ll learn how to follow the Code of Ethics, maintain appropriate boundaries, and navigate the professional, practical, and legal considerations of working with animals and their people.
You’ll learn how to ensure longevity and balance in your work and discover how to create a network of holistic professionals for client referrals.
Unit 4 will include one Integration Session led by Penelope.
The Unit 4 Guest Faculty Session covers how to run a modern business as an animal communicator. Led by Val Heart — known as “The Real Dr. Doolittle” — expert animal whisperer, communicator, creator of the H.E.A.R.T. System, and master healer.
In this unit, you’ll learn to:
- Embody integrity, authenticity, and loving service in professional animal communication
- Educate the public about the role of an animal communicator
- Create a thriving practice through ethical marketing, financial sustainability, and soul-aligned offerings
- Manage the details of running a successful business
- Prioritize self-care, grounding, and energetic balance to stay centered in this sacred work
Unit 5: Final Integration & Certification — A Sacred Initiation Into Interspecies Communication (March 4 to April 6, 2026)
Integrate and practice everything you’ve learned in the program through real-life applications and receive your certification as a Telepathic Animal Communication Counselor upon completion of all program requirements.
You’ll review and reflect on written case studies from student consultations, gaining insights into helping animal companions, as well as those in shelters, rescues, and sanctuaries.
You’ll also be asked to submit a video of you providing an in-person or online consultation. More than just a skill-building program, this certification is a sacred initiation into the profound wisdom found in interspecies communication. It’s an opportunity to step fully into your soul’s purpose as a compassionate steward, healer, and advocate for all beings.
Unit 5 will include two Integration Sessions led by Penelope.
In this final unit, you’ll:
- Synthesize everything through real-life case studies and mentorship
- Share wisdom you’ve gained and personal growth you’ve achieved through final learning reflections and presentations
- Celebrate the journey with a certification ceremony honoring each student’s evolution
- Solidify your confidence, gain clarity on your next steps, and emerge ready to serve animals and their people with integrity, wisdom, and love
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
In addition to the program’s 5 Units, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the program.
The Enlightened Business Academy (Valued at $2,500)
9-Module Downloadable Audio Course and Bonuses
The Enlightened Business Academy includes nine modules consisting of 27 ninety-minute sessions. These teachings and concrete strategies are designed to give you what you need to create a sustainable and successful heart-centered business. Nowhere else can you get in-depth teachings from such remarkable teachers.
- Module 1: Becoming a Purposeful Entrepreneur & Creating a New Paradigm Business —Taught by Tim Kelley, True Purpose Institute
- Module 2: Mastering the Tender Art of Niching: How to Gain Intimacy, Trust & Connection With Your Best Potential Customers & Clients — Taught by Mark Silver, Heart of Business
- Module 3: Creating Your Irresistible Offer —Taught by Lisa Sasevich, The Invisible Close
- Module 4: Attract Customers Without Struggle —Taught by Sharla Jacobs, Thrive Academy
- Module 5: Heart-Based Marketing —Taught by George Kao, The Authentic Business Community
- Module 6: Scalable Business Models & The Launch —Taught by Jennifer Russell and Bryan Franklin, California Leadership Center
- Module 7: The Enlightened Entrepreneurial Mindset: Becoming the Person You Need to Be to Manifest Your Vision — Taught by Ryan Eliason, Social Entrepreneur Empowerment Network
- Module 8: Entrepreneurial Secrets From the Leading Edge —Taught by Stephen Dinan, The Shift Network
- Module 9: Creating Enlightened Work Environments —Taught by Bharat Mitra, Organic India
WHAT STUDENTS ARE SAYING ABOUT PENELOPE SMITH…
— Dawn Hayman: “Animal Communication Is Also About Communicating With Your Own Heart”
— Janet Dobbs: “I Had No Idea It Was Possible to Have Such Deep and Rich Relationships With Animals and All Life”
— Akshaya Kawle: “Each Time Penelope Speaks, It’s as If the Entirety of the Universe Is Sharing Their Experiences Through Her”
APPLY & INVEST IN YOUR GROWTH
THE ANIMAL COMMUNICATION CERTIFICATION PROGRAM BEGINS ON SEPTEMBER 8, 2025.
Apply now and save $300 off tuition.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is the cost, and do you offer payment plans?
A: The investment is $3,000 USD if paid in full (payment plans available). If you apply now with a payment plan, your first payment will be due upon registration, and subsequent payments will be automatically processed every 30 days until complete. The total payment plan price includes a finance charge. Any applicable discounts will be deducted from the total amount at the time of purchase.
The $100 application processing fee, which is included in your purchase, is non-refundable.
Q: Are scholarships available?
A: A limited number of partial scholarships are available. For more information and to apply for a partial scholarship, click here. (Do not fill out a regular program application or submit payment if you wish to be considered for a partial scholarship.)
If you enroll with a scholarship, your purchase will be non-refundable.
Typical partial scholarships will provide a 25% reduction in program cost.
Q: What is the refund policy?
A: The $100 application processing fee is non-refundable.
A refund for the program, minus the application fee, is available for any reason on or before Midnight Pacific on October 1, 2025. Refunds will not be available after this date.
To request a refund, please click on this refund request form and submit your request. Qualifying refunds will be processed within five business days of submitting your request and an email confirming the refund will be sent. However, we’d love to have a chance to address and resolve your concerns first. If there’s something we can assist you with, please email us at support@theshiftnetwork.com and we’ll be happy to help! (No refund requests accepted after the above date or with scholarships.)
Q: What are the program details and schedule for the training program?
A: All sessions will be held online through Zoom. There will not be any in-person engagement.
The program starts on September 8, 2025 and ends on April 6, 2026.
Weekly Teaching Sessions are on Wednesdays at 9:00am Pacific, and Integration Sessions are on select Mondays (following a bi-weekly schedule) at 9:00am Pacific
120 – Minute Live Weekly Teaching Sessions (26 Total)
Weekly Teaching Sessions, led by esteemed lead faculty Penelope Smith, include lectures, experiential practices, Q&A, and breakout groups.
90 – Minute Live Integration Sessions (8 Total)
As part of the core curriculum, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the content through live Integration Sessions led by Penelope.
90 – Minute Live Guest Faculty Sessions (4 Total)
Throughout this 6-month program, there will be 4 live sessions presented by guest faculty chosen by Penelope for their depth, diversity, scholarship, and contribution to the teachings being covered. These offerings will supplement and personalize your program experience.
Video and Audio Recordings of Teachings, Integrations, and Guest Faculty Sessions
All sessions — including Teaching, Integration, and Guest Faculty — will be recorded and available for you to stream at your convenience. So if you miss a live session, you can easily watch or listen anytime, from anywhere.
Transcripts of Teachings, Integrations, and Guest Faculty Sessions
You’ll also receive complete transcriptions of each Teaching, Integration, and Guest Faculty Session.
Online Community
Our exclusive online community is the perfect place to continue the discussion about your program materials and interact with your fellow participants to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
Q: If I participate, how many hours per month should I plan to dedicate to this training program?
A: This will vary, but on average you can expect to spend approximately 11-16 hours per month on this program.
Still have questions? We invite you to visit our extended FAQ page.
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