A Bio-Intelligent Tool Kit For Coaches + Space Holders

Why This Work Now?

This work emerges out of frequent requests from clients over the years to offer the work I do in my 1:1 & group sessions in a teachable format. The curriculum is the product of several years dreaming, weaving, careful editing and forging.

It emerges from a weariness of the coaching world's obsession with chasing the approval of dominant culture whilst finding ways to smuggle in the Sacred through the crack in the door. What if we were to flip this script? And make Sacredness our priority?

What if we were to honour the Sacred longing that drew us to this work in the first place as primary and foundational? What if we were to anchor our practice in the Sacred explicitly? Because if we re honest, that's what brought us all here in the first place, isn't it? A Sacred quest. Why is it so radical to honour it as such? I don't believe we have time to waste.

Let's be bold and trust what draws us all here is longing to come into direct conversation? I am offering this training because I want to live in a world that works this way around and I want to support coaches and space holders to feel confident to offer it in this way too. Let's re-home the Sacred in the everyday and the ordinary where it belongs.

Is This Program For Me?

This program seeks to offer coaches and facilitators a training that respects the reality of having a nervous system whilst also honouring our more than human Kin. It orients via an animist world view and is anchored in the understanding that everything has an intelligence a personhood and a life force, that if we are open to asking the right questions, might be willing to communicate with us. You will learn to work in this way safely and effectively with your clients.

You might be attracted to this work if you are a coach or a space holder who feels they are coming to the limit of what traditional embodiment and coaching tools can offer your clients. Maybe you are longing to re-home the Sacred as a root of your practice, or are curious how you might support clients to work with the invisible realms while maintaining a grounded, practical connection with the here and now? Or maybe you have done the 'Cultivating Healthy Spirit Connection' course and simply want to learn how to hold a safe and nourishing ritual space for others.

This is a program built for folks who have had some experience and / or training as a coach, a facilitator or as space holder of some kind.

PRE-REQUISITES
To access this training you will need to have completed:

* At least 6 x 1:1 Sessions with Rachel
* Completed the Cultivating A Healthy Connection to Spirit Course
* Submitted an application form.
* Be invited for a short zoom interview with Rachel to check we are a good match (a year is a long time!)

Course curriculum

    1. Who's in the Room? Who are Your People? Tell us about the Land where your bones are from.

    2. Foundational Principles of ISF

    3. An Animist Perspective for Coaches & Facilitators

    4. Your Nervous System as a field of Resonance and Relationship

    5. Your Clients Nervous System as a field of Resonance & Relationship

    6. Welcoming Back All Healthy Beings Into The Coaching Conversation

    1. Being a Resourced Nervous system as a Space Holder Responsibilty

    2. Ongoing Personal Practice in Reciprocity & Aliveness Tending

    3. The Power of Orienting Via Resource

    4. Being a Human Shape and Receptive Nervous System as A Primary Priority

    5. Being A Part of The Generative, Experimental Principle of All Life -

    1. Your Clients Enquiries: Arriving and Creating a Somatic Anchor

    2. Working at the Cusp of Healing for Coaches

    3. Basic Ritual architecture and function

    4. The Neuroception of Safety & establishing an atmosphere of love

    5. Protocols for applying Ritual structures in the coaching relationship

    6. Being Sustainable: boundaries, limits, ease & agency.

    1. The Neuroplastic Imagination

    2. The Embodied Being as a Field of Experience & Knowing

    3. Gravity, Resistance & Release: The Coach's body as Feedback System

    4. The Affordances of Space, Architectures and Environments

    5. The Resonance of Objects

    6. Our Lived Experience As Sacred Web Being Woven Through Us

    1. Working with real life relationships

    2. Plants, Soil and the microbiome

    3. Elements, solar cycles & celestial bodies

    4. Mycelial Healing and other helper support networks

    5. Visiting the Microbiological Universe

    6. Working with Mythological Beings

    1. Relating with many different places with in the system of the client

    2. Calling in Guides and Spirit Helpers in a safe and targeted way - Introductory principles

    3. Nuances of working with Animal, Plant and other more than Human Beings.

    4. Working with Ancestry in the coaching context

    5. Anchoring Resources into Somatic Maps & Resonant Objects

About this course

  • 11 modules over 12 months
  • Integrated Practice Periods & Guided Experiments
  • A Practical Tool Kit to Weave the Sacred in With Your Existing Practice.

