How can we gather better?
Welcome to authentic facilitation.
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At Authentic Revolution, we believe great facilitators donât just lead events â they create experiences that stay with people long after the room clears.
Facilitation isnât about being the loudest voice in the room. Itâs about guiding moments of connection so people feel seen, heard, and inspired to grow.
Our facilitation trainings and resources will teach you to craft magnetic spaces where people feel safe to be real, challenge themselves, and connect with others on a whole new level.
Whether youâre hosting a team workshop, a community circle, or a gathering of friends, youâll walk away with the skills to make every moment count.
If youâre ready to lead with clarity, creativity, and a little playful magic, youâre in the right place.
Come on in.
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The Authentic Relating Games Manual
The Games Manual contains over 200 Authentic Relating Games and variations that can help you lead groups with grace. Whether you're looking to build communication skills and connection in a group, strengthen your 1:1s, or do your own work, you'll find Games to support and play.
$25 PDF
The Authentic Facilitator: Self-Paced
Whether you're leading a workshop, facilitating a team, or building community from scratch, this course will cover all you need to know for expert facilitation. Get 110+ video lessons from 11 field-leading facilitators, as well as tons of resources and practice opportunities!
First Module Free
Online Courses
Master Human Connection
Ready to craft experiences that truly matter? The Authentic Facilitator (TAF) training empowers you to create magnetic spaces where people connect, grow, and transform. Whether youâre designing corporate workshops, leading intimate gatherings, or leveling up your own leadership, TAF offers a pathway to mastery in facilitation.
If youâre ready to transform ordinary gatherings into extraordinary moments of connection, explore how TAF can help you become a catalyst for authentic leadership.
Start Your Journey...
All TAF courses include access to the Authentic Living Subscription (a $25/mo value including monthly AR Games Nights and the Video Manual) for the duration of your course.
Designing for Connection
Elevate your facilitation skills with the art of event design. Learn to create dynamic, engaging, and transformative experiences that foster genuine connection in any setting. This course includes both design and facilitation basics.
Creating a Profession
Master the art of facilitation from basic to advanced skills. In this course, you'll gain insight from expert leaders on how to bring authentic facilitation into many areas, and turn your passion into a career or a calling.
Live Courses
Good leaders are not born. They are made.
(After being born, of course, but let's stick with the pithy part.)
All the best leaders you know have made a LOT of mistakes. The difference between "trauma" and "productive mistakes" is acceptance, feedback, and getting to try again.
The ALT (Authentic Leadership Training) is a program on how to lead YOUR way. How to try new things, make productive mistakes, and find your style. You'll get tons of practice in leading from responsiveness, creativity, and connection.Â
The training boasts 13 years in practice, a one-to-one staff-to-participant ratio, and over 98% of participants have rated it 10/10 overall.
Come practice being the facilitator you've always wanted to be, in a community that wants exactly who you are.
Self-Paced Courses
The Authentic Facilitator - Self-Paced
Whether you're leading a workshop, facilitating a team, or building community from scratch, this course will cover all you need to know for expert facilitation. Get 110+ video lessons from 11 field-leading facilitators, as well as tons of resources and practice opportunities!
$295.00 USD
AR Games Video Manual
LIFETIME ACCESS to our catalogue of professionally-filmed Authentic Relating Games to facilitate, practice and play. Use it as a reference guide, or just press play and have the Games led for you!
$147.00 USD
Coaching
Our Coaches
Geof Krum
I help experience-driven event producers design unforgettable, emotionally resonant gatherings rooted in human-centered design.
I help visionary leaders turn chaotic teams into high-trust, high-retention cultures in 90 days or less.
I help couples in conflict turn recurring fights into breakthrough connection, without wasting years in therapy.
I help high-performing partners and constellations deepen intimacy, trust, and ease.
I HELP PEOPLE HUMAN BETTER, TOGETHER.Â
Sara NessÂ
I help facilitators and coaches develop events that have participants feeling held, connected, and inspired from the beginning to the end.
I help course creators produce in-person or online courses from start to finish, to preserve your legacy of work.
I help community leaders create resilient, joyful groups that combine strong relationships with strong structure.
As a trained mediator, I help couples, teams, and co-founders resolve their toughest conflicts and move forward together (or separately).
I PAVE THE PATH TO CONNECTION.
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Series
The Authentic Facilitator email series
Sign up to learn the 7 Deadly Sins of Facilitation - and how to avoid them all.
Manuals
The Authentic Relating Games Manual
Playful exercises for awareness & connection. The Games Manual contains over 200 authentic relating games and variations that can help you lead groups with grace.
$25.00 USD
Online Connection Games Manual
Includes 14 Authentic Relating Games specifically re-written for an online format, including instructions on what to put in chat and how to divide up breakout rooms. It also includes a bonus guide to technology and troubleshooting on Zoom.
$10.00 USD
Social Technology for the Workplace
This mini-manual covers how to build trust, psychological safety, and a shared sense of purpose â without sacrificing your mission.
$5.00 USD
Creating Authentic Community Manual
This guide will take you through the preparation and planning to the creation and facilitation of events to find and create community.
$15.00 USD
Connection Games Mini-Manual
This free guide contains a sampling of exercises with the intention to increase presence, connection, play, and empathy in your life, groups, and relationships.
Free
A Guide to Better Meetings
Leaders often face the challenge of enhancing connection and engagement within their teams. This guide captures best practices for fostering deeper and more meaningful connections in meeting environments.
$15.00 USD
Articles
Creating Events That People Love
by Sara Ness
The best event I ever ran was called The Living Room.
The goal of the event was to connect the best minds working at the intersection of Authentic Relating and the outside world. The people on the front lines, applying our practices to business, sex work, consulting, rationality, community, graduate education, and more. I wanted them to share best practices, to get inspired by each other, and to connect.
But this was a first-time conference...
Why People Don't Show Up To Your Stuff
by Sara Ness
Anytime I create an event and people donât show up, I have a little voice in my brain that says:
âIt was me, wasnât it? I didnât create a good enough event. I donât have enough social cred. I have, in some way, secretly offended all of these people and they are only letting me know through their absence. I should probably find an uninhabited hole to crawl into and not emerge until someone comes to get me.â
This article is for all the people like me, who are prone to taking it personally when people donât respond to our events. Weâre all like...
The Great Halloween Experiment
by Sara Ness
Last weekend, we held the Second Annual WorcesterShire Halloween party. As my birthday is on Halloween, I use these parties as an excuse to give our community something awesome, where I can get my favorite present - seeing my friends connect in weird and delightful ways.
I and Geof have been experimenting with how to make these parties as awesome as possible. Given that weâve both run events for almost 15 years now, this is no small challenge...
