Welcome to "The Field" 
A comprehensive year-long, trauma-informed program offering in-depth training to equip leaders and facilitators with the skills to hold responsible, high-integrity events, develop specialized groups, and become heart-centered leaders.

The Next Year Long Training Starts 2025

If you have a strong YES! to being part of this work, you can begin the application process today to secure your place on next year's training.

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"The secret to embodied, emergent facilitation isn’t something you do, it’s something you are."

 

Rachel Rickards

FOUNDER OF THE FIELD

The Field Facilitator Training

 

What is The Field?

 

"The Field" is a commonly used phrase among facilitators to describe the invisible yet palpable energy of a group space. This year-long training is an advanced education in how to perceive, attune to, and guide that field— especially in transformational settings focused on embodiment, intimacy, healing, and conscious education.

You will learn how to read the energy of a room, facilitate from your nervous system, and respond in real-time to what’s emergent. This training combines practical skills, deep embodiment, and soul-level purpose work. You’ll leave with the confidence, tools, and lived experience to become a skilled, present, and attuned group facilitator.

Why Facilitate "The Field"?

 

When a group gathers regulated, open-hearted, and in service to something greater— a powerful collective resonance emerges. This is where the magic happens.

Facilitating that magic isn’t about controlling the space. It’s about becoming the space.

It requires:

  • Grounded presence and strong boundaries

  • Fluid, moment-to-moment responsiveness

  • Nervous system intelligence

  • Devotion to emergence over agenda

  • Deep listening through the body

This work calls us into wholeness. It’s not just about how you lead— it’s about who you become in the process.

There are real, basic keys to learning to facilitate group field emergence. These keys range from practical knowledge like creating and setting the space, to the essential how-to’s of utilizing marketing to attract the most resonant audience, all the way to the mystical elements of the land, culture and spirit allies and the subtle use of nervous system awareness and regulation.

What this level of navigation requires is to be able to hold and move from a space beyond ego & personality, rooted in the abundance and goodness of this present moment, while also connected to the unique essence of your soul's calling and unique purpose. Ultimately, guided from a profound attunement to the wisdom of your own body.

The Field Facilitator Training
The Field Facilitator Training
The Field Facilitator Training

Why This Work Matters

We are living in times of profound change. Systems are dissolving, and new ways of being are emerging through us.

The ability to create authentic, attuned, and relational spaces is no longer a luxury. It’s essential. Whether you’re a coach, therapist, teacher, healer, parent, artist, entrepreneur, or leader... learning to work with group field dynamics will serve every aspect of your life.

Field Facilitation develops your capacity to:

  • Listen deeply and respond from presence

  • Lead with humility, courage, and clarity

  • Navigate complexity and emergence with grace

  • Create spaces that support authenticity, transformation, and connection

These are the leadership capacities the world is calling for— within families, organizations, communities, and movements.

In the sheer simplicity of this commonly used phrase, "The Field" automatically implies and draws attention to the space we are each connected to through our bodies, but that also exists beyond the boundaries of our skin. This is the very shift that is needed in all our spaces at this time. In order to step into a paradigm that has the capacity to hold a new earth, and the relational evolution we all know is possible we need to attune to the space we are all ultimately connected to, as one.

In these liminal spaces we have the opportunity to take part in a much larger process of spiritual evolution that informs the direction of the future generations by how we show up in relation to ourselves and the collective as they are arising in the group field today.

The Field Facilitator Training

What You'll Learn

This training is designed to support both aspiring and experienced facilitators to:

  • Lead emergent group spaces where nervous systems synchronize and hearts cohere

  • Listen and respond to what the group field is inviting, moment-to-moment

  • Balance leadership with surrender to the mystery

  • Bring your facilitation gifts into form through structure, marketing, and delivery

  • Work collaboratively with others to co-create powerful transformational events

You’ll explore how to facilitate from the body, hold space for relational truth, and steward the unseen dynamics of the field with integrity.

The Field Facilitator Training
The Field Facilitator Training
The Field Facilitator Training

What to Expect

 

This immersive journey includes:

  • Five in-person, week-long modules held at Ă„ngsbacka throughout the year

Each module blends:

  • Experiential exercises

  • Embodiment practices

  • Live facilitation labs

  • Teaching sessions

  • Group co-creation and integration

There is no online curriculum included in this edition of the training. However, participants will have the opportunity to join the separate Field Online Trauma-Informed Facilitator Training if they wish to deepen in this area alongside the in-person work.

Both Training's Begin Fall 2025

If you have a strong YES! to being part of this work, you can begin the application process today to secure your place on next year's year-long in-person training.

In addition to, or separately you are also invited to join The Field ONLINE trauma-informed & certified a 6 month container specifically focused on becoming a trauma-informed space holder. 

