A Practitioner Training for Guiding Grief, Renewal and Meaning
A training for guides and practitioners
Do you want to feel more confident guiding transformational experiences through your offerings?
The Four Paths of soulful transformation is a powerful framework for guiding lasting change and can be integrated into your offerings for creating trusted spaces for big feelings to move without losing the container.
“Times are urgent, let us slow down.”
Bayo Akomolafe
The Four Paths of Soulful Transformation:
The training begins with a one week intensive, followed by an optional six month advanced training for deeper integration and confidence with incorporating the framework within your modality.
Initial intensive:
September 13-19, 2026 in Carbondale, Colorado
Through reflection, dialogue, and experiential practices you engage the framework through your own lived experience. Together, we explore how the four paths of soulful transformation integrates into your work through your unique offerings and community.
Six-month Advanced Training:
September, 2026 - March, 2027 (held virtually)
This optional immersion deepens your confidence in your skills while creating and putting into practice an actionable offering in your modality, with invaluable group support. Like-minded professional connections and friendships are made.
Guiding others through transformation begins with your own willingness to enter the work
Initial Weeklong Intensive (in person) with a Six-month Advanced Training Option (virtual)
This training often resonates with wellness practitioners, grief, and recovery counselors, therapists, birth and death doulas, teachers, group leaders, creatives, and space holders of all kinds.
You may feel called to this work if you want to build confidence and structure in guiding others through transformational change
THIS TRAINING IS HELD THROUGH AN INITIAL WEEKLONG IN-PERSON INTENSIVE EXPERIENCE WITH AN ADDITIONAL SIX MONTH VIRTUAL ADVANCED TRAINING OPTION.
a container for both personal immersion and professional integration
supports growth both professionally and personally
Integrating the framework into your offerings
experiential practice and application
Includes guided reflection, experiential practices, creative exploration in application, and group engagement with the Four Paths framework.
You will engage the four paths through your own lived experience while also integrating the framework into your existing or emerging work.
This space is designed to be relational, spacious, and grounded in presence, allowing professional clarity and program development to emerge over time.
what is included:
Experience personal embodiment of the Four Paths
Explore creative ideas for integration in your offerings
Deepen your confidence in witnessing and holding transformative spaces
Connect with and be supported by like-minded practitioners
Payment plans and partial scholarships available. Please inquire.
September 13-19, 2026
- In person (Carbondale, Colorado)
- Non-residential retreat (lodging options provided)
- Morning and afternoon sessions with spaciousness for down time and integration
- Beautiful retreat like setting
- Organic cafe on premises
- Lunch provided
Initial weeklong intensive: starting at $2500 with early bird rate until June 15th
September, 2026 - March, 2027
- Two live virtual group sessions per month for skill building and implementation practice
- One 1:1 private session per month for program creation guidance
- Trauma and Resilience informed skills included
- Facebook group for questions, connection, and feedback
Advanced Training: starting at $5500 if paid with intensive before June 15th
Within the advanced program container, you will develop an offering rooted in the Four Paths that is specific to your own modality or community. The great thing about the transformative four paths is that it can be woven into a vast variety of applications, including programs for yoga or wellness groups, aging populations, new mothers, addiction recovery groups, therapy practices, community circles, grief rituals, and many other forms of service. This highly personalized cohort supports you in bringing your vision into form.
“I didn’t expect how much this space would soften something in me. It gave me a way to be with my grief that felt honest and supported, without needing to rush or fix anything. I found myself inspired again, listening differently, and feeling more connected to my life and how I share with others.
"It gave me a way to be with my grief that felt honest"
FAQ
Who is this for?
This training is designed for therapists, yoga teachers, health and wellness practitioners, spiritual directors and companions, coaches, grief and addiction counselors, birth and death doulas, nature-based guides, educators, and others who support people through life transitions and thresholds. It is ideal for practitioners who want to deepen their work and offer meaningful, lasting transformational experiences.
Do I need to be a grief counselor to participate?
No. This training is open to any practitioner who wants to integrate a framework that honors grief as a natural and essential part of transformation.
You do not need prior experience in grief work—only a willingness to compassionately hold space for difficult emotions and support authentic expression. These trauma and resilience-informed skills can be learned and developed through practice.
Will this training prepare me to lead grief-focused experiences?
Yes. If you feel called to facilitate grief-centered rituals, sessions, or healing experiences, this training will provide a grounded framework and practical tools to do so with care, depth, and integrity.
Do I need a background in somatic or embodied practices ?
No. This framework can be adapted to a wide range of modalities.
While we will explore the value of including the body in transformational work, participation does not require prior experience with somatic practices. You will be encouraged to integrate embodied elements in ways that feel authentic and accessible to you and your clients.
Will I receive a certification?
No. This training does not offer a formal certification, as there is no universal governing body for this field of practice.
However, you will leave with a robust, integrative framework to deepen your work, create a grounded container, and support lasting client transformation. The program also emphasizes ethical application and professional integrity. Opportunities for ongoing support, guidance, and coaching are available.
Do I need to commit to the full six-month training?
No. The initial week-long intensive can be taken as a standalone experience to learn the framework and begin integrating it into your work.
The six-month immersion offers a deeper level of integration, increased confidence, skills, and the opportunity to design and refine a client experience with group feedback, along with continued guidance and coaching.
Are lodging and meals provided for the initial weeklong, in person intensive?
This is a non-residential retreat style intensive. Lodging is not included in the price. Local lodging recommendations will be provided upon registration and group rates at local hotels may be available. Please inquire for more information about lodging options.
Lunch and snacks will be provided during the weeklong intensive. Breakfast and dinner are participant responsibility. One group dinner out will be optional. Suggestions for local grocery, coffee shop and restaurant options will be provided.
Can I join the Advanced Program Immersion after participating in the initial weeklong intensive?
If space allows, there will be an opportunity to join the six month advanced program after the initial intensive. The full rate for the advanced immersion program will apply. There is a $1000 discount when paid for with the initial weeklong intensive payment before the early-bird deadline.
