Healing in Tribe  ·  Facilitator Immersion

Some of what we carry was
never meant to be healed alone

Some of what we carry
was never meant to be
healed alone

Learn the somatic, embodied process work that reaches what talking never could, and leave able to bring it straight into your own facilitation. You will feel how a corrective experience moves through a group, and learn to hold that same healing for the people who sit in front of you.

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New Eden, the Netherlands  ·  October 4–18, 2026

"I've been a therapist for 30 years and if others like me want to shed the therapist paradigm and move into real heart centered, transformative work, THIS IS THE PLACE TO BE!"

Joyce Lynn Graduated in 2013

"This training is heart-centered, heart-led and heart-opening. You will laugh. You will cry. But most of all you will deepen in an experience of what it is to truly feel loved and to love others authentically from your innermost heart."

Priya Mahtani Graduated in 2014

"I can't see how I could do the work in my community helping and mentoring young men, giving them a sense of purpose and belonging, without using the Heart iQ method. Now I am giving back. Thank you!"

Dan Hartley Graduated in 2012

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Sound Familiar?

You were trained to understand the wound.
You were never trained to meet it.

You can name what happened to a client, map the pattern, and hold beautiful space for the story. But the moment the work needs to move from understanding into a lived, corrective experience, you reach the edge of what your training ever gave you.

Insight explains the wound. It rarely heals it. What rewires an old imprint is a new one, to be met, attuned to, and received in the exact place where, the first time, no one came. Encounter work and corrective experience are how that happens, and most of us were never trained to hold them.

The story gets told, again and again, and the body keeps holding what the words cannot reach

A client touches real grief, the place a parent never showed up, and you have no way to let them meet it

An encounter wants to happen, a voice that needs its true direction, the right charge to the right person, and you were never trained to guide one safely

Big emotion rises and your instinct is to settle it, because no one showed you how to titrate and stay

You can attune to one person, and when the whole field charges you do not yet know how to hold the room

A participant held in a corrective experience at Healing in Tribe, New Eden

"A wound does not stay a wound once it finally meets a corrective experience. To be heard and felt in the very place you once were not, that is what rewires it."

Christian Pankhurst

This is the work of meeting what was never met. Of giving an old, unspoken feeling a voice and letting it reach the person it was always meant for, while a held group offers the care and attention that were missing the first time, so an old imprint can finally change.

The event is rarely the wound.
The wound is that no one was there to meet it.

Healing in Tribe trains you to facilitate that encounter, and to hold it for the people who sit in front of you.

When the story has been told and nothing has moved,
the wound is still waiting to be met.

Most of us were trained to hold space.

And holding space, without anyone intending it, can quietly become a way of avoiding the wound rather than meeting it.

Maybe you notice

Clients who plateau the moment the talking runs out.

Sessions that circle the wound without ever entering it.

A pull toward somatic and group work, with no real training in it.

Powerful moments you closed too early, unsure how to hold them.

Your own places that no amount of talking has ever reached.

A longing to do the depth of work you sense is possible.

You do not lack experience. You do not lack heart. You do not lack the trust of the people in front of you.

No one ever gave you a way to take someone into the encounter the wound is asking for.

So when the real thing rises, the grief, the rage that never had words,
you guide it back to talking.
You keep it safe.
You explain it.
Or you reach for a technique.

And the wound stays exactly where it was, understood and still unmet.

A participant kneeling with a hand on her heart at Healing in Tribe, New Eden
A circle holding one person in a corrective experience at Healing in Tribe, New Eden
There Is Another Way

What if what your clients need isn't more insight? it's a corrective experience you know how to hold.

Healing in Tribe is a facilitator training in the work that meets the wound directly. At its centre is Encounter work in its five forms, where a person is guided to meet the unspoken energy they have carried and move it in the direction it always needed to go. You learn to offer the corrective experience of being met by a held group, attuning to the emotional field of the room and titrating its intensity so that real depth stays safe. You learn it in your own body first, then learn to hold it for others.

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"Since using Heart iQ with my clients, I'm having amazing results. It's changing people's lives! They're sharing, expressing, and feeling without holding back."

Marc Adams · Graduated in 2013

A facilitator training, and a personal transformation.

Inside the Two Weeks
at New Eden

This is a working laboratory. You learn the processes of deep transformational work by experiencing them in the circle and watching them facilitated up close. You leave with a felt grasp of the craft, not just the concepts.