Program Flow

Time, Energy & Commitment

Once a month there is a 5 day module covering the topics and themes listed in the curriculum. A teaching day is 3 hours live teaching on zoom. Then after class an optional online cafe for social connection and integration. The cafe space can be used for what ever you need it for. As the program develops you may wish to use this space for extra pairs practice.

The week after the module, there is space on the Tuesday for structured practice (peer led) & and you will be given one creative experiment related to the theme of the month for bringing the topic alive for yourself. This might look like a bit of research, or maybe like something you want to cultivate. You will be invited to share the results of your experiment with the group. Friday is supervised practice time. The Tuesday & Friday sessions go for 2 hours & 3 hours each. There are extra practice sessions built in to the Deeper Practice Month and longer sessions for the Final Weaving Week.

You will need to plan to be available for all the online face to face teaching sessions during the year (about 220 hours) and practice sessions (33 hours). This is 20 face to face teaching hours per month + practice, plus what ever time you invest in extra practice, creative experiments, time with your peer group and ISF cafe.

Timings are still getting finalised, but we are looking at 3pm - 6pm UK time for the modules.

Module 1: October 5 - 9
Practice & Creative Experiment w/b 12 October

Module 2: November 2 - 6
Practice & Creative Experiment w/b 9 November

Module 3: December 7 - 11
Practice & Creative Experiment w/b 14 December

Module 4: January 11 - 15
Practice & Creative Experiment w/b 18 January.

Module 5: February 8 - 12
Practice & Creative Experiment w/b 15 Feb

Module 6: March 15 - 19
Practice & Creative Experiment w/b 22nd March

Module 7: April 19 - 23
Practice & Creative Experiment w/b 19 April.

Module 8: May 17 - 21
Practice & Creative Experiment w/b 24 May

Module 9: June 14 - 18
Practice & Creative Experiment w/b 21 June

Module 10: July 19 - 23
Practice & Creative Experiment w/b 26 July.

August - Deeper Practice Month / Revision / Pairs Practice

Module 11: September 6 - 10
Deeper Practice & Final Weaving Week w/b 13 September 2026

Financial Investment

payment options & application process

A place on this program is £4,750. This fee entitles you to all tuition, supported practice time and feedback, recordings of all the materials for life, permission to use the materials in your professional practice and make them your own, ongoing access to an off facebook community page, a community of kindred souls who know this work.

Monthly payment plans are available where needed and negotiated on an individual basis. Payments must be completed by the time the course wraps up in September 2027, but can begin as early as helpful to reduce cost. If payment is made in full prior to the 15th January 2026 you will receive a £500 discount.

You must have completed the prerequisites prior to the first day of the training.
Those include:
~ Completing the Cultivating A Healthy Connection to Spirit Course
~ 6 x 1:1 sessions with Rachel
~ A completed application form, which if successful you will be invited to a short zoom interview with Rachel

You can submit an application as soon as it goes live on the 1st October 2025. The CHSC course and individual sessions requirements will need to be wrapped up before the program starts on the 5 October. The next chance to join the CHSC program starts in late October 2025. There may not be a chance to run another one before the program commences.

If reading this is lighting you up, but money makes it impossible, please get in touch. We are happy to be flexible for the right student if there is sufficient wiggle room while still accommodating our running costs. If this is you, there will be an opportunity to tell us about your situation and why you need this support in the application form.

This is a small group program with maximum 12 participants.