The Field Facilitator Training

What is The Field?

"The Field" is a commonly used phrase among facilitators to describe the invisible yet palpable energy of a group space. This year-long training is an advanced education in how to perceive, attune to, and guide that field— especially in transformational settings focused on embodiment, intimacy, healing, and conscious education.

You will learn how to read the energy of a room, facilitate from your nervous system, and respond in real-time to what’s emergent. This training combines practical skills, deep embodiment, and soul-level purpose work. You’ll leave with the confidence, tools, and lived experience to become a skilled, present, and attuned group facilitator.

Why Facilitate "The Field"?

When a group gathers regulated, open-hearted, and in service to something greater— a powerful collective resonance emerges. This is where the magic happens.

Facilitating that magic isn’t about controlling the space. It’s about becoming the space.

It requires:

• Grounded presence and strong boundaries

• Fluid, moment-to-moment responsiveness

• Nervous system intelligence

• Devotion to emergence over agenda

• Deep listening through the body

This work calls us into wholeness. It’s not just about how you lead— it’s about who you become in the process.

There are real, basic keys to learning to facilitate group field emergence. These keys range from practical knowledge like creating and setting the space, to the essential how-to’s of utilizing marketing to attract the most resonant audience, all the way to the mystical elements of the land, culture and spirit allies and the subtle use of nervous system awareness and regulation.

What this level of navigation requires is to be able to hold and move from a space beyond ego & personality, rooted in the abundance and goodness of this present moment, while also connected to the unique essence of your soul's calling and unique purpose. Ultimately, guided from a profound attunement to the wisdom of your own body.

Why This Work Matters

We are living in times of profound change. Systems are dissolving, and new ways of being are emerging through us.

The ability to create authentic, attuned, and relational spaces is no longer a luxury. It’s essential. Whether you’re a coach, therapist, teacher, healer, parent, artist, entrepreneur, or leader... learning to work with group field dynamics will serve every aspect of your life.

Field Facilitation develops your capacity to:

• Listen deeply and respond from presence

• Lead with humility, courage, and clarity

• Navigate complexity and emergence with grace

• Create spaces that support authenticity, transformation, and connection

These are the leadership capacities the world is calling for— within families, organizations, communities, and movements.

In the sheer simplicity of this commonly used phrase, "The Field" automatically implies and draws attention to the space we are each connected to through our bodies, but that also exists beyond the boundaries of our skin. This is the very shift that is needed in all our spaces at this time. In order to step into a paradigm that has the capacity to hold a new earth, and the relational evolution we all know is possible we need to attune to the space we are all ultimately connected to, as one.

In these liminal spaces we have the opportunity to take part in a much larger process of spiritual evolution that informs the direction of the future generations by how we show up in relation to ourselves and the collective as they are arising in the group field today.

What You'll Learn

This training is designed to support both aspiring and experienced facilitators to:

• Lead emergent group spaces where nervous systems synchronize and hearts cohere

• Listen and respond to what the group field is inviting, moment-to-moment

• Balance leadership with surrender to the mystery

• Bring your facilitation gifts into form through structure, marketing, and delivery

• Work collaboratively with others to co-create powerful transformational events

You’ll explore how to facilitate from the body, hold space for relational truth, and steward the unseen dynamics of the field with integrity.

What to Expect

This immersive journey includes:

Join us for a transformative, year-long training designed to immerse you in the art of Field Facilitation. Our comprehensive curriculum is built around five foundational pillars that are interwoven throughout every module, emerging organically in response to the group’s needs and evolution.

The 5 Pillars of Field Facilitation:

• Personal Development & Embodied Leadership

• Professional Tools, Practices & Modalities

• Circle Work & Emergent Group Spaces

• The Interpersonal: Intimacy & Relationships

• Somatics & Trauma-Informed Education

These pillars create the foundation for a training that is not only practical and powerful, but also deeply human, relational, and real.

*These 5 pillars will be woven through all training modules in in an emergent way, to best meet the training needs of the group. 

Each module blends:

• Experiential exercises

• Embodiment practices

• Live facilitation labs

• Teaching sessions

• Group co-creation and integration

There is no online curriculum included in this edition of the training. However, participants will have the opportunity to join the separate Field Online Trauma-Informed Facilitator Training if they wish to deepen in this area alongside the in-person work.

This training is based on the recognition that:

• Field Facilitation isn’t something that you do. It’s something that you are. As you guide others, you guide them into your state of consciousness. This is both extremely precious and a powerful responsibility that is not to be taken lightly. The impact we have as facilitators has the potential to reach far beyond any one event.

