Lead Women’s Circles with Skill, Structure and Integrity
A six-month professional formation in facilitation craft, ethical leadership and sustainable women’s work.
Many women arrive at this work because they care deeply about people. But caring deeply isn’t the same as knowing how to structure a space that can carry that care.
Circlecraft
Why Circlecraft?
Women’s spaces are powerful. They can connect, deepen and transform.
Without proper facilitation, they can also exhaust the facilitator and destabilise the participants.
Most women entering this field are trained in a modality or philosophy.
Very few are trained in facilitation itself.
Circlecraft exists to change that.
Over six months you are trained in facilitation as a discipline. Not instinct or personality, but craft.
You learn how to design gatherings clearly, understand group dynamics and carry responsibility properly.
Because intention alone does not protect people. Skill does.
Open, Hold and Close with Structural Clarity
Learn facilitation from beginning to end. Design gatherings that are clear about what they can hold, and close them in ways that leave people steady rather than exposed.
Why Six Months of Formation?
Trauma-Responsive & Neurodiversity-Affirming Practice
Work with activation, shutdown and difference without relying on improvisation. Use grounded frameworks instead of guessing your way through intensity.
Mentorship and Practicum
You practise your facilitation while receiving structured mentorship. Bring real scenarios from your own work. Receive clear, grounded feedback. Develop skill, not just understanding.
Business Architecture and Ethical Communication
Design circle series and retreats that match your real capacity. Price and communicate your work in ways you can sustain.
Professional Identity and Leadership Maturity
Understand how authority, projection and boundaries operate in women’s spaces. Become steady in your role instead of reacting to the room.
This Program Is For Women Who...
꩜ have been participating in women’s circles and know they are ready to facilitate
꩜ are already leading circles or retreats and want structure beneath their work
꩜ care about responsibility and are willing to examine their authority, boundaries and impact
꩜ want mentorship and honest feedback, not just a certificate
꩜ see trauma-responsive and neurodiversity-affirming practice as foundational, not optional
꩜ are committed to working without romanticising harm or appropriating traditions that are not theirs
꩜ want their facilitation to support a real livelihood they can sustain rather than something that quietly exhausts them
This is not a tick-the-box certification. It’s professional formation for women who want their work to hold up over time, under pressure and in public.
The Shadow Side of Circles
Women’s circles are rising everywhere. That part is beautiful.
What is less visible is what happens when they are led without training in facilitation itself. Without structure, it can look like:
✨ spaces that feel powerful in the moment but leave participants unsettled afterwards
✨ emotional disclosures opened without clear containment or follow-up
✨ facilitators over-functioning, collapsing or absorbing what was never theirs to carry
✨ blurred boundaries between peer, guide and authority
✨ leadership treated as instinct rather than a skill that must be learned
✨ under-charging, over-promising and eventual burnout
You may have felt this yourself. Leaving a space unsure why something felt off. Or finishing a gathering that seemed to go well while your body carried the cost.
Most of this is not a care problem. It’s a training problem.
Circlecraft exists to address that gap.
What You Will Receive
Circlecraft is a six-month professional formation in facilitation craft, mentored practice and ethical business architecture. Inside the formation you will receive:
Facilitation Craft Training - Designing gatherings clearly, role clarity, group dynamics and clean endings. You will learn what you are actually creating and what sits within its scope.
Trauma-Responsive and Neurodiversity-Affirming Frameworks - Grounded models for working with activation, shutdown and difference without improvisation or overreach.
Mentored Practicum - Design and deliver your own structured offering with direct feedback. You practise while working to clear professional standards.
Fortnightly Live Mentorship and Training - Twelve live sessions across six months for real-time case reflection, refinement and professional development.
Business Architecture and Ethical Marketing - Offer design, pricing, positioning and communication grounded in real capacity rather than performance.
Operational Infrastructure - Participant agreements, intake processes and referral mapping templates so your work rests on clear systems, not memory or goodwill.
Certification Pathway - Certification is awarded upon demonstrated competency and maintained through ongoing standards. It reflects practice and skill, not attendance.
This is not a collection of techniques. It’s professional formation.
What women say...
“Having had experience in various women's spaces, I value hollie’s attention to inclusively, accessibility, trauma informed/decolonising/ethical spaces, as well as rigorous and well based content. hollie’s experience in the multiplicity of women's spaces and deep learning and embodying is seen in the generous and profound sharing of content. The reclaiming of ancient wisdom and making it applicable to this time and place is unique. hollie is not just teaching from these traditions but bringing them together In a unique way that honours women, their life experience, cycles, minds and bodies…
…Her unique modality is ethical, inclusive and life changing. She is scrupulously values based. As I learn to lead others in this work I want to know I will be holding space in the best way to firstly not do harm, then secondly, best walk along side people in their own path of transformation. I know with hollie’s offerings I get this. Hard recommend. 🥰.”
~ Julia
Circlecraft runs over six months in a live, mentorship-based cohort.
