Emergent Facilitation — Pacific Integral

EMERGENT FACILITATION

FACILITATING FROM AWAKENED WHOLENESS

Note: this year’s program is full. Please let us know of your interest in future Emergent Facilitation cohorts.

Introduction

We are here to love each other, to recognize the sacred world that is already present, and to support our collective unfolding into deeper and deeper realization of who and what we really are. Ultimately we are here to open to the light that wants to move through us and embody us, to see ourselves as the very enlightened intention that is always unfolding through us, and to recognize paradoxically that what we seek is not separate from us here and now. Our being is boundless, sensitive, and caring. Being asked to be in the role of facilitator is to touch this potential, to come into relationship with, and serve as transcendent compassion.

Emergent Facilitation supports you to embody the capacities to Facilitate from Awakened Wholeness, an approach at the heart of Generating Transformative Change. We will join together in a small, intimate cohort as a community of practice, to learn, practice, and develop these capacities to serve in the deepest way we can.

Intentions

Learn to access, stabilize and work with and from the Metaware field, the essential ground of transformative change and discerning wisdom.
Learn practical and applicable tools for design and facilitation of transformative experiences.
Feel comfortable, powerful, and confident in the role of facilitator, paradoxically including parts that don't feel confident, such that you can realize their gifts of humility, courage, vulnerability.
Become skilled and agile at dealing with challenging or unexpected events, conflict, and intensity.
Be able to work with multiple perspectives and difference
Deepen your understanding of the developmental process and of the practice of transformative change as a facilitator, leader and coach
Develop our unique voices and styles as a facilitators and clarify your path of practice and expression
Cultivate ourselves as a learning community and space of real relationship
Engage in a committed practice to live as an expression of love, grounded in the knowledge that nothing needs to change

Who is this for?

Facilitating from Awakened Wholeness is open to graduates of GTC and select others who have the development, commitment, and desire to deepen their capacity to take on the role of facilitator for others’ development. Through the application process we will collaboratively determine if the program is a fit for you.

Ideal candidates:

Are actively engaging with your own inner work, have stability in Metaware perspectives, and mature emotional and inter-personal capacities.
Have a passion to serve the benefit of others and the world.
Have experience facilitating others and groups, and a desire and opportunity to expand this practice.
Are ready, willing, and able to engage in a transformative learning process with open-mindedness, vulnerability and trust.

Process

Personal Development Journey. Learning will include both distinctions and practices for facilitation, as well as practices to cultivate the qualities, development and integration of the whole self as a practitioner. The nature of this process is a lot about being, the ‘interior state of the intervenor’ (Scharmer) and not standing outside the developmental process, but co-engaging in it with our participants.

Practice. Each session will put you in the practice field, facilitating, teaching, supporting others and witnessing and learning from others’ practice. You will receive feedback from faculty and peers live and between the sessions.

Community. We will cultivate ourselves as a community of practice, seeding an intimate, mutually vulnerable container for our learning and long-term support.

Structure

Program elements

Two in-person retreats. These retreats are organized as a community style gathering. We will share living and cooking together, to create community and keep costs low.
Community Gathering. Attending and facilitating at the annual GTC Community Gathering.
Online half-day Learning sessions, approximately two times/month. Learning and practice designed to both support inner development, facilitation capacity and community. Introduction of a practice to prepare for the following session
Course site and Online community.
Live practice. Each session will include an opportunity to practice facilitation. Prepared and emergent facilitation sessions.
Practicum project. Individually sourced, designed and facilitated event.
Personal development plan created with feedback from faculty and peers.
Peer support.

Part 1 - Foundations

We introduce foundational distinctions and practices, initiate our practice community, and practice facilitating with each other. Initial in-person retreat and regular half-day online learning retreats.

Community Gathering

We join at the annual Community Gathering, which will also be a practice field for EF participants. Each participant will design and hold (or co-hold) a session at the grad reunion. The cohort will meet regularly during the reunion for support and reflection.

Part 2 - Advanced Topics & Practicum

After the Community Gathering, learning sessions continue with more advanced topics. Facilitation sessions focus on emergent spaces, rather than pre-designed practices, to cultivate deeper presence and self-trust. This session culminates with a self-organized and created facilitation project, ideally with faculty or peers attending for support and feedback, and a final in-person retreat.

