We are opening our Facilitator Training once more!

Applications are now being taken to become a trained Facilitator with the fastest growing sisterhood in Australia.

ALL FOUR MODULES WILL BE RUN OVER THE WEEKEND OF March 19th, 20th, 21st, and 22nd March 2020 as a residential inclusive event.

Apply at redtentaustralia.org/facilitator-training-eoi/

We are seeking facilitators to join the team at:

Bondi Red Tent
Parramatta/Sydney Olympic Park Red Tent
Rutherford/Newcastle/Maitland Red Tent
Nepean/Penrith/Lower Blue Mountains Red Tent
Bellingen Red Tent
Coffs Harbour Red Tent
Canberra Red Tent

We would love to open other tents in some other areas. Please contact us if you live somewhere else that you feel is ready for a Red Tent to open

Do you want to make a difference in women's lives?

Do you want to be a leader in your community?

Do you want to learn more about the Red Tent Australia movement?

Join us for all four Modules of the Red Tent Australia Facilitator Training to become a fully qualified Facilitator with Red Tent Australia Thursday 19th March - Sunday 22nd March 2019.

All four days need to be attended in order to graduate. Each day will build and follow on so it is necessary to attend the modules in order. Becoming a registered RTA facilitator is more than sitting in circle with women, it is joining a strong, ethical organisation that is changing the way women are relating to each other and the world. It is belonging to a sisterhood of aware and awakened women who 'have your back' and want you to succeed!

Join US!!

Total Training Cost = $1,250

This Includes:

Accommodation at the venue in a tranquil bush-land location at Somersby.
Daytime teachings
Daily craft sessions for our Circle Tools
Evening Ceremony and Circles
All meals while you are on site: Breakfasts, Lunches & Dinners plus afternoon tea.
(Not Included: breakfast on day 1 and dinner on day 4)
Training Manuals, Name Badges, Handbooks, Craft Materials, and other Resources.

Payment plans available via Zip Pay through Humanitix.

A $200 non-refundable deposit is required to secure your place (transferable within a 6 month period) with the balance to be paid in full 2 weeks prior to course commencement.

Attendance is by application only, and you must be a member of RTA to attend this course.

Venue

Somersby, NSW (More details provided upon registration).

Prerequisites

You must be a member of Red Tent Australia to attend the facilitator training - join at redtentaustralia.org/membership
Required Reading:
- Sacred Commerce - Terces & Matthew Engelhart
- The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
You must have attended a minimum of 3 Red Tent events. If you live in an area where this is not possible, please contact us to work out other ways of meeting this prerequisite.

Other Desired Skills

First Aid Qualifications
Working With Children Checks
Counselling
Therapy
Community Work, or Health Certifications
Women's Work (such as rites of passage, women's circle facilitation, group work) are helpful, but not necessary to undertake this training.

Module One - "Fill YOUR Cup" Thursday

The Importance of Openings and Closings, creating a safe container
Red Tent Australia's ethos, goals, and procedures
Sacred Commerce, business as a path of awakening
Dream Manager- share, believe, create, and succeed
Humanitix, Facebook and promoting your tent
Craft - Create your Red Tent's Speaking Piece
Closing ceremony, creating a sisterhood
Global healing

Module Two - "What is Sacred Space?" Friday

Setting the scene for magic to happen, awakening the senses
Heart Chocolate ceremony
Working with The Elements
The greatest gift you can give another (you can't buy it at the shops)
The 3 types of listening & knowing when to use each one
Advanced Promotion/Facebook procedures
Craft: Feather Fan for clearing and cleansing

Module Three - "Boundaries & Hard to Hear Messages" Saturday

How to recognise shadow archetypes within the circle and ourselves and what to do about them
We will talk about how without boundaries there can be no freedom
How important it is to own our 'stuff' before someone else makes us
We will talk about how it feels when our boundaries are being tested so that we can recognise it quicker
Knowing what to do when our boundaries are being tested
We'll play with how to take and deliver those hard to hear messages
Listening to our intuition to help us get over the blocks in our way
What to do when you feel challenged by someone who doesn't share your views or opinion
We'll set some energetic boundaries and notice where our boundaries might not be quite strong enough - it may not be a fun, warm and fuzzy day but it will certainly help you grow.
To begin the day we will be getting grounded and putting our energies in to clay and will form our tent's Goddess Statue.

