Facilitate the healing power of human connection

SeekHealing’s Social Health Facilitation Training (SHFT) is a master class in authentic leadership and human connection. It’s a powerful 3-month course that prepares you to hold groups that support any stage of a healing journey, with special focus on trauma and addiction. SHFT teaches emergent community leaders how to show up in the world with dignity, humility, and integrity, and to facilitate healing experiences of connection.

Our next training begins April 2023. Registration opens Jan 2023.

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Social Health Facilitation Training - SHFT

SHFT is led by SeekHealing co-founder Jennifer Nicolaisen and other SeekHealing certified facilitators. Participants are guided through an intensive and deeply immersive program in weekly live online classes. SHFT combines 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 a Certificate of Graduation that demonstrates your having met the standards of the program and qualifies you for SeekHealing’s 100-hour Social Health Professional Certification.

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)

Details

The classes will meet weekly on Wednesdays from 6pm-8pm EST, starting April 12, 2023 and run for 12 weeks. The last class is June 21, 2023. Aside from live classes, you will also be expected to watch 1-2 hours of video content each week and meet with an assigned small practice group 3 times during the course.

Early Bird Pricing before March 1st:
$2,250 paid in full or 9 monthly payments of $250

Pricing After March 1st:

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The program fee is $2650
Need-based scholarships, early enrollment discounts, and payment plans are available.
Over 40% of past participants received some form of need-based scholarship. SeekHealing is committed to ensuring that financial standing is not a barrier for accepted applicants.

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 practice facilitation in real time, and open doors to transformational connection with others. Course content also includes weekly videos, and work with triads and dyads outside of class.

A one-of-a-kind social health curriculum

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

Earn your 100 hour Certification as a Social Health Professional (Optional)

SHFT 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.

Spring 2022 Social Health Facilitation Training
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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.

Ionsul Ferrin

Ionsul Ferrin is the Certification Coordinator at SeekHealing, and also helps to manage the facilitation community. It was her own journey of healing from depression, anxiety, and codependency that brought her first to facilitating Authentic Relating in 2017, and then to SeekHealing in 2019.

She is a single mom to two kids and strives to uphold the values of non-hierarchy and dynamic power-sharing in parenting, facilitation, community organizing, and coaching.
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Register for Seekhealing's Social Health Facilitation Training

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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If you have questions about the training, a free 30 minute consultation is available after you fill out our brief application.

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Facilitate the healing power of human connection

Social Health Facilitation Training - SHFT

3-Month Social Health Leadership Training