Training Course
Belonging Together: A Facilitation & Communication Training Course for Space Holders
Communication & Facilitation Professional Development for anyone who facilitates or convenes community engagement, group conversations and gatherings, programs, team meetings, organizational change, or planning processes.
Immersive unlearning and relearning course to evolve facilitation skills for trauma informed equitable communication, inclusion of diverse perspectives and voices, and building cultural conditions for belonging. Embody and integrate circle facilitation practices for dialogue where power is shared, whole selves are valued, and listening is centered in the heart.
“I recommend this course for anyone engaged in facilitation, space holding, community building, and change making. There is such a need for each of us to truly evaluate and be accountable for how facilitation practices can and do perpetuate the systems we are actively trying to change. Belonging Together provided me with tools, prompts, and opportunities to step deeper into my own facilitation by experimenting with conscious, intentional, heart-led facilitation techniques in a safe space where I was able to confront my own shadows so that I may show up more authentically and fully in this work.” – past participant
This 6-week online course will support you to:
- Build skills for relationship centered and emergent meeting planning.
- Create spacious flow in conversations to support trust building.
- Deepen awareness and navigate nuance around language.
- Develop a practice of working with embodied somatic practices in facilitation.
- Navigate how to manage conflict resolution, repair, and restorative practices.
- Practice trauma-informed and communal care facilitation techniques together.
- Recognize shadow projections and engage multiple intelligences to support your experience.
The Belonging Together Facilitation Training Course is offered online and includes a mix of presented content, resource sharing and reflection, cultural/group somatics, and practicing together in a generative and supportive space.
This course is rooted in somatic abolitionism, antiracist culture building, and disembodying white supremacy in group communication. Experience belonging together in facilitation community with people working towards collective liberation evolution for humanity and build skills to ripple transformative ways of holding space into your work.
If the dates do not work for you, this training course can be customized for groups and teams (online or in person). Please send a message to inquire.
Details
Session Design
Sessions are every Thursday from 1:00-3:30 pm beginning March 26, 2026. Resources will be provided relevant to each session. Sessions are designed around these content themes:
- Circle process background and techniques (March 26)
- Meeting and conversation design (April 2)
- Inclusive engagement and generative conflict (April 9)
- Group energetics, emotional agility & nervous system regulation (April 16)
- Language changes and responsiveness to the current landscape (April 23)
- Resilience in supremacy culture to remain steadfast in cultivating belonging for collective liberation (April 30)
Course Zoom Norms
Timely arrivals are appreciated and support building a safe container together. You are welcome to eat food and show up exactly as you are (messy is ok!). This is an experiential learning course so live engagement with other participants is part of the course. Sessions will be recorded and will not include break out sessions to respect confidentiality. Aspects of the experiential learning will be missed if not attending the course live. Recordings are sent after each class and are deleted a month after the final class.
Accessibility
Please send a message with any accessibility requests or questions so your needs can be supported.
Zoom link and additional information will be emailed upon registration. Set the confirmation email to be a safe sender so you get course materials emailed every week.
