EMPOWER: Facilitation Training

4th March - 25th Nov 2025 DARTMOOR, UK & ONLINE

Create Life-Changing Workshops and Become a Transformational Group-Work Facilitator with the EMPOWER Facilitation Training.

This isn't your average training; This is a profound journey of personal and professional transformation that will equip you with the skills, wisdom and experience to hold powerful workshops that change people’s lives.

I didn't really believe it when we were told how much we would be stretched, and this turned out to be a genuinely life-altering experience both personally and professionally.

- Roxy M
Graduate

  • 3 Residential Weekends

  • 9 Months of Live Zoom Sessions

  • 120 Hours of Tuition

  • Recorded Content and Training Manual

Joining this training you will

LEAD WORKSHOPS & CEREMONIES
Master the art of designing workshops, ceremonies, and retreats that create lasting impact for participants

DEEPEN YOUR CAPACITY TO HOLD SPACE
Engage in rigorous self-development, honing the personal qualities essential for guiding others through significant change

GAIN CONFIDENCE THROUGH EXPERIENCE
Put lessons into practice from day 1 and take the reins in the the third weekend, which will be designed and led fully by you.

HONE YOUR OFFERING AND BUILD YOUR BUSINESS
Develop your offering through a practice group and discover how to communicate effectively with your audience

RECEIVE ONGOING SUPPORT AND ACCOUNTABILITY
Join a network of skilled facilitators, building connections that extend beyond the program's duration

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A Little About Me

Hi, I’m Gaia, creator of EMPOWER. I began my facilitation journey in 2016, hosting a modest women’s circle in Hackney and working part-time in a bar. I now facilitate numerous retreats a year, collaborate with the top wellness brands and festivals in the country, and have co-founded True Nature, a platform dedicated to supporting femme facilitators to thrive.

There are few things I love more than supporting women to step into their power and go after their dreams. With EMPOWER now in its 5th year, I am excited to welcome you to the most comprehensive and refined training experience yet that takes you all the way from your first steps in holding group work, all the way through to finding your niche and building a business.

Transform Fear Into Power

Time and again, I've witnessed brilliant, talented women yearning to share their gifts with the world, only to be held back by crippling self-doubt and imposter syndrome. If this resonates with you, you're in exactly the right place.

I've designed this journey to help you transform these challenges into the very source of your power by centering hands-on experience and resilience tools to work with your fear.

If you've been holding back, waiting to feel "ready enough," this is your invitation to step forward. Join us in this transformative journey and unlock the confident facilitator within you.

Who is This For?

This training attracts a diverse range of participants:

  • Existing group facilitators

    Yoga teachers, sound healers, or any kind of group work teacher seeking to expand their facilitation skills to hold deep containers

  • One-on-one practitioners

    Therapists, coaches or bodyworkers looking to expand into group settings

  • Professionals from traditional care sectors

    NHS workers, teachers or social workers aiming to integrate transformative practices into mainstream environments

This training welcomes women and femme-flavored folk from all walks of life, including those who identify as non-binary womb folk, trans women, and cis women. If you're unsure if this is for you, or if you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to reach out.

EMPOWER Training At a Glance

Level 1

Face Your Fears

4th Mar - Opening Circle (Online)

Weekly group or pod calls - Tuesday Evenings 7 - 9pm

25 - 28 Apr - Residential Weekend (Dartmoor UK)

Level 2

Discover Your Gifts

Weekly group or pod calls - Tuesday evenings 7 - 9pm

6 - 9 Jun - Residential Weekend (Dartmoor UK)

Level 3

Collaboration & Retreat Design

Weekly group or pod calls - Tuesday evenings 7 - 9pm

25 - 28 Jul - Residential Weekend (Dartmoor UK)

Break for August

Level 4

Practice Group & Business Bootcamp

Sep - Nov - bi-weekly group or pod calls - Tuesday evenings

25th Nov - Closing Circle (Online)

Level 1 - March - April

Face Your Fears

Through practice comes experience, through experience comes confidence

What sets this training apart is that we throw you in the deep end from the beginning. Practising exercises and techniques on your peers, we encourage you to lean into the fear, learn how to be with it, and experience the exhilaration that comes from taking those first steps.

What’s Covered:

  • How to feel compassion towards all emotional states and guide others through their own inner worlds

  • How to build trust and radical authenticity through group and partner enquiry exercises

  • How to use embodiment exercises to change the emotional or energetic state of a group

  • How to structure a transformational process using nature and symbolism

This training allowed me to bridge the gap between 'I would really like to facilitate workshops one day' to 'I can actually do it and I have actually done it.'

- Lelia

Level 2 - May - June

Discover Your Gifts

Our deepest wounds become our greatest gifts

In level 2 we dig deeper into the nature of our wounds, understanding how they can be the doorway to our own healing, which in turn becomes the path we can guide others along.

Level 2 focuses on trauma-informed spaces for emotional release, and rites of passage.

