Become a Dance Facilitator
&
Build a Successful Business
16 – 22nd of October 2023, Estado de Mexico, MEXICO
Enhance Your Skills as a Facilitator by Adding Dance and Movement Methodologies to Your Toolbox!
If you’re looking to take your practice and business to the next level, consider joining our 7-day hands-on training program. Here, you’ll learn how to develop and execute workshops and retreats like a pro and integrate new skills into your practice to become more profitable. By enriching yourself and mastering dance and movement methodologies, you’ll be able to provide optimal support to your clients in all their needs.
The greatness of this Dance Facilitator & Business Training… Let me tell you more!
So tell me, is this YOU?
Are you already working with people as a healer/teacher/facilitator, and you want to learn effective dance & movement tools to bring deep and lasting transformation in the work with your clients or participants?
Are you ready to implement dance as a healing tool into your practice or business, even if it has never been your main focus before?
Is body expression your go-to or do you want to learn this, to deepen your healing practice for yourself and your clients?
Are you ready for this immersive journey of becoming this inspiring dance facilitator who can juggle methodologies and knows how to turn this into a profitable heart-centered business model?
This training focuses on how to directly implement dance and movement tools
as an extra language that you can offer to your clients/participants to get powerful breakthroughs in their inner process.
Join the Dance Facilitator and Build Your Business Today!
Looking to take your career to the next level?
Our program offers practical tools that you can use immediately in your work setting without having to undergo years of extra training. Our 7-day hands-on training, complemented by online sessions, covers a wide range of practical skills. Deepen your learning experience while simultaneously implementing new techniques.
Don’t wait – start building your business today!
What will you learn?
- Understand how dance & movement can heal, understand the benefits & how to apply them
- How to facilitate with confidence, playfulness, and resourcefulness
- New skills that will enhance your abilities as a body-oriented facilitator
- You will gain valuable insights into how to run a profitable business using a heart-centered approach
- How to effectively market your skills and services, attract more clients, and increase your profitability
- The training will offer hands-on opportunities to practice and refine your skills as a facilitator & entrepreneur
- Learn the ins & outs of retreat planning & workshops
This program includes a range of teaching methods, such as:
- Demonstrations
- Role-playing as a client and facilitator
- Intervision and implementation sessions
- Assignments with personalized feedback
- Hot seat learning
- Brainstorming sessions
- Q&A sessions
This is what you will learn to become a skilled dance & movement facilitator & build your unique successful heart-centered practice and business
Facilitating Dance & Movement
as transformational healing tools
You will learn how to facilitate emotional, psychological, spiritual, and relational processes within individuals, couples, and groups.
- The role, attitude, and skills of a facilitator
- The Transformational Facilitator Business model
- Key elements and concrete dance & movement exercises, and how to create variations specific to your work setting & target group
- Facilitating in-person versus online
- How to work with life music, a playlist and DJ
Integrating dance & movement into individual sessions, workshops & retreats
If you already are a healer or practitioner, it’s important to learn when, where, and how to implement dance & movement in your existing practice.
- The key elements of individual & group sessions
- The phases of transformational dance & movement workshops & retreats
- How to select the best tools for your sessions, workshops, or retreats
- How to set up, organize and plan successful workshops and retreats
- Learn the ins & outs of workshop & retreat planning
Heart-centered Business
During your facilitation and healing work, and as a people-lover, you work with your entire being. This includes your heart and intuition. Also in leading your business, this is crucial.
You will learn how to:
- Build a heart-centered and profitable business at the same time
- Create a business structure that creates recurring revenue
- Create your own marketing campaign
Promoting & selling your activities
Leading a heart-centered practice or business doesn’t mean that you can’t make a profit. As much as you want well-being and abundance for your clients, this is the number 1 rule that you need to master: how to include yourself so you can give from an overflowing cup. Learn how to:
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- Create a branding that is totally you and reflects the essence of what you offer
- Price your services and get paid for your worth
- Sell your services with confidence
Enroll in this training and unlock the key to running a profitable and thriving business.
With the skills you’ll acquire, you’ll be able to dance away any worries or doubts as a dance & movement facilitator!
Our approach
You already notice, this is not just any training.
Let me tell you what is so special about it!
Personal
During this training, you will be given the chance to participate in each methodology from the client’s perspective.
You will have the opportunity to share your story and experience firsthand the healing power and transformational opportunities that each exercise provides.