Module Four - "Accessing our Resources" Sunday

Monday will be more about putting what you have learned into action, the day will include practical knowledge in the morning with advanced Humanitix and Facebook procedures. Marketing your tent, making it stand out in the crowd!

Then in the afternoon, we will connect with our ancestors through ceremony, ritual, and meditation.

Connecting with the ancestors to improve our world
king for and being able to accept help
Looking back to go forward
A Global Healing that really is for the whole world
We will also make your tent's Mother Candle

By the end of Module Four, it is our hope that all Red Tent Australia Facilitators will be able to:

Act to meet their needs while still respecting the needs of others.
Confront (care-front) others effectively and sensitively when their behavior interferes with us meeting our needs.
Prevent some problems and conflicts through self-disclosure.
Deal with our anxiety about being more open and direct.
Resolve conflicts without damaging relationships.
Deal effectively with value conflicts.
Listen effectively when another person has a problem.
Set goals and make plans to achieve them.
Hold Sacred Space with confidence and reverence.
Enjoy running a successful Red Tent Australia Branch
Have formed bonds with the other RTA Facilitators to last a lifetime.

What to bring

Laptop
memory stick
sacred objects to include on your Red Tent's speaking piece
yoga mat if you have one
any special feathers or bird wings

Your Trainers

Bree Calarco (President)

Bree Rain Calarco, has trained in Naturopathy, Girls Mentorship, Rites of Passage, Red Tent facilitation, & Yoni Mapping Therapy. She has been providing women’s circles in Sydney for 5 years, and in 2016, began working with Red Tent Australia to open their first NSW Red Tent on the Northern Beaches of Sydney.

Bree is the President of Red Tent Australia, the Sydney Region Red Tent Co-ordinator, & Sydney Northern Beaches Red Tent Facilitator.

She draws on many influences, including Waldorf, Earth-based spirituality, Tantra, Taoism, natural living practices, herbalism, medicinal weeds, wild foods, and the works of Sark, Brene Brown, Marianne Williamson, Starhawk, Tanishka Tantrika, and Clarissa Pinkola Estes.

Bree's works primarily in women's holistic health, with a major focus on reproductive, fertility, menstrual and sexual health. Her studies in holistic pelvic wellness for women, Yoni Mapping Therapy, combines with Naturopathic knowledge, and Women's Cycle wisdom to provide a wholesome and grounded approach to women's health education and empowerment.

A WORD FROM BREE

"Welcome, Welcome, Welcome!

My journey with women's work was seeded by my mother and grandmother. When I was 4 I spent some time living in Indigenous community near Alice Springs, Central Australia with my mother, grandmother, and grandfather. My first exposure to the secret/sacred women's ceremonies was through witnessing the women's business being a regular part of community life here.
Coming back to rural Australia after this and settling into a home, I was blessed to attend annual Women's Camps run by the local BirthWorker with my mother for most of my childhood and maidenhood. Through these, I received initiation into the women's mysteries as I grew into my own sense of what it is to be a woman.

At 18, when I moved from the country to the city for study and for work opportunities, I discovered that the sense of sisterhood and community that I had been blessed with my whole life, was nowhere to be found.
After several years of isolation, and much needed differentiation and distance from the world of women's woo woo (teenaged Bree really needed a break to ground back into being a human in the regular world!), I found the inspiration in Sydney through meeting an incredible group of women, and brought them together in sacred sisterhood circle through monthly Wild Women events.