What’s Covered:

  • How to use visualisation to guide a group to deep insight or breakthrough

  • How to create trauma-informed spaces and how to respond in the moment to a trauma response

  • How to create the right conditions for emotional release and deep healing

  • How to guide someone through a rite of passage

“ A life-changing course that pushes you to meet yourself and opens doors to what you can offer to the world”

- Alice Mayor

Level 3 - June - July

Collaboration and Retreat Design

If you want to go far, go together

Level 3 is when we hand over the reins. Working with a partner, you’ll collaborate to deliver a workshop for our final residential weekend. We’ll focus on the design process, weaving your talents together, and how to allow your intuition to guide you in the moment.

What’s Covered:

  • How to create a workshop that is captivating, unique and authentic to your passions

  • How to navigate the complexities of working with another facilitator

  • How to structure a full weekend retreat, including scheduling, budgeting, and logistics

  • How to let go of the plan and follow your intuition


”It will ask of you commitment, courage and surrender as you transform into a future facilitator “

- EMEL GUNAY
Graduate

Level 4 - Sep - Nov

Practice Group and Business Bootcamp

In Level 4, you will continue to develop your skill and discover your niche with a practice group of people within your friendship circles. We will focus on how to create compelling event descriptions and build your online presence, including social media and marketing.

What’s Covered:

  • How to identify and communicate with your audience

  • How to build up a series of offerings over time that form a solid business model (a.k.a. the funnel)

  • How to engage with social media in a way that feels fun and authentic

  • How to set goals and create accountability going forward

“I feel like I am finally becoming the woman I had ignored and silenced for years and years.”

- MAR ESTARELLAS
Graduate and True Nature Facilitator

What People are Saying

  • My confidence in myself and my value has soared.

    This was so much more than learning a set of skills to be able to facilitate, it was a life changing process, a metamorphosis. Through exploring and experiencing authentic connection, ritual, meditation and embodiment practices, I was able to peel back layers and layers of stories I had been telling myself for years, which meant I didn’t feel enough to be part of this work.

    Gaia’s leadership was wise, skilful and loving, and allowed us this space to be creative, make mistakes and be fallible knowing there was always a soft landing.

    Jenny Kirby

  • The best decision I made over the past 3 years

    This training is what I’ve been looking for 3 years now.

    The perfect set up for people wanting to create their own practices. The container that is provided is fantastic to learn, grow and let go of our internal saboter.

    Don’t expect to only learn how to become a facilitator, because you will leave this training changed. Highly recommended if you re looking for a change. Thanks again to Gaia and the rest of the team

  • Empower has had a profound impact on all aspects of my life

    Gaia and the team have expertly put together a programme that allows us to lean into our deepest truths and pain in a beautifully safe and fun space.

    The mix of practices, encouragement and feedback has really helped me to think and focus on my offering. If everyone did this the world would be a truly magical place!

    Thank you I know I will continue to grow and integrate this forever

    Rachel

  • I definitely feel much more confident when facilitating than before the course.

    The program is wonderfully supportive and equips you with practical exercises and techniques for offering.

    I particularly valued the connections I made with other women, the strong sense of community within the group, and the way Gaia invites and makes space to welcome all emotions and feelings is very heart warming.

    Kate-Lisa

  • I have learnt o trust the power of my intuition.

    Gaia has created an incredible training programme and its quite clear to see the gifts she can offer. She was extremely in tune with the group as a whole throughout the training.

    Isabel

  • The support and guidance and practice has been life changing.

    Over the years, I have done so many workshops, certification courses, trainings, etc. and yet, still found myself stuck in the loop of imposter syndrome, constantly seeking the next best training to give me that boost of confidence before launching myself…but really I was just over qualifying myself over and over, and making excuses to stay small out of fear.

    I’ve gained more confidence, experience, and wisdom from this training than my 3 year MA.

    Caitlyn

  • I can actually do it and I have actually done it.

    There is a lot of fun and pleasure involved in living together in nature, sharing breakfasts, meeting in a beautiful space every day, and soaking in a hottub with naked women in a cold air under the stars. The retreats and the rest of life worked synchronistically in working on certain themes, leading me to greater wholeness and healing. Lots of repair happens in those moments of being triggered and able to access the resources you need, breaking through dissociation and old stories to what actually is.

    Leila

  • Before doing the training I thought I had to know and be everything

    Through Gaia's modelling of the teachings and the four pillars, I now understand that it's authenticity, the courage to feel a wide range of emotions, and some simple but potent tools to keep what arrises grounded, is what makes a bad ass, magnetic facilitator. And have fun! ;)

    Which is the biggest relief and greatest liberation because I now know that creating spaces to celebrate and honour women means to be my most authentic and real self.