Professional
Facilitate your group’s growth by becoming professionally trained in every tool by Mieke. Leni will guide you in creating a cohesive business strategy that sets you up for success. With plenty of opportunities for sharing and receiving personal feedback, you’ll have all the tools necessary to succeed.
Customized to your Work Setting
What to Expect in Your 1-on-1 Registration Session for Effective Facilitation Workshops:
- During your personalized registration session, we will take the time to understand your work setting and personal goals. This will help us tailor the material to suit both the group and your individual needs.
- Our workshops will cover effective tools for individuals, couples, and groups, with each methodology discussed in detail. This allows you to learn how to adapt these tools to your specific work setting and target groups. Our expert facilitator, Mieke, is skilled at challenging both experienced facilitators and newcomers alike, helping you reach your full potential.
- In addition to the facilitation training, our business expert, Leni, will share crucial information with the group. She will then guide you on how to implement these strategies in your unique business, regardless of whether you’re just starting or have an established business. Leni has been in your shoes and can help take your business to the next level.
Dance & Business all in one!
Leni and Mieke, both experienced in facilitating, organizing, planning, working for businesses, and entrepreneurship, have discovered an interesting trend.
They found that people tend to be either skilled at facilitating as a practitioner or possess business acumen.
Their aim is to bridge this gap by teaching individuals how to succeed in both domains. Through their program, you will learn how to incorporate dance and movement into your facilitation to achieve long-lasting transformation.
You’ll also gain the knowledge to attract new clients who are eager to experience your unique abilities, resulting in a profitable business that is perfectly in tune with your values and strengths.
The Perfect Blend: Combining Hands-On and Online Sessions
- We understand the importance of hands-on learning, especially for facilitator training where embodiment is key. For this reason, we have arranged for a week-long training in Mexico where we will focus on mastering movement tools. Also, business training sessions will be offered during this in-person training and will be deepened afterward.
- Subsequently, we will provide additional support through weekly online sessions to reinforce what you’ve learned and guide you in applying it to your new or existing practice and business. During these online sessions, the business training part will be the main focus, so you have the time to digest and master all the material.
This comprehensive approach will ensure that you are fully prepared for success even after you have left the training.
Creating an Ideal Learning Experience
Mieke & Leni have carefully chosen exercises based on their effectiveness and accessibility to a wide range of clients and participants from diverse backgrounds, ages, and situations.
Additionally, to further enhance your learning experience, we limit the group size to a minimum of 8 people and a maximum of 14 people.
The icing on the cake of this unique learning experience is that you gather in a small group of fellow-participants, all with the same hunger for inspiration and life-long-learning. People to practice and experiment with, create and simply hang out and share your stories during a starry night in the garden.
Belonging to a tribe of colleagues, fellow-creatives with mutual interests, to provide you with support as an inspiring people-worker and entrepreneur.
It makes your professional path much richer and easy, which is priceless. We are sure this melting pot will lead to some beautiful co-creations!
Why integrating dance and movement is beneficial
for yourself as a healer/facilitator/teacher?
As you work with your entire being, working with people can ask a lot from you. Especially if your clients have a big need to tell their story and if your background focuses most on the mental part.
In this training, you will receive tools to stay active, energized, and in tune with your body, which allows you to keep in balance and connected yourself. You will deliver higher quality sessions, and stay motivated and inspired, which is key in burn-out prevention.
As a healer/facilitator, your mission is to help people, but sometimes we easily might get seduced to fall into the trap of offering solutions when we may feel helpless ourselves. However, we know that it’s more empowering when our clients come up with their own answers. Through these new methodologies, you finally can offer them something to do, that will interrupt the train of their thoughts, and as a consequence, it’s easier to access their inner world. Embodiment is entering the world of the unconscious as the place for them to find their own wisdom.
You will notice soon that the dynamics in your sessions will change, they will become lighter, which will create direct movement in the process of your participants. As a facilitator, it’s much more fun and rewarding when you can integrate active exercises as an impulse for new perspectives and information to arise.
As an integrative psychotherapist, I have learned to walk the way of several therapies, and I must say that adding body-oriented therapies was a total game-changer for me and my clients. Now I can offer an extra language to communicate with them, that is more direct, efficient, and much less threatening, as it’s done playfully.
What’s in there for your clients & participants?
