Year-Long Facilitator Training in Earth-Based Ritual and Ceremony


April 2019 - March 2020


LEARN

Enter into a field of sacred mystery, revelation and community healing.

EMBODY

Through experience and practice, feel the ancient truths remembered in your bones.

GUIDE

With the support of the Ancestors, create and hold sacred space for transformation.

Thank you so much [Maria] for holding such a safe ceremonial space. I realized during the ceremony how much this ritual work has changed my life.


-Kelsey Gustafson


What Our Graduates Are Doing Now With Their Certification:

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One woman who is a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (MFT) and a sculptor has created art therapy group experiences in nature.


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Two graduates from Israel are now leading Grief Ritual work every other month for their communities.


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A gym owner and personal trainer is implementing earth-based ritual into her monthly women’s empowerment group.


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An EMDR psychotherapist specializing in trauma is returning for apprenticeship to further develop a program for those struggling with wounds of feeling exiled. She has Jewish ancestry.

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One student who works as an engineer at GE, is now launching a Grief Ritual support group in Salt Lake City.


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Another woman who also apprenticed for a year, is creating a Rites of Passage vision quest adventures for young women in Grass Valley.


What You'll Learn


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This Is In Your Bones



Connect with your own indigeneity and deep ancestral knowing around healing through community ritual and nature connection.

Universal Templates



Receive, experience and practice variations of earth-based ritual for community, grief tending, purification, reclamation, honoring life transitions, peacekeeping, and gratitude.

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Ritual For One And All



Earth-based ritual is not an exclusive club. Experience the power of community ritual yourself, then collaborate with peers to design and implement transformative processes that can translate to any community or situation.


Collaboration With The Seen And Unseen



Explore communion with the Ancestors, spirits of place, elementals, and other spiritual allies to fortify the ritual container and hold your back as a ritual leader. As well, how to call in healthy leadership and assisting teams for larger ritual work.


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Tracking The Shadow





Learn how to track, yourself and participants, to perceive the unspoken, hold all wounds as sacred, and invite the shadow to heal in a community ritual setting.


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Carry The Light With Integrity



Participate in discussion on ritual leader ethics, responsibilities and accountability, and design your own processes for self and group post-ritual care and integretion.



This Training Is For...

Therapists, Social Workers, Coaches, Wilderness Guides, Nature Therapists, Healers, Group Leaders, and anyone desiring to serve their communities through earth-based ritual work.


Don't miss this unique experience!

ALSO OPEN to those who only want to participate in one or more retreats


Let us hold you through your Leadership Initiation, as you step into your calling as a Community Ritual Guide.

Ongoing Training Modules


These training modules will continue throughout the duration of the four retreats.

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Medicine Wheel


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Building Altars and Shrines


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The Importance of Singing and Dancing in Ritual

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Ethics, Accountability and Integrity as a Ritual Leader / Guide / Mentor

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Council Work

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The Meaning of Community


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Tracking the Shadow in Ritual Space

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The Fine Line Between Transformational Stress vs. Re-Traumatization. Participants Pushing themselves to gain approval of Leaders / Peers

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How to Hold Cultural Appropriation Fears


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Nature Connection -- Embodiment -- Grounding into Relationship with Earth/Nature


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Sharing On Past Experiences with Ritual/Ceremony -- Healing Wounds of Poor Facilitation


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How to Hold Severe Trauma Energy

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Adapting For Your Demographic


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Receiving Compensation For Ritual Work or Volunteering Services; Not Judging Either Way


INTERNATIONAL RITUAL FACILITATORS

Maria Christina Owl


Maria Christina Owl is an international transformational leader, healer and full-body channel. She has worked with over 15 different indigenous elders around the world, and is deeply rooted in her own indigenous identity. Maria credits her healing from post-traumatic stress to earth-based ritual work, which she launched into at age 19. She has held hundreds of people around the world through deep transformation through wilderness quests, grief rituals, women’s initiation, and many other forms of ritual and ceremony.


In 2016 Maria offered a Community Grief Ritual in Tel Aviv, Israel, and trained 12 facilitators in this powerful modality. She has led grief ritual at Joanna Macy’s facilitator training in The Work that Reconnects. She holds her own Master’s degree in Integral Counseling Psychology, and has taught Indigenous Wisdom at many institutions of higher learning, including the Ecopsychology Program at Naropa University. In 2012 Maria founded Sacred Future, an organization devoted to re-integrating human culture back into harmony with Nature and Cosmos through the development of intuitive and authentic leadership.