    Breeze

What You Receive

CONTACT TIME:

  • 3 x Residential training weekends in Dartmoor

  • 15 x 2.5 hour zoom calls led by Gaia - your lead facilitator

  • 13 x 1.5 hour zoom calls in pods (groups of 4) led by your pod leader

  • 2 x one-to-one coaching sessions with Gaia

  • On-site photoshoot for headshots

  • Testimonials from other participants

  • Access to private Whatsapp group to share with the group and ask questions

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RESOURCES:

Lifetime access to the training portal which includes:

  • The EMPOWER Training Manual (you will get a physical & pdf copy)

  • Pre-recorded videos

  • Recordings of live group calls

  • Weekly homework activities and rituals

  • Guided meditations and visualisations

  • Reading list of essential books to develop your practice

POST TRAINING SUPPORT AND OPPORTUNITIES:

  • Monthly Alumni Mentoring: Join group calls to deepen your practice and connect with fellow graduates

  • One-on-One Guidance: Receive ongoing coaching support from Gaia

  • Showcase Your Work: Present your offerings on True Nature, our women-focused online events platform

  • Community Leadership: Help shape our membership platform as a community builder

  • Practical Experience: Gain valuable space-holding skills by volunteering at True Nature weekend retreats

  • Leadership Development: Potential to become a Pod leader for future training programs

Investment

Please note that the retreat cost is on top of the course fee.

Course Fee

£2460
Early Bird
(til 1st Jan - only 4 available)

£2970
Standard course fee

£1540
Scholarship


There are 2 scholarship places offered, and payment plans available.

Find details below. 

Retreat Costs

Covers your room, food and use of facilities (hot tub & sauna) for all three weekends (Friday to Monday)

£2160

OWN ROOM

(Only 2 available)
£720 per retreat

£1560

TWIN ROOM

(Sharing with 1 other)
£520 per retreat

£1350

DORM ROOM​

(Sharing with 3 others)
£450 per retreat

*We have a limited number of reduced bursary places for Black or Women of Colour, LGBTQ+, and folks with disabilities from marginalised communities or challenging socio-economic backgrounds. 

We are in a process of learning and unlearning how to make our space equitable, diverse and inclusive of the multitudes of experiences of women, trans women, femme and non-binary folk. Creating scholarship and bursary places for those who might struggle to access or participate in events like this is part of our approach. For further information please read our inclusion statement.

Please fill out this form to apply for a scholarship place. If you have any questions or concerns please email gaia@truenature.org.uk

Payment Plans

3 month, 6 month or 12 monthly payment plans are available upon request. This can be discussed during your application interview if you are accepted onto the programme.

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Venue

Brimpts Farm lies literally at the heart of Dartmoor.
 
It is surrounded by both farmland and wilderness, with moss covered forest and river spots right on the doorstep, hot tubs and sauna and a large hall space for us to work in.

This is where all of our retreats are held and the land knows us well. It feels like the perfect spot to share the practices that have developed over several years of working here and holding sacred space.

Brimpts Farm
Dartmeet
Dartmoor
Devon PL20 6SG

Ticket Policy

  • The cost of your accommodation is non-refundable. This is to cover our overheads, if you choose to cancel, which is set at a fixed price whether or not you attend.

  • We do not offer the 10% membership discount on this programme. This is because our overheads are so high, and a 10% discount on an event with a high ticket value has a huge affect on our overall budget. 

  • We cannot offer any refunds if you decide not to attend within 20 days of the start date. With such short notice we are usually unable to fill your spot.

  • Please be sure that you are able to attend the whole training before booking. We request that participants join with the intention of staying until the end of each weekend unless this has been discussed and arranged with us before booking your ticket and prior to the start of the training

Meet the Team

  • Gaia Harvey Jackson

    LEAD FACILITATOR

    Gaia is a workshop facilitator and artist creating spaces for deep transformation and specialising in women's empowerment. She runs the courses, retreats and training programmes for women.

    Gaia is passionate about the revival of ritual and works with communities to co-create ceremonies around the world, helping people to mark significant moments, move through challenges, and celebrate life. Her work combines elements of theatre games, voice work, meditation, dance and ritual, creating safe and playful environments where people can authentically connect and release.

  • Faye Gould

    LOGISTICS

    Faye is a creative writer, group facilitator and mother of three.

    Years of leading charity work, religious community gatherings and corporate events lead to her dramatically burning out and struggling with her mental and physical health. Through unleashing her inner ‘wild woman’ and finding a new way of being in the world that isn’t performance driven, she has found a new radiant way of living that is aligned with her body, soul and spirit. One of her greatest joys is to create safe gatherings of women who support each other to access their inner truth and deepest power.

  • Maya Bahoshy

    WELFARE

    Maya is a youth development and education professional with a focus on social innovation, experiential learning and leadership development; proven ability to design, manage and deliver complex projects; passionate about updating education to ensure the younger generation develop the skills and experience to design the future they need.

    Experienced in the design and delivery of leadership and innovation focused trainings, working towards developing social leaders. Trainings have included user centred design thinking, innovation, leadership, public speaking, confidence, identity and diversity.

Curious to know more?

If you’re feeling the call, fill out our application form by following the link below, or book a free 20 minute discovery call with Gaia to find out if this is a good fit for you.