Professional Training & Certifications
One: Group Facilitation, Mediation, & Team Coaching
2024:
- Social Justice Mediation Certificate, the Social Justice Mediation Institute
- Working Within Divides, Group Relations Conference, AK Rice Institute
- Mediation Supervision, Beth Roy, Radical Therapy
- Advanced Certification in Team Coaching, Brown University
2023:
- Resonant Language, Sarah Peyton & Jaya Manske
- Juicy Relational Skills for Emergence, Sarah Peyton
- Contact Nutrition, Carmen Spagnola
2022:
- The Art of Skillful Facilitation, Presencing Race, Gender & Collective Healing, Michelle Cassandra Johnson, Stephanie Ghoston Paul, Rebby Kern, Tristan Katz & Maygen Nicholson
- Disruption & Transformation: Creating New Futures for Nonprofit Capacity Building, Alliance for Nonprofit Management Conference
2019:
- Undoing Racism, Peoples’ Institute for Survival & Beyond
2018:
- MBA in Collaborative Leadership, Marlboro College, 2018
2017:
- Essential Facilitation, Interaction Institute for Social Change
- Fundamentals of Facilitation for Racial Justice Work, Interaction Institute for Social Change
- Art of Hosting, Weekend Retreat
2015:
- Convergent Facilitation, Miki Kashtan
- Council Facilitator Training, Ways of Council
2014:
- Mediator Training, Community Action
2013:
- MotherWoman Group Facilitator Certification, MotherWoman
2012:
- Simplicity Parenting Facilitator Certification, Simplicity Parenting
Two: Leadership Development, Professional Coaching, & Personal Transformation
2024:
- Vunja!: A Gathering of the Seeds, Bayo Akomolafe and others
2023:
- The Resilience Toolkit, Level One
- Neuroscience & Resonance Trainings, Sarah Peyton
- Toward Beloved Community: Understanding Us & Them
- What’s Mine to do? Vision, Action, & Mourning in the Face of Collapse
- First Aid for Trauma
- Dismantling Perfectionism
- Warmth for Disillusion: The Traumas of Political Disaffection
- Healing Imposter Syndrome
- Re-Enchantment
- Healing the Long Shadow of Shame: What Can Resonance Bring?
- The Neuroscience of Overwhelm
- Alarmed Aloneness: Healing Anxiety & Loneliness with Resonance
- Transforming Blame into Mourning
- Autonomy: Differentiation, Agency & Existence
- Blame & It’s Antidotes
- Burnout, Resonance, & Resilience: Bouncing Back Faster
- Intuition: Developing Inner Knowing with Empathy
- Why is Self-Compassion So Difficult
- Boundaries & Empathy: How to Move Toward Healthy Differentiation & Linkage
- Resonant Healing 101: Untying the Knots of Trauma, Sarah Peyton
- Secure, Carmen Spagnola
2022:
- Loving Our Grief, Tema Okun & Michelle Cassandra Johnson
2021:
- Converge Conference, International Coach Federation
- Presence-Based Coaching I (repeated for continuing education)
2017:
- Professional Certified Coach, International Coach Federation (certificate held since 2017)
- Presence-Based Coach Certification, Presence-Based Coaching
2014:
- Hypnotherapist Certification, Peter Blum
2013:
- Health Coach Certification, Institute for Integrative Nutrition
2012:
- Apprentice in the Four Agreements, Allen Hardman
2010:
- Advanced-Level Childbirth Mentor and Doula, Birthing From Within
- Birth Story Listening, Birthing From Within
Three: Systemic Constellations
2024:
- Advanced Constellations Facilitator Training, Leslie Nipps
- Mapping the Field, John Whittington, Coaching Constellations
2023:
- Facilitating Organizational Transformation with Systemic Constellations, Jane Peterson
2021:
- Organizational Constellations Training, Jane Peterson
2020:
- The Death of Patriarchy, Sarah Peyton & Roxy Manning
- Systemic Dynamics of Organizations, Bert Hellinger Institute of the Netherlands, Jan Jacob Stam & Bibi Schreuder
2019:
- Facilitator Training in Systemic Constellations, Bill Mannle & Ed Lynch
- Family, Human & Natural Systems Constellations Facilitator Training, Francesca Mason Boring
- Facilitating Constellations for Individuals, Leslie Nipps
- Emotional DNA Facilitator Training, Judy Wilkins-Smith
Four: Trauma-Informed Somatic Practice
Most of the trainings I listed above are also somatically informed. This is a list of my early professional training related to somatics.
2009-2013:
- Embodied Anatomy, Ellen Heed
- Intro to Craniosacral Therapy, Don Ash
- Somato-Emotional Release I, Upledger Institute
- Training for Doulas, Luna Maya, San Cristobal, Chiapas
- Craniosacral Therapy, Levels I & II, Upledger Institute
- Craniosacral Therapy for Infants & Pregnancy, Carol Gray
- Lactation Counselor Training, International Lactation Consultant Association
- Birth Art Facilitation, Birthing From Within
- Forrest Yoga Mentorship, Fresh Yoga
- Itsy Bitsy Yoga Training, Itsy Bitsy Yoga
- Prenatal Yoga Training, Kripalu
- Doula Training, Warm Welcome Birth
- Forrest Yoga 200 Hour Teacher Certification, Forrest Yoga
- Doula Training, Nueve Lunas, Oaxaca, Mexico
