Foundations of Facilitation
Coached Course
Become the leader...
whose team others fight to be on.
whose groups are full, every time.
who people respect and include.
who creates community, loyalty, and love.
Become the leader we want to follow.
Join the next cohort of our 12-week comprehensive
Foundations of Facilitation
Apply for June 1st Start
This training will serve you as....
A New Leader
You've found a cause, company, or community that you care about. You want to support them - but you don't have the training or experience to do that really well.
You need effective, adaptable skills with immediate application, and a network of peers.
A Growing Leader
You're building a client base as a coach, therapist, or entrepreneur, and need to lead workshops or groups well to enroll and support your clients.
You want to serve them deeply and keep them coming back, without being "salesy".
A Leader in Transition
You're starting a new job or a new position, and need management, leadership, or facilitation training.
You know you don't want the "command and control" structure of traditional leadership. You want to be flexible, trustable, and still highly effective.
We can help.
What You Get
90 video lessons
Our 8 master facilitators share their knowledge, experience, and top tips on:
- All facets of facilitation theory and practical skills
- Leadership Stories: successes and fails
- Demonstrations, worksheets, event templates, and practical assignments
Weekly Practice Calls
Join your fellow students for coaching calls where you will learn, connect, teach each other, and receive feedback from your coaches to level up your skills.
Leadership Opportunities
We'll support you to create and lead multiple public and private events.
And give you the opportunity for exclusive leadership practice with the leaders on COnnect, our Authentic Relating membership platform.
12 weeks of content-rich experiential education:
Core Concepts
Meta Skills
Event Design and Activities
Enrollment
Online Facilitation
The Steps of Facilitation
Improving Your Skills
Self-Care
Group Management and People Math
Creating Culture
Inclusion & Consent
Building Community
Classes begin June 1st
Investment: $1500 or 5 payments of $300/month
Application is required.
Partial scholarships available, based on need and capacity for reciprocal community contribution. If you are in need of a scholarship, please begin the process by applying below.
What Makes Us Unique
Throughout this training, you’ll learn to facilitate in a way that is...
Community Based
As the Tao To Ching says “When the leader leads, the people say ‘Look! We did it, all by ourselves.”
In our training, you will learn to become the type of a leader who instantly empowers those around them. You will use the ART of Leadership - Authentic, Responsive, and Transparent - to create communities in which everyone has a role and a say, but goals still get met.
Our experience within hundreds of groups has proved that this style of facilitative leadership completely transforms how people interact with you, each other, and themselves.
Authentic and Transparent
Many people feel drained by leadership because they believe they need to change who they are -- that who you are at work, or in front of a group, can’t be the same as who you are off the clock. It takes a lot of energy to maintain two separate selves. You also miss out on the trust that can be built with groups when you show up in a genuine, vulnerable way.
In this training, you’ll learn when, why, and how to express authentically in a way that comes across as strong and trustable instead of “too much”.
We’ve seen the “double-personal” approach cripple groups and organizations with gossip, collusion, and toxic relating. We want you to have another option.
Responsive and dynamic
Things can change quickly with plans and group dynamics -- just look at what happened with the global pandemic! Gathering feedback and being able to shift your approach will make sure you can thrive in uncertain situations, support your credibility and build participants’ trust in your leadership.
This facilitation style transfers responsibility from the leader to the group (of which the leader is a part), creating more buy-in from everyone involved.
We’ll teach you the best practices for soliciting feedback, creating a responsive and collective way to pivot, and increasing the resilience of any group you participate in.
Facilitation Academy Faculty
Video Content Contributors
Sara Ness
Authentic Revolution, Evolution Consulting
Shawn Kent
Amala Foundation, Austin Juvenile Court, Austin Independent School District
Megan Morrison
The Thriving Creator, MTM Coaching & Consulting
Jason Digges
Authentic Relating Training International
Carrie Patrick
Dell Technologies Leadership and Socio-Emotional Learning Trainer
Micah Sutton
InPresence Experience, ALT Lead Facilitator
Geof Krum
Cheshire Events
Dr. Hazel-Grace Yates
Sex Catalyst Academy
Meet Your Coaches
Micah Sutton
Micah loves nothing more than working with dedicated people to come to greater honesty and presence with themselves. Over the past ten years, this work has taken many forms, including life coaching, Authentic Relating/Circling, and guiding meditation in nature. He is also a trained herbalist, certified end of life doula, and a dedicated trainer of community leaders.
In his teaching work, Micah’s priority is to transmit to each student the value of compassion and presence in leadership, helping them to share their unique gifts in the most sustainable and honest way they can.
Zachary Robison
Zach spent four years as the leader and head facilitation trainer within the Houston Authentic Relating community. He is currently working to create and train a community within the walls of Google.
Zach is dedicated to the mastery of interpersonal skills through his work as a facilitator, teacher, circler, life coach, and team consultant within Google. He has a laid back, playful leadership style balanced by a desire and capacity to hold space for whatever depth arises. Through leading Authentic Relating practices in schools, businesses, festivals, summer camps, and leadership workshops, Zach has learned how to embrace what is real in any moment, and have that space of potency and power be where we connect.
Learn to facilitate with confidence and grace.
The world needs leaders like you.
Classes begin June 1st
Investment: $1500 or 5 payments of $300/month
Application is required.
Partial scholarships available, based on need and capacity for reciprocal community contribution. If you are in need of a scholarship, please begin the process by applying below.
