Red Tent Australia Facilitator Training QLD 2020

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 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th March 2020 as a residential inclusive event.

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

We are seeking facilitators to join the team at:

• Macleay Island Red Tent
• Woodford Red Tent
• Lismore Red Tent
• Gold Coast South Red Tent
• Ipswich Red Tent
• Brisbane South Red Tent
• Noosa Red Tent
• Wynnum/Manly 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 5th March - Sunday 8th 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!!

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Total Training Cost = $1,200

This Includes:

• Accommodation at the venue in a tranquil bushland location at Mt Cotton.
• 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.

If you have attended 1 and 2 previously you are invited to join us on Saturday and Sunday to graduate.

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

Venue

Karingal Scout Campsite Mount Cotton

1 Karingal Rd, Mount Cotton QLD

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
  • Dare to Lead- Brene Brown
• 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
• Counseling
• 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 Talking Stick
• Closing ceremony, creating a sisterhood
• Global healing

Module Two - "What is Sacred Space?" Friday

• Setting the scene for magic to happen, awakening the senses
• Cacao 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 smudging

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 into 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:

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

What to bring

• Bedding, pillow
• memory stick
• sacred objects to include on your Red Tent's talking stick
• yoga mat if you have one
• any special feathers or bird wings

Your Trainers

Jill Genet (Founder and National Coordinator)

Jill is a vibrant, highly skilled facilitator. She is a colourful change-maker and visionary, with a strong passion for connecting women to make their dreams come true. She has the life path of the Spiritual Messenger and has taken on the role of gathering the tribe. She has a wicked sense of humour and shares her message through story telling and laughter.

With over 20 years experience in running women's circles and qualifications in Holistic Counselling, Shamanic Path and Practice, Compassionate Communication, Red Tent Facilitation & Yoga Teaching her goal is to educate, awaken and enlighten women to their power, strength and natural gifts.

Her mission is to support women in the opening and running Red Tents in every neighbourhood, all over Australia. The Red Tent movement is a worldwide one and is needed now more than ever as women awaken to their purpose and power. It is essential for the growth of our civilization that women always have a circle of support around them to grow and strengthen our culture and nurture the future.

In our society today there is no formal acknowledgment or recognition of the Feminine Divinity. It is still thought to be an "underground" or "alternative" movement, somewhat threatening to the mainstream.

Jill wants to break down the falsehoods & illusions that are too often found in our culture and bring healing into the light. She sees one way of doing this by training women in Non-Violent Communication/Compassionate Communication to experience the ripple effect on their families and humanity at large.

She trains women from all walks of life and age groups to lead Red Tents under the banner of Red Tent Australia, a Non-Profit Community Enterprise Movement that she began in 2013 after completing Red Tent Facilitator Training with Tanishka, The Moon Woman.

Jill wants everyone to know that belonging to a community should not be about conforming or giving away your power. It should be about becoming a purposeful being who is able to encourage and nurture others while receiving support and compassion yourself.

Jill believes that competition is obsolete and the only way forward is collaboration. Red Tent Australia is built on the model of Sacred Commerce; where the number of others you help succeed measures your success.

Asking for help and being open to receiving it are the biggest lessons Jill hopes to impart on women, along with a deep knowing that you are never alone!

She thinks that by remembering and harnessing our ancestral wisdom, re-introducing the old ways of nature is the only way forth. Along with removing the self-imposed "masks" that are firmly in place in society, we can all start to work towards healing the earth via healing ourselves.

A WORD FROM JILL

"Welcome, welcome, welcome!!

I started Bayside Red Tent in April of 2013 because I was lonely.

I was never alone; with 6 kids, a loving, supportive husband and a wide circle of acquaintances, I was surrounded by people all the time and yet, I was lonely. What I didn't realise at the time was I need to feel heard and not having anything asked of me for a few hours a month! I actually just needed ME TIME and that WE ALL DO!!

I have been running women's circles for 20 years and am trained in Red Tent facilitation and Holistic Counselling and am a Shamanic Path and Practice student. I'm also a raw food chef and a yoga teacher.

Before coming to Australia in 2011 I lived in America and worked as a make-up artist. It always struck me how many women would sit down in my chair would apologise to me, a total stranger, for the way they looked... I knew how much I wanted to empower women in some way…

My vision is to have Red Tents in every town!!

I started holding gatherings in the Bayside of Brisbane for women in April 2013 every new moon, (a great time to get off the couch and shift that heaviness) and they were a huge success. Our circles are always well attended, fun and a chance for me to connect and reconnect to myself.

So many women have told me how much they appreciate what I do and how much they enjoy coming to Red Tent. They tell me that they have never experienced anything like it before, which is so simple and yet so profound. Just to sit in a room of women and be at peace. No agenda, no pressure, no judgment, no conditions, just connection ahhhhh…..

What a wonderful feeling, being told you're appreciated is one of the most simple and yet incredible things you can hear.

What I want and see working for the community at large is to introduce the concept of having a Red Tent in every neighbourhood, but letting the women, who attend each Red Tent shape the look, feel and flavour.

I train the facilitators in compassionate communication and group facilitation skills and implement a procedure for each circle; giving them rails to run on, but it is up to the individual facilitator to listen to the women who attend her tent and find out what they want to experience each month.