• The deep skill in Field Facilitation is learning to listen with your whole body to where the group field is inviting you to go next, and then acting on that listening in each moment to that intuitive call. This process begins before participants step into the room. It begins when the inspiration for the event lands in your field of awareness. Then there can be an opening in your body and life as you begin to hold it, feel it, play with it, speak it, dance it, move it and embody it. This dance between the facilitator and the mystery of what wants to unfold is a kind of collaborative lovemaking and the job of a Field Facilitator is to put yourself in service to this emergent process.

• Having trauma-informed knowledge and an embodied education is important for leadership in the field beyond the reasons of “do no harm.” Trauma-informed facilitators are able to create and hold the depth and level of consciousness necessary for every participant to be fully relaxed and open in their bodies and nervous systems because this is the essential ingredient for creativity to flow.

Core Questions We Explore

• What is the unique medicine of my soul, and how does it want to be offered in service?

• How do I create transformational spaces that are brave, safe, and authentic?

• How do I attune to the emergent intelligence of the field and follow it?

• How do I refine my leadership while staying rooted in relational awareness and care?

Is This Training for You?

This journey is for you if:

• You’re an emerging or established facilitator ready to expand your capacity

• You long to lead in a way that is soulful, embodied, and deeply relational

• You are ready to do your personal work as you grow your professional skillset

By the end of this training, you’ll be walking with more confidence, clarity, and congruence. You’ll know your medicine. You’ll trust your facilitation. And you’ll have the experience and tools to create transformational spaces in service to a new world.

The Arc of the Journey: 5 Module Overview

The Ground: Rooted Presence – Embodiment & Relational Intelligence
Facilitated by Devorah Bry and Rachel Rickards

This foundational module centers embodiment and relational presence as the essential ground for facilitation. We begin by anchoring into our own somatic intelligence and exploring interpersonal dynamics through nervous system awareness and the art of being with what is. Together, we’ll set the group field and explore what it means to find our “seat” as a Field Facilitator. Through somatic practices, breath, choice awareness, and the sacred dance of playfulness, reverence, stillness, and motion, we explore how to include what’s happening within and around us. We’ll learn to track both personal processes and the impersonal energy of the field, explore sources of power and dynamics, and discover how to live on the edge of life emerging. We’ll attune to how passion, desire, and emergence flow through our bodies as facilitators.

The Container: Sacred Structure – Architecture of Transformational Group Fields
Facilitated by Robin Alfred and Rachel Rickards

In this module, we move into the structure and energetics of creating transformational group spaces. You’ll learn to design and hold containers that support safety, authenticity, coherence, and emergence. We’ll explore space holding, framing, timing, and the principles that allow fields to deepen and synchronize. Alongside this, we’ll practice radical presence —including awareness of ancestral and collective energies— and develop ways to sense and balance structure with emergence. We’ll examine triggers, fears, and biases and how to integrate them as facilitators. We’ll also explore the power of co-facilitation, group coherence, and how to build appropriate support systems such as intervision and supervision.

The Pulse: Emergence in Motion – Practicum I & Emergent Facilitation
Facilitated by Pamela von Sabljar and Rachel Rickards

This module blends advanced field facilitation with the group's first opportunity to facilitate their own workshops. With Rachel and Pamela guiding from a train-the-trainer lens, we’ll explore emergent interbeing, intersubjective awareness, and how to lead from spaciousness, creative tension, and psychoactive questions. We’ll work with minimal viable structures, clarify desired outcomes, and learn to attune to power dynamics, context awareness, and feedback as fuel for growth. You’ll begin the journey of articulating your own facilitation through practice, observation, feedback and reflection in a highly supportive environment.

The Voice: Embodied Mastery – Practicum II, Circlework & Resonant Leadership
Facilitated by Christian Pankhurst and Rachel Rickards

This second practicum builds on the peer-led sessions from Module 3 and introduces advanced facilitation through the lens of Heart iQ and circlework. We’ll deepen into the relational field—exploring how to invite truth, amplify what’s alive, and hold space for the unspoken with presence and precision. You’ll be introduced to transformational group formats like Grief Circles, Relational Circles, and Emergent Circles, and refine your facilitation through feedback and witnessing. This is your opportunity to embody mature, attuned leadership and step forward with clarity and grace.

The Offering: The Field Festival – Celebration, Contribution & Completion
Facilitated by Rachel Rickards & Team

The culmination of the journey. Module 5 takes place during the next Field Festival at Ängsbacka. Those who have integrated the teachings and demonstrated their readiness will be invited to facilitate as part of the festival program. Others will contribute in vital roles such as emotional support, production, assistance, or creative collaboration. This festival is a co-created celebration and living embodiment of everything we’ve cultivated together.