**Master the skills to create magnetic experiences that bring people together, deepen relationships, and ignite personal growth**

The Authentic Facilitator is a series of journeys that will transform you into a master of human connection. You'll learn to design and facilitate engaging, transformative events for any setting — from corporate workshops to intimate gatherings.

Dive deep into the art and science of Authentic Relating as you hone your facilitation skills through hands-on practice and learn from industry experts.

Level 1

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Level 2

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Level 3

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Level 1: Practice & Play

Who it’s for

New or experienced Authentic Relaters who want to play the Games and see the substructure of the magic
First-time facilitators who want to get practice with more games and try your hand at leading your faves
Facilitators with some events under your belt, who want to play and practice together
Event designers who want new ideas for making even more effective, connective events

What We’ll Cover

The Authentic Facilitator Level 1 is a romp through all our favorite Authentic Relating Games and flows, along with an exploration of the magic that makes them work. We’ll play through AR Games flows around Curiosity, Presence, Shadow Work, and more - and throughout it all, we’ll develop your ability to see these flows through a facilitator lens.

This class focuses on connection, play, and Jedi-level insight. Expect lots of breakouts, discussions, and opportunities to lead.

Improves

Leadership confidence
Connection
Daily inspiration
Self-awareness
Curiosity
Presence

Prerequisites

None

Upcoming Cohorts

Fall 2025 US/EU

🇺🇸 Central Time Zone (CT) +
🇪🇺 Central European Time Zone (CET)

Thursdays September 4th to October 23rd
12-2 PM CT / 7-9 PM CET

Fall 2025 AS/US

🇺🇸 Central Time Zone (CT)

Thursdays September 4th to October 23rd 6-8 PM

🇦🇺 Australian Eastern Time Zone (AET)

Fridays September 5th to October 24th 9-11 AM

TAF Level 1 - Practice & Play

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$240.00 USD

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TAF Level 1 - Practice & Play

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3 monthly payments of $80.00 USD

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Level 2: Designing for Connection

Who it’s for

Moderately experienced facilitators who want to improve the design of your events
Experienced AR facilitators who want to bring more creativity and get new ideas
Facilitators, managers, or leaders from non-AR areas who want to bring more connection into your events or teams

What We’ll Cover

Level 2 is an 8-week intensive that will make you a master of connection design. You'll learn to construct and facilitate engaging, transformative events for any setting — from corporate workshops to intimate gatherings.

What is the difference between an event that falls flat, and one that transforms and delights? How do you choose the right game for the right situation? What is an Authentic Relating Game, anyways? We’ll practice incorporating interactive design into all situations you’re hired or choose to facilitate.

Improves

Design skills
Leadership skills
Participant ratings
Clarity about what makes an event "work"

Prerequisites

TAF Level 1 or experience leading at least 5 events, in any focus area

Upcoming Cohorts

Spring 2025 US/EU

🇺🇸 Central Time Zone (CT) +
🇪🇺 Central European Time Zone (CET)

Thursdays April 24th to June 12th 12-2 PM CT / Thu 7-9 PM CET

Spring 2025 AS/US

🇺🇸 Central Time Zone (CT)

Thursdays April 24th to June 12th 6-8 PM

🇦🇺 Australian Eastern Time Zone (AET)

Fridays April 25th to June 13th 9-11 AM

Fall 2025 US/EU

🇺🇸 Central Time Zone (CT) +
🇪🇺 Central European Time Zone (CET)

Tuesdays November 4th to December 23rd
12-2 PM CT / 7-9 PM CET

Fall 2025 AS/US

🇺🇸 Central Time Zone (CT)

Tuesdays November 4th to December 23rd 6-8 PM

🇦🇺 Australian Eastern Time Zone (AET)

Wednesdays November 5th to December 24th 9-11 AM

TAF Level 2 - Designing for Connection

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$395.00 USD

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TAF Level 2 - Designing for Connection

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3 monthly payments of $135.00 USD

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Level 3: Creating a Profession

Who it’s for

Experienced Authentic Relating facilitators who want to translate your skills into professional or other focus areas
Moderately experienced AR facilitators who want to improve your leadership to objective standards of excellence
Connection and community leaders who want to get paid for your work
Therapists, managers, coaches, or consultants who want to enhance your group practice and client-focused skills

What We’ll Cover

Level 3 is our advanced training, including more than 110 videos by 11 master teachers on the ART of leadership, plus 15 live classes taught by a range of experts.