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The Work

The Processes You'll Learn to Hold

Three bodies of process work sit at the centre of this immersion. These two weeks are where we teach, demonstrate, and train this curriculum. Christian breaks down each process in a working laboratory, using the live dynamics emerging in the room, and you feel its depth move through the group, with time to study it closely and ask your questions. Some in the group may be invited to lead a hot seat and take a process deeper.*

Encounter Work

Encounter Work

Meeting the unspoken

The central practice. You enrol a person or the field to stand in for a figure from the past, so what the body has carried can finally find its voice and its true direction, the right charge reaching the one it was always meant for. You learn to open an encounter, hold it as it moves, and close it cleanly.

You train in all five forms, and learn which one a moment is asking for.

  • ✓Violation Encounter: meeting what should never have happened
  • ✓Neglect Encounter: meeting what should have happened and never did
  • ✓Physicalized Encounter: when the body, not the voice, carries the release
  • ✓Collective Encounter: charge held across the whole room
  • ✓Going Uncontained: present-tense truth, and when it fits instead
Meeting Needs and Younger Parts

Meeting Needs & Younger Parts

When the group becomes the medicine

Following the breadcrumbs from present activation back to the unmet need, and the younger part still waiting there. You learn how a circle of present, undefended bodies becomes the corrective experience no single facilitator can give alone.

Learn to meet a need rather than analyse it, and the conditions that let it rewire the system.

  • ✓Unwinding safely to core stress
  • ✓Recognising the younger part as it surfaces
  • ✓Letting the field, not only the facilitator, hold
  • ✓Tribal love as the imprint that was missing
  • ✓Meeting needs: nurture, initiation, permission
Sacred Theatre and the Redo

Sacred Theatre & the Redo

Rewriting the moment

A corrective experience staged through enactment. Sometimes the medicine is being heard, fully, by an enrolled mother or father while the room witnesses. Sometimes it is the redo: replaying a moment that once held someone powerless, this time from a place of power.

You learn what is possible here, and the clear boundaries around what belongs only to advanced, supervised work.

  • ✓Telling the story and being truly witnessed
  • ✓Enrolling figures from the past with care
  • ✓The Redo: meeting an old moment from power
  • ✓Knowing where this work belongs, and where it does not

* Hot seats are not guaranteed or offered to everyone. These two weeks are where you receive the full transmission and an in-person study of these processes, not where every person works each one in depth and receives detailed feedback.

For that, there is an optional twelve-week online practicum, where you practise the processes in small groups with feedback. The practicum is also the step required to earn your Healing in Tribe badge, on the path to becoming a certified Heart iQ facilitator. You can read how it fits below.

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The Container

The Spaces You'll Learn to Hold

The processes live inside different kinds of space. Each is its own container, with its own skill. Learning to hold them is what makes you a facilitator rather than a technician.

The Sharing Circle & Open Space

Being met in presence and attunement, before any process begins. Often this alone is the corrective experience. It is the kernel every other space is built on: slowing down, presencing, attunement, connection, embodiment.

The Mat

Where the dynamic processes happen. One person works while the field holds. You learn to read what is alive and choose the process the moment is calling for.

The Collective Field

The large group, and the charge that moves through it. Polarity, men and women across the room, the personal becoming transpersonal. How to set it up, hold it, and close it well.

Harvesting the Medicine

After the depth comes the integration. This is where what moved on the mat is digested and given meaning, where a process is allowed to fully land, and where one person's healing becomes medicine the whole circle carries.

"You are me, cleverly camouflaged as you…
We are each other's medicine"

Christian Pankhurst, Founder of Heart iQ

A Day in the Immersion

The Rhythm of the Two Weeks

The days follow a titrated arc. They open into depth and then settle into integration, rather than escalating without rest.

Morning

Circles & Open Space

Small-group sharing circles and the open-space kernel, practised each day at increasing depth.

Midday

The Large Field

The whole group with Christian. Transmission, and the work shown live in real time.

Afternoon

Practice & Demonstration

Demonstrations and live teaching, with invited hot seats to take a process deeper.

Evening

Integration & Rest

Space to let the day land. The arc settles in the evenings rather than driving deeper into the night.

