Responsible Facilitation for
Women’s Circles and Retreats
A six-month professional formation in supervision-based facilitation training and ethical business architecture.
If you’re already facilitating Women’s Circles or retreats, or know you are going to, Circlecraft trains you properly. Learn to design, hold and close spaces with structural clarity, defined authority and ethical limits.
Not through instinct. Through discipline.
Why Circlecraft?
Women’s Spaces are powerful. They can connect, deepen and transform. But without training in facilitation, they can exhaust facilitators and unsettle participants.
Most women are trained in content. Very few are trained in containment. Circlecraft exists to change that.
Over six months, you will be trained in facilitation as a discipline. Inside the formation, you will learn to:
Apply trauma-responsive and neurodiversity-affirming practice within a clear ethical framework
Understand scope, duty of care and referral before those limits are tested
Design, open and close Women’s Circles with structural clarity and defined authority
Work with herstory responsibly, without romanticising or appropriating
Build business architecture and ethical marketing grounded in real capacity
This is not inspiration packaged as training. You will be supervised as you practise. You will be trained to carry responsibility properly.
Because intention alone doesn’t protect people. Skill does.
Why a six-month Training in Circlecraft?
Open, Hold, and Close with Structural Clarity
Learn facilitation from beginning to end. Design containers that are clear about what they can hold, and close them cleanly.
Trauma-Responsive & Neuro-Affirming Practice
Work with activation, shutdown and difference without improvisation. Grounded frameworks replace guesswork.
Supervision & Practicum
You are supervised as you practise. Bring real scenarios. Receive structured feedback. Develop skill, not just theory.
Business Architecture & Ethical Marketing
Build circle series and retreats that reflect your real capacity. Price, position and share your work without exaggeration / distortion.
Professional Identity & Leadership Maturity
Understand authority, projection and boundaries in women’s spaces. Become steady in your role rather than reactive to the room.
This Program Is For Women Who...
꩜ Have been sitting in Women’s Circles and know they are ready to facilitate
꩜ Are already leading circles or retreats and want structure underneath their work
꩜ Care about responsibility, not just atmosphere
꩜ Want supervision and honest feedback, not just a certificate
꩜ Value trauma-responsive and neurodiversity-affirming practice as foundational, not optional
꩜ Are willing to examine their authority, boundaries and impact
꩜ Are committed to decolonising their practice and working without romanticising harm
꩜ Want their facilitation to be sustainable, not exhausting
This is not a tick-the-box certification.
It is 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, this can look like:
✨ Spaces that feel powerful in the moment but unsettled afterwards
✨ Emotional disclosures opened without clear containment or follow-up
✨ Facilitators over-functioning, collapsing or absorbing what was never theirs to hold
✨ Blurred boundaries between peer, guide and authority
✨ Leadership treated as instinct rather than discipline
✨ Under-charging, over-promising and quiet burnout
You may have felt this yourself. Leaving a space unsure why something felt off. Or finishing a gathering that “went well” while your body carried the cost.
Most of this is not a care problem. It’s a training problem.
What You Will Receive
Circlecraft is a six-month professional formation in facilitation craft, supervision and ethical business architecture. You will receive:
• Practical Facilitation Training : Container design, boundaries, group dynamics and clean closure
• Trauma-Responsive & Neurodiversity-Affirming Frameworks : Applied models for working with activation, shutdown and mixed-needs spaces.
• Supervised Practicum : Design and deliver your own structured offering with direct feedback.
• Fortnightly Live Supervision & Training : Twelve live sessions across six months for real-time case work and refinement.
• Business Architecture & Ethical Marketing : Offer design, pricing, positioning and communication grounded in real capacity.
• Operational Infrastructure : Participant agreements, intake systems and referral mapping templates.
• Certification Pathway : Awarded upon demonstrated competency and maintained through ongoing standards.
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
How the Circlecraft Formation Works
What we’ll do together...
Circlecraft runs over six months in a live, supervision-based cohort. The structure is layered. You do not move through content and then practise later. You practise as you learn.
