Facilitator Certification Program

Your clients lack motivation and follow through, or simply can’t break through plateaus. You feel like you’re just chasing your patients’ problems around a tree, more a game of whack-a-mole than true healing. Your students are distracted or disruptive, and not meeting their potential.

Regardless of your profession, working with people who are stuck in cycles of stress and trauma is frustrating. Stress and trauma create so much of the dysfunction, distress, and disease that block human healing, growth, and success.  Yet with effective tools that unwind stress and build resilience, you successfully navigate challenges, feeling competent and content in your professional abilities.

There are many stress reduction modalities. So what’s unique about The Resilience Toolkit?

• Utilizes a carefully selected suite of mindfulness and movement practices applied based on stress cycle activation
• Activates the human body’s physiologic mechanism to complete the stress and trauma cycle – the therapeutic tremor
• Easily learned, reproduced, and practiced with immediate results being the norm
• Successful in both stress management and trauma healing contexts
• Designed to be used in individual therapeutic environments, group settings, or as a self-help modality
• Smoothly integrates with other traditional mental health and/or physical treatment modalities to support health and healing for those with more severe emotional and/or physical dysfunction or disease
• Can be used across the lifespan from school age to geriatric populations
• Explicitly addresses social ecological risk and protective factors
• Links the development of individual resilience with increased capacity to work for positive change on the community and structural levels
• Inherently cross-culturally adaptive due to the biologic nature of the therapeutic tremor
• Minimal contraindications
• Cost-effective

Grounded in theory and a social justice context, The Resilience Toolkit utilizes carefully curated evidence-based and promising stress reduction practices. These mindfulness and movement skills promote embodied self-awareness, nervous system and emotional regulation, and interpersonal connection. The Toolkit empowers people with an intersectional framework to identify their own stress cycles, confidently implement appropriate regulation skills in a way that honors cultural and historical experiences, and effectively build resilience over time.

The Resilience Toolkit Facilitator Certification program is a rich experiential process that gives you the tools to take The Toolkit into the world. In an all virtual format, the cohort-based program consists of recorded and live lectures, small group mentoring and discussion, peer and independent practice sessions, suggested reading and reflective writing, supervised teaching, and case consultation. Interactive and cooperative learning foster responsibility, self-awareness, and competency.

Program Requirements

Admission requirements: The Resilience Toolkit Facilitator Certification Program is open to anyone interested in working with stressed and traumatized people.

Prerequisite:

• Attendance in The Resilience Toolkit 3-part series OR 3 individual Toolkit sessions
• Completion of The Resilience Toolkit Workbook or similar reflective journal

Enrollment Options: 

Program Length: 

• The Alchemical Resilience Collective (ARC) Practice Group: eight weeks  (*This requirement may be met prior to enrollment through completion of a minimum of two months participation in the ARC Practice Group – See OPTION 2 above)
• Certification: 18 weeks

Average Time Commitment:  

• The Alchemical Resilience Collective (ARC) Practice Group Program: 45 minutes weekly
• Certification: Six hours weekly, PLUS three 4.5-hour workshop sessions

Program Requirements:

• Eight facilitated sessions in The Alchemical Resilience Collective (ARC) 
• Opening Meet the Faculty and Students Session
• Three online 4.5-hour weekend workshop sessions on the Saturdays of weeks 6-8
• Online pre-recorded lectures
• Individual mentoring sessions (online or in-person)
• Two session facilitating Toolkit w/ individuals (*The Certification Trainer may add extra sessions or assignments at their optional discretion). 
• Two sessions facilitating Toolkit w/ small groups (*The Certification Trainer may add extra sessions or assignments at their optional discretion).
• Eight virtual small group meetings with Trainer every other week
• Minimum of 13 weekly virtual peer group practice and facilitation sessions
• Minimum of one peer individual facilitation
• 14 weekly written journal reflections on personal practice
• Independent and peer-based writing and presentations
• Selected articles and media
• Case study
• Closing Gathering

Technology Requirements:

• Computer with webcam
• Stable internet connection
• A Gmail account to access Google Classroom platform
• Basic proficiency with Google documents

Professional Requirements:

• Professional liability insurance during facilitation portion of the program

Program Objectives

Trainees will demonstrate:

• Embodied knowledge of personal body-mind system with focus on stress-relaxation physiology and trauma responses.
• Ability to identify, attune, follow, and respond to others’ body-mind system, especially stress-relaxation physiology and trauma responses.
• Explore the impact of historical, cultural, and ecological context on stress-relaxation physiology and trauma responses with individuals and groups.
• Ability to competently and safely teach Toolkit framework and facilitate Toolkit skills to others for regulation, resourcing, and stabilization within the trauma-informed paradigm.
• Ability to support others in developing robust, sustained personal practice of The Toolkit.

Program Curriculum

• Embodied self-awareness
• Stress and resilience from multiple lenses:
  • Ecology and ethology
  • Evolutionary neurobiology
  • Anatomy and physiology
  • Biopsychosocial and social ecology
  • Neurophysiology
  • Sex and gender
  • Race, culture, and history
• Instruction and facilitation of Toolkit mindfulness and movement practices with individuals and groups
• Trauma-informed facilitation principles
• Facilitation in virtual settings
• Ethics and professionalism
• Behavior change theory
• Lessons from Motivational Interviewing
• Habit formation

Enrollment Options and Deadlines: 

Certification Schedule:

Cohort 15 of The Resilience Toolkit Facilitator Certification Program has a maximum cohort size of 24 trainees, we prioritize personalized learning and engagement. Trainees are organized into mini-cohorts, with a maximum of 6 participants per group, ensuring an intimate and supportive learning environment. Two mini-cohorts will meet at timings more convenient to the Americas and two mini-cohorts will meet at timings more convenient to Africa and Europe. Weekend workshops will be held jointly at timings reasonable to all time zones.

