Penelope Smith
Have you been ignoring one of your greatest innate spiritual gifts?
Learn the pioneering animal communication method that has helped thousands develop clear telepathic communication with animals and the natural world so you can better understand their needs, strengthen your intuition, and create more harmonious relationships with all living beings.
Have you ever sensed an animal was trying to communicate with you, only to wonder whether it was real… or just your imagination?
Many people experience flashes of telepathic connection with animals, yet struggle to trust what they’re receiving.
Doubt, overthinking, and emotional projection can make genuine communication feel uncertain, and many find themselves asking the same question: How do I know it’s really the animal communicating with me?
For more than four decades, Penelope Smith has been one of the world’s foremost pioneers of interspecies telepathic communication.
Long before animal communication entered the mainstream, she demonstrated that meaningful communication between humans and animals is a natural ability that can be cultivated through presence, practice, discernment, and direct experience.
Her groundbreaking books and teachings have inspired generations of animal communicators around the world.
Join Penelope for a comprehensive 12-week live journey into the animal communication method she’s spent a lifetime refining.
Rather than asking you to simply believe telepathic communication with animals is possible, you’ll experience it for yourself through a carefully sequenced progression of practices.
Under Penelope’s expert guidance, you’ll learn how to quiet mental chatter, deepen your presence, recognize authentic communication, distinguish your own thoughts and emotions from those of another being, and trust what you receive with greater confidence.
As your skills develop, you’ll discover that telepathic communication isn’t limited to your own animal companions — it can become a way of relating to the entire living world.
You’ll practice with fellow participants, receive feedback and verification, communicate with familiar and unfamiliar animals, experience life through another species’ perspective, connect with power animals and beloved animal companions in spirit, and even expand your awareness to plants, landscapes, and the wider living world.
Be prepared to experience a profound shift in consciousness. As your sense of separation begins to dissolve, you’ll discover a more intimate relationship with animals and Nature while cultivating the discernment, confidence, and presence that allow telepathic communication to unfold naturally.
If you’re ready to deepen your telepathic abilities with one of the field’s most respected teachers and experience the living world in an entirely new way, this course offers a rare opportunity to study the approach that helped shape modern animal communication.
During this life-altering course you’ll:
- Discover how to recognize, trust, and strengthen your natural ability to communicate telepathically with animals and other species
- Learn how to quiet mental chatter, release self-doubt, and distinguish true animal communication from your own thoughts and emotions
- Practice proven telepathic techniques with guided exercises, partner verification, and personalized feedback to build confidence in what you receive
- Experience the world through the perspective of animals and other forms of life to cultivate greater compassion, understanding, and connection
- Apply telepathic communication to real-life questions, challenges, and misunderstandings with animals while gaining practical tools you can use every day
- Expand your communication beyond familiar animal companions to connect with wildlife, plants, landscapes, bodies of water, and the greater living world
- Deepen your relationship with your own body, power animals, and beloved animal companions in spirit to support healing, guidance, and personal growth
- Develop the discernment to communicate with greater clarity, accuracy, and trust so you can create more meaningful relationships with animals throughout your life
- And much more…
What You’ll Discover in These 12 Modules
In this 12-week transformational course, Penelope will guide you through the skills and competencies you’ll need to develop the confidence and discernment to communicate telepathically with animals and trust the messages you receive.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
You’ll connect with Penelope and experience her teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Penelope’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Course Sessions are on 2026-08-19 9:00:00 am.
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Penelope. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to experience a deeper, more meaningful relationship with animals by understanding their thoughts, feelings, and perspectives in ways that transform how you connect with them.
Create the Foundation for Clear Interspecies Telepathic Communication (2026-08-19 9:00:00 am)
Everything that follows in this training begins with the quality of the connection you create within yourself. Penelope will help you establish a grounded, heart-centered foundation that supports clear, natural telepathic communication with animals and the living world.
As you deepen your connection with the Earth and expand your awareness beyond individual animals to all of life, you'll discover what strengthens intuitive communication - and what can unintentionally interfere with it.
You'll also explore the attitudes, beliefs, and practices that foster greater trust, presence, and receptivity. Through guided experiential practice, you'll begin communicating with animals from a place of partnership, respect, and deep connection with all life.
