Ayataway Circle Facilitator Program

Become an Ayataway Circle Facilitator.
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Bring Indigenous Wisdom Tools for Connecting, Healing, and Creating Collective Belonging and Harmony Ways to your community, relations, and organization.

Personal • Relational • Organizational • Systemic

Build, Deepen, and Expand your skills as an Ayataway Circle Facilitator

In these strange times, Circles can be transformative sanctuaries for our lives and communities.
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In our Ayataway Circle Facilitator Training, you'll learn an Indigenous cultural ecosystem that enables relationships to operate without violence, and create healing, transformation, and collective collaboration and growth.

Build your capacity to host Circles as safe incubators of witnessing, truth, diversity, creation, and wholeness in belonging.
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Transforming from the colonial culture of violence and power, we all need to heal… so that we can bring our full hearts and selves to the world.

Let’s bring Ayataway Circles everywhere!
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Learn and practice:
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The original Non-violent Communication, Coaching, and Circle Process: all come from Indigenous culture.
Healing embodied trauma - gentle cultural somatics in safe, accessible activities.
Create belonging, compassion, healing, truth, and welcoming the diversity and creativity of our full Gift Identities.
Simple rituals of All My Relations that support physiology and mindset.                
Your Self as a trusted Facilitator of grounded, transformative, engaging, holistic, joyful process and spaces.

Practical and Uplifting
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Personal and Systemic
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Liberating and Accountable

Healing and Building

Actual and Creative

Individual with Collective

Highest Selves in daily life



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Effective Everywhere:

- Community Patterns &
Family Relationships

- Workplace Teams and Collaboration Networks

- Project and Case Management, Team Conflict Resolution

- Creativity, Spirit, Loss, and Celebration

Respect, Responsibility, and Reciprocity

Original Indigenous Principles Transform Human Relationships:

Whole Selves in Collective: embody your whole self, witness full others.

Witnessing as the Healing, Affirming, Respecting Relationship

Activate unique Gifts as Purpose and Role in Lifepath and Collective

All My Relations belonging: intention and wisdom in ritual and responsibility.

Winter, Spring, and Fall Sessions

Hybrid In Person and Online Learning

For Indigenous and Indigenous-facing:
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- changemakers,
- front line workers,
- counsellors,
- teachers,
- healers,
- managers,
- leaders.

Three, 10-week phases for certification.
These Circles get me through the week. Ifeel safe here, like nowhere else. I can put down my trauma, my pain, and belifted up to be my whole self again, so that I can be there for my community.Keep doing what you're doing.

Helena,
‍Health Director, Jimenez Pueblo, New Mexico. Alumni.

I could apply these tools immediately, easily, in any situation. They immediately, not only grounded and deepened my relationship with my Indigenous clients... they created healing, directly and simply.

Lance,
‍The Health Initiative for LGBTQ2S+ Men, Alumni.

Every workshop combines traditional teachings, hands-on practice, reflection tools for integration, and collective wisdom in Circle.

Opening Prayer & Song: led by Elders and Knowledge Keepers.     
Welcoming Circle: Lifting Up Gifts, this and every day.      
Ayataway Teachings to transform identity and relations.     
Hands-on Practice: Immediately integrate teachings by practicing them in group.   
Reflection Circle: Collective witnessing, healing, affirmation, discovery, creativity, and wholeness.  
Closing Prayer: Weaving Closure & Sending all In a Good Way.

Each Circle combines traditional teachings, hands-on practice, reflection tools, and collective witnessing.

• Opening Prayer & Song
• Welcoming Circle
• Knowledge Keeper Teachings

• Hands-on Practice
• Reflection Circle
• Closing Prayer

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