After just short of 2 years of these incredibly inspiring, awakening and initiatory circles with a heart-expanding, mind-growing group of soul sisters (of which dear Rebekah Mené Spirito is one!), I was in a Kundalini Awakening Goddess Retreat in Bali, and met Jill Genet, who had founded Red Tent Australia, a not-for-profit women's organisation, in the same year I'd started Wild Women. I felt really called to join their networks of sisterhood circles and merge my circles into the Red Tent and after a time, and I opened the first Red Tent in our state ~ Sydney Northern Beaches Red Tent.

Right now, I am working deeply with Red Tent Australia, creating community all over Australia through women's groups called 'Red Tents'. 2 years ago, I stepped into the role of the state coordinator, and this month, I am incredibly honored to step into the role of President.

I have extensively studied and explored women's mysteries, feminine spirituality, goddess/archetypes, rites of passage for women, women's sexuality, herbal medicine, menstrual and reproductive wellbeing.

My primary work as a Naturopath & Yoni Mapping Therapist, empowering, educating and providing support to women & girls through yoni mapping, herbal medicine, nutritional guidance, holistic wellbeing support, iridology, yoni massage, coaching, & mentoring.

I trained in Red Tent facilitation with Tanishka (The Moon Woman) and Red Tent Australia. I am also a Naturopath, Yoni Mapping Therapist, Music Teacher, Feminine Rites of Passage Facilitator, and Girls Mentor, having trained with Journey of Young Women.

I deeply share the vision of Red Tent Australia to have Red Tents in every town! The Red Tent is the heart of community"

Carmel Sonsalla (NSW Tent Coordinator)

Carmel Ursua Sonsalla has over 25yrs experience in the healing industry, she has been initiated into Medicine ways and has travelled throughout Fiji, Central Australia, Nepal, Asia, Indonesia and parts of America.

She holds qualifications in Australian bush flower essences, body-mind integration, Transpersonal art therapy, Healing arts and sciences, Medicine ways, Reclaiming ceremonies, Rite passage, women's moon lodge ceremonies and community earth lodges.

Carmel has trained with John Fire Lamedeer Sioux nation 1989, through out this time she received a vision a clear insight into her true life path working with women in sacred circle. She holds a BA Metaphysical Sciences and studied with University Sedona. Studied @ Ikon Institute, Nature-care college, School Integrated Body Therapy and also draws upon the influences of Susun Weed, Starhawk,Gabrielle Roth.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes.
Her healing and ceremonial authenticity continues to extend beyond her community.

Carmel is the NSW Red Tent State Manager and qualified Red Tent facilitator.

Furthering qualifications to complete her master’s degree in Mindfulness.

A WORD FROM Carmel

Welcome;
We come together in safe and respected circles to remember, to stretch our wings into new places, and consciously create life in greater alignment with our souls calling.

Carmel Ursua remembers the earth dreaming tracks, the ancient landscapes and the sacred mountains that held and healed her as she spent time in nature, as her shamanic view lens opened as shamans and metaphysical wise people deepened her practices.

The untamed places of nature gifted me with a deeper understanding of my medicine pathway.

The willingness to live on the edge, to push my limits and to reclaim my inherent birth rite as a Healer, Teacher, Ceremonial facilitator, Medicine Hoop drum-maker and Red womb healer.

My journey is a continual lifelong commitment and experience, which has directed me, into new levels of my soul's expression at the heart of the motherland.

Red Tent is the Heart of our Global Community.

Carmel Ursua Sonsalla is the founder of Earth Song Dreaming.com

Contact Information

Any questions please email:

Bree - president@redtentaustralia.org

Carmel - nswtc@redtentaustralia.org

FAQs for becoming an RTA Facilitator

1. How much does it cost to open a Red Tent Branch?

The total cost for the training is $1,250. There are four modules in total, you must complete all modules before you can join an existing branch as a co-facilitator, or open a new branch. You must complete all four modules within one year.

There is a yearly Branch fee of $250 that covers your insurance, support, marketing, and website.

