We have offered The Art of Skillful Facilitation online for many years, and we are over the moon to share the news that our dream facilitation team will offer our first hybrid immersion!

We will be facilitating with those who can join us in person and provide the option for folks to join us on ZOOM to be part of the immersion as well.

The Alchemy of Facilitation Immersion will provide an opportunity for us to come together, build community, lean into our shared humanity, contemplate how to deepen our facilitation skills, and be emergent in the transformative work and practice we offer the world. 

The immersion will take place at 18 Springs Healing and Community Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Below are more details about the content of the immersion and our time together. 

Given the social, political, and cultural context, many of us facilitators are responsible for attending to the collective distress that people are experiencing at this time. In addition to distress, as we facilitate within communities and organizations, we are also tasked with generating hope and supporting a transformative process with the goal of dreaming our way into a future where we can all thrive. 

The task of holding distress and the practice of dreaming our way forward feels like a dynamic tension, one that requires us to engage our facilitation alchemy to navigate this tension. This is precisely why we want to come together to offer a deeper dive into how we, as facilitators, can hold this dynamic tension while attending to our self and collective care, staying grounded in our bodies, and tapping into our specific medicine to meet these times. 

The Alchemy of Facilitation Immersion will provide an opportunity for you to explore the following themes:

• How to speak to the truth of what is occurring socially, politically, and culturally within the spaces you hold and groups you facilitate

• How to be transparent as you facilitate and change course when needed

• How to balance structure and spaciousness as a facilitator

• How to attend to yourself and develop a consistent practice of care pre, during, and post-facilitation 

• How to be accountable to yourself and others through a practice of self-care 

• How to vision a sustainable way to facilitate and engage in change work for the long haul

• How to develop a rest practice to support your facilitation

• How to protect your energy field as a facilitator

• And more!

This immersion will include movement, meditation, contemplative, and rest practices, as well.