Applications Are Now Open!

Applications Are Now Open!

Improvisational Creative Group Facilitation Training

Relational Ecology

Collaboration School

online, Sept 19 2026 - May 1 2027

Opening Ceremony Sept 19th; Closing Ceremony May 1st 2027

+ optional in-person experiential workshops menu

Experiential, reflective training in collaborative leadership and improvisational-embodied creative group facilitation

Where & When:

  • online, September 19th, 2026 through May 1st, 2027

    • We meet online for a half day opening ceremony on Saturday Sept 19th, 2026, and for a half day closing ceremony online Saturday May 1st

    • + 7 modules of 1.5 days each time

      • modules are held 1x a month, Friday mornings 9 am -12 pm pacific time, and all day Saturday 9 am -4 pm pacific time

      • note that while we do not meet on Friday afternoons as a group, there will be a simple, generative practice/reflective inquiry offered at each Friday morning session for folks to complete before the Saturday training day

  • Optional attendance menu

    • attendance at one or more of the following workshops as an experiential learning opportunity about improvisational creative group facilitation and collaborative methods

    • choose your own adventure from the list of options

    • participation at one is recommended, attending more that one is welcome, and none are required (this structure is to help the training be more financially accessible for more folks)

      options:

      • in person with Katriona, on Salt Spring Island: Body As Earth Song summer retreat, August 18-23, 2026

      • in person on Galiano Island: Mysticism and Modulation, Nov 6-8, 2026, collaborative facilitation by Katriona and Dev Bry

      • in person in Victoria, BC: Soul Motion workshop with Soul Motion Founder Vincent Martinez Grieco, Nov 13, 14, 15, 2026 Collective Effervescence in the Dark of the Year

      • online Poetry and Dance workshop, collaborative facilitation by Katriona and Dorothy Lemoult (dates TBA)

      • online with Katriona Rest or Supple Earth, each program is a 6 week ecosomatic/movement/art adventure, Rest runs in the fall/winter and Supple Earth rungs in the spring (dates TBA May 1)

Acceptance to the program is by application followed by an interview

Applications Are Now Open!

Optional information session on May 29th at 9:30 am, pacific time, online through zoom

curriculum and approaches

  • experiential conversations, teachings, experiential inquiries

  • teachings, engaged practice, personal reflection, and contemplative conversations

  • time in the full group, small groups, and personal pratice inquiries

  • Biodiversity is wisdom

  • Embodied collaborative listening

  • Accompanying emergent currents and the hum of the murmuring deep

  • Collaboration training - methods and approaches

  • a leader in every chair, & process to move from the chair through the room, and out of the room into the world

  • working with elementals and directions, ritual, ceremony and the sacred center

  • holding one’s own, the ground of leadership, under standing, supple embodied presence

  • Holding complexity and consent

  • Fostering Radical Tenderness in a group field

  • Responding with the presence of harms, grief, & trauma; staying with the Trouble & the wise council of Titration; Nervous System Modulation for grounded trauma wise facilitation.

  • Dance Movement, Play, Art, Writing, Music, Sound, and Song

  • Ecosomatic creativity, Relational Ecology

  • Creativity, improvisation, and collaboration as deep sustenance for these times

  • inquiries with the qualities, engaged values, processes, methods, approaches to leadership that are needed for such times as these.

  • how to find mentors and collaborators, how to nurture such relations, being real in our relations

  • collaboration with one another, with a group, with what is emergent; collaborative methodologies, stances, guides, contemplations

  • cocreating microcultures of health and generativity

  • responding with conflict and relational tangles in groups and in collaborative partnerships

  • the inner work that supports generative, kind conflict praxis

  • the generative possibilities of light and shadow -

    • understanding and responding with the currents of harm that ripple through our collective

    • noticing, nurturing, and developing creativity possibilities as they begin to seed, root, and germinate

    • tending the small, subtle, nuanced, emergent, and the repeating themes and strong currents

experiential professional development

  • Folks who are leading groups or want to be leading groups; folks who want to grow their courage and creativity in improvisational facilitation; folks who want to deepen their ability to accompany nuance in a group. Folks seeking to work through the methods of polymodal creativity, relational ecology, and kindness.

  • readings, experiences, conversations, creative reflection, dialogue, practices, and community

    7 modules, 1.5 days each time, about 1x a month over 8 months

    personal inquiries between each module and student trios that meet once online (or in person if near to one another) between each module

  • Tuition is a 3 tier Sliding Scale, to support folks participation

    Tuition will post here May 1st

  • Send an email

    Applications are Open - an application questionnaire offering applicants a chance to reflect and for our team to get to know you.

  • a one hour online interview with Katriona, to discuss the program and assess goodness of fit together.