The conversation circles the wound
You can name what is happening, but insight does not create the lived experience the body is waiting for.
September 11 to 13, 2026 · Live online
What Only a
Group Can Heal
A three-day live virtual retreat for coaches, healers and facilitators ready to move beyond one-to-one work.
Facilitated live by Christian Pankhurst, founder of Heart iQ
See the retreat3 live daysTeaching, practice and integration
3 PM to 10 PMAmsterdam time (CEST)
9 AM to 4 PMNew York time (ET)
6 AM to 1 PMLos Angeles time (PT)
The edge of one-to-one work
You can feel when the person
is no longer the whole story.
A client may understand their pattern and still be unable to change what happens when another nervous system comes close. A group may contract around one person, yet the real movement belongs to everyone in the room.
Circle Work teaches you to notice the field between people. You learn to work with relationship, attention, belonging and the impulses that are difficult to reach through conversation alone.
Sound familiar?
Your work is asking for a larger room.
The group becomes charged
You sense contraction, projection or unspoken tension, but do not yet know how to restore coherence without controlling the room.
You feel too responsible
You work harder than the people you are guiding because nobody taught you how responsibility can be shared by a field.
You know there is more
Your present range limits how far you can accompany someone. You want a deeper embodied capacity, not another technique to perform.
Why a group changes what is possible
Insight can explain the wound. Relationship gives it somewhere new to go.
An old imprint begins to change when a person is met differently in the place they once expected to be abandoned, overwhelmed or unseen.
In a carefully held group, attention becomes part of the medicine. The facilitator is not manufacturing an outcome. They are helping the room stay coherent enough for something honest to be felt, received and completed.
“A wound does not stay a wound once it finally meets a corrective experience.”
The three-day journey
Learn the craft by watching the room, then entering it.
Each day combines selected footage from a previous facilitator training with Christian teaching live, pausing the room, explaining his choices and guiding you into practice.
Read the field before you lead it
Learn how a group nervous system forms, how to establish a culture of care, and how to remain connected to yourself while tracking the whole room.
- Regulation and orienting
- Dual awareness for facilitators
- Embodied check-ins
- Creating a clear group container
Meet what is asking to emerge
Practise attunement, titration and repair. Learn when a person needs an intervention, when they need more time to receive, and when your presence is enough.
- Dyads, triads and small-group practice
- Reading impulse, voice and body
- Repairing misattunement
- Facilitating without taking over
Guide intensity towards integration
Work with the moments when a group contracts, emotion rises and the field needs coherence. Learn how corrective experience is supported, completed and harvested.
- Containment and going uncontained
- Titrating intensity
- Impact shares and feedback
- Closing a process without shutting it down
This is not a webinar
You will see the work, hear the reasoning and practise it live.
01
Enter a real training room. Watch selected facilitator-training sessions where the field, choices and consequences are visible.
02
Pause with Christian. He will explain what he is tracking, why he intervenes and what he deliberately leaves alone.
03
Practise in small groups. Try the principles with enough structure to learn, without being asked to perform expertise you do not yet have.
04
Integrate and ask. Bring your real questions into the live Q&A and leave each day with something you can use.
Who this room is for
Come with experience,
or a serious calling.
This is for you if
- You coach, heal, teach, facilitate or lead groups
- You want to move beyond explanation into embodied encounter
- You want to understand group dynamics without losing intimacy or care
- You are willing to be a participant in the work you hope to guide
This is not the right fit if
- You want a quick certificate after three online days
- You are looking for scripts that remove the need for attunement
- You want to facilitate depth without entering your own process
- You need personal crisis support rather than professional training
Your facilitator
Christian Pankhurst
Christian founded Heart iQ after years of studying what allows people to become more truthful, connected and free in relationship. Since 2002 he has led hundreds of retreats and trained coaches, therapists and facilitators around the world.
His gift is not simply taking a process deep. It is making the invisible dynamics in a room visible, then teaching practitioners how to respond without replacing attunement with technique.
“I want you to see what I see in the room, while learning to trust the way this work wants to move through you.”
The first Academy threshold
Experience what only a group can heal. Then decide whether you want to learn to hold it.
This virtual retreat stands on its own. You will leave with a clearer map of the group field, practical structures and direct experience of the work.
For practitioners ready to go further, Healing in Tribe is the two-week residential immersion at New Eden. It is where this foundation becomes supervised craft through advanced process work, live hot seats and the depth of living inside the field together.
Explore Healing in TribeSeptember 11 to 13 · Live online
Reserve your place in the room.
Three live days, the complete replay library, guided practice, moderation and daily questions with Christian.
- One seat covers you and a learning partner at home
- Replays available in your Heart iQ Hub
- Full refund before doors open, and through day one
Pay for a seat
Three-day virtual retreat
$197
Reserve My PlaceIf you join day one and feel this room is not for you, tell us before day two begins and we will refund you in full.