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 March 15th 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 March 15th
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
Sara Ness
Authentic Revolution, Evolution Consulting
Shawn Kent
Amala Foundation, Austin Juvenile Court, Austin Independent School District
Megan Morrison
Accomplishment Coaching, 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
Megan Taylor Morrison
Meg is a business and leadership coach who has served as the lead facilitator for many different types of groups -- from the cohorts of solopreneurs who enroll in her annual mastermind to teams at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. She has also facilitated dance and personal development retreats across the United States, as well as in Argentina, Brazil, the Dominican Republic and India.
Meg served as the lead facilitator of authentic relating games in Washington DC for several years, and now leads the authentic relating community in Atlanta.
She also runs a virtual coworking community called The Thriving Creator Collective, which was featured in the New York Times in March 2020.
Jason Digges
Jason, author of new release Conflict = Energy: The Transformative practice of Authentic Relating, is a modern renaissance man. Equal parts artist, philosopher, teacher, and media producer, from 2003-2012 he worked for Integral Institute to create thousands of hours of educational media on the topics of transpersonal psychology, spirituality, productivity, and personal growth.
Obsessed with how humans can live and relate optimally, Jason has facilitated groups and taught authentic relating and circling since 2012. In 2017, he co-founded Authentic Relating Training International and has since led courses in twenty cities around the world.
Learn to facilitate with confidence and grace.
The world needs leaders like you.
Classes begin March 15th.
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.