The methods that you will learn will bring your clients into their bodies, an important step in your sessions, but also as a new ability to integrate into their daily lives as a part of their healing process. Problems often arise in the mind, solutions are most likely to be found within.
Often people never learned to express their inner world, or they are totally disconnected from their bodies and emotions. At the same time, they may fear opening up that box, not knowing what it can bring up. When words fall short, experiences and emotions can be explored through images or the body, in a safe and contained way. Whereas words can’t always cover the totality of the experience, these tools make things more visible and tangible.
Others may feel totally overwhelmed by what they experience within. Body-oriented methodologies can create distance and space which allow clients to breathe again and connect to their inner and outer experiences without getting flooded.
When working with couples or groups, dance & movement exercises will offer your clients an instant connection through shared experiences. It’s great to implement with new groups, as team building or professional training, in therapeutic settings, and even in transformational workshops or retreats.
Expect
… to start the day with energizing gentle morning practices in the fresh morning grass or on the mat while soft sun rays caress your face. This will be the foundation and orientation toward the theme of the day. The smell of fresh coffee and herbs will seduce you to enjoy a typical Mexican breakfast, with tropical fruit and more.
Then it’s time to dive in. Expect an interactive and dynamic training full of demonstrations, practicing, playing and moving, feedback circles, brainstorms, Q&A’s, and much more. All are organically built up, and chunked down into bite-size pieces, so you will learn without any effort! After a delicious lunch to lick your fingers, you can enjoy a fresh dive into the pool or a siesta, before we continue the training.
We end the day with a yummy dinner and a relaxing evening activity or some free time to connect with our new friends.
Location
Mexico, home of many ancient cultures, including the Mayans and the Aztecs. This country really has it all: wide open deserts, impressive mountains, lush jungles, tropical beaches, authentic ‘pueblos magicos’, and big cities with lots of activities.
The Mexicans know how to live life. They are easy-going, and keen on spicy cuisine, festive drinks and colorful sceneries.
Join us in rural Zampuhuacan, one of the 125 municipalities of Mexico City, surrounded by mountains. It means ‘tree of coral’ in Nahuatl, the indigenous language. There is no better place to learn about creativity and its healing power.
For sure, these people with a big smile, open heart, laid-back nature and totally living in the present moment will make you feel at home straight away.
Venue
Our training sessions will take place in this popular Mexican retreat-center, with gorgeous open gardens, decorated with colorful flowers and precious mountains on the horizon.
This temporary home is an oasis of peacefulness for you to connect with nature during your free time, the ideal environment to enhance your learning experience.
The pallapa with Mexican hammocks will offer you some shade, the pool will refresh you, and the local steam bath will heat you up before a deep night sleep.
Free time
During this week you will get some free time blocks as well to unwind. You can hang out in the garden, swim in the pool or treat yourself to a Mexican chocolate wellness spa experience. These breaks are essential when you want to take in new tools and skills. Guess, what, the haven of our retreat place is just perfect for this!
You really can’t leave without exploring some of Mexico’s authentic culture. Be prepared for a surprise activity!
And what did you think about a real sweat lodge experience, a pleasure for all your senses? This ancient cleansing ceremony is a total rejuvenation and will leave you with skin as soft as silk. This night, you can be sure to sleep like a baby!
Mexican gastronomy
There is no doubt about it, Mexico offers a huge variety of fresh fruits, vegetables, and medicinal plants to indulge in. It’s a delight to prepare fresh, healthy and delicious food that supports your learning experience and will give you a real cultural experience.
Our retreat cooks, are experts in home-cooked meals. Here in Mexico they know what tasty food is like! Dream away with some of the local specialties, such as chillaquiles, quesadillas, Oaxacan moles, just to name a few.
Gluten-free or vegan meals are possible on request. We will be happy to accommodate your dietary needs.
Included
3 delicious meals a day, with snacks in between
Energizing morning practices
Connecting evening activities, such as a campfire, sound journey, games or movie night…
All materials during the training
3 months of weekly online implementation & new content sessions about the business and selling aspect as a Dance & Movement Facilitator
3 x 90-minute follow-up peer intervision sessions with Mieke
Certificate of participation
Transportation from the international airport in Mexico City to the venue & back to the airport
Excluded
Personal consumption or souvenirs
Any additional personal sessions in wellness or coaching
Personal, medical and trip cancellation insurance
BONUSES YOU CAN’T BEAT
Before your travel: make heart-to-heart connections and lifelong friendships in our private Facebook Group!
