Facilitate the healing power of human connection

SeekHealing’s Listening Training II is a master course in authentic leadership and human connection. It’s a powerful 3-month training to prepare you for holding group spaces that support all people, especially those healing from trauma and addiction. LTII teaches emergent community leaders how to show up in the world with dignity, humility, authenticity, and integrity, and to facilitate shared experiences of human connection

Our next training is Fall 2022.

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Listening Training II Details

Listening Training II is led by SeekHealing co-founder Jennifer Nicolaisen and veteran Authentic Relating facilitation trainer Jason Digges. LTII is conducted entirely online and guides participants through an intensive and deeply immersive program. This course combines teachings, mentorship, self-study, group explorations, and accountability structures that together create an emergent leadership pathway that produces profound transformation.

Upon completing all assignments and graduating from the program, you will receive an LTII Graduation Certificate that demonstrates your having met the graduating standards of the program and qualifies you for SeekHealing’s 100-hour Social Health Professional Certification.

The classes will meet weekly on Tuesdays from 6pm-8pm ET. The cost of the program is $1,200 paid in full or five payments of $250 ($1,250 total).

3-Month Social Health Leadership Training

A Powerful and Unique Developmental Adventure

Receive Comprehensive Support in Integrating Social Health Skills into your life and work

Join a Focused and Committed Practice Group Exploring the Depths of Self-Leadership and Interconnection

Experience Greater Confidence and Ease in Guiding Groups

Sink into a Community and Container designed to Support you to bring your Highest Potential into the World

Certify as a Social Health Professional, and qualify as a Seeker Practicing Facilitation within a SeekHealing community (optional)

Gain the foundational skills to start your own place-based chapter of SeekHealing (optional)

What does it involve?

12 weeks with a two-hour class via Zoom each week

These classes focus on developing your leadership capacities as well as exploring the fundamental principles behind the SeekHealing model. You'll also practice facilitation in real time, and open doors to transformational connection with others.

A one-of-a-kind social health curriculum

As a leader and innovator in the field of Social Health, SeekHealing’s Listening Training II is the first of its kind. Through meticulous and thorough information sharing and experiential learning, Listening Training II will thoroughly prepare you to create healing spaces of authentic human connection.

Earn your 100 hour Certification as a Social Health Professional

LTII is highly practical and experiential. During and after the initial three months of classes, you’ll have the opportunity to facilitate in a variety of settings and get feedback from experienced facilitators in the community. Completion of the course will assure that you become confident and prepared to begin your facilitation practice.

What sets SeekHealing apart?

SeekHealing offers a unique and revolutionary model of co-participatory Social Health as a means of achieving personal and collective healing from trauma, addiction, and other mental/emotional wellness challenges.

We focus on fostering the felt sense of acceptance and belonging that allows attachment and identity traumas to transform with long-lasting and beneficial results. Because relationships are so important to all aspects of health–mental, emotional, and even physical–we promote social wellness as a key strategy for an overall healthy life.

What will you personally gain?

Deepen authenticity, intimacy, and connection with yourself and others.

Create more connection in your everyday life.

Gain vision and appreciation for your natural gifts and competencies.

Get a wider and more integrated perspective of the human journey and how it is informed by lived experiences of connection.

Deepen your personal growth and transformation.

Strengthen your capacity for authentic leadership.

Upgrade the way you show up in your relationships.

Have more confidence initiating courageous conversations.

Be submerged in a practice and context that calls you to continually open your heart, confront your blind spots, and soften habits like criticism, judgment, and projection.

Own your unique wisdom, style, and voice in group or individual work.

What professional skills will you learn?

Learn to hold a healing space, one to one and in groups

Facilitate Authentic Relating Games, Listening Exercises, and SeekHealing Connection Practice Meetings

Introduce and speak about relational practice for people who are new to modalities that focus on connection

Learn to lead gracefully and team up with other facilitators

Deepen your capacity to work with groups

Work with defensiveness and/or resistance that shows up when practicing facilitation

Skillfully track and speak the collective ‘group field’ as it evolves

Artfully manage projections and judgments while maintaining compassion

Learn to weave connection and deep listening practices into your other professional roles

Learn the art of enrollment, and how this is essential at every stage of working with people

Learn how to set the context for a meeting or interaction in a way that is relational, engaging, and moves forward the experience of all involved

What professional skills will you learn?

Learn to hold a healing space, one to one and in groups

Facilitate Authentic Relating Games, Listening Exercises, and SeekHealing Connection Practice Meetings

Introduce and speak about relational practice for people who are new to modalities that focus on connection

Learn to lead gracefully and team up with other facilitators

Deepen your capacity to work with groups

Work with defensiveness and/or resistance that shows up when practicing facilitation

Skillfully track and speak the collective ‘group field’ as it evolves

Artfully manage projections and judgments while maintaining compassion

Learn to weave connection and deep listening practices into your other professional roles

Learn the art of enrollment, and how this is essential at every stage of working with people

Learn how to set the context for a meeting or interaction in a way that is relational, engaging, and moves forward the experience of all involved

Course leaders

Jennifer Nicolaisen

Jennifer Nicolaisen is the Executive Director and co-founder of SeekHealing, a non-profit organization pioneering Social Health as a means to address addiction and prevent deaths of despair. After a school friend barely survived a heroin overdose, Nicolaisen left her consulting job and co-founded SeekHealing alongside a neuroscientist and a technologist, launching the first pilot program in March of 2018.

SeekHealing now has thriving communities in Asheville, Waynesville, and online; and has impacted over 3,000 people – many of whom say that the program has saved their lives.

Jason Digges

Author of Conflict = Energy, The Transformative practice of Authentic Relating, Jason is a modern renaissance man. Equal parts artist, philosopher, teacher, and media producer, from 2003-2012 he worked for Integral Institute to create thousands of hours of educational media on the topics of transpersonal psychology, spirituality, productivity, and personal growth.

Obsessed with how humans can live and relate optimally, he’s facilitated groups and taught authentic relating and circling since 2012. Since 2017, Jason has led courses in 20 cities around the world.

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Join us for this powerful 3-month training to prepare you for holding group spaces that support all people, especially those healing from trauma and addiction.
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Already completed training with another organization?

Have you already completed comparable facilitation training with another organization?

You may qualify for SeekHealing's Crossover Training. This training includes 8 hours of videos with study guides, and four weeks of online classes.

Our next training is Fall 2022.

Facilitate the healing power of human connection

Listening Training II Details

3-Month Social Health Leadership Training

What does it involve?

12 weeks with a two-hour class via Zoom each week

A one-of-a-kind social health curriculum

Earn your 100 hour Certification as a Social Health Professional

What sets SeekHealing apart?

What will you personally gain?

What professional skills will you learn?

Learn to hold a healing space, one to one and in groups

Facilitate Authentic Relating Games, Listening Exercises, and SeekHealing Connection Practice Meetings

Introduce and speak about relational practice for people who are new to modalities that focus on connection

Learn to lead gracefully and team up with other facilitators

Deepen your capacity to work with groups

Work with defensiveness and/or resistance that shows up when practicing facilitation

Skillfully track and speak the collective ‘group field’ as it evolves

Artfully manage projections and judgments while maintaining compassion

Learn to weave connection and deep listening practices into your other professional roles

Learn the art of enrollment, and how this is essential at every stage of working with people

Learn how to set the context for a meeting or interaction in a way that is relational, engaging, and moves forward the experience of all involved

What professional skills will you learn?

Course leaders

Jennifer Nicolaisen

Jason Digges

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