Deep Rest Integration
Facilitator Training
Deep Rest 1:1 Facilitator Training Programme
Join James Reeves for a 12 month transformative training
to become a skilful one-to-one facilitator of the powerfully integrative, therapeutic heart of yoga nidra.
Learn to facilitate profoundly restorative one-to-one Deep Rest Integration sessions.
Serve the people you support through harnessing the power of non-dual meditation, authentic self-discovery and integration.
Deepen your skillset supporting individuals in finding rest and lasting wellbeing.
A year long journey
…because you value depth, time, space and your own process of integration: you’re not interested in quick fixes any more, either for yourself of for those you support.
Monthly self-study video module content
…because you’re a self-starter, because you enjoy being able to digest new concepts for yourself on your own time-frame (and in your own time-zone!), so that you can compound the value of your live training time with deeper understanding.
Monthly teacher training half-day with an intimate group of like-minded others
Personal participation in training sessions and 1:1 Deep Rest Integration Sessions throughout the programme
…because you know the value of community, sharing experience, learning together and having your questions met live, and in an environment of collective inquiry.
…because you understand the value of personal experience, because you would never ask your clients to undertake a process you haven’t directly experienced yourself, and because you want to be supported through the deepening of your own personal journey as you learn how to facilitate others.
Group demonstrations of concepts with live group learning and interactive Q&A…
…because you know there’s no substitute for procedural learning: for literally seeing what you’re learning play out in real time, and for sharing reflections, questions and learnings interactively as a group.
50 hours supervised case study work with 5 of your own clients
…because you know the gold – skilfulness, wisdom and confidence – all lies in the experience, in the practical hours spent sitting with people, and you don’t want to have to wait until the end of a training programme to practise your skills as a facilitator. You want support as you go, support as you grow.
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Or perhaps you’d like to experience this work for yourself – in which case, book a 1:1 Deep Rest Integration Session with James here
Is this you?
This training has been built for you if:
You have an interest in, or experiential practice of yoga nidra, meditation or inquiry practices and are intrigued by the prospect of learning how to facilitate powerful therapeutic experiences for others based on these principles and teachings
You’re already making a difference to people’s wellbeing through your work in the world, and you long to deepen the way you’re able to serve individuals on a one-to-one basis, either in person, online, or both
You know you can do this, if only you can break through the limiting beliefs, doubts, fears and insecurities you have about bringing your skillset more confidently into the world
You’ve experienced some of the profoundly restorative benefits of meditation, yogic practices or presence-centred therapeutic modalities, and wish to become more masterful at guiding others into meaningful insight, freedom and wellbeing
You’re interested in really showing up for people, and would rather work meaningfully with a smaller group of people than try to grow a large audience
You wish to deepen your own journey and personal experience of integration and know that the more you do so, the more you’ll be able to serve others
You’d love to be part of a community of like-minded people equally committed to a contemplative, spacious, altruistic and gentle way of being and working in the world
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Course content
6 pillars of Deep Rest Integration Facilitation
The Programme is divided into 6 pillars, each building on the previous, which we will explore respectively over a couple of months at a time. Each month you will receive pillar-specific teaching content with core facilitation distinctions, techniques, perspectives and considerations to build into your ongoing practice.
You’ll receive video trainings and downloadable pdf summaries each month based on each pillar, to help you build solid foundations for your facilitation skillset, which will ultimately become far more than the sum of its parts over the course of the year we spend together.
Our intention is to ensure this is an integrative and accumulative learning experience, pedagogically mirroring the nature of the integrative experiences you are learning how to facilitate for others. Video content will be released on a month-by-month basis, alongside downloadable pdfs with self-inquiry questions and reflections designed for you to deepen your reflective practice as we go along.
Pilllar One – Orientation
Pillar Two – Self
Pillar Three – Psyche
Pillar Four – Content
Pillar Five – Connection
Pillar Six – Integration
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Pillar 1
Orientation
Overview. Understand the core concepts and competencies of the approach
Fundamentals. Explore the centrality of presence in this way of working, and where foregrounding it can be helpful and limiting
Inquiry. Discover how curiosity and openness are fundamental to healthy relating, and learn four simple inquiries that will help you gain confidence and trust in the process of listening and asking questions
Unchanging stillness as a transformative experience. Build a foundational understanding of how Deep Rest relates to facilitating transformation
Pillar 2
Self
True nature as Self. Understand the distinction between internal content, defined as thoughts, beliefs, emotions, sensations, and memories, and ‘Self’ as the observer of experience.
Facilitate insightful perspective. Explore a range of enquiries that facilitate this understanding experientially, meaning that every client you work with can experience perspective on internal content
Integration. Support participants to move from intellectually understanding true nature toward experiencing this perspective within sessions, including meaningful self-generated insights.
Reflective listening. Learn specific listening techniques and explore questions that help reveal a person's relationship with internal content, thus uncovering misidentification between self-judgement and true self.
Embodied understanding. Explore somatic enquiries that support a felt experience of this true self, helping those you work with toward a first-hand experience of this seemingly elusive, yet always available deeper nature.
Pillar 3
Psyche
Unconscious. By careful listening, asking attuned questions and offering reflective mirroring, we can help unconscious processes such as attachments, biases, triggers, and identity narratives become clear and transparent to those we sit with
Fusion. Both facilitator and participant can be fused with beliefs and thoughts, by relinquishing certainty, we are set free toward something more open
Mirroring. Learn how to skillfully mirror another and help them see their stories, beliefs and ideas about who they are, their self-judgements and inner ways of relating
Truth. Help discern for yourself and others the difference between conditioned self-narrative and deeper, intuitive knowing.
