The Field Facilitator Training 2025-2026

Lead from the Body. Facilitate from the Heart.
October 6 – October 12, 2025

Step into a year-long journey that will transform how you lead, facilitate, and connect. The Field Facilitator Training at Ängsbacka is a powerful deep dive into embodied leadership, trauma-informed facilitation, and relational mastery—designed for those ready to guide with integrity, presence, and heart. Join a community of changemakers and learn to hold space for real transformation—in yourself and others.

What is The Field Facilitator Training?

A year-long, immersive training for facilitators, coaches, space-holders, and leaders ready to deepen their capacity to guide others with presence and integrity. Rooted in somatic intelligence and trauma-informed principles, this program weaves together nervous system awareness, group dynamics, authentic relating, co-creation, and the art of designing transformational spaces. It’s an invitation to embody your unique leadership and meet the world from a place of wholeness.

Structure & Dates

The training unfolds over five in-person gatherings at Ängsbacka Retreat Center, blending immersive learning with real-time facilitation experience. Each module builds on the last, offering deep integration and space for personal and professional growth.

Training Modules:

Module 1: October 6–12, 2025
Module 2: December 8–14, 2025
Module 3: March 23–29, 2026
Module 4: May 18–24, 2026
Module 5: Summer Festival & Completion (Exact dates TBA – July/August 2026)

Each module includes guided practices, group process labs, teachings, co-facilitation opportunities, and space for rest and reflection.

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Rachel Rickards

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Read more about Rachel Rickards

Rachel Rickards is an international leader in the field of personal transformation, intimacy, embodiment, and relating. She is a group facilitator extraordinaire, event producer, and a new mother.

In 2014 she co-founded Embodied Intimacy, which has become one of the most respected organizations globally that offers trainings and events focussed on intimacy, trauma, relational intelligence, somatic education and community. The work of Embodied Intimacy supports hundreds of people each year to come home to themselves, to their body and more regulated nervous systems, and become more of who they truly are.

Since 2019, Rachel has led the Belly2Belly Facilitator Training after her teacher and mentor, David Cates, passed the torch and CEO position for this work to her. Belly2Belly offers a simple and yet profoundly healing set of embodied and relational practices, which support people to learn to regulate their nervous systems in a way that can be transformational for their relationships. Rachel has single handedly produced and facilitates most of the events with her extraordinary superpowers in the field of event planning and depth in embodied leadership.

In 2022, Rachel launched her newest passion project, The Field Facilitator Training. This revolutionary experiential learning environment is designed for group facilitators passionate about cultivating deep group-heart coherence and facilitating the emergence of collective group soul. The training equips participants with radically new skills, such as deep listening to the group field, surrendering to the collective moment, and embracing dynamic, fluid leadership to support the unfolding of the group soul.

Most recently, Rachel has become the creator and host of the podcast “In Presence We Trust: The Facilitation Podcast”. Released weekly, the podcast dives into her cutting-edge work in group facilitation and beyond. Tune in to follow her binge-worthy journey and discover the latest insights into her ever-evolving work in group transformation.

Where Facilitation Becomes Art

This training is more than a course—it’s a living laboratory for embodied leadership. Together, we create a space where vulnerability meets clarity, where facilitation becomes an art of deep listening, and where each participant is invited to bring their full self into the room. Through carefully held modules and a supportive community, you’ll develop the confidence, tools, and inner alignment to lead groups with authenticity, resilience, and purpose. Whether you’re new to facilitation or looking to refine your craft, The Field offers a grounded, heart-centered path to step fully into your role as a transformational leader.

Tickets & Pricing

The price is broken down into two parts:

1. Course Fee:

4 week-long in-person training modules (6 night/7 days)

1 week Festival + Final Module (9 night/10 days)

€5,000 (May 1 – June 30, 2025)
€5,500 (July 1 – August 31, 2025)

€6,000 (September 1 – October 1, 2025)

*(Course fee must be paid to the course leader in full before the training begins)

2. Food and Accommodation:

5 modules (including Festival) ranges from €2500-3500 depending on room selection (Private, Double, Shared or Dorm).

Food & Accommodations are paid per module directly to Ängsbacka in SEK.

*(Rooms are limited and are allocated on a first come, first served basis)

Depending on when you register and what room type you select the all-inclusive price (course fee + food and accommodations) ranges from €7500 – 9500