The following comprehensive schedule ensures that you have access to time options that align with different regions, allowing for a truly global and inclusive learning experience. To find the program’s schedule in your specific time zone, click here. 

Certification course opens 30 January 2024

Program Costs and Payments

Cohort 15 – US

• Tuition Total is $3,820 USD (*$3,700 USD if you have already completed The Alchemical Resilience Collective (ARC) prerequisite)
• You can opt-in to enroll with a payment plan – $100 USD payment plan admin fee applies 
  • 4-Part Payment Plan:
    • $980 USD deposit due upon registration
    • $980/*$940 USD per month for three months
  • 6-Part Payment Plan:
    • $980 USD deposit due upon registration
    •  $588/*$564 USD per month for five months
• CEU certificate cost is $30 USD for weekend workshop (optional)

Cohort 15 – UK

• Tuition Total £ 3165 GBP (*£ 3065 GBP if you have already completed The Alchemical Resilience Collective (ARC) prerequisite)
  • You can opt-in to enroll with a payment plan – £ 83 GBP payment plan admin fee applies 
    • 4-Part Payment Plan:
      • £ 812 GBP deposit due upon registration
      • £ 812/ *£ 778.67 GBP per month for three months
    • 6-Part Payment Plan:
      • £ 812 GBP deposit due upon registration
      • £487.20/ *£ 467.20 GBP per month for five months

Enrollment Policies

* Cancellation Policy: Registration fee is fully refundable prior to beginning program ONLY with at least 10-day written notice, minus a $100 USD administration fee.

* Withdrawal Policy: Trainees who cancel with less than 10-day notice or withdraw early from the Program will receive a prorated refund based on the number of weeks remaining at the point of withdrawal at $218 USD per week, minus an early withdrawal fee of 10% of the remaining balance.

* Program Extension Policy: Participants who do not complete the program in 18 weeks, will incur a $200 USD monthly charge until program completion or withdrawal, whichever comes first. The monthly charge will not be prorated. If the Certification Trainer determines that extra supervisions are needed for the trainee to meet basic competency, the extra supervisions will be billed at $175 USD per hour.

* Transfer Policy: 

• Up to 8 weeks – Trainees who opt to transfer to a later cohort will receive a prorated refund based on the number of weeks remaining at the point of transfer at $218 USD per week, minus a transfer fee of $370. At re-enrollment, Trainees will pay $109 USD per week for the weeks up to the original point of transfer and $218 USD per week thereafter.
• After 8 weeks – Trainees who opt to transfer to a later cohort will receive a prorated refund based on the number of weeks remaining at the point of transfer at $218 USD per week, minus a transfer fee of $550. At re-enrollment, Trainees will pay $218 USD per week from the original point of transfer through the remainder of the Program.

In an effort to increase representation, equity, and access, our hope is for this scholarship to make an impact in the lives of people who hold historically and systemically marginalized identities, and who live and work in geographical areas that are also historically and systemically marginalized, that are part of the Global South, or where there are currently no Resilience Toolkit Facilitators.

Scholarship description

Two scholarships for Cohort 15 have already been awarded. Please check back for information regarding Cohort 16.

Scholarship Application Information

• Scholarship applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis by the Resilience Toolkit Certification Training Team. 
• Preference will be given for applicants who:
  • Have completed Resilience Toolkit Certification Program prerequisites
  • Hold historically and systematically marginalized identities
  • Live and work in geographical areas and with individuals, organizations, and/or communities that are historically and systematically marginalized
  • Live and work in the Global South
  • Live and work in areas where there are no Resilience Toolkit Facilitators
  • Describe a clear plan for using their Resilience Toolkit training with marginalized individuals, organizations, and/or communities
  • Agree to complete a post-certification quarterly survey tracking the impact of their Resilience Toolkit work, including demographics and numbers of people reached. 
• Applicants will be notified of their selection by email four weeks before the start of each training cohort. 
• Applicants who are not selected will have the option to roll their application over for the subsequent training cohort. 

Professional Continuing Education Credits for Registered Nurses

• Participants eligible for 6.5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) per in-person full workshop day and 2.5 CEUs per in-person half workshop day from the California Board of Registered Nursing
• Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #CEP15871, for total of 15.5 Contact Hours

Level I Certification 

• Requirements
  • Completion of the foundational Level I Certification course
• Benefits
  • Lifetime Level I Certification
  • Lifetime access to the foundational Level I Certification course online content (Cohorts 13 and beyond)
  • Listing in the Certified Facilitator database on The Resilience Toolkit website indicating certification level
  • Membership in private online community for Certified Facilitators
  • Eligibility to license The Resilience Toolkit Workbook for clients

Level II Certification

• Requirements
  • Level I Certification
  • Completion of a minimum of four mentorship hours or approved continuing education per calendar year
• Benefits
  • All benefits of Level I Certification
  • One free post-certification group mentorship session annually
  • Fifty free usages of The Resilience Toolkit Workbook for clients

Level III Certification

• Requirements
  • Level II Certification
  • Initial application
    • 60 individual sessions, at least 20 of which must be with unique clients
    • 15 small group (3-6 people) and 10 med-large group (7 or more people) sessions, with a minimum of 125 total combined group participants
    • Two case studies over 4-session period OR one case study over 8-session period
    • Interview with a Certification Trainer
    • Completed application
  • Renewal – Completion of a minimum of eight mentorship hours or approved continuing education per calendar year
• Benefits
  • All benefits of Level I Certification
  • Two free post-certification group mentorship sessions annually
  • Unlimited usages of The Resilience Toolkit Workbook for clients