1-1 Mentorship for Facillitators
with Chad Charles
Refine your practice
Are you a newly trained facilitator or established facilitator looking to refine your offering? What you are seeking is a mentorship with a skilled facilitator.
Quality Mentorship
Who can Apply?
Mentorship offers facilitators the opportunity to grow beyond their initial trainings, diving deep into the intricacies of facilitation, including aspects such as personal work, container refinement and personalized guidance.
New Facilitators who
- Want to learn from an experienced facilitator
- May be entering clinical research projects and need some ‘know how’
- Value peer networks
- Value learning from others instead of needing to ‘reinvent the wheel’
- See Best Practices and Ethical Commitments as guiding lights to inform their offering
- Recognize that mentorship is an integral part of being ‘ready’
Includes:
Chad will help guide facilitators in their hunt to find the perfect temple space. Working alongside them to find a suitable space/ location, addressing any safety or privacy blindspots and potential ways to enhance the participants’ experience in that particular space.
Chad will support facilitators hone their skills and craft with their chosen or alternative ROAs and delivery devices.
Chad will help facilitators decide what type of format (retreat or one off sessions) makes the most sense for their skill sets and space. Helping them create a detailed program for their container. What does the structure of the day(s) look like? What additional support may need to be brought in to optimize the experience and safety?
helping facilitators to determine if there is a specific demographic they feel most called to working with and/or that their skill sets would best be applied to. Helping craft containers that are specific to supporting those demographics. Connecting them with others in those communities to pair up skillset and creating strategies for beginning to work with those demographics. (veterans, BIPOC, women, men, religious trauma…)
Chad will support facilitator’s on how to navigate the intricacies of serving in their particular location.
Chad will offer oversight and guidance on their website. What does their website convey to their participants? Does it capture the audience they are looking to work with?
Are there any specialists in the facilitator’s area that would be beneficial to connect with, either to include in during the retreat/session or for participants’ integration processes? Guidance on who to connect with to beef up their resources for participants such as psychedelic-informed Somatic practitioners, Hakomi practitioners, massage therapists, IFS therapists, Jungian therapists or non-dual teachers.
Chad will provide oversight on creating a preparation document that can be sent to participants before they arrive at the session/retreat specific to their container/location.
Chad will provide oversight on creating an integration document.
Chad will provide guidance/support in helping facilitators find a good fit in their area. Creating potential connections and/or interviewing co-facilitators.
5 one-hour calls exploring the facilitators blindspots, patterns and triggers. Chad will offer aid in helping the facilitator to become aware of these areas and different strategies for working into them.
Includes 3-5 days in real containers from preparation through to integration with Chad as the facilitator.
Includes one week of Chad observing facilitators holding their container from preparation through to integration. Chad will offer valuable insights and feedback to optimize the container.
This includes packages of 3, 5, or 10 one-hour calls that can be utilized at any time for any purpose.
Facilitators will have the ability to consult with Chad for 2 months on inquiries into the participants, their containers or anything else 5-MeO related as they build their skills on their own.
Access to Salon 5 facilitator collective. This includes monthly community building calls with peers/colleagues on different topics to continue supporting facilitators in refining their work.
Established Facilitators who
- Value peer networks
- Want to continually evolve through peer reflection
- See the value in being challenged in a loving way
- Aren’t stuck in their way
- Appreciate problem-solving with someone who can ‘meet’ them
Includes:
Includes 3-5 days in real containers from preparation through to integration with Chad as the facilitator
Includes one week of Chad observing facilitators holding their container from preparation through to integration. Chad will offer valuable insights and feedback to optimize the container.
Includes packages of 3, 5, or 10 one-hour calls that can be utilized at any time for any purpose.
Facilitators will have the ability to consult with Chad for 2 months on inquiries into the participants, their containers or anything else 5-MeO related as they build their skills on their own.
