A group for those interested in stepping into leadership and facilitation roles
I have been leading groups for over 15 years. About a decade in, I went through an initiation where I transitioned from being a “teacher” to a facilitator or a guide.
I wanted to structure of the group and how I facilitated to reflect the content and the material. This appraoch is somatic and experiencial - being a member in the group and the experiences you have are not only reinforce and offer content, they help wtih the integration of content. I am inspired by adult learning models that position the learner as the authority of their own experience. I am always focusing and reoridineting to delivering content outside of gathering time and using group time for experiential sharing, integration, and somatic experiences.
My appraoch is inspired by one of my mentours - Alexandra Merrill who developed a trimester model of group development. This process is biomemetic, it observes that the group is an organism iwth a developmental process that mirrors the life cycle of nature. It also assumes that each member’s learning proces and integraiton of the material will mirror this same cycle. In this model, the experience of being in the group is a central component of the learning experience. It also positions each member and the facilitator as both a member and a leader, equalizing power, decolonizing and further integrating messages and contet in the group that do the same.
This group experience, like all the groups I lead will be more like a laboratory than a traditionally classroom experience. The labortory will help you:
Protal #1:
define your group facilitation goals
identify how your content can be mirrored in and amplified by the group structure, facilitation style and methods of content delivery and experiences for participants
consolidate your core skills and offerings as a facilitator and distill how to best use them to achieve this organic, wholistic approch to content/group experience
Portal #2
How do groups function
the biomemetic model
the trimester model
how we can facilitate as a leader and a member
Portal #3
Who are you as a group member and group leader? Sensitivity, boundaries, needs and authority
In their own words…
“I am deeply grateful.”
“Brittany’s ability to weave together astrology, herbalism, ceremony, and the work of soul and psyche is a unique gift. She is warm, caring, and kind and the container she creates for the group feels safe, spacious, and generous.
Throughout the series, I was inspired to get to know myself deeper by listening to my feelings and understanding the needs that emerge from my intimacy with them. Brittany’s guidance helped to orient me, opening new doors into my inner emotional landscape and the stories and beliefs that live there. Her example and guidance has inspired what lives deep in me to come forward into the world to be heard and received – I feel more empowered to share my unique gifts. I am deeply grateful.”
— G.K.
“Brittany is a truly gifted teacher.”
“Exploring my lunar parts in the context of Brittany’s Lunatic course has been an integral part of my journey of healing and becoming. Under Brittany’s adept leadership and with the steady presence of my course cohort, Lunatic provided the safe container, framework, and encouragement I needed in order to bravely dive deeper in my exploration of inherited and experienced traumas and wounds that I hold in my body and psyche and the ways in which these wounds influence and limit my thoughts, experiences, relationships, and energy.
Throughout the course I grew more comfortable with and indeed befriended my inner world of feelings. I came to understand the wisdom that this terrain holds and to experience the spaciousness and increased energy and vitality that arises when I honor and respond to the needs of these wise feelings. I have noticed that as I become better at identifying these feelings and needs, I have more confidence in areas of my life that involve decision-making, asserting needs, setting and holding boundaries, and communicating with others. And, when I put less emotional energy into these places, more energy becomes available for joy, fun, adventure, creativity, and play! Overall, I have witnessed parts of myself that I have been working on for years in traditional therapy begin to transform, which has enabled me to relate to my inner and outer worlds from a more grounded, present, and peaceful place.
Brittany is a truly gifted teacher. The depth of content and course structure felt just right and her ability to break down complex, big-picture themes into perfect-sized bites for tasting and digesting is impeccable, as is her way of both firmly holding and gently guiding the group organism. She is equal parts unconditionally loving Mother and fierce, truth-seeking Warrior– both vital companions on any journey of the soul! I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to have journeyed with her in this way and I highly recommend this course to anyone interested in personal and/or planetary healing and evolution.
It is hard to describe the true impact and experience of this course, and it is simply because the nature of Brittany’s service and work is that it touches those indescribable places in us – the sacred, the liminal, the lunar, the places where– especially in our culture and language– there really are no words available.”
— S.B.