Relational mindfulness 2-Year FACILITATION PRogram:

Join an Emergent Movement in Relational Healing Spanning Personal and Collective Transformation

The start date is November 2nd, 2024.

The end date is September 12th, 2026.

The application deadline is July 1st, 2024.

Early bird special - if you register by May 1st you will receive $100 off your registration fee!

Heart of Listening: On Behalf of Our Collective is a prerequisite for this training.

The Relational Mindfulness Facilitator Training is an opportunity to be part of a powerful movement for relational healing and an emergent community of embodied facilitators around the globe.  Facilitation is a living practice, a calling, an art, and a skill. It is not for everyone.

This is not a conventional training, but a sacred container for personalized growth, embodied leadership,  transformation, and conscious response to the times we are facing. Each of you are unique. As part of our community learning, each of you will be called to inquire compassionately and courageously in distinctive ways, to shed old ways of being and perceiving, and to step forth into offering your medicine more fully on behalf of our collective.  

This training invites you to embrace the mystery - and the full spectrum of light and dark. We will work through the wisdom that knowing less is knowing more and that getting out of the way is the path of freedom, unity,  and wholehearted service. Drawing from the wisdom of the natural world and teachings of Buddhism, this is a  path for secular dharma/mindfulness.  This training is based on Eden’s book, Relational Mindfulness: A Handbook for Deepening Our Connection with Our Selves, Each Other, and the Planet and the practices/principles of:

• Intention

• The Sacred Pause

• Deep Embodied Listening

• Mindful Inquiry and Clear Seeing

• Turning Towards, Rather Than Away

• Transparency

• Taking Passionate Responsibility

• Not Taking Personally

• Compassionate Action

THE ARCHITECTURE:

• An online group gathering once a month for 1.5 hours at 9 am PT/12 pm ET

• 13  private mentoring sessions, 1 in 2024 and 6 per year in 2025 and 2026

• A two-day online immersion in 2024 on November 2nd and 3rd, and 4 2-day immersions total scheduled in 2025 and 2026

• A Community Resource Page featuring guided practices, an extensive library of teaching resources, and recorded sessions

• Kalyanna Mitta (Spiritual Friendship) Partners for deep listening & mindful inquiry

• Dedicated reviewing time and feedback of participant’s teaching videos

• The intention of this training is to create a lasting community of skillful empowered compassionate and embodied Relational Mindfulness facilitators

• Lastly, white facilitators will be encouraged to attend the day-long retreat Exploring Whiteness: A Collective Liberation Practice for White Allies and Accomplices with Eden and Mary Ann Gallo - date TBD

• If additional sessions/trainings are planned within the 2 years, they'll be offered on a donation basis

Themes We Will Explore:

• Getting Out of the Way as the Heart of Facilitation

• Relational Mindfulness as an Expression of Sacred Activism

• Ethics and Right Use of Power

• The Role of Earth-Based Practices and Eco-Dharma in Relational Mindfulness

• The Subtleties & Nuances of Mindful Inquiry - One on One and in Groups

• How to Hold Collective Trauma and Complex Topics with Integrity

• Energetic and Spiritual Hygiene for Facilitation/Leadership

• The Gifts and Shadows of Having a Sensitive Energetic System

• Holding Curiosity While Holding Conviction: The Invitation of Spiritual Maturity

• Hard Verses Spacious Listening

• Humility and Authentic Confidence

• Freedom from Self-Consciousness 

• Collaboration, Community Intelligence, and Conflict

• Facilitation in the Age of Climate Crisis

There is also room for emergent topics and needs that will arise organically within the 2 years we work together.

There will be a special weekend immersion on November 2nd and 3rd, 2024.

The monthly meeting dates in 2024 will be November 17th and December 15th.

In 2025 through 2026, the dates will be: 

2025 - February 8th, March 8th, April 12th, May 10th, June 14th, July 12th, August 9th, September 13th, October 11th, November 8th, December 13th

2026 - January 10th, February 14th, March 14th, April 11th, May 9th, June 13th, July 11th, August 8th, September 12th

This program will be an intimate group of no more than 20 people. This program will fill, and we encourage you to apply by July 1st. If you register by May 1st you will receive $100 off the registration fee!

 Once you fill out the application and you are accepted into the program, then you pay to confirm your place in the course.

Please note that due to the limited number of spots in the cohort, there will be a strict cancellation policy. We have a firm cancellation policy that once a training begins, there are no refunds offered. We can refund 50% of your tuition up to 1 month before training begins. This is because we have a set number of places in this training and we commit to someone's participation once they make their commitment, thus turning others away. Thank you for understanding. The $50 administrative fee is non-refundable. Due to the intimate nature of this training/mentorship, there is a mutual commitment from both parties--as accepting you into this cohort means turning another interested individual away.