Over 15 weeks, you'll learn from a variety of facilitators in various fields who have created lives and careers around their practices. Discover how to bring connection design into schools, boardrooms, communities, and more - all while learning the skills you need to start or grow your own practice.

Open the Course Overview

Week 1 : Context

Intention: Orient to the The Authentic Facilitator course, and set yourself up to get the most out of it.

Welcome to the Course
Platform Walkthrough
How to Learn
Logistics and Key Information
Introducing Your Instructors
Why Lead?

Week 2: Core Concepts

Intention: Understand and contemplate leadership and facilitation as we'll hold it in this course.

Key Information: Home Pods
Leadership vs. Facilitation
Leading From Behind
The ART of Facilitative Leadership
1. ART: Authentic Leadership
2. ART: Responsive Leadership
3. ART: Transparent Leadership
The Value of Vulnerability
What is Authentic Relating?
Top Tips: Long Live the Love.

Week 3: Inner Work

Intention: Become more trustable as a leader through seeing yourself honestly

Clarity and Congruence
Relational Reveal
Superpowers and Kryptonites
What are Shadows?
Embracing Your Dark Side
Facilitation Fails: “You’re Not My Mom!”
Skill, Style and Situation
Methods of Leadership
Top Tips: Do It With Style

Week 4: The Steps of Facilitation

Intention: Use core techniques and a flow for introducing and managing activities and events

The Steps of Facilitation
The Steps of Facilitation: Example
Consent in Leadership
Facilitation Fails: First Time for Everything
Why the Why
Using Demos
Leadership Stories: The Demo Duel
The Elegant Finale

Week 5: Designing Outcomes

GUEST SPEAKER

Intention: Work with groups you’re guiding to define their language, culture, and goals.

Why We Gather
Doing Your Homework
Facilitation Fails: Missed Homework
Build Relationships
Languaging: Modifying Norms
Languaging: Translating Jargon
Listening for a Language
Leadership Stories: What It Takes to Build a Culture

Week 6: Building a Plan: Creating Options

Intention: Design consistent and powerful events that fulfill their goals

Do a Walkthrough
Meeting Individual Needs
Vulnerability Variability and Psychological Safety
Narrowing Down the Options
Skills of a Timelord
Planning an Event Example
Top Tips: The Plan Never Works
Earning Trust Over Time

Week 7 - Promotion

Intention: Use community-based marketing to spread the word about your events

Creating Compelling Events
Building Relationships
How We Found Our Favorite Gigs
Pricing, Contracts, and Followups
Creating great social media campaigns
Writing viral social posts
Community-based marketing

Week 8: Feedback

Intention: See yourself through others’ eyes

How to Get Great Feedback
Debriefing in Groups
Top Tips: Using Feedback
Feedback to Equalize Power
The Certification Rubric

Week 9: The Ethical Use of Power

Intention: Consider how to practice facilitation with awareness of self and systems

GUEST SPEAKER

Power, Authority, and Status
Social Power Differentials : Ethical Use of Power
SPD - Restoring Connection: Before
SPD - Restoring Connection: During
SPD - Restoring Connection: After
Models of Power
Assume Positive Regard
Actually Care About People

Week 10: Creating Clear Containers

Intention: Create cultural containers for participants that balance power, inclusion, and consent

Opening the Event
Creating Flexible Containers
Establishing Norms and Agreements
Relational Agreements
Ethics and Escalation
Set Boundaries
Top Tips: Practicalities

Week 11: Group Mastery

Intention: Develop core facilitation tools such as taking shares, managing time and space, and moderating breakouts