Roughly half of the immersion is professional training and half is your own deep work. You receive each process as live transmission and study, and the deeper practice comes in the practicum.

You cannot guide a corrective experience you have never had.

Is This You?

Who This Is For

Healing in Tribe is a professional immersion held by application, so the room stays right for this depth of work. It is not for everyone, and it is not meant to be.

This is for you if

  • You are a coach, therapist, facilitator, or circle leader who wants to work deeper than talk
  • You feel the call to be trained in encounter work, corrective experience, and group facilitation
  • You are ready to do your own deep work, not only collect techniques
  • You want to learn to hold groups, not only one-to-one sessions
  • You can be at New Eden, residential, for the full two weeks

This may not be the right fit if

  • You are looking for a quick certificate to add to a website
  • You want the craft without being in your own process
  • You are looking for a purely online or intellectual training
  • You are in acute crisis and need personal therapy rather than a professional training right now
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Client Spotlight: Geoff

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Meet Christian

Before I could train others to hold this work, I had to learn to hold it myself.

I'm Christian Pankhurst, founder of Heart iQ, and I will be leading this immersion.

I came to this work through my own nervous system first. A childhood shaped by intensity and a lack of safety left me with anxiety and a deep sense of disconnection. What began as a search for relief became a lifelong study of what lets a person stay open and present in connection, especially when it gets hard.

I trained first in the sciences, with a degree in Human Sciences and Chiropractic, and then as a facilitator in Neale Donald Walsch's Leadership Education Program, where I was mentored as his protégé. Around twenty-five years ago I began the work that became Heart iQ, a structured, trauma-informed approach to group facilitation that is now practised and taught around the world.

I have led hundreds of retreats and trainings since 2002, with people travelling from more than thirty countries to be in the room. In 2016 we bought New Eden, our own custom retreat centre on its own land in the Frisian countryside, a major milestone that moved this work out of hotel venues and into a home built for it, and it is where this immersion will be held.

I have never seen myself as someone who fixes or heals anyone. My work is to create the conditions, and to teach you to create them, where another person's own capacity and goodness can finally emerge.

This is where I hand that craft to you. I look forward to meeting you in the work.

Christian Pankhurst

"Christian Pankhurst knows how to articulate these messages as well as, if not better than I can. He is a profound source of wisdom and depth."

Neale Donald Walsch

New York Times Best-Selling Author of Conversations with God

Never Held Alone

How This Work is Held

Christian leads this immersion, and he does not hold it alone. Beyond Christian, each immersion is supported by a carefully selected team of experienced Heart iQ facilitators and trainers.

They are chosen for their depth in the Heart iQ method and their particular expertise in the work at the heart of these two weeks, encounter and the corrective experience. In the room and the smaller groups, it is this team who hold and guide the work alongside Christian, so the space can travel into real depth while staying safe, and your own growth is held by more than one pair of eyes.

Stories from the Field: Jenni Morris, Colorado, USA

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Be Inspired

What Others Have Experienced

Real people who came to this work and were changed by it. Some now hold it for others.

Respected by Peers

What Leaders in the Field Say

Facilitators and educators who train others in trauma-informed, somatic group work, on Christian and the Heart iQ method.

"Christian is part of a very small group at the very top of the profession. I would place him in the top one percent of practitioners in trauma-informed group facilitation, and I am not aware of anyone else who combines his level of scale, structure, and impact."

Catherine Hale

Founder, Culture of Care Certified Trauma-Informed Training

"Many facilitators rely on personal charisma and intuition. Christian has gone significantly further, turning what is often viewed as intuitive into a repeatable method that others can learn and apply."

John Thompson

Co-Founder, Transformational Connection · Master NARM Facilitator, trained 1,500+ facilitators across 25 countries

"Christian has translated complex group-field dynamics into a structured system of clear principles, practices, and facilitation models that others can reliably learn and apply. It is one of the clearest examples I have seen of a practitioner's work shifting the standards of an entire field."

Maanee Chrystal

Founder, Somatic Institute for Women · Somatic Psychotherapist & Dance Therapist

"When I launched the Field Facilitator Training, I knew I wanted Christian as one of our lead faculty. His sessions were consistently among the most highly rated and impactful parts of the course, and many participants described his workshops as life-changing."