In this session, you'll:
- Join Penelope for a guided meditation that helps you ground your awareness, connect with the Earth, and begin applying essential principles for telepathic communication
- Create a strong, grounded foundation that supports clearer, more reliable communication with animals and other species
- Experience a deeper sense of connection with animals, Nature, and the interconnected web of all life
- Recognize the common habits, beliefs, and distractions that can interfere with clear telepathic communication
- Discover the core principles that help you strengthen your natural ability to send and receive telepathic messages with greater confidence
Reawaken Your Telepathic Animal Connection to Discover How Animal Communication Works for You (2026-08-26 9:00:00 am)
You may be surprised to discover that telepathic communication with animals isn't something you have to learn from scratch - it's something you've likely been doing your whole life.
Penelope will help you recognize the subtle ways you've already communicated with animals and understand how your unique intuitive abilities naturally receive telepathic information.
As you identify the doubts, fears, and beliefs that can cloud your perception, you'll begin trusting your own experiences with greater confidence.
Through guided reflection and experiential exercises, you'll expand your capacity to receive, interpret, and welcome the thoughts, feelings, and messages animals share.
In this session, you'll:
- Join Penelope for guided exercises that help you recall past telepathic experiences and expand your ability to receive and trust communication with animals
- Recognize the many ways you've already been communicating telepathically with animals throughout your life
- Discover how telepathic communication naturally works through your own unique intuitive strengths
- Identify the fears, doubts, and limiting beliefs that can interfere with clear communication
- Develop greater confidence in receiving, interpreting, and trusting the messages animals share
Strengthen Your Telepathic Sensing Through Practice & Partner Verification (2026-09-02 9:00:00 am)
Telepathic communication becomes clearer as you learn to recognize how it actually feels in your body, mind, and intuitive awareness.
Penelope will help you explore your extended telepathic senses so you can discover which channels are most open and natural for you.
You'll practice shifting out of analysis and into a relaxed, receptive state where subtle impressions can come through more clearly.
Through step-by-step exercises, you'll begin sensing animal habitats through the images and feelings Penelope sends. With partner verification, you'll gain greater confidence in your ability to receive telepathic information with accuracy and trust.
In this session, you'll:
- Experience a guided telepathic sensing exercise as Penelope sends images and feelings of animal habitats for you to receive step by step
- Discover which telepathic channels are most open to you, from sensations and feelings to images, thoughts, and inner knowing
- Experience your body as a sensitive transmitting and receiving station for subtle communication
- Practice sending and receiving telepathic information from a relaxed, receptive state instead of analytical thinking
- Validate your perceptions through guided exercises with a human partner so you can build confidence in what you receive
Experience the World Through Another Species' Perspective for Deeper Understanding & Connection (2026-09-09 9:00:00 am)
One of the most profound ways to communicate with another species is to experience the world through their perspective rather than your own.
Penelope will introduce one of her core telepathic methods, helping you expand your awareness beyond observation into direct experience.
As you learn to distinguish your own thoughts and feelings from those you're receiving, you'll develop a deeper appreciation for the unique consciousness of animals, plants, and the natural world.
You'll discover how every species experiences life in its own remarkable way, opening the door to greater empathy, respect, and understanding. Through a guided experiential practice, you'll expand your telepathic abilities by stepping into the perspective of another species.
In this session, you'll:
- Join Penelope for a guided "Becoming an Animal" exercise that helps you experience life through another species' perspective
- Discover one of Penelope's foundational telepathic communication methods and how it deepens your connection with other species
- Learn to distinguish your own thoughts, emotions, and sensations from those you're receiving telepathically
- Expand your understanding of the unique awareness and lived experience of animals, plants, and the natural world
- Cultivate greater compassion, connection, and respect as you communicate across species boundaries
Practice Calm Presence So You Can Avoid Projecting Your Thoughts & Emotions Onto Animals (2026-09-16 9:00:00 am)
The quality of your presence has a profound impact on the clarity of your telepathic communication.
Penelope will help you cultivate a calm, receptive state so you can quiet mental chatter, release expectations, and recognize when your own thoughts or emotions are influencing what you receive.
As you develop greater awareness of the difference between projection and genuine communication, you'll become a more accurate and compassionate listener.
You'll also reconnect with the natural state of presence that allows communication with animals - and all of Nature - to unfold with greater ease.
Through guided experiential practices and a live group communication exercise, you'll strengthen your ability to receive telepathic information with greater confidence and discernment.
