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Our co-co teacher training programme for 2024

This four-month annual course starts this year in July 2024, is led by Tonya and runs primarily online. It includes a two-day London retreat (which may also run online this year, depending upon how international the course is this year). The programme will tool you up to teach co-counselling confidently (in-person or online), wherever you are in the world, so that you can create a sustainable growth-business teaching something you love… something that is growing in demand in the character-forming times we’re living in!

In the first month of the training, we’re going to inspire you about what teaching co-counselling could be and do for you. We’ll walk you through several different models for your new business and teach you how to use various tools so that you can teach confidently both on and offline, to meet the demands of the time.

In the second month, we’ll cover the basic ingredients of a Fundamentals training and explore how you can make your natural facilitation style work for you and your group. We’ll also troubleshoot some of the situations that you could encounter when leading your groups, so that you can learn to navigate confidently around them.

‘I’d like to celebrate the fact that I’ve been involved in this amazing course. It’s been for me transformational. I’ve developed in so many ways that
I would not have even imagined!’

In the third month, we’ll move into the practicalities of sharing the tools of co-counselling: looking at the different business models and approaches. I will show you how you can live sustainably while teaching something you love (something that I have done now for over 30 years… I’m now one of the UK’s (and perhaps the world’s) most experienced teachers)!

We’ll also learn about managing assessment and accreditation and follow-up. And, following a two-day training retreat included as part of the programme (you’ll need to be able to attend this to get accredited), you’ll emerge confident, ready to set up your own Fundamentals - either on or offline.

You will also get the opportunity to assist on and help facilitate our own in-person Fundamentals trainings (where applicable), our online co-counselling programmes and further skills courses. You will get individualised feedback and validation of your facilitator skills and unique personal facilitation style over the course of the programme and after any courses in which you have co-facilitated or assisted.

P.S. There will be two webinars and a two-day facilitator Facebook Challenge in the run up to the programme starting. Please 'friend' Tonya @ Tonya Gabrielle Christie to get involved.

If you would like to talk to Tonya about any aspect of the programme, please email her at tonya@littlewhitefeather.co.uk to set up a time to talk (places limited at certain points during the year).

Your Investment

The programme includes approximately two online group sessions a month (on Zoom), regular support on our private Facilitation Programme Facebook group PLUS entry to our two-day Facilitator Retreat (please note: a £99 non-refundable seat deposit is payable on booking for this to cover costs for this event). This retreat usually takes place in London, but may take place online again this year: 

There is a sliding scale at the moment: £197-£397/mo. over 4 months ($247-498 US/mo., $322-649 Canadian/ mo., €224-451/ mo.) Please pay what you can genuinely afford: if you are able to pay more, it will enable those with less available funds to attend. There is a 5% early bird discount available until the end of May, which means you pay £187-£397/mo. over the four months.

There are a maximum of five places available at the lower end of the scale. If we do not get enough sign-ups this year to make running the course energetically and financially sustainable, we will consider delaying the start of the programme.

Please register your interest ASAP by writing to tonya@littlewhitefeather.co.uk or drop a line to Debs at cocoonline111@gmail.com

Additional discounts available for current and past clients/ students on Tonya’s other programmes/ trainings.

Please register for a free Teacher Training Discovery Session with Tonya to find out whether the programme will suit you.

Course plus coaching programme

Please ask Tonya about the ‘course plus coaching option’ (recommended) which includes regular facilitator development coaching (Tonya is also a trained life purpose coach and works with regular clients in 16 different countries) and email mentoring in between group and 1-to-1 sessions. Limited spaces.

This is a good option for those who want to be ready to ‘hit the ground running’, setting up their trainings soon after the course ends. Please note, you will be expected to have had some experience as a helper/ assistant or co-teacher before launching your own co-counselling Fundamentals courses. Please ask Tonya about helping out on her quarterly online and in-person trainings or recommendations for other co-counsellors’ trainings that you may be able to assist on.

Graduates of the programme are encouraged to help out/ assist on future facilitator trainings to consolidate the skills built up while on the programme.

‘The retreat was just wonderful for me. I literally felt like I was walking on air. I celebrate how the programme and, I think, your approach, has made me feel like the future is more of a friend.’

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