The structure is layered. You do not move through theory and then try to apply it later. You practise as you learn, with guidance. The formation rests on two pillars: facilitation craft and business architecture. Both are required if your work is to hold up over time.
How the Circlecraft Formation Works
What we’ll do together...
Pillar One: Facilitation Craft
Structural Design & Role Clarity
You develop practical skill in designing gatherings that are clear about what they are, what they are not, and what sits within their scope.
Boundaries, Safety & Altered States
You learn to recognise activation, shutdown and intensity in groups, and respond within ethical scope.
Standards & Code of Conduct
Professional ethics, documentation, referral pathways and real-world challenge scenarios. This is where responsibility becomes practical.
Mentored Practicum
You design and run a structured offering during the program, submit case reflections and receive direct feedback. You are not left to navigate your own blind spots alone.
Certification & Ongoing Professional Mentorship
Certification is awarded upon demonstrated competency and maintained through standards. It reflects skill, not attendance.
Pillar Two: Business Architecture
Designing Sustainable Offers
Design circle series and retreat models, clarify capacity, build pricing structures and map sustainable pacing.
Operational Infrastructure
Intake processes, participant agreements, risk mapping and documentation templates so your work is not dependent on memory or goodwill.
Financial Sustainability
Revenue modelling, event budgeting and payment structures grounded in the real scope of your work.
Ethical Marketing
Landing page structure, messaging without exaggeration, launch sequencing and visibility systems that reflect your real scope.
The Value of What You Receive
When you step into Circlecraft, you are entering a professional formation in facilitation and business development.
Circlecraft is a six-month professional formation in facilitation.
It combines structured training, mentored practice and business architecture so you can hold women’s circles, retreats and relational spaces with real responsibility.
Six Months of Structured Formation – valued at $3,200
Fortnightly Live Cohort and 12 Mentorship Sessions – valued at $1,200
Supervised Practicum – valued at $1,200
Certification and Ethical Code of Conduct – valued at $350
Business and Leadership Development – valued at $2,300
Ongoing Supervision Pathway – priceless
Extra inclusions
Herstory – The historical roots of women’s gatherings – valued at $480
Decolonising Frameworks – Reflecting on culture and responsibility in women’s work – valued at $480
Sacred Money – Healing money trauma in women’s work – valued at $480
Total value: over $9,990
Program investment:
$4,500
one-time payment
or
$400
x12 fortnightly payments
This is not a certificate for display. It’s a training that equips you to hold women’s circles, retreats and relational spaces with structural integrity and professional maturity.
What women say...
“Leadership can often be considered a masculine skill and so it was beyond refreshing when, as women who had experienced their first women’s festival, we wanted to take a stake in the organisers space. hollie thoroughly encouraged us to step into our vision. She aided in the development of an event mission statement to ensure we had a clear statement that would reach who we were hoping to welcome into this event. We were inspired from hollie’s practice. To be welcomed, to be guided, to be advised, to be supported and to be acknowledged in our planning was phenomenal. We were better event organisers and better facilitators because of her expert, experienced guidance…
…I did not find the anticipated masculine competition as we moved together in this space. instead I found the font of feminine wisdom and the art of shared experience. But it’s not that there is no masculine; there’s actually a strong element in event crafting. A decisiveness, a directness to organisational practice, a sense of system and planning, attention to boundaries and others… It isn’t all free flow and ease. hollie balances both these worlds so well and guides us to do it better, knowing what parts we can leave behind and step into the invitational, sharing spaces we want to craft; with just the right amount of system and strength for success.” ~ Elisa
YOUR 7-DAY ORIENTATION PERIOD
Robust training should feel safe, never pressured.
When you enrol in Circlecraft, you begin with a seven-day orientation period.
During this week you will have access to the orientation materials, the code of conduct, pre-reading and selected introductory content. This week allows you to experience the tone, standards and expectations of the training before making a final decision.
On day eight, the full curriculum unlocks and the practicum pathway begins.
If Circlecraft doesn’t feel aligned for you, simply email us within the first seven days for a full refund. Once the full training opens, your enrolment is confirmed.
Circlecraft is a professional formation. The orientation week ensures you step in consciously.
Moving Beyond…
circles that rely on instinct rather than structure
blurred boundaries, over-responsibility and quiet burnout
good intentions without scope, referral clarity or professional limits
feeling destabilised when activation, projection or altered states arise
treating facilitation like a calling without developing it as a craft
And Instead…
designing and holding women’s circles with structural clarity and defined authority
working within clear ethical limits, scope and duty of care
understanding how nervous systems interact in groups and responding with steadiness
being mentored as you practise rather than left to interpret everything alone
building a sustainable, professionally structured body of work that reflects your real capacity
Why this intake?
Circlecraft opens at set times because this is not a self-paced program. It is a live formation with mentored practice, and numbers are intentionally limited to preserve depth of feedback and professional oversight. Places are capped so that:
mentorship remains rigorous and considered
case review receives real attention
standards are upheld, not diluted
Once intake closes, enrolment pauses until the next cycle.