Get access to our private Whatsapp Group for all your pre-trip practical questions.
To get the most from this amazing experience, receive a 1-on-1 call from us before the event, to prepare you for the journey.
Professional photo-shoot from you as a Dance & Movement Facilitator, working with your peers, to use as promotional material to hit off your creative facilitations straight after the training
Access to the masterclass: 22 ways to sold-our retreats, by Leni
3 signed books, written by Mieke: The Workshop Blueprint, Workshop Design & Soul Food for Workshop Teachers. These books will support you after the training in implementing the tools & design your own creative workshops or retreats.
3 follow-up workshops about: how to create the frame of your own creative workshop, the content of your workshop (series) and how to be more authentic in your facilitations, by Mieke
A welcome gift, a Mexican healing kit and several surprise bonuses!
About Mexico
We just love Mexico! Mexico is Leni’s home country, where she always comes back. Mieke has lived here for many months. As world travelers, they both can say that it is absolutely one of the most fascinating places on earth!
You will stay at an amazing retreat center, close to Mexico City and all its historical gems.
Mexico has a reputation for being dangerous, but if you know where to go and ask locals what to be cautious for, there is not so much to worry about, -if you use your common sense, such as keeping your belongings safe for example. Also as a solo traveling female, you can feel generally at ease.
People speak Spanish or Nahuatl, their native language. However, people interacting with tourists speak English, so it will be easy to get around. This is also the perfect place to practice your Spanish, no matter how basic or advanced you are!
There is quite a big stream of expat population that you can divide among people looking for a heaven to retire, or conscious people seeking for a more balanced lifestyle in a laid-back environment.
About Mieke, your Trainer in
Dance & Movement Facilitation
It’s Mieke’s passion and mission to support people to find inner peace and freedom through creative art therapies which increase consciousness, the key to happiness and harmony all-around.
With great care and her loving presence, she creates unique holistic transformational retreats that stay with you forever. You can be sure that you will leave differently than you arrived!
Through her 1-on-1’s, and group work she has helped loads of people over the globe, to reconnect with themselves, support them through difficult life-crisis’s and make the needed adjustments to get on track again, dancing the waves of life.
She is also the owner of Moving Hearts Therapy, a business to support people during transformational & inner journeys, and specialized in training other healers in creative art therapies. Mieke has also written books to support other facilitators and loves to train and inspire her colleagues.
About Leni, your Business Trainer & Retreat Planner
Loyalty marketing expert Leni Cavazos specializes in marketing strategy and experience curation. Her specialty is producing hybrid events, private retreats, niche masterclasses, educational conferences, and immersive experiences from head to toe. Leni was recruited to roll out the Marriott Bonvoy Loyalty Program across the Middle East and Africa by Marriott’s global office in Dubai. The key to her business strategy is to plan for loyal customers who spend 67% more. An expert in loyalty marketing, hospitality, food and beverage marketing, event curation, and 360-degree campaigns.
Currently, she has a private business strategy & marketing consulting firm helping businesses that create positive change in the world. She is also the CEO of The Retreat Planner, a worldwide company offering educational programs on how to purposefully and efficiently plan wellness retreats.
Leni´s driver is to teach that branding and marketing are an overall expression of who you are, considering a company as a whole entity representing someone´s passion and dreams.
FAQ
Can dance & movement as a healing tool also be used with adults?
Yes. It’s a total misconception that these kinds of tools are especially for children, the elderly, or people with disabilities. You would be amazed at the effectiveness with adults as well! They often enjoy being encouraged to reconnect with themselves, their bodies and play again.
I am afraid my clients won’t see the benefits of body-oriented methodologies.
For many, this approach can be new indeed, as it’s not the common perspective in the world of healing. In the end, it’s all about trust and safety. In the training, we will focus on how you can introduce your client to the field of embodiment, how to gradually build the exercises up according to each client, and how their boundaries can be respected. You will learn extra tools to offer, and it’s upon the client if they want to go with it or not. In my experience, clients usually love it!
Do my clients need to be creative?
No, not at all. I will offer you accessible tools to use. No previous knowledge is needed for you or your clients. We will focus on the internal processes contrary to the esthetical component of dance & movement. Most likely initially they will think that they are not able to dance, finding out that in fact, they can. How empowering is that!
