Free Masterclass
Responsible Facilitation for Women’s Circles, Gatherings, Retreats and Teaching Spaces
The discipline most women were never taught.
For women who are already running circles - or feel ready to begin - and want to do this work responsibly.
A structured look at what it actually takes to lead women’s spaces responsibly, and build them so they last. Learn the core foundations of ethical, steady and sustainable facilitation.
What This Training Is About
If you are holding Women’s Circles, retreats or relational teaching spaces…
Or standing at the threshold, knowing this work is asking something of you…
This training introduces the discipline most modality trainings leave out:
how to hold your role clearly
how to recognise the limits of your space
how to design beginnings and endings properly
and how to build this work into something that doesn’t quietly exhaust you
Because sustainability is part of responsibility. When facilitation is unclear, business becomes confusing. And when business is unstable, facilitators overextend.
You’ll Explore Three Core Domains of Facilitation
Understand how authority is conferred in women’s spaces, whether you name it or not. Recognise what changes when it’s not one person, but a group.
Role, Authority and Group Dynamics
Clarify your role in the room so you’re not over-functioning or disappearing.
Understand where responsibility begins and where it must be handed on. Learn how to open and close a space so women leave clear, not cracked open.
Scope, Safety and Closure
Know the limits of your container before those limits are tested.
Understand how knowing what you can responsibly hold simplifies pricing and positioning. Begin to build this work so it sustains you, not just the women you gather.
Capacity and Sustainability
See how unclear scope creates exhaustion, over-giving and under-earning.
What you’ll walk away with
You’ll leave with:
a grounded understanding of what responsibility actually means in women’s spaces
clarity about what you can hold, and what you can’t
language for the patterns that create exhaustion and quiet harm
a steadier internal position in the room
insight into whether this work needs further formation
clarity that simplifies both your facilitation and your business decisions
a clearer understanding of how facilitation structure stabilises your income and capacity
For the Woman Who...
Feels drawn to hold Women’s Circles, retreats or teaching spaces, but may not be ready to begin
or, Has already begun facilitating and senses something deeper is required
Cares about doing no harm, including harm she never intended
Feels the weight of responsibility, even when everything looks fine on the surface
Is tired of guessing and hoping instinct will be enough
Wants her work to be steady, ethical and sustainable
Knows this is not casual work, and does not want to treat it as such
If you recognise yourself here, this conversation is for you.
Monday 13th April
7pm (AEST Sydney timezone)
Live on Zoom
Replay available for 14 days only
Meet Your Guide
I’m hollie wildëthorn, psychotherapist, educator and founder of the institute for self crafting.
For more than two decades i’ve worked in women’s circles, retreats, long-form group programs and clinical spaces. I’ve seen what happens when structure is present. And what happens when it isn’t.
My perceptions of this field have come as much from standing at the centre of the room, as from witnessing what unfolds afterwards. The debriefs. The exhaustion facilitators cannot name. The women who leave spaces unsettled and unsure why.
Again and again, the issue has not been lack of care. It has been lack of training in facilitation itself.
Circlecraft emerged from that recognition. I teach it because I have watched the cost of its absence.
This work brings together depth psychology, trauma-responsive practice, supervision culture and lived experience in women’s gathering spaces. It treats facilitation as a discipline that can be learned, practised and refined over time.