Most facilitator trainings teach how to hold space.
This training teaches how to interrupt it responsibly.

Many facilitators care deeply about ethics, equity, and participation and still find themselves:

• carrying too much responsibility
• stabilizing tension prematurely
• managing dynamics instead of transforming them
• accidentally reproducing the hierarchies they want to dismantle

Not because of poor intentions but because power organizes participation faster than intention can.

This advanced training supports facilitators in developing the capacity to act as trusted disruptors inside group life without needing certainty, neutrality, or moral perfection.

Trusted disruptors are able to notice when participation patterns begin shaping power. They can act within those moments without damaging relational trust or group viability. This includes learning when disruption is necessary and when participation is already sufficiently responsive.

This is not a technique training. It is training in perceptual, relational, and ethical facilitation capacity.

It is the primary and most comprehensive professional facilitation training within Laura’s Relational Fieldwork methodology.

Applications help determine program fit and do not commit you to enrollment.
Cohort size is intentionally limited to support depth of practice.

What it’s actually like to be inside this training

You will not be evaluated or judged. This training is developmental rather than evaluative.

You will be asked to participate fully in structured group experiments that make participation and power dynamics perceptible through experience.

For example, you might find yourself inside a moment where the room goes quiet, one participant begins carrying emotional weight alone, multiple interpretations of what is happening feel possible, and you feel the familiar pull to explain, smooth, or restore clarity. In this training, those moments are not rushed past. They become material for developing ethical participation range.

At times, you may notice:

• impulses to rescue, withdraw, or take control
• moments when your facilitation habits become visible in new ways
• professional self-reflection that feels unfamiliar or destabilizing
• relief in discovering ethical participation does not require perfection

Participants are not asked to perform facilitation competence or arrive at correct interventions. The work focuses on expanding perception, participation range, and ethical decision-making inside live group conditions.

Participants should expect moments of professional self-implication and ethical complexity as part of expanding facilitation capacity.

Why this training exists (and why most facilitation training stops too soon)

Most facilitator training focuses on:

• communication skills
• conflict resolution
• group cohesion
• facilitation techniques
• leadership presence

This program focuses on something deeper and more foundational:

How participation patterns quietly organize power and how facilitators inevitably participate in those patterns whether they intend to or not.

Participants do not study case examples from a distance.

They participate in live group experiments where facilitation, authority, and participation dynamics unfold in real time, including their own instincts, habits, and blind spots as they appear.

Learning happens through lived participation first and conceptual integration second.