This five-day residential intensive workshop has been designed for people who are wanting to deepen their personal and professional development in Indigenous Facilitation Practice in the trauma healing space AND/OR for people wanting to continue to learn through being actively involved in We Al-li’s mentorship model. This includes on-the-job training in the 14 workshops that We Al-li delivers, progressing from Facilitator in Training to Co-Facilitator and, if you are an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person, to Lead Facilitator.
This 5-day intensive will enhance the many skills YOU bring with you and introduce you to the We Al-li way of working. Our workshops are experiential, focusing on process work as an embodied learning approach, with deep and at times confronting sessions that can challenge both the Facilitator and the participants. All activities are your choice; however, we encourage you to fully immerse yourself in the workshop as a platform to strengthen your facilitation skills from the inside out. This will include a strong emphasis on self-care and developing a Community of Care within the group. This process will support your own exploration.
The first day of the workshop will involve “setting the scene” and “creating safety.” We will provide the background of our ways of knowing, being, and doing as We Al-li Facilitators. The next three days will focus on the 6 Stages of Healing model, guided by what emerges in the field and through the construction of a personal story map. This will be a deeply experiential and embodied process.
The last day of the workshop will be an opportunity for participants to integrate and share their learnings in the Ceremony of Reciprocity through group presentations. You are strongly encouraged to journal throughout the workshop to assist in preparing your presentation on the final day.
The main aim of this workshop is to create a safe circle to enable participants to immerse themselves in Indigenous Facilitation Practices from an experiential perspective, drop into truth telling (past, present and future) and find and tell their stories, make sense of their stories, feel the feelings, move through the layers of loss, grief and trauma to ownership of choices, leading to strengthening cultural and spiritual identities – both individually and collectively – recreating song lines and healing trails.
The workshop objectives are to establish a safe circle through observing protocol and
ceremony to facilitate the mapping of trauma and the process of healing – recreating our song lines and healing trails from a Facilitators’/Participants’ perspective. This will be facilitated through experiential processes using art, symbols, music, theatre, emotional release, body work, storytelling and mapping and reflective discussion embodied in deep listening. These processes embody the learnings and provide participants with culturally responsive trauma specific tools for use in the field as Facilitators.
This training focuses on both the personal and professional, providing participants with deep reflective practice tools, de-briefing processes and strong peer to peer relationships that develop strong and sustainable communities of care and practice and Facilitators that are equipped to work in this space.
In this workshop you will:
Acceptance to undertake facilitator training does not guarantee employment with We Al-li, nor does it offer accreditation with any organisation outside of We Al-li, nor the right to run any We Al-li workshop.