In this session, you'll:
- Join Penelope for guided practices in presence, soft focus, and group communication that help you receive telepathic messages without projecting your own thoughts and emotions
- Experience a calm, receptive state that supports clearer, more accurate communication with animals
- Learn to recognize and gently set aside judgments, assumptions, expectations, and emotional reactions that can cloud communication
- Distinguish your own thoughts, feelings, and impressions from those you're receiving telepathically
- Participate in a live group communication exercise and receive feedback that helps strengthen your confidence and discernment
Use Your Imagination to Deepen Your Telepathic Communication With Animals (2026-09-23 9:00:00 am)
Imagination is often the doorway through which it first arrives. Penelope will help you reframe imagination as a natural tool for expanding your perception rather than something that means you're "making it up."
As you learn to acknowledge and trust your impressions instead of dismissing them, you'll discover that communication with animals becomes stronger, clearer, and more natural.
You'll also review and integrate the essential skills you've developed throughout the course while gaining confidence through real-world practice.
Through guided exercises and partner communication, you'll receive valuable feedback that helps you trust your growing telepathic abilities.
In this session, you'll:
- Join Penelope for guided imagination exercises, including greeting, dialogue, and two-way communication practices that expand your receptivity to telepathic communication
- Discover how imagination serves as a natural bridge for receiving authentic telepathic communication from animals
- Strengthen your ability to recognize, trust, and honor the impressions you receive during communication
- Integrate and build upon the core telepathic skills you've developed throughout the course
- Practice communicating with other participants' animal companions and receive feedback that helps refine your accuracy and confidence
Apply Telepathic Communication to Solve Real-Life Challenges With Animals (2026-09-30 9:00:00 am)
Now it's time to bring your telepathic communication skills into everyday life. Penelope will help you apply everything you've learned to real-world situations, showing you how telepathic communication can foster deeper understanding, resolve misunderstandings, and reveal insights you might otherwise miss.
You'll also expand your experience beyond animals as you explore communication with plants, landscapes, bodies of water, and other expressions of the natural world.
Through real-life examples, guided group practice, and personalized feedback, you'll continue refining your skills while building greater confidence in your perceptions.
By the end of this session, you'll have practical experience using telepathic communication as a compassionate tool for understanding, connection, and problem-solving.
In this session, you'll:
- Join Penelope for guided group and breakout exercises that help you apply telepathic communication to real-life questions, challenges, and situations with animals
- Discover how telepathic communication can bring greater understanding, resolve misunderstandings, and reveal new perspectives
- Explore the unique experience of communicating with plants, landscapes, bodies of water, and other forms of Nature
- Strengthen your confidence through meaningful feedback and confirmation of the information you receive
- Practice communicating with fellow participants' animal companions in small groups while refining your accuracy, discernment, and trust in your abilities
Connect With a Wider Range of Animal Species to Gain an Extraordinary Understanding of the Diversity of Animal Life (2026-10-14 9:00:00 am)
Telepathic communication becomes even more meaningful when you move beyond the animals you already know and love. Penelope will guide you in expanding your comfort zone as you connect with species that may feel unfamiliar, misunderstood, or even intimidating.
As you experience these animals from their own perspective, you'll discover how assumptions and labels can limit authentic communication.
You'll also explore the unique value, wisdom, and purpose of species that are often overlooked or feared.
Through a powerful guided meditation, you'll transform preconceptions into deeper understanding, respect, and connection with the extraordinary diversity of animal life.
In this session, you'll:
- Join Penelope for a guided meditation that helps you move beyond fear and preconceptions by experiencing life through the perspective of an unfamiliar animal
- Expand your comfort zone by communicating with animals outside your usual preferences and experiences
- Discover the unique wisdom, perspectives, and gifts of species you may not have previously understood or appreciated
- Recognize how assumptions, labels, and fears can influence telepathic communication and learn to move beyond them
- Develop greater openness, compassion, and respect for the rich diversity of life on Earth
Communicate With Your Closest Animal Friend - Your Own Body - for Greater Presence and Wellbeing (2026-10-21 9:00:00 am)
Your ability to communicate clearly with animals begins with your relationship to the animal you know most intimately - your own body.
Penelope will help you experience your body as a living, communicating partner whose sensations, feelings, and energy offer valuable guidance every day.
As you deepen your awareness of your own physical and energetic experience, you'll strengthen your ability to distinguish your body's messages from those you receive telepathically from other beings.