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This training is based on the recognition that:

  • Field Facilitation isn’t something that you do. It’s something that you are. As you guide others, you guide them into your state of consciousness. This is both extremely precious and a powerful responsibility that is not to be taken lightly. The impact we have as facilitators has the potential to reach far beyond any one event.
  • The deep skill in Field Facilitation is learning to listen with your whole body to where the group field is inviting you to go next, and then acting on that listening in each moment to that intuitive call. This process begins before participants step into the room. It begins when the inspiration for the event lands in your field of awareness. Then there can be an opening in your body and life as you begin to hold it, feel it, play with it, speak it, dance it, move it and embody it. This dance between the facilitator and the mystery of what wants to unfold is a kind of collaborative lovemaking and the job of a Field Facilitator is to put yourself in service to this emergent process.
  • Having trauma-informed knowledge and an embodied education is important for leadership in the field beyond the reasons of “do no harm.” Trauma-informed facilitators are able to create and hold the depth and level of consciousness necessary for every participant to be fully relaxed and open in their bodies and nervous systems because this is the essential ingredient for creativity to flow.
The Field Facilitator Training
The Field Facilitator Training
The Field Facilitator Training

Core Questions We Explore

  • What is the unique medicine of my soul, and how does it want to be offered in service?

  • How do I create transformational spaces that are brave, safe, and authentic?

  • How do I attune to the emergent intelligence of the field and follow it?

  • How do I refine my leadership while staying rooted in relational awareness and care?

 

Is This Training for You?

This journey is for you if:

  • You’re an emerging or established facilitator ready to expand your capacity

  • You long to lead in a way that is soulful, embodied, and deeply relational

  • You are ready to do your personal work as you grow your professional skillset

By the end of this training, you’ll be walking with more confidence, clarity, and congruence. You’ll know your medicine. You’ll trust your facilitation. And you’ll have the experience and tools to create transformational spaces in service to a new world.

The Field Facilitator Training

The Arc of the Journey: Module Overview

 

Module 1: Embodiment & Interpersonal Relating

The foundation of field facilitation is embodiment. We begin by anchoring into our own somatic intelligence and deepening our relational presence. This module focuses on nervous system awareness, interpersonal dynamics, somatic resonance, and the art of being with what is.

Module 2: The Art of Creating Transformational Group Fields

Here we explore the architecture of transformational spaces. You’ll learn to design and hold containers that allow for safety, depth, authenticity, and emergence. We cover space holding, framing, timing, and the energetic principles that support coherence and trust.

Module 3: Circle Work, Group Field Dynamics & Emergence

This is where we step into the heart of group field facilitation. You’ll practice circle work and discover the subtle art of following the energy of the group. Learn to read the field, respond with attunement, and track the collective unfolding.

Module 4: The Art of Creation – Facilitating Your 3-Hour Transformational Offering

This is the dress rehearsal. You’ll design and deliver a full 3-hour group experience. This module supports you to synthesize what you’ve learned, clarify your unique voice, and step into leadership with confidence and grace. You'll receive comprehensive feedback and thoughtful learnings around how to upgrade and uplevel everything you do so that you have a ready-made offering to bring out into the world. You will also get to be inspired by and learn from your peers—an invaluable experience.

Module 5: The Field Festival – Practicum, Celebration & Graduation

The culmination of the journey. Module 5 takes place during the next Field Festival at Ängsbacka. Those who have integrated the teachings and demonstrated their readiness will be invited to facilitate as part of the festival program. Others will contribute in vital roles such as emotional support, production, assistance, or creative collaboration. This festival is a co-created celebration and living embodiment of everything we’ve cultivated together.

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In these liminal spaces we have the possibility to take part in a much larger spiritual evolution that informs the direction of the future generations to come by how we show up in relationship to ourselves and to the collective moving through our group field today.

Practical Details for 2025-2026

Dates

 

Module 1: October 6-12, 2025

Module 2: December 8-14, 2025

Module 3: March 23-29, 2026

Module 4: May 18-24, 2026

Module 5: TBA (July or August 2026) 

*Module 5 will be a live Festival that the training will participate in and contribute to as a live practicum of our training. Dates for Module 5 will be 10 days as it will include both the Festival and the completion of the Training. 

Venue

 

The venue for 2025-2026 is

Ängsbacka.

 
Address: Nyeds-backa 511, 655 61 Molkom Sweden 

 

https://www.angsbacka.com/contact/

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The Facilitators

Rachel Rickards

Rachel Rickards is an international leader in the field of personal transformation, intimacy, embodiment, and relating. She is a group facilitator extraordinaire, event producer, and a new mother.

