FLOW Facilitation Training
Fall 2025 Applications now open!
Good Grief Network’s FLOW Facilitation Training is for people seeking to improve their facilitation skills to host peer support, sharing spaces including climate cafes and GGN’s 10 Steps to Resilience & Empowerment in a Chaotic Climate program.
FLOW Facilitators learn how to host groups within their own communities. Admission into the course also comes with a free trial of GGN’s Community of Practice Membership for additional support and training opportunities.
Fall 2025 Session Times
There are two sessions of this training that will run concurrently over the course of 13 weeks (12 weeks with one break). This application allows you to apply to either of the following course sessions:
Sundays: 7 September – 30 November, 5-8pm Eastern Time (U.S.). Skipping 19 October 2025. (check your time zone)
or
Tuesdays: 9 September – 2 December from 1-4pm Eastern Time (U.S.) Skipping 21 October. (check your time zone)
**These sessions will take place over a time change in the United States, which may affect your meeting time. If you live outside of the U.S., please note that we are changing times on 2 November 2025. For those in the U.S., your clocks will jump forward by one hour.**
Application Key Dates
9 June 2025 Application Opens
June – August 2025 Applications reviewed on a rolling basis*
29 July 2025 6:30PM EST FLOW Training & Community of Practice Membership Informational Session – Sign-Up Here!
18 August Priority due date for scholarship + work exchange (WE) requests
18 – 22 August Scholarship/WE Review
25 – 29 August Scholarship/WE Interviews
1 September Application Closes
2 – 4 September Final Acceptance Offers Extended
5 September Final Acceptance Confirmation Due Date
7 September and 9 September Program Start Dates
*Non-scholarship applicants will be offered spots on a rolling basis. If you are accepted, you will be expected to submit a payment within one week of your acceptance notification to reserve your spot; we strongly encourage applying early.
**We highly recommend that those interested in scholarships and/or work exchanges apply by the priority deadline.
Course Costs & Scholarships
There are three price tiers (in USD) for the 12 week course:
Solidarity Rate: $1,350
Full Rate: $1,550
Redistribution Rate: $1,750
GGN also offers a number of partial and full scholarships as well as work exchanges. Additionally, we offer the ability to pay over three months to all participants.
Ready to take the next step? Click the application link below for more information and access to our Self-Assessment Questions to see if you are ready to apply to GGN’s FLOW Facilitation Training.
“This training is a salve for the times we must live through. Climate chaos and climate grief go hand in hand. We cannot escape the beautiful and horrifying times we are living through. Gaining skills to be a facilitator to bring people together and face this challenge is edifying and grounding. I have more strength for what is to come and I have greater tools to support the communities I work within to come to terms with our predicament with courage, and a little bit of hope.”
-G.R., 2023 FLOW training participant
FLOW Facilitation Training
The FLOW Facilitator Training is a 12-week intensive and interactive course hosted on Zoom with live teachers (LaUra Schmidt & Aimee Lewis Reau founders of Good Grief Network & authors of How to Live in a Chaotic Climate) in English. Your training cohort will meet once per week for three hours.
Facilitation isn’t easy; it’s an art, a skill that needs practice and patience. It requires a nimbleness and a commitment to our own inner work before we are able to cultivate spaces where others feel open, curious, and empowered.
Together, we’ll learn and explore processes for creating and maintaining a container ripe for emergence through personal and collective growth, shared wisdom, and inspiration. We will cover GGN’s philosophy & best practices, including harm reduction practices, time management skills, and also community-building techniques. Our team will employ grounding practices and embodiment exercises as well as poetry, music, and media to deepen the teachings.
Course materials will be presented for the students to explore before we meet each week to deepen our understanding, connect with each other, and practice techniques. Please factor in an additional 1-3 hours a week to engage with these materials.
We will bring in lessons from visionaries, scholars, and thinkers such as Joanna Macy, Amitav Ghosh, Tyson Yunkaporta, Francis Weller, adrienne maree brown, Bayo Akomolafe, Staci Haines, Chris Jordan, Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Vanessa Andreotti, Farhana Sultana, and more.
FLOW Facilitation Membership
An acceptance into the FLOW Facilitation Training also includes a free trial with the FLOW Community of Practice (CoP) Membership program where you gain access to the FLOW facilitation package, additional trainings, facilitation support, and more.
10-Steps to Resilience & Empowerment in a Chaotic Climate
Good Grief Network’s founders LaUra Schmidt & Aimee Lewis Reau created a unique 10-Step Program that helps participants metabolize feelings like grief, anxiety, despair, and anger in the face of large systemic issues such as climate emergency, ecocide, unequal wealth distribution, and rampant racism and oppression.
This program has been proven to help folks re-discover their personal agency and re-invest their energies in meaningful ways. It also reignites the spark that may have been blown out by burn out.
Brave, Emergent Spaces
GGN provides a structure and modality for the 10-Step Program, yet there is wildness in these circles.
A FLOW Facilitator is one who has been trained to respond with a deepened connection to their intuition and heart-center. We guide these circles in ways that help participants recognize and process their painful and heavy feelings about the state of the world, deconstruct and reorganize cultural narratives, build community, and maximize emergent possibilities. We aim to minimize harm as the external world grows more chaotic, creating more tension and frenzy in our internal worlds.
Just as a river flows but is confined by its banks, so too do our facilitators flow from step to step, moment to moment, creating brave spaces for participants to touch their edges and quiet their fear responses, but within the confines of the brave and emergent containers we create. In this way, we help participants connect to imagination and live meaningful and connected lives amidst the chaos.
Notes
This training is designed for folks who intend to facilitate small group experiences for their communities, for those who want to deepen their understanding of the 10-Step philosophy, and for people wanting to join a global network of facilitators for additional support and training.
“I highly recommend Good Grief Network’s FLOW Facilitation Training to anyone wanting to build the skills of meeting these painful times with courage, open-heartedness, integrity, and radical compassion.” – E.B., 2023 FLOW participant
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I think the connection aspect of the group and non-judgmental space that is held in the group for people to openly say how they feel and be able to learn and grow from other perspectives is an incredibly useful tool. I am so glad to have found this group!
The 10-Steps left me with a greater understanding of myself as well as questions I will continue to work with. I also gained an understanding of the intersection between personal and planetary resilience and a sense of hope that this community can create the new paradigm.
Good Grief Network has helped me metabolize a build-up of climate grief that was leading to burn out and downshifting. Participating in the Good Grief Network is helping me continue my climate activism with more balance, resilience, and presence.
Good Grief Network’s 10-Step Program is a peer-to-peer support group where people come together to process their heavy feelings about the state of the world, build resilient communities, and co-vision new futures. This program has helped thousands of people around the globe navigate heavy emotions, deconstruct cultural narratives, and redefine what meaningful action they can take for themselves and the collective.