Leadership Perspectives
The Vulnerability Dial
Taking Shares: Including and Deepening
Taking Shares: Skill Points and Practices
Facilitating for Groups of Different Sizes
Giving Everybody a Chance to Speak
Creating Silence
Top Tips: The Wisdom of the Group

Week 12: The Power of Conflict

GUEST SPEAKER

Intention: Address conflict from a place of openness

Welcome Everything
Practical Tips for Welcoming Everything
Tools for Conflict: Addressing Needs
Tools for Conflict: System and Self
Naming the Elephant
Special: Diane Hamilton on Speaking the Unsaid
DARE
Stories of Conflict and Empowerment

Week 13: Fight Lab

Intention: Practice confronting conflict in the most difficult facilitation scenarios

Facilitation Fear Lab: Introduction
Fear Lab: Corporate Vulnerability Fail Pt 1
Fear Lab: Corporate Vulnerability Fail Pt 2
Fear Lab: “That’s a stupid thing to say”
The Pufferfish and the Hermit Crab

Week 14: Responsiveness

Intention: Be able to follow and dynamically respond to the truth in the room

Reading the Room
Integrating the Information
Following Aliveness
Leadership Stories: And Then Everyone Was Crying
Trauma and Triggers

Week 15: Graduation and Style

Intention: Integrate and celebrate

Self-Care Tips for Facilitators (9 videos)
Self-Care Meditation
Leadership Stories: A Happy Ending

An amazing feature of this course is that at least half of the classes will be taught by experts in different facilitation fields! Learn from the best leaders who have made a career in connection, or brought it successfully into existing communities and organizations.

Whether you’re an Authentic Relating leader, a coach, a therapist, or a team manager, this course will help you bring authenticity and empathy into your leadership, and get inspired to a whole new level of how you can create connection in the world.

Prerequisites

TAF Level 2 and/or experience leading at least 10 events, in any focus area
Attendance at 1 or more Games Nights (which you can do on our online platform, or in your local community).

Upcoming Cohorts

Spring 2025 US/EU

🇺🇸 Central Time Zone (CT) +
🇪🇺 Central European Time Zone (CET)

Thursdays April 3rd to July 10th

Spring 2025 AS/US

🇺🇸 Central Time Zone (CT)

Tuesdays April 1st to July 8th

🇦🇺 Australian Eastern Time Zone (AET)

Wednesdays April 2nd to July 9th

Fall 2025 US/EU

🇺🇸 Central Time Zone (CT) +
🇪🇺 Central European Time Zone (CET)

Tuesdays September 23rd to December 30th

Fall 2025 AS/US

🇺🇸 Central Time Zone (CT)

Tuesdays September 23rd to December 30th

🇦🇺 Australian Eastern Time Zone (AET)

Wednesdays September 24th to December 31st

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"I took this course this fall/winter and loved it! It’s great for beginning facilitators but actually also a really helpful refresher for seasoned facilitators."

- Kaela

"One of the top 3 training programs I've done in my whole career."

—Joe Dellicarpini, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

"Signing up for this course, in this moment, feels like the best choice I ever made for my life. I am standing at the door of possibility and alignment, and I actually have something concrete to fall back on. No dollar amount could ever compare to this course's power in my life, as it supported me to begin unlocking my passion and potential."

- Erin Root

“This training helped connect me with the authenticity, aliveness, playfulness and depth that I’m wanting to infuse into my communities and in my personal life. And it allowed me to practice the skills of confidently creating all of that.”

—Ashley

"I really appreciated seeing the call recording, hearing the shares and the willingness to co- create, co empower, be flexible and democratic, letting the space be alive and grow to what's meeting needs and feelings. Being in this course is a massive learning journey and finding it beautiful to be part of, not always easy. -taking steps to show up to what shows up."

- Gaja

“I’m grateful for all the resources, but what was most important was learning that this is art - about letting go and trusting myself. I felt that was really modeled. I really can fuck things up, and it can be such a beautiful gift.”

- Summer

“I got so much out of the homework and videos. To me, that’s going to be an invaluable resource going forwards, to have those to refer to and go over and over.”

—Fiver