Kayla Barnum


Kayla has been devoted to the study of Deep Nature Connection and Sensory Awareness for 13 years. She is passionate about cultivating the senses to awaken intuition grounded in each person's indigenous make-up. Through the scope of Tracking, Bird Language, Survival and Earth Living Skills, Kayla guides others through the journey of rooting in ancestral lineage to center in resilience. She loves working with individuals and families, and is committed to nature connection in the home for youth. She is a mother of two beautiful and very nature connected children.


Kayla has had the privilege of studying with many mentors with a broad spectrum of earth based practices. In 2009, she attended a 9 month nature awareness Immersion At the Regenerative Design Institute. She continues to study Bird Language and the Art of Mentoring with the 8 Shields Institute. In 2013 She enrolled at Sacred Future School in a Rights of Passage and Ancestral Wisdom course with Maria Owl, and went on to spend two years in apprenticeship with the school in Transformational Leadership. Most Recently she has studied with Tom Brown Jr, and Rick Berry in Lenape Apache lineage of earth living skills. Kayla is weaving the wisdom of the past to find modern day presence, and heal future generations.



Jose Enciso


Jose is an engineer, poet, dancer and seeker of spirit and soul. He brings a gentle presence and deep respect for the interior journey as expressed through ritual and art. Jose is a skilled group facilitator who is committed to the spiritual and psychological growth of those around him. He trained under Francis Weller to lead men’s initiation groups doing deep soul work. Jose is devoted to the emergence of divine feminine wisdom, supporting women and men claiming their voice and power, and rediscovering the soul of masculinity. He is currently working on multiple projects including a book which seeks to encourage everyone to write their own poetry as a discovery of their own soul's truth. Jose’s day job is being a senior director of hardware engineering leading a bunch of engineers at a telecommunications equipment manufacturer. He received his masters in electrical engineering from Stanford back when dinosaurs roamed the earth.


FACILITATOR TRAINING

RETREAT SCHEDULE

April 25 - 28, 2019

Purification & Ancestor Rituals

Sonoma County, CA

Aug 1 - 4, 2019

Community Grief Tending & Ritual

Sonoma County, CA

December 5-8, 2019

Community Reclamation Rituals & Soul Retrieval

Sonoma County, CA

March 19 - 22, 2020

Community Gratitude Ritual & Integration Processes

Sonoma County, CA

YEAR-LONG PROGRAM

April 2019 - March 2020



4 TOTAL RETREATS IN PROGRAM


$500 Registration Fee Due Upon Enrollment




ONE FACILITATOR TRAINING RETREAT

UPCOMING

AUGUST 1ST - 4TH




$333 Deposit Due Upon Enrollment


Features Include:


  • Four 4-Day Retreats
  • Lunches and Snacks Provided
  • Experiential Learning Environment
  • Q&A and Group Discussion
  • Community Support for Your Personal Transformation
  • Online Classroom
  • Q&A with Mentors and Discussion Forum
  • Resource Materials
  • Recordings from Retreat Sessions
  • Bonus Audio-Lectures and Interviews from Mentor's Archives

Tuition:

$888 per retreat


FULL PAY: $3500

6-MONTH PAYMENT PLAN: $592/mo

12-MONTH PAYMENT PLAN: $296/mo



Features Include:


  • 4-Day In-Person Retreat
  • Lunches and Snacks Provided
  • Experiential Learning Environment
  • Q&A Group Discussion
  • You Can Record Sessions You Want
  • Community Support for Your Personal Transformation







Tuition:

$1111 per retreat


DEPOSIT: $333


BALANCE DUE: FULL-PAY OR

2 MONTHLY PAYMENTS OF $389


TESTIMONIALS

What Our Clients Are Saying About Us


"I am incredibly grateful for the embodied presence of Maria Owl's facilitation skills to create such a safe and sacred container for the rawness human emotions. She has a natural ability to weave the individual into the fabric of the collective that not many teachers have."

Heather K.

Grief Ritual Participant

"Jose has a great capacity to listen to the uniqueness of the group; honoring it and inviting it into a new place of letting go. It was pure pleasure watching a master." 


Donna M. Fyffe, Ed. S

President of CommunityWorks, Inc.


"[Maria] you transmitted some powerful and important wisdom that spoke to each one of us, especially tapping into our ancestors and honoring and working with them. Thank you for being your beautiful confident self, a true wisdom keeper. I always think of you as 'She Who Brings the Light.'"

Linda Braga

Society for the Study of Shamanism

Board of Directors

[Jose,] people appreciated your sensitivity, gentleness and sincerity.  I wish you many blessings as you continue to help people grieve and open their hearts to the light."


D.

Grief Ritual Participant


Join this life-changing training to serve your community from a grounded, awake and courageous center of being.