In 2014 she co-founded Embodied Intimacy, which has become one of the most respected organizations globally that offers trainings and events focussed on intimacy, trauma, relational intelligence, somatic education and community. The work of Embodied Intimacy supports hundreds of people each year to come home to themselves, to their body and more regulated nervous systems, and become more of who they truly are.

Since 2019, Rachel has led the Belly2Belly Facilitator Training after her teacher and mentor, David Cates, passed the torch and CEO position for this work to her. Belly2Belly offers a simple and yet profoundly healing set of embodied and relational practices, which support people to learn to regulate their nervous systems in a way that can be transformational for their relationships. Rachel has single handedly produced and facilitates most of the events with her extraordinary superpowers in the field of event planning and depth in embodied leadership.

In 2022, Rachel launched her newest passion project, The Field Facilitator Training. This revolutionary experiential learning environment is designed for group facilitators passionate about cultivating deep group-heart coherence and facilitating the emergence of collective group soul. The training equips participants with radically new skills, such as deep listening to the group field, surrendering to the collective moment, and embracing dynamic, fluid leadership to support the unfolding of the group soul.

Most recently, Rachel has become the creator and host of the podcast "In Presence We Trust: The Facilitation Podcast". Released weekly, the podcast dives into her cutting-edge work in group facilitation and beyond. Tune in to follow her binge-worthy journey and discover the latest insights into her ever-evolving work in group transformation.

https://www.RachelRickards.com

Christian Pankhurst

Christian Pankhurst is a world-leading authority on heart-centered communication and heart intelligent relationships. He is the creator of the Heart IQ™ Method, a coaching framework that specializes in group dynamics and intimacy development.

Graduating as a Chiropractor in 2002, Christian has worked closely with many world-leading experts in the field of personal transformation. In 2006, after extensive study with mentors from multiple disciplines, he began developing a new approach to coaching individuals and couples that integrates practices from natural healing philosophies, various spiritual teachings, therapeutic psychology, dance and movement modalities, martial arts, embodiment practices, non-violent communication, circling and numerous healing arts disciplines. This grand synthesis provides students with a deep understanding of the human condition and gives them the essential tools they need to help individuals and couples both heal and awaken.

Christian is also the author of 'Insights To Intimacy' - Why Relationships Fail and How To Make Them Work.

Christian lives in the Netherlands at the Heart IQ™ Headquarters - a stunning four-hectare retreat and community center near Groningen. Together with his team, they spread the work of Heart IQ™ around the world.

https://www.heartiq.org/

Robin Alfred

Robin is an executive coach, facilitator, and organisational development consultant who has
worked with top teams, NGOs, SMEs and individuals around the globe.

Robin’s approach is emergent, eclectic and trauma informed, drawn from disciplines including Jungian archetypal psychology, Process Oriented Psychology, and the timeless wisdom encoded in the mystical traditions. He is inspired by such luminaries as Thomas Hubl, Eileen Caddy, Otto Scharmer, Arny and Amy Mindell and the poetry of Mary Oliver, David Whyte, William Stafford and others.

Since arriving in the Findhorn Foundation Ecovillage, Scotland in 1995, he has co-founded the Findhorn Consultancy Service and Open Circle Consulting (www.opencircle.live).

His current fields of inquiry include Leading from the Future, Facilitating Transformational Fields and Trauma-informed Leadership as well as running an annual online training, “Emergent Leadership – a Training in Applied Mysticism”
https://l7cvxmx.xperiencify.io/emergent-leadership-2025/robin-alfred/

Robin’s full bio can be downloaded here https://www.opencircle.live/team/robin and
information about all programmes and services here https://www.opencircle.live/events

Devorah Bry

MA, CHT, CMT​ and Somatics. Hakomi Therapist, Couples Counselor, Group Facilitation in service of Soulfulness, Relationship, and Community.
 
Dev has been working therapeutically and facilitating groups and rites of passages for 20+ years. She received an ordination from the IM School of Healing Arts in 2004 and then a masters degree in Somatic Psychology in 2007.
 
She is a Certified Hakomi Therapist and has years of study and practice in a variety of body-oriented healing modalities, including Somatic Experiencing and Biodynamic Cranio-Sacral Therapy.
 
Dev enjoys the potency that lives in the center and the views that can be accessed at the edges.
 
A solo mama, a death doula, a sex therapist, a forever student, assisting couples+ in the dance of relationship is one of dev’s greatest gifts and deepest passions.
 
Dev is also the founder and director of HoneyRoot -- a somatic education organization in service of inclusive embodiment, relationships, social justice and intergenerational community.​
 
At essence, Dev is a dancer, a bridger, and a ceremonialist. She is a certified Soul Motion™ teacher and offers movement ministry (with her child) wherever she goes.
 

https://www.MovingFromTheCenter.com

When presence permeates, it generates a field of love.

That field of love is what we are in devotion to. That is what’s creating all the Magic.

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