FREE ONLINE WORKSHOP
The Developmental Edge of Facilitation
HOLDING SPACE & HOLDING POWER
WITH MARCIA B & CLAIRE RUMORE
Most of the people drawn to this work are already excellent teachers.
You know your content. You can deliver it clearly. You’ve embodied what you teach.
The next stage of development is about what happens between you and the room.
Facilitation is about your ability to shift attention in real time, to sense what is happening beneath the surface of the room, and to respond without losing your centre. It’s the capacity to track energy as it changes, who is leaning in, who is withdrawing, where tension is building, and to guide the group without overcorrecting or collapsing.
This requires a different layer of skill. The ability to regulate yourself when the unexpected arises. To navigate nuance without losing structure. To respond when you don’t know what to do, without defaulting to control, performance, or retreat. It is this developmental layer of facilitation that most competent leaders are rarely trained in, and where the real growth begins.
The Invisible Layer of Facilitation
Every room has dynamics moving through it: authority, identity, projection, silence, and activation, shaping what unfolds whether you name them or not. You may know your material intimately, but can you track the role power you hold as the facilitator, the personal power expressed through your nervous system and presence, and the social power that shapes how you are perceived before you speak? If you are not conscious of these forces, they still influence the room; embodied facilitation is the practice of working with them intentionally and skillfully.
What We’ll Explore Live
In this 90-minute interactive session, Marcia and Claire will guide you through:
- A live embodied leadership practice
- The three types of power shaping every group
- How to shift attention without controlling the room
- What to do when tension rises
- How to hold authority without dominating or collapsing
At a certain stage of development, attention moves beyond content.
This session turns toward what unfolds between you and the room, including shifts in attention, power dynamics, and nervous system changes that shape outcomes beyond content alone. It invites you to expand your range as a facilitator and strengthen your capacity to respond with steadiness and discernment as the room evolves.
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Fundamentals of
Embodied Facilitation
Designed for facilitators of all kinds
During this training, you’ll cultivate the depth, rawness and beauty of true Embodied Facilitation while benefiting from the wisdom and guided practices that anchor such learning.
Our aim is to create a structure that supports your evolution as an individual, allowing the falling away of what is not you, to reveal more and more of your essential and embodied self as a Facilitator.
Cultivate the art of true Embodied Facilitation
The next cohort of our year-long training, Fundamentals of Embodied Facilitation, begins May 2026.
Over the years, we’ve learned that facilitation is not just a technique, it’s a posture, a way of shaping space through the body, the nervous system, power awareness, and relationship.
The Embodied Facilitator’s Power Awareness Toolkit
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This toolkit comes directly from our upcoming 2026 training, Fundamentals of Embodied Facilitation, and offers a first look at the approach we teach inside the longer programme.