Integration. We cannot get rid of the psyche and its conditioning, yet with compassion, curiosity, and openness, the transition from opaque to transparent takes place.
Pillar 6
Integration
Self-integrity - Explore how you are going to hold yourself with integrity in this work. Consider your practice and the ways you will integrate that into your work as a facilitator. Be confident you are practicing what you preach, all be it imperfectly.
Structure. Build a framework for your working rhythm that allows time to process your own experience, digest your own responses to client sessions, and how you’ll continue to practice your own integrative process within your practice.
Scope Of Practice - Receive guidance with personal and professional limitations and consider ethics, professional integrity, and when to refer clients to other professional services.
Self-Leadership - Enquire into your core values and gain insight and assurity as to how you will carry this work forward into the world based on those values.
Vision – returning to your heartfelt desire for doing this work. Gain clarity as to how your newfound skillset will serve the world, including the populations you wish to serve.
Reflection – Contemplate your journey through the programme content, what this has taught you about yourself and how you can best serve those that engage with in this work with you. Consider the personal and professional limitations that you have met and moved through as part of this year-long journey.
Ongoing integration – where has this journey revealed your own blind spots and limitations in being present within your own imperfect humanity, and how will you continue to integrate and hold these aspects of yourself in the context of the process you have learned.
Pillar 4
Content
Welcoming. Help those you work with establish internal trust through the disposition of being curious and open toward certain feelings, emotions, and previously refused experiences
Modalities for interacting with inner guests. Internally relating can be through feeling, hearing and seeing. Learn how to invite clients in to a rich and deep inner relationship.
Child work. Inviting the internalisation of our young self is paramount to understanding our inner landscape. Discover how to invite, be with and listen to the unmet needs of the sometimes preverbal and often vulnerable young self.
Protecting and shielding. Understand the different roles attending and protecting emotions can play, both preceding and following other, deeper outcast memories and somatic traumas. Learn how these attendants can and will relinquish their roles through skillful facilitation.
Pillar 5
Connection
Resonance. When two human beings sit together, there is a subtle blending of both people's experiences. Learn how to rest amidst this with sensitivity and curiosity and how this relational field can be powerfully transformative.
Entrainment. When we sit with another in the quietness of presence, our own natural calmness and gentle curiosity entrain another’s nervous system into that same resonant field. Learn a simple skillset that will at once facilitate ease and well-being in another and keep you feeling rested and whole amidst every session you facilitate.
Projection. Often framed as dangerous or negative, explore how this phenomenon can play out between two individuals, how to stay present when it’s in the field, and how holding this well for another can be deeply transformative.
Empathic listening. Relax deeply into the possibility that you don't need to know what to do, how to fix someone or what their next steps might be to really help them.
True Nature. This approach is - at a deeper level - meditation. Both you and your clients will deepen your relationship with true nature. Becoming a skillful facilitator means you will explore together, discover within each other, and anchor yourselves into a deep sense of presence and being within the relational field.
Dates and Timings
The programme aims to release progressive, theme-based content to assist your learning. Educational content will be succinct, informative and easy to digest, allowing you to optimise your learning:
Targeted and structured course content, released in a modular, monthly format.
A minimum of 14 days between the release of course content and live coaching calls, allowing you time to watch, digest and assimilate the content before each experiential exploration
Whilst we encourage participation in the live coaching calls, these will be recorded for your review if you cannot attend live
Options for experiential sessions within the cohort, providing you with a supported learning environment to explore experiential course content
Each Coaching call will include reflections/and Q&A on programme content, 2 live demonstrations and one to one experiencing within the cohort
NB. Please note that whilst we hold an intention to honour all programme dates, illness, and other unforeseen circumstances may necessitate the occasional change
COURSE DATES - MONTHLY CONTENT RELEASES:
Saturday 4th January
Saturday 1 February
Saturday 1 March
Saturday 12 April
Saturday 10 May
Saturday 7 June
Saturday 5 July
Saturday 2 August
Saturday 13 September
Saturday 11 October
Saturday 8 November
Saturday 6 December
COURSE DATES - COACHING CALLS - 1pm to 4pm GMT:
Saturday 18th January
Saturday 15th February
Saturday 15th March
Saturday 26th April
Saturday 24th May
Saturday 21st June
Saturday 19th July
Saturday 16th August
Saturday 27th September
Saturday 18th October
Saturday 22nd November
Saturday 13th December
Pricing
The 12-month programme includes:
Monthly online content, with lifetime access to the tutorials and talks
Monthly meetings with demonstrations, integrated group experiential learning of modual content, live Q&A
A comprehensive course manual including client intake forms, case study self-enquiry tools, and written content that will support your online learning
Quarterly personal sessions with James, offering you your own experiential understanding of the process
The option to engage with Supervison, where you can discuss and explore your own learning from facilitating sessions for others.
Access to the peer group, to discuss, reflect, and spend time together practicing techniques and exploring course content together.
Early Bird Pricing until 1st December 2024
£1620 split as 12 monthly payments of £135 via Stripe or £1680 split over 12 payments of £140 via Paypal
Regular Price Until 1st January 2025
£1920 split as 12 monthly payments of £165 via Stripe or £1980 split over 12 payments of £170 via Paypal