Rachel Rickards

Founder, The Field Facilitator Training · Co-Founder, Embodied Intimacy

"Much of what I teach today emerged from what I learned from Christian's work. His ability to read a room and guide large groups through profound emotional processes, with safety and clarity, is truly exceptional. He is one of the few facilitators I trust unequivocally."

Suzanne Beukema

Feminine Leadership Mentor · Founder, Unshakable Feminine Leadership

"I first met Christian in 2003 through Neale Donald Walsch's Leadership Education Program, where I was lead faculty. Even then he showed a rare combination of intellectual mastery and intuitive emotional attunement, and Neale personally invited him to help lead the training."

Rachael Jayne Groover

Founder, The Awakened School · Creator of The Art of Feminine Presence®

"HeartIQ is both an art and a science, delivered with a level of precision and attunement that is rare in our profession. By developing it, Christian has set new standards for what is possible in group healing."

Dr. Andrea Paige, ND

Founder, The Institute for Aliveness · Creator of the first accredited Master's in Applied Epigenetics

"I spent ninety days inside the daily-practice community Christian founded, and it changed my life. I witnessed his remarkable ability to design systems of practice, relational attunement, and emotional coherence that elevated an entire community."

Thomas Kiernan

Founder & Creative Director, Sounds of Light · Leader of The Sound Field

Stories from the Field: Suzanne Beukema

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The Bigger Picture

Part of the Heart iQ Academy

These two weeks are complete in themselves. They are also one specialisation within the Heart iQ Academy, a school for somatic-relational facilitators. If you feel called to go further, here is how it fits.

01

The Immersion

These two weeks at New Eden. The live training, the transmission, and your own deep work. Complete and valuable on its own.

02

The Practicum

An optional twelve weeks of supervised online practice afterward, where you are seen facilitating the work in small groups and refine your craft with feedback.

03

Your Badge

Complete both the immersion and the practicum and you earn your Healing in Tribe badge, the formal recognition of this specialisation.

04

Certification

Each Academy specialisation carries its own badge. Collect them, in any order, and you become a certified Heart iQ facilitator. Healing in Tribe is one of them.

Certification is always opt-in. You can come for the immersion alone and take everything it gives you. The path is here for those who want it.

Immersion + Practicum

What You'll Walk Away Able to Do

By the time you complete the full Healing in Tribe path, the immersion and the practicum together, you will be able to:

And you leave changed by the depth of your own healing, because you cannot guide a corrective experience you have never lived.

The Setting

New Eden

Where this takes place.

New Eden, a private retreat centre in the Frisian countryside

Healing in Tribe is held at New Eden, a private retreat centre in the Frisian countryside in the north of the Netherlands, created specifically for immersive group work.

It was chosen not for spectacle, but for its capacity to hold intensity, stillness, and uninterrupted attention. You will not be navigating a hotel, a public venue, or external distractions.

For fourteen nights, this is home. The environment exists in service of the work.

Client Spotlight: Coco, North Carolina, USA

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Your Place at New Eden

Healing in Tribe is held by application, so the room stays right for this depth of work. Apply below, and once your place is confirmed you will receive everything you need to prepare.

Dates4–18 October 2026, 14 nights
LocationNew Eden, the Netherlands
FormatResidential, intimate group

Shared Room

€4,995

Meals and taxes included

Single Room

€5,555

Meals and taxes included

The full two-week training
All accommodation at New Eden
Every meal, all-inclusive
A held, titrated container
Encounter work and corrective experience
Live practice and feedback with the team

A 25% deposit secures your seat. The remaining balance is due 30 days before we begin, by 3 September 2026.

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The optional online practicum to complete your Healing in Tribe badge can be added after you attend.

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An Optional Bonus

Come Early for Love, Relationships and You

In the three days before the immersion begins, New Eden hosts Love, Relationships and You, a Heart iQ retreat in the art of heart-intelligent relating, and as someone coming to Healing in Tribe you are warmly invited to join it as our guest. The retreat itself is free for you, and you cover only your food and accommodation for the few extra nights.

It opens on Thursday 1 October and closes at lunchtime on Sunday 4 October, which leaves the afternoon for rest before the immersion opens that same evening, so the two journeys flow gently into one another and you never have to leave New Eden in between.

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Questions

FAQs

Everything you need to know about the October immersion.