Access to Salon 5 facilitator collective. This includes monthly community building calls with peers/colleagues on different topics to continue supporting facilitators in refining their work.
Why Choose Chad’s Guidance?
Whether you’re an aspiring facilitator or well-established in the field, I strive to support you in bringing your offering to new levels of excellence.
The structure of the mentorship will depend on many factors and will be determined in an initial call. In that call, we will go over your application form and establish how we will work together based on your learning style, experience level, budget, timeline, etc.
Our relationship will begin at a distance, with video calls. All In-person opportunities (phases 2 & 3) emerge from these calls. I consult the Conclave’s Considerations for Practitioner Guidance Relationships in order to shape and refine our agreement to work together.
I don’t claim to have all the answers or know what is the way. That being said, I can demonstrate a certain level of experience in this field.
As a peer-reviewed facilitator, I have:
- Many years of full-time service: began serving in 2016
- A case history of ~900 individual recipients/ clients
- Held ~1450 sessions: most of which have been in one-on-one therapy contexts
- Experience with both toad secretion and jaguar
- Cross-cultural / intersectional experience: I’ve brought my offering to 15+ countries as well as indigenous populations, and
- ~1/3 of participants are BIPOC (since 2020), and
- The gender ratio is 50:50 (since 2020)
As a peer-reviewed educator, I have:
- Spoken in-person public speaking engagements in 5 countries
- Been in multiple virtual panels, keynotes, and podcasts
- Convened multiple in-person facilitator gatherings since 2018
- Lead an online learning platform with multiple modules (ran in 2021)
- Been part of the F.I.V.E. platform and trainings
The Experience
Mentorship
Testimonials
Get to know Chad better by visiting his website where you can find his latest blogs, podcasts and current offerings.
Testimonial
I am extremely grateful to Chad — without his guidance, I would not be where I am today. I first met him four years ago at a weekend-long Breathwork workshop he ran. The workshop was run with skill and grace, there were people both that were completely new and that had some experience, and he navigated the questions and differing experiences very well. I later started a medicine guidance practice with him, conducted over Zoom. He had a set of material to impart around preparation, ceremony, and integration — enough that it could be a formal class. However, I loved that the format of our lessons could be somewhat free-wheeling — I knew that if I wanted to dig in on a particular topic, he would be able to use his many years of knowledge to answer questions around it. Sometimes I asked for our sessions to be more ‘case studies’ as I was starting out and wanted help analyzing what had happened and what had gone well or could be iterated on. He helped me design my ceremony and improve on it. He was not at all formulaic and stressed about the importance of things coming from within. His method of inquiry was always gentle, but also precise and carefully considered. I felt very held when I came to him with questions or problems,
Testimonial
I had the joy to be able to shadow Chad. He came to my city and I got to see how he worked with clients — and WOW! I had sat with several other guides at this point, and I loved the way Chad approached medicine. He had a gentle manner, but a way of connecting with clients. He used his own skill set — talking and breathwork — to set clients at ease. He was very gradual with medicine, and as I got to witness client after client, I got more of a sense of why this was the case. The importance of meeting people where they were at, of this medicine being used for opening and healing and not re-traumatizing — it was especially elucidating when he would choose to stop. He also was just a delight to host, it was enjoyable to get to go on walks and spend time with him and get to know him a bit outside of the skill of watching him work. All in all I witnessed ten different clients, ten different presentations, over the course of a very full, very rich weekend. To me it felt like after the shadowing, I could launch myself, the witnessing really helped me hone my own offering.
Testimonial
Having Chad as a teacher and mirror has been one of the biggest pillars in my journey getting to know myself as a facilitator. His grounding spirit and presence has held me during many transformations.
His knowledge of the molecule and the way he communicates is absolutely beautiful and one of deep reverence. His unique style and understanding of the fine connections between power and vulnerability still ripples deeply.
Chad brings so much care and clarity to every space he enters. His work is so important for our community and I am forever grateful for our connection.