A Weekend Immersion in Leading Groups with Skill, Safety, and Depth

 

 

Art of Facilitation is a weekend immersion for people who work with groups — therapists, yoga teachers, business owners, retreat leaders, coaches, healers, creatives, and community leaders — who want to move beyond simply hosting experiences and into the deeper, more skillful art of true facilitation.

 

Many people can organize an event. Far fewer know how to read a room, regulate group energy, establish emotional safety, work with challenging dynamics as they arise, and guide people through real transformation without causing harm. This immersion is for those who sense that facilitation is not about charisma or performance or even a beautiful face, but about presence, discernment, personal discipline, and embodied leadership.

 

Caroline “Carrie” Culverhouse draws from over a decade of intensive clinical training, trauma-informed group psychotherapy, spiritual teaching, and more than 200 retreats led around the country. Her approach bridges psychology and spirituality in a way that is practical, grounded, and immediately usable — without bypassing, guru posturing, or performative “holding space.”

 

What This Weekend Is (and Isn’t)

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This is not a certification mill, formulaic framework, or performative leadership training.

It is an experiential, relational immersion designed to sharpen your facilitation instincts, deepen your nervous system literacy, and help you lead groups with clarity and integrity.

 

What We’ll Explore

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Over the course of the weekend, participants will learn:

 

• The difference between hosting, teaching, leading, and facilitating — and when each role is actually needed

• How to establish psychological and nervous system safety in groups without over-controlling or over-sharing

• Reading group dynamics in real time: power, projection, resistance, collapse, and dependency

• How trauma, attachment styles, and unspoken group roles shape what unfolds in a room

• The facilitator’s inner landscape: countertransference, ego, savior patterns, and “spiritual performance”

• When to intervene, when to pause, and when to let something unfold organically

• How to hold intensity, emotion, and conflict without re-traumatizing participants or yourself

• Ethical facilitation: boundaries, responsibility, and knowing what is not yours to carry

 

This weekend blends teaching, experiential practice, live demonstration, group reflection, and supervised inquiry, allowing participants to feel the material in their bodies — not just understand it intellectually.

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Who This Is For

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This immersion is ideal for people who:

 

• Already lead groups or retreats and want to refine their craft

• Feel called to lead, but want to do so responsibly and skillfully

• Have outgrown surface-level facilitation or “one-size-fits-all” methods

• Want to create spaces that are both spiritually meaningful and psychologically sound

 

The Outcome

 

Participants leave with:

 

• Greater confidence and clarity in their facilitation style and capacity 

• A deeper understanding of group dynamics and how to create psychological safety

• A toolbox of practices to increase group participation and group satisfaction 

• A more grounded, embodied relationship to leadership itself by connection with one’s personal spiritual path 

 

This is Phase 2 work — for those who know that true, grounded facilitation changes lives. 

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Investment: $499 early registration if paid in full by June 10, 2026

               $575 thereafter. 

               Payment plans available

 

Location: hOMePYM Retreat Center, Reading PA

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About the Facilitator: Caroline is a licensed clinical social worker, certified meditation and yoga instructor and group psychotherapist, spiritual teacher, psychoanalytically trained psychotherapist, intuitive, empath and seasoned retreat facilitator who facilitates mind-body-spirit group and individual and family retreats across the country throughout the year. She is the founder and director of the Women's Healing and Transformation program which consists of a series of 5 group retreats and one private retreat and helps women heal mind-body-spirit from issues ranging from codependency to complex post traumatic stress. Since 2009, Caroline has facilitated over 50 retreats. She is known for her compassionate, transformative, irreverent, intuitive, experiential facilitation style and is particularly passionate about helping others in the helping and healing professions uplevel their natural gifts and offerings to the world.