Facilitation Craft
You develop practical skill in container design, authority, group dynamics and clean closure. Applied exercises and decision frameworks anchor the learning.
Financial Sustainability
Revenue modelling, retreat budgeting and payment plan structures grounded in containment.
Boundaries, Safety & Altered States
You learn to recognise activation, shutdown and altered states, and respond within ethical scope.
Operational Infrastructure
Intake processes, participant agreements, risk mapping and documentation templates.
Standards & Code of Conduct
Professional ethics, documentation, referral pathways and real-world challenge scenarios.
Business Architecture
Design circle series and retreat models, clarify capacity, build pricing structures and map sustainable pacing.
Ethical Marketing
Landing page structure, messaging without over-promising, launch sequencing and visibility systems.
Supervised Practicum
You design and run a structured offering during the program, submit case reflections and receive direct feedback.
Certification & Ongoing Supervision
Certification is awarded upon demonstrated competency and maintained through ongoing standards.
The Value of What You Receive
When you step into Circlecraft, you’re entering a professional formation in facilitation. This is not a short course. It’s six months of structured training, supervised practice and business architecture designed to prepare you for real responsibility. Here’s what’s included:
Six Months of Structured Formation - valued at $2,800
Fortnightly Live Teaching and Supervision - valued at $1,440
Certification and Ethical Code of Conduct - valued at $350
Herstory and Decolonising Literacy - valued at $430
Business Architecture and Ethical Marketing - valued at $2,600
Ongoing Supervision Pathway - Priceless
Bonuses
✨ Sacred Money: Healing Money Trauma in Women’s Work - valued at $480
✨ Ethical Marketing Framework for Women’s Work - valued at $650
✨ Circlecraft Template Library - valued at $520
Total Value: over $9,570
Course Price : $4,500
or 12 × $400 fortnightly payment plan
This is not a certificate for display. It’s 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 TRAINING GUARANTEE
Robust training should feel safe, never pressured.
Circlecraft includes a 14-day grace period. Step inside, access the first teachings and experience the structure of the formation.
If within the first fortnight you realise this is not the right step for you at this time, simply let me know and your investment will be returned in full.
No justification required. No negotiation. No discomfort.
You will know quickly whether this level of formation matches your readiness.
If it does, we commit to the full six-month process together, with the option to continue in supervision beyond that.
Say Goodbye To...
❌ Circles that rely on instinct rather than structure.
❌ Blurred boundaries, over-responsibility and quiet burnout.
❌ Good intentions without scope, referral clarity or containment.
❌ Being destabilised when activation, projection or altered states arise.
❌ Treating facilitation like a calling without treating it like 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.
✅ Facilitating groups with nervous system literacy and collective awareness.
✅ Being supervised as you practise, not left alone to “figure it out.”
✅ Building a sustainable, professionally structured body of work that reflects your real capacity.
Why Now?
Circlecraft opens at set times because this is not a self-paced program. It’s a live formation with supervised practice, and numbers are intentionally limited to preserve depth of feedback and professional oversight. Places are capped to ensure:
Supervision 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 will either still be facilitating based on instinct and experience alone or you’ll be operating within a clear structure, recognised standard and supervised practice model.
Circlecraft is not something you “try.” It’s something you step into deliberately.
If you’re ready for formation, this intake is the moment.
Meet Your Guide
I’m hollie wildëthorn, psychotherapist, circle holder, ritualist and rhythm weaver.
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 containment, scope or ethical clarity.
Over the years, women have reached out to me after leaving other people’s circles unsettled. In the therapy room, I’ve worked with the aftermath of blurred boundaries, mishandled altered states and facilitators operating without structural training. Most were well intentioned. Few were properly formed.
Circlecraft was created in response to that gap.
Not to make facilitation more mystical. Certainly not to make it more branded. But to treat it as a discipline.
This formation weaves clinical literacy, group process, supervision and lived experience into a professional pathway for those who feel called to lead and are willing to carry that responsibility well.
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 × $700 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.