The Academy is the professional facilitator training arm of Heart iQ. It is where therapists, coaches, leaders and experienced practitioners learn to hold this work for others: in circles, in relationships, and in rooms where real healing happens.
Everything at the Academy rests on one conviction: you can only take a group as deep as you have gone yourself. So the training is lived rather than studied. You learn to facilitate while doing your own work, inside a small and devoted group, held closely by Christian Pankhurst and the Academy team.
The path runs through in-person facilitator immersions at New Eden in the Netherlands, each devoted to a different domain of the work. Graduates practise under supervision and accreditation standards that keep the work safe and honest wherever it is held.
Each immersion is a residential training at New Eden. Dates for every immersion are published on the events calendar.
For those called to guide deep healing work in groups. This immersion trains facilitation through alchemy and corrective experience: learning to stay present when something long unspoken rises in another person, and to help them find their way home from there.
The craft of the circle itself. This immersion trains somatic shadow work and the art of leading a living group field: reading what is moving in a room, working with what the body carries, and holding the circle so the work can go where it needs to go.
For facilitators and coaches working with couples and relational dynamics. This immersion trains intimacy and relationship facilitation: meeting two nervous systems at once, and holding the space where partners learn to stay open to each other.
The Academy is by application, and it begins with a conversation. If you feel called to hold this work for others, look at the upcoming immersions or get in touch and tell us where you are on the road.