Certification requires participation and demonstrated competency. Your place is a professional commitment, not casual access.
Six months from now, you could still be facilitating based on instinct and accumulated experience. Or you could be operating within a clear structure, recognised standards and mentored practice.
Circlecraft is not something you try. It is something you step into deliberately as professional formation.
If you are ready for formation, this intake is the point of entry.
About hollie
I’m hollie wildëthorn, psychotherapist, facilitator of women’s circles and ritual practitioner.
For more than twenty-five years i’ve held women’s circles, retreats and relational teaching spaces. Alongside that, i work clinically as a PACFA-registered therapist, where i see what happens when group spaces are entered without clear scope, boundaries or ethical structure.
Over the years, women have come to me after leaving other circles where boundaries were blurred, intensity mishandled and facilitators had little structural training. In the therapy room, i’ve worked with the aftermath of blurred boundaries, mishandled intensity and facilitators operating without structural training. Most were well intentioned. Few had been properly formed.
Circlecraft was created in response to that gap.
Not to make facilitation more mystical, and not to make it more marketable, but to treat it as a discipline.
This formation integrates clinical literacy, group process, mentorship and lived experience into a professional pathway for women who intend to lead and are willing to carry that responsibility carefully.
Women’s circles are powerful.
Power requires skill.
Ready to step into Circlecraft?
This is not a short course or attendance-based certification.
If you’re ready to treat facilitation as a craft and carry it responsibly, this is the next step.
$4,500 paid in full
or 12 × $400 fortnightly payment plan
Places are limited to preserve depth of supervision.
Questions?
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No. If you are early in your facilitation journey, this becomes foundation training. What matters more than experience is whether you recognise that this is skilled work and want to be trained properly.
If you are still only curious about women’s work as an idea, this may be too soon. If you are serious about facilitating responsibly, early can be ideal.
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No. This is not circle tips or surface-level content. Experienced facilitators often benefit most because they finally gain language for what they have been sensing but could not articulate.
Experience without discipline can still be exhausting. Experience with structure becomes sustainable.
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We meet for 90 minutes every fortnight across six months. It is recommended you allow two hours for that window so you are not rushing in or out.
Modules can be worked through steadily each week. There will also be focused periods of planning as you design your practicum offering and business architecture.
This is not passive learning. It is structured engagement. If you are already spending time second-guessing your work, this often replaces scattered effort with clarity.
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This is formation, not a content library.
Modules are flexible and can be caught up. Live supervision matters more. If you miss occasionally, that is fine. If you disengage for extended periods, you will not receive the same formation.
Because certification is attached, there are defined timeframes for completing the practicum and submitting case reflections. If these are not completed, certification pauses until they are.
It is not punishment. It is standards.
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Certification is not automatic.
To be eligible you must:
• Participate across the six months
• Complete the supervised practicum
• Submit reflective case material
• Demonstrate competency across the five domains
Certification is maintained through ongoing supervision and adherence to the Circlecraft Code of Conduct.
This ensures that certification reflects real professional standards.
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That is fine. You may complete the full formation without pursuing certification. The standards of practice are still taught and applied.
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Live supervision is central and best experienced in real time. Recordings of core teachings are available. Occasional absences are workable. Repeated absence will affect the depth of your formation.
For those seeking certification : If you miss more than 2 Live Calls within the 6-month training period, you will expected to arrange a 1:1 with Hollie (at your cost $180) to catch up and recover your supervision hours.
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Yes.
Circlecraft integrates business architecture and ethical marketing directly into the formation. You will be taught:
• Offer design for circles and retreats
• Pricing grounded in containment
• Capacity-based niche clarity
• Ethical copywriting and landing page structure
• Launch sequences
• Introduction to Meta ads and local positioning
• Revenue modelling and retreat budgeting
This is not an add-on. It’s integrated with facilitation craft.
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If you complete the first module and attend the first supervision session and decide within 14 days that this is not the right formation for you, you may withdraw for a full refund.
This allows you to experience the tone and structure before committing fully.
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You have seven days to review the orientation, pre-reading and introductory content before the full modules unlock. If you decide during that week that it’s not aligned, you can withdraw for a full refund. Once the complete training opens on day eight, your place is confirmed.
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This program is a significant financial commitment.
Circlecraft is structured as a professional formation, which means the training, mentorship and practicum are delivered at a level that reflects the time, expertise and support involved. That does place it out of reach for some women who would genuinely benefit from the training.
For that reason, a small number of scholarships will be made available.
Applications for scholarships will open a couple of weeks before the program begins, once the enrolment window has settled. Places are limited, and the scholarships are intended for women who are unable to meet the full financial commitment but feel strongly called to this work.
To apply, you’ll need to complete a short application form outlining your circumstances and your intention for the training.
If this may apply to you, keep an eye on your emails in the lead-up to the program start date. When applications open, the link and details will be shared there.
This approach allows us to keep the training sustainable while still making space for women who would otherwise be unable to participate.