We will attend your opening circle and support you every step of the way. We supply marketing materials, use of the logo, handbook, name badge, policies and procedures and TONNES OF SUPPORT!

2. Will I make money from being an RTA Facilitator?

Yes! You will receive 100% of your ticket sales! You can hold as many circles and workshops as your schedule permits. We only require you to hold one circle per month and one workshop per quarter. The business model we hand you is built on Sacred Commerce and lets you be able to do as much as you desire.

Run with it and built an empire, we will support you all the way!!

OR hold one circle a month to make some incredible connections and offer the gift of connection to your community, we will support you all the way!!

Our facilitators experience lots of rewards from providing life-changing experiences to the women in their community. We respect your time, talent and experience, so we want to make sure you that you earn an income for your time; the bigger your circle the more you earn. But that should not be the goal… Even if one woman attends it will have been worth it.

3. What about things like Facebook for my branch?

We teach you how to manage your branch's Facebook page/group at the training. We share weekly videos and tips to our facilitators and hold weekly online support circles for all our facilitators. We also have a social media manager who is willing to help with any problems you encounter.

4. Do I have to have insurance?

We have an umbrella insurance that you can come under as a branch of RTA.

5. How will I know what to do and say?

We provide you with a handbook that contains scripts for meditations and running orders for each type of circle. We do encourage you to create your own flow. We want each circle to have an individual look, feel and flavour. We just ask that you stick to the same openings and closings at each branch and always treat the Red Tent as Sacred Space.

6. What prior learning or experience do I have to have?

None. But preference will be given to Holistic Wellness Practitioners, Counselors or Mental Health Experts. Women's well-being leaders.

7. How much time per month does it take to run a branch of RTA?

To start with you will be spending a few hours per week reading everything, learning the ropes and talking to people about your branch and you will love every minute of it. After your branch is established and you have a list of potential topics and guest speakers it will take less time to organise. You will create your events on Humanitix (our ticketing site) and then Facebook and then invite all your connections and ask them to share it. Hanging posters at like-minded businesses is a great idea and putting articles in the free section of your local papers is good too. The actual circle is 2-3 hours once a month plus set up and pull down time. YOU CHOOSE YOUR HOURS! It's completely up to you how much time, effort and energy you put into growing and nurturing your branch, it is your business to grow as you wish!

8. Will I have help?

You will be joining a sisterhood of Facilitators who have a wealth of experience; you will be welcomed with open arms. We run facilitator gatherings and ongoing support via our facilitators and friends Facebook group. We have an Executive Committee who are dedicated to your success and want to help you shine. We have a National Red Tent Co-ordinator and State co-ordinators to answer all your questions and attend your opening ceremony. We also have a facilitator weekend retreat planned each year. So yes, you will have help.

9. I'm a business owner can I talk about my business at my Red Tent?

Yes- if you are a Corporate Member of RTA. With all respect to Tupperware, we do not want to turn RTA circles into Tupperware parties. We encourage business owners to become members of our trusted network of service providers, our alternative economy; our Corporate Directory. We also encourage our facilitators to look to our Corp Members to be special guest speakers at their branches. We want to support our sisters and share the knowledge!!! You can be a special guest at your own branch, just not every month.

10. How do I apply? Please fill in your application here: redtentaustralia.org/facilitator-training-eoi/

Upon your acceptance into the training, a $200 non-refundable, but transferable (within 6 months) deposit will hold your space (payment plans are available via Zip Pay (select upon check out).

Covers four full days
Healthy meals, and morning and afternoon teas both days plus herbal teas and coffee
Facilitator Handbook (electronic copy)
RTA name badge

Red Tent Australia is committed to providing a platform for women to initiate their healing. A place to laugh, cry, share and learn.

"What women want is CONNECTION. Not on a superficial level, but REAL connection and support.

The Red Tent is a place for women to feel that connection and to offer and receive that support.

We want to help women to free themselves from the isolation of today's modern world and find their tribe."

~ Jill Genet (RTA Founder)