You'll also explore simple yet powerful practices for listening to your body with greater compassion, presence, and care.
Through guided experiential exercises, you'll cultivate a more embodied approach to telepathic communication that supports both your wellbeing and your work with animals.
In this session, you'll:
- Join Penelope for the Animal Evolution Organic Perception Process, using guided body awareness and hand sensing to experience your body as a living, communicating being
- Discover how developing a deeper relationship with your own body strengthens your ability to communicate more clearly with animals and other species
- Learn to communicate telepathically with your body to better understand its needs and support its natural wellbeing
- Practice using your hands as sensitive telepathic instruments to detect sensations, energy flow, and areas that may be asking for attention
- Increase your awareness of your own bodily sensations and energetic patterns so you can more easily distinguish them from the feelings and messages of other beings
Connect With Power Animals as Allies for Greater Guidance, Healing & Telepathic Connection (2026-10-28 9:00:00 am)
Power animals have been honored across cultures as trusted allies who offer wisdom, protection, healing, and strength throughout life's journey.
Penelope will introduce you to the shamanic practice of working with power animals and show you how these relationships can enrich your telepathic communication with all species.
As you deepen your connection with your own power animal, you'll discover a source of guidance and support that can strengthen your confidence, expand your awareness, and nurture your personal growth.
You'll also learn how these sacred allies can help you cultivate a more meaningful relationship with the living world. Through a guided shamanic journey and embodied practice, you'll begin building an ongoing partnership with your power animal.
In this session, you'll:
- Join Penelope for a guided Power Animal Retrieval journey and embodied movement practice to connect with the unique gifts of your animal ally
- Discover how power animals can strengthen your telepathic communication, confidence, healing, and spiritual growth
- Develop a mutually supportive relationship with a power animal who can guide and empower you throughout your life
- Explore how guardian spirit animals can help you deepen your connection with the wisdom and power of the animal world
- Learn practical ways to continue working with your power animal as a trusted source of guidance, protection, and support
Communicate With Animals in Spirit to Understand Their Experience of Dying & Death (2026-11-04 9:00:00 am)
The bond you share with an animal doesn't necessarily end with physical death. Penelope will guide you in exploring telepathic communication with animals in spirit, offering a compassionate perspective on dying, death, and the continuing relationship between animals and their human companions.
As you learn to communicate beyond physical form, you'll gain deeper insight into animals' experiences of transition, release unnecessary guilt, and cultivate greater peace around loss.
You'll also explore ways to verify your experiences while strengthening your confidence in spirit communication.
Through guided practice and small-group exercises, you'll deepen your connection with beloved animal companions who have crossed over.
In this session, you'll:
- Join Penelope for a guided communication exercise with one of her animal companions in spirit and practice connecting with departed animal companions while receiving supportive feedback
- Explore animals' perspectives on dying, death, life in spirit, and the continuing bond they share with those they love
- Learn practical ways to verify your communication with animals in spirit and build greater trust in what you receive
- Practice communicating with animals in spirit in small groups while deepening your confidence and discernment
- Receive a guided practice you can continue using to connect with beloved animal companions in spirit and receive their messages
Distinguish Your Thoughts & Emotions From True Animal Communication (2026-11-11 9:00:00 am)
One of the greatest challenges in animal communication is learning to recognize the difference between your own inner experience and what an animal is genuinely sharing.
Penelope will help you understand the defining qualities of authentic telepathic communication so you can recognize it with greater confidence and clarity.
As you learn to identify projection, assumptions, and interpretation, you'll develop the discernment needed to receive messages more accurately and compassionately.
You'll also discover practical ways to shift from analyzing and judging to simply observing, receiving, and understanding.
Through guided comparison exercises and communication practice, you'll strengthen your trust in what you receive while refining one of the most essential skills of telepathic communication.
In this session, you'll:
- Join Penelope for a guided comparison exercise that helps you distinguish your own thoughts and feelings from the genuine communication of an animal companion, another participant's animal, or a familiar wild animal
- Discover the defining qualities of authentic telepathic communication and learn how to recognize them with greater confidence
- Recognize common signs of projection, assumptions, and interpretation so you can receive information with greater clarity
- Practice shifting from judgment and analysis into observation, receptivity, and genuine understanding
- Strengthen your discernment through practical communication exercises that compare human perspectives with those of animals
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
When you register by 2026-08-08 11:59:00 pm , you’ll receive special bonus offerings designed to complement Penelope’s transformative 12-module course — and deepen your understanding and practice even further.