What I've found, and I'm sure you have too, is a level of what I call ‘spiritual snobbery' in the more ‘awakened' circles of women and I am determined to keep that out of RTA!!

A Sacred Community doesn't have to be somber!!

I want everyone to know that belonging to a community should not be about conforming or giving away your power or being made to feel inadequate. It should be about becoming a purposeful being who is able to support and nurture others while receiving support and nurturing yourself.

It is our hope for every woman who enters any Red Tent Australia circle to experience a sense of belonging, sisterhood, and strength that stays with them from then on.

I want to teach the RTA facilitators how to awaken women and girls who enter the red tent to their natural gifts and talents. I think the main keys to being a successful facilitator with RTA are resilience, compassion and a sense of realness.

I am so excited to be running these trainings for the women who are facilitating Red Tents or interested in becoming Facilitators with Red Tent Australia. The processes and Satsang (teachings) that I will be doing with you will help to open to your greatest potential both within the Red Tent and life in general. I can't wait to welcome you into our sisterhood!"

Jada Dawson (QLD Tent Coordinator)

Bio - Jada
Jada is a woman who relishes being a “Wise Woman”. Her journey to this point in her life has taken many paths, however, she has always been of service to others. Be it within Animal Welfare or with the human spirit. Her way of being in this world is to live with an open heart. Her warmth is genuine and you are naturally drawn to being in her company. She opens her arms without judgment to welcome you.

Amongst the numerous paths Jada has walked, she has always brought her humour & compassion to her life’s passions (work). Jada has been holding Sacred Space for women for many years. In the last 2 years she has been holding space under the banner of Red Tent Australia as the facilitator for Gold Coast South Red Tent.

Jada has and continues to, study many different modalities. From Tantra, Sacred Sexuality to the Ancient Women’s Traditions & Ceremonies. She is a facilitator for many varied women’s groups, circles and workshops. Jada is a self-declared Goddess of Divine Love and enjoys teaching women how to reconnect to themselves through the Art Of Conscious Touch.
She is a teacher of the Tantric Traditions and holds intimate workshops for women to learn the art of bringing pleasure to their partners and allowing them to receive the gift of touch.

Her desire is for all women from all walks of life to come to an understanding of their worth as the reflection of the Divine Feminine. She believes that each woman is a unique individual who has the potential to bring forth their extraordinary gifts and talents for the betterment of the human race and our Mother Earth. Jada is sincere in wanting you to know that you are loved just as you are, right here, right now…

A word from Jada

I feel very blessed to welcome you into your Red Tent journey as a Facilitator. As women of this time in our world, I strongly believe that when we come together in circle, we genuinely have the power to change the Earthly experience of all people. Not just for those who are walking their path now but for those who have yet to walk the earth. For me sitting in circle is a feeling of Coming Home.

It is a space where all are accepted & welcomed. Where women are encouraged to BE themselves, without their masks and without any judgement, or expectations.

I am so honoured to be stepping up and into the roles of QLD Red Tent Manager and Facilitator Trainer. It is very exciting to share my knowledge & passion for women’s work with you. My commitment to you is to be fully there for you, to encourage you, to applaud you, to assist you in any way I can on your Red Tent Facilitator journey. I will be there to laugh with you, cry with you and simply hold you. I will be that someone who can empathise with you not only as a woman but as a Red Tent Facilitator.

A little background about myself. I was born with a degenerative hereditary neurological disorder called Charcot Marie Tooth. This condition has brought me many challenges as well as many gifts. The challenges are around issues of mobility, balance and strength of my body. My Body imagine and where do I fit in this image conscious world. Are but two issues that have been challenging.

The gifts I have received from living with a physical disability have been countless. They have allowed me to understand what is really important in my life. And that is to live my life from my Heart. As well as having such deep empathy and compassion for all beings of this world and beyond.

My outlook is to give it a go. It truly doesn’t matter how I do something as long as I achieve what my goal was. I no longer give my power away to people who see me as less than.
I am passionate about changing the way society as a whole views people who are perceived to be different. I applaud women who are speaking up to change this damaging and dangerous behaviour.

We as women can no longer permit ourselves to be pitted against each other, rather we must start to build each other up. It is my believe that we cannot quietly standby and allow our young maidens and women to be harmed through Body Shaming and totally unrealistic and unattainable expectations of Social Media. Let us celebrate our diversity, uniqueness and individuality.

I have the privilege of facilitating various types of women’s circles and ceremonies. Of guiding women through our rites of passage, such as 1st Blood (Menarche), Mother Blessings, Birth Blessings through to the Crowning of the Queen, Wise Woman and Crone.
I receive great joy in connecting with women through crafting workshops. There is something magical when we share our knowledge. The giving & receiving of past traditions brought back to life.
My soul is filled with Light when I see the women before me, remember their Divinity. Remembering the ancient rituals and ceremonies that have been forgotten along the way.

Remembering what it is to be Woman. Standing strong in her knowing that she is all she ever needs to BE.
Blissful Blessings
Jada

Contact Information

Any questions please email:

Jill - nationalcoordinator@redtentaustralia.org

Jada - qldtc@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 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, Counsellors 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 that 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

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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)