We’re glad for you and your communities that you are considering going on this journey of accompanying others as they reconnect with their bodies and nervous systems.
Accompanying Our Collective Nervous System is a 3 month course to learn how to attunedly accompany our collective nervous systems into states more open to curiosity, connection and creativity in service of Life and collective liberation.
This application form will help you and us sense into your why at this moment and check whether you have the prerequisites needed complete.
It will also clarify what the expectations on you from this programme are and help you assess your capacity at the current moment to commit to this process.
Structure
Group learning sessions focused on deepening in understanding yourself, the body, the fromtheroots nervous system model, nervous system frameworks and practices, trauma informed facilitation, and the wider context in which nervous system support work sits:
6 sessions, online, 4 hours.
Observation & facilitation sessions: 5 Befriending Your Body sessions at which you will observe and practise facilitating (and after which you will ask questions and share what you observed)
Wednesday dates: 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th April
Saturday dates: 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th April, 2nd May
BYB peer practice facilitation sessions: once a week on rotation (depends on BYB peer practice times)
Peer practice sessions: sustain a practice time with fellow facilitators at least once a week
External facilitation: facilitate at least 2 hour long group sessions focused on nervous system tools and practices for an external group of your choice, one with facilitator observation
Location: online
Prerequisites: ‘Befriending Your Body-Nervous System Tools for Life and Liberation’ and ‘Tending Our Roots’
In order to do the apprenticeship programme, you will need to have previously completed the nervous system class and the foundations class at any point prior and have a sustained nervous system practice of your own – you will be asked to submit your completed BYB workbook as part of your application
Note: if you missed sessions in either course you need to make up for them by start of the apprenticeship by reviewing the material covered, doing any exercises in your own time, etc.
Invitation & Expectations
– attendance at 6 learning sessions with Wangũi wa Kamonji or other facilitators
– attendance at all sessions of the concurrent Befriending Your Body programme (3 hrs) and a 45 minute debrief after each session)
– facilitate in session during the BYB course and during peer practice
– daily practice, peer practice with other trainees and reflection on your own nervous system process – you will be asked to keep and share from a journal
– be open to receiving witness, feedback and mentorship on your process from your peers and from Wangũi
– run at least 2 sessions in the month following end of sessions for an external audience of your choice that is grounded/informed by the fromtheroots nervous system model
– complete other assignments as given
Cost
we estimate that this programme will require 10-15 hours of your time weekly
we will offer a modest stipend to all trainees to cover your internet costs and in recognition of the time we are asking you to give to this process
Sign up will be open until 16th March 2025 but we recommend you get your application in as soon as you’re able. We will get back to you on your application as soon as possible.
The Form
We estimate that it may take you about an hour or two to fill in this form as there are sections inviting your reflection. Feel free to take pauses and return making sure to save your progress as you go. Longer answers are not necessarily better, please keep to a maximum of 3 paragraphs, you’re also welcome to use lists where they make sense