Schedule

May 8 - Dec 15, 2025

Facilitating from Awakened Wholeness

Facilitating from Awakened Wholeness describes a methodology, capacities, and practices for taking the role of facilitator from a Metaware ground. This is a process to cultivate human flourishing that is grounded in awakened, evolutionary, ethical and humane principles. The approach is grounded in a view of the human condition and our unfolding that is complex, holistic and embodied. It is based in our experience of the deeper, spiritual dimensions of life. It includes a capacity for complexity and emergence, healing and shadow integration, self-cultivation, embodiment, and enjoyment. It integrates individual and collective development, and includes engaging with intimacy, relational depth, and collective evolution and flourishing, along with individual embodiment, alignment, creative expression and leadership. These dimensions reflect an intention towards an integral wholeness, a rich view of what it means to be and become as humans.

In this practice, the qualities of the Metaware territory (awareness itself) are always present, in and through everything. We practice developing the capacities and skills for how to do that and to notice when we are and aren’t in touch with the deeper ground of being. We also orient from a non-dual awareness and perspective, manifesting difference and unity, reverence for the sacred in the very challenges we encounter, and the unfolding emergence with the already-present realization.

Facilitating from awakened wholeness can be a practice in itself to support human unfolding and flourishing but also can be the context for other kinds of learning. To engage in learning of any kind from this view is to understand that the learning is occurring in the context of human being and becoming. Taking any aspect of facilitating from awakened wholeness into a learning context deepens its effectiveness and impact. This orientation arises out of an intention to support the healing, awakening, and flourishing of human beings and all life. Each moment is an opportunity for that, whether or not that intention is explicit in the learning process.

Methodology

Facilitating from awakened wholeness involves continuous attention to concrete, subtle and causal dimensions of the process. Another way to say this is attention to outcomes, movement, and spirit; or life, love and light. At the most concrete level, we are focusing on the physical space and conditions and the present moment state of ourselves, the group, and individuals. Subtly we are focused on the process we are engaging with participants, the sense of moving towards, and the dimensions of emotion and meaning. At a causal level, we are focusing on a more subtle view or space we are cultivating and the way the works transcends time and space in the dimension of being and prior fulfillment. Here we orient towards the field of possibility and fulfillment that is already present.

Transformative view. Orienting towards the ground view of the work. Seeing the field as the confluence of the participants themselves, learning intentions, and a non-local participatory web. Holding paradox and non-duality. Receptivity and humility. Letting the meaning, intention and view reveal itself through the process.

The Being of the Facilitator. Practice, development, and in-the-moment cultivations of the quality of being of the facilitator. Working with your own development, shadow, state, intentions, beliefs, etc. Transmitting presence. Implicitly enacting the teaching.

Cultivating Space. Holding space for the participants. Cultivating states of being in the field. Qualities of space holding. Welcoming and challenge. Respect and responsibility. Humor and seriousness. Cultivating Metaware states.

Relational Field. Orienting to the presence of relationship so that your facilitation can flow from it. Finding safety through confidence in the relational connection. Cultivating intimacy with and between participants.

Developmental Practice and Intervention. Theories and practices for supporting development in the broadest sense. Working with stages of development, healing, awareness and emptiness, self-coherence and alignment, embodiment, learning, transparency and self-acceptance.

Facilitating in the space of I and We. Working in the conjunction of I and We. The movement of the construction of the individual and collective sense. Co-emergence and co-evolution of I and We. Cultivating intimacy and trust. Supporting conflict, intensity and tension. Nervous system states. Diversity and coherence. Facilitating openness and depth in the field.

Transformative experience design. Design principles for transformative work. Experiential, transformative, and developmental outcomes. Using Theory U and Presencing as a model of and design principles for a transformative process. Role of unity and difference. Permission and challenge.

Enacting Facilitation. Working in Emergence while having an agenda. Non-facilitation. Discovering your unique voice, interests, presence. Dynamic range. Working on a facilitation team. Balancing transparency and role. Self-care and vulnerability.