How to Know If Telepathic Communication With Animals is Real
Audio Teaching With Penelope Smith
When you communicate with animals, it's crucial to have a method for testing whether communication is actually happening. Otherwise, you might think you're making it up or confusing your own thoughts with the animal's messages. Penelope's 99-minute audio seminar explores how telepathy operates and how to recognize it - and describes signs that you're projecting and not receiving the animal's communication.
The Telepathic Journey: Opening to the Whole
Audio Teaching With Penelope Smith
Telepathic reception is a connection through both the heart (feelings) and the mind (thoughts). In this 58-minute audio teaching, Penelope shares the process of opening to telepathic communication - and the stages of growth on the journey from separateness to oneness. Recognizing these stages and what to expect on this journey encourages you to carry on when it feels difficult, and applaud yourself as you progress.
Plus... you’ll receive these bonuses too!
Five Articles from Species Link: The Journal of Interspecies Telepathic Communication
PDF Articles From Author and Journal-Founding Publisher Penelope Smith
Penelope launched this quarterly journal in 1990\. It continued for 100 issues. These five early articles illustrate the timeless quality of the subjects that have been part of Penelope's teaching since the 1970s - and have influenced the training of animal communicators around the globe. These articles cover what animals think about, how modern researchers see self-awareness, ethical concepts expressed in animal behavior and communication, and much more.
Animal Talk: Interspecies Telepathic Communication
Ebook by Penelope Smith
Penelope's foundational book on animal communication is going strong after more than four decades and many editions. Read this complete ebook edition and explore how all living creatures have the ability to think, feel, and communicate - although most people have forgotten this. This classic book explains how to open up to the messages that animals around you are sending all the time. Professional animal communicators around the world use what they learned from this book as a foundation for their work.
What People Are Saying About Penelope Smith…
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Develop Telepathic Communication With Animals offers some of the most transformational online teachings available, within a thriving global community of learning and practice.
Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Penelope Smith will share in this powerful program.
You’ll join an international community on the leading edge of manifesting a world grounded in the principles of cooperation, harmony, and reverence for all of life.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Twelve 90-Minute Class Sessions With Penelope Smith
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from Penelope Smith, the grandmother of interspecies telepathic communication — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you through a step-by-step approach to telepathic animal communication as you practice receiving, interpreting, and verifying messages with animals, other participants, and the natural world. Course sessions are on 2026-08-19 9:00:00 am.
Twelve Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Twelve Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Twelve Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Twelve 30-Minute Interactive Group Practice Sessions
With live class attendance, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive practice session directly following each class. You’ll be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the Zoom call to interact, share, and do additional practices to help further integrate the weekly lessons. Practice sessions are available for live attendance only and are not recorded for playback. If you’re unable to attend the calls live, the online community group allows you to connect with each other and find alternative times to interact.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, Develop Telepathic Communication With Animals
We feel honored that Penelope Smith has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online course. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with the grandmother of interspecies telepathic communication whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about learning to communicate with animals in a way that feels natural, accurate, and trustworthy so you can rely on your own experience with confidence, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
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If you don’t absolutely LOVE Develop Telepathic Communication With Animals — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please submit your refund request form on or before September 2, 2026 and we’ll happily issue qualifying customers a refund.
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About Penelope Smith
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Penelope Smith is the founding pioneer of interspecies telepathic communication, having practiced professionally since the 1970s. Communicating with animals telepathically throughout her life, she discovered in 1971 that animals could be relieved of emotional traumas and other problems through the same counseling techniques that helped humans.
Her training and experience include bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the social sciences... years of training and experience in human counseling, nutrition, and holistic body energy balancing methods... research into animal nutrition, anatomy, behavior, and care... and her firsthand education from the thousands of animals she has contacted.
Penelope published some of the first and now classic books and audio recordings in the field. The tried-and-true telepathic communication techniques she developed are widely used by others in the field. Her students affectionately call her the grandmother of interspecies telepathic communication. A legendary teacher, she helped launch the careers of professional animal communicators around the world.
Penelope feels that the sacred connection made through telepathic communication with other species is essential for human wholeness. She believes everyone is born with the power to communicate with other species, and that we all can rediscover this ability for the benefit of all beings on Earth.
Frequently Asked Questions
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