Where does this take place?›

Healing in Tribe is held at New Eden, a private retreat centre in the Frisian countryside in the north of the Netherlands, built specifically for immersive group work. It was chosen for its capacity to hold stillness, intensity, and uninterrupted attention, away from hotels, public venues, and distraction. For the fourteen nights, it is home.

Do I need to be a trained facilitator?›

No particular certification is required. This is a facilitator training for coaches, therapists, circle leaders, and committed practitioners who want to work deeper than talk. You need to feel the call and be willing to do your own deep work as well as learn the craft. Roughly half the immersion is professional training and half is your own transformation.

What is included in the price?›

Everything for the two weeks: the full training with Christian and the team, all of your accommodation at New Eden, every meal, and taxes. A shared room is €4,995 and a single room is €5,555.

What are the room options?›

You can choose a shared room at €4,995 or a single room at €5,555. Both include all meals and taxes. Rooms are limited, singles especially, so earlier applications have more choice.

What are the dates?›

4 to 18 October 2026. Fourteen nights, residential at New Eden.

What time should I arrive on the first day?›

Check-in opens at 5pm on Sunday 4 October. We share our first dinner together at 6pm and the immersion opens that evening, so please plan to arrive between 5 and 6pm. The 5pm window also gives us time to ready the centre after the retreat that comes before. If you are staying on from Love, Relationships and You you are already here, and once it closes at lunchtime you can rest through the afternoon and join us for dinner.

Can I come early for Love, Relationships and You?›

Yes, and we would love that. In the three days before the immersion, from Thursday 1 October, New Eden hosts Love, Relationships and You, a Heart iQ retreat in heart-intelligent relating. It is our gift to you as a participant, so the retreat itself is free and you cover only your food and accommodation for the extra nights. It closes at lunchtime on the 4th and flows straight into the immersion that evening.

How do I secure my place?›

Healing in Tribe is held by application. Once your place is confirmed, a 25% deposit secures your seat, and the remaining balance is due 30 days before we begin, by 3 September 2026.

Is this trauma therapy? Is it safe?›

No, this is a professional facilitator training in which you also do your own deep work. It is held by a trained team in a carefully titrated container, with regulation and care built into every day. It is not a substitute for personal therapy. If you are in acute crisis right now, this is not the right time, and we will gladly point you toward more suitable support.

What does a day look like?›

Mornings open with small sharing circles and open space. Midday is the large group field with Christian, transmission and live demonstration. Afternoons are demonstrations and supervised practice, including your own turns with feedback. Evenings are for integration and rest. The arc is titrated, opening into depth and then settling, rather than escalating into the night.

What about the badge, the practicum, and certification?›

The two weeks are complete in themselves. If you want to go further, you can add an optional twelve-week online practicum afterward, where you are seen facilitating with feedback. Completing both the immersion and the practicum earns your Healing in Tribe badge, one of the Academy's specialisations. Collect the specialisation badges, in any order, and you become a certified Heart iQ facilitator.

How do I get to New Eden?›

New Eden is in the Frisian countryside in the north of the Netherlands. Once your place is confirmed we send full travel directions, including the nearest airports and stations and the best way to reach us.

What is your cancellation policy?›

Healing in Tribe runs for two weeks, so it falls under our cancellation terms for events of seven days or longer. A 25% deposit secures your place, and the balance is charged 30 days before we begin. The deposit commits you to the full fee. This is a place on a professional training, not a trial, so there is no trial period and no money-back guarantee. If you need to cancel, write to [email protected], and your refund depends on timing: more than 90 days before the start, a full refund less a 10% administrative fee; between 90 and 60 days, 50% of what you have paid; within 60 days of the start, the fee is non-refundable, though at our discretion we may offer a transferable credit valid for twelve months. The full terms are on our terms and conditions page.

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The Final Invitation

This is a professional training, and it asks something of you: two weeks at New Eden, in a small and committed room, learning to hold the work that changes people.

If you have felt the limit of insight in your own practice, if you have sat with someone whose understanding was complete and whose wound had still not moved, you already know what this immersion is for.

You do not need to arrive certain. You need to be willing to step into the room and meet your own material, and to learn the craft of holding others by being held yourself.

The October circle is forming now, and the room is kept small on purpose. If something in you has already said yes, this is your invitation to follow it.

I look forward to meeting you in the work.

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The tribe holding one of its own in a corrective experience at Healing in Tribe, New Eden