Introduction to Facilitating the Work That Reconnects

Name: Introduction to Facilitating the Work That Reconnects
Start: 2024-11-22T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-24T17:00:00+00:00
Location: Maitreya House, Lower Maescoed, Hereford HR2 0HP

Schedule

Fri Nov 22 2024 at 07:00 pm to Sun Nov 24 2024 at 05:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Maitreya House, Lower Maescoed, Hereford HR2 0HP | Hereford, EN

*Please note this course is 4 days long, over two weekends*
Weekend 1: 22nd - 24th November
Weekend 2: 24th - 26th January
Both weekends start 7pm Friday and end 5pm Sunday.
This experiential training, over two residential weekends, offers a core introductory basis for facilitating in-person group practices and workshops in The Work That Reconnects (WTR). Our aim is that the training will support you to step into WTR facilitation, and to deepen your skills, knowledge and confidence if you are already facilitating. It is also an opportunity to build supportive relationships to accompany you on your facilitation journey.
The Work That Reconnects is a highly regarded experiential methodology developed over the last 40 years to help us turn towards our concerns and despair for the world, to find our power and to experience the resourcing potential of feeling part of nature and a deeper connection to others in the past, present and future. Workshops follows a 4 part spiral of practices: Rooting in gratitude, honouring our pain for the world, seeing with new and ancient eyes, and going forth into committed action.
What will the weekends involve?
The training will be largely experiential, beginning with being facilitated through a full spiral of key practices. We will intersperse this with a focus on key facilitation skills, techniques and principles, such as making group agreements, holding spaces for intense emotions, creating connection, safety, and grounding, and managing time and group dynamics and needs.
The course aims to deepen your understanding of the underlying philosophies of the Work, such as deep ecology, deep time, living systems thinking and active hope. You will try out developing some practices based on these concepts, in order to understand the philosophies and processes from the inside out.
We aim to help you build confidence through facilitation in small groups and receiving feedback in a supportive context. Small practice groups between and after the weekends will support you to take your facilitation forward.
Who is this training for?
This training is suitable for anyone seeking to bring Work That Reconnects practices into their community, work, or group. It is strongly recommended that you have experienced a workshop in the WTR or the online Active Hope course, prior to attending. It is very helpful if participants have read at least the first 5 chapters of 'Coming Back to Life', the facilitation manual of the WTR, prior to attending the training, in order to have some familiarity with the ideas and the practices. The book ‘Active Hope‘ is very helpful additional reading.
Trainers
Rosie Jones is an ecological, community and clinical psychologist and therapist, now largely involved in regenerative work to help create foundations for a life-sustaining society. She initiates and supports community projects and groups, with particular interest in land-based projects.
In 2017-18 she experienced and then trained in facilitating the Work That Reconnects and found it to be personally transformative. She offers regular workshops in her local community, educational settings, festivals, and to organisations, and has been offering facilitation training since 2019. The Work That Reconnects continues to be a central support and inspiration for how she lives.
Madeleine Young discovered the WTR after decades of activism and was so struck by this work's beneficial potential that she has been exploring it ever since - first as a participant in as many different ways as possible, and then training as a facilitator via the Facilitator Development Adventure.
For the last 4 years, she has been working with Chris Johnstone (co-author of the book Active Hope) on a variety of projects, including the free online Active Hope Foundations Training (which so far has over 9,000 people enrolled, globally).
In the last 3 years, she has turned her attention to training facilitators. She loves to support people to step into their capabilities and to encourage them to feel ready to facilitate. She feels passionate about diversifying this work so that its benefits can reach into all corners of society.
Find further details and to book a place on the training here: https://dandelion.events/e/facilitation2024