My clients are not mobile, does it still make sense to join?
Yes, it totally makes sense. It’s not about what they can do with their body or how it looks like. In fact, they will benefit the movement practices a lot! It’s very useful to explore the relationship with their body and how this can become a safe place, even something to enjoy again, accepting any kind of immobility. We will focus on the inner process while moving, what it brings up, and activate this transformational potential of the body to heal emotional wounds. Creative self-expression & self-connection can even stimulate physical healing processes, especially with psycho-emotional symptoms.
I am not a therapist, healer or facilitator (yet). Is this training also suited for me?
I have often given this training to a mixture of professionals and highly motivated people without any previous knowledge yet.
It turns out that for the latter, this is a profound transformative experience, as firstly you will take on the role of a client. Additionally, there will be demonstrations and guidelines to take your first steps in facilitating. By the end of the training, you will notice how much you have learned! You will be ready to implement the tools in your current environment.
Often after this training, my participants start a basic training as a caregiver or healer, as they get the itch of this practice. There is a reason why this training interests you. Come and find out, you are most welcome as you are!
I am an artist, dancer or very creative. I would like to find out if and how I can support others with my background. Am I at the right place?
Yes, for sure. You will firstly learn how to connect your creative process with your internal and external life. From there, you will take your first steps into facilitating. Your background will give you extra ideas in how to adjust exercises to different target groups. You may even find out that your creative side is a strength in this training, which will most-likely inspire the other participants.
How can this be a training suited for a mixture of people?
I (Mieke) am trained as a teacher and psychotherapist and have lots of experience in facilitating people with different backgrounds or pre-knowledge at the same time. I consciously choose to offer this training in this set-up as a formula to enrich and deepen everyone’s experience.
Each will have more or less experience as a client, a facilitator/therapist/healer, or in embodiment. All those aspects are important components of this training. A mixed group provides a total representation of your future clients or participants. This is the perfect environment to learn how to manage this!
Does this replace therapy training?
No, unfortunately in a little more than one week, you can’t learn to be a licensed therapist. However, it’s a very good start, and you will be able to implement useful healing tools in your own environment, with your colleagues, family or friends. This is a facilitator training, where you will learn basic skills and attitudes of a facilitator, while doing. You will find out straight away if this is something for you.
Which kind of therapists is this training suited for?
As many facilitators or healers you probably got trained to focus on one of these parts: the inter-relational dynamics, the cognitive, the behaviorist, the transpersonal, or the experiential part. All are very valuable and effective. Yet, after a while, you might long for some extra tools and different perspectives to integrate into your work.
No matter your background, you can weave what you learn in this training into your actual professional practice. One of the big advantages is that creative and embodied methodologies can be integrated into many kinds of therapies, as it includes all these components: the doing, the feeling and sensing, the storytelling, the connections, and giving meaning to the experience.
After 1 week of training, you will have learned a new perspective, and be able to directly implement a wide range of simple and effective tools with your clients or participants.
Do you have any other questions?
Testimonials
“I highly recommend Creative Art Therapy Training with Mieke!
What I appreciate most about the training is the loving and safe space Mieke is creating. It feels wonderful to open up in the role of the patient and making first steps in the role of the therapist which are both parts of the training.
The effectiveness of her art therapy methods is impressive:
During the training a lot of inner processes began and within three days of expressing my self through creatively I gained a lot of clarity and impulses.
Mieke is giving clear instructions on how an art therapist works while allowing to bring in ones own inspiration and finding an individual way to work as a therapist.
Thanks to Miekes art therapy training, a whole new world opened up for me personally and professionally.
Thank you, beautiful Mieke !”
“Leni Cavazos is fabulous. She not only brings a wealth of information and knowledge to her sessions but she has a contagiously joyful energy and has a special way of radiating that energy. Working with her has been inspiring, affirming, & extremely beneficial, both personally & for my business.”
“Leni’s course was great! Very informative and it’s clear that Leni has a wealth of experience in the field of retreat planning!
I have learned very valuable things from Leni, so I can host a better retreat myself. She taught me very useful tips and tricks and also showed me how to improve my website, sales, and many other useful things.
I highly recommend attending one of Leni’s courses.”
Are you already a healer, facilitator, teacher or coach?
Are you looking to reignite your passion for your work?
Longing for self-care, inspiration & connection?
Perhaps ‘the Soul Food for Caregivers‘ is something for you!
