Accepting Applications Starting — Thursday October 17, 2024
Holding Space Certification Program

The Holding Space Certification Program is an 8-part, intensive virtual learning experience designed to elevate your impact as a leader and facilitator. This cohort-based course equips you with advanced methods, models, and mentorship to design and host transformative gatherings. Whether you’re leading virtual or in-person meetings, this program provides the tools to create meaningful, high-impact interactions that foster real connection and achieve results.

Based on the acclaimed book, Holding Space: A Guide to Mindful Facilitation, by Nebo Founder and CEO Kate Ebner and Izzy Martens, this program goes beyond traditional facilitation training. Participants will gain the techniques, confidence, and flexibility to lead complex discussions and gatherings with compassion and presence. With a focus on how to incorporate mindfulness into your facilitation, the course prepares you to convene groups effectively, ensuring that every meeting or event you host is deeply engaging, well-designed, and transformative.

Registration for Cohort 1 closes on December 16, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. ET.

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Nebo Wrote the Book on Facilitation

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Holding Space: A Guide to Mindful Facilitation

by Kate Ebner and Izzy Martens

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The work of skilled facilitators has never been more necessary or important. Opening up the space for dialogue for all is needed now, more than ever. Holding Space: A Guide to Mindful Facilitation is a starting point, intended to make it easier for coaches, facilitators, and leaders to step forward with confidence. Authors Kate Ebner, CEO of The Nebo Company and her colleague Izzy Martens, a certified facilitator, writer and yoga teacher, share stories, lessons, strategies for facilitating important conversations and gatherings.

Holding Space begins with the insight that becoming a great facilitator requires a willingness to look within, including an examination of one’s own beliefs and biases, presence, unique traits and trigger points. Discover how to tap into the practice of mindfulness to “hold space” for others and create extraordinary —even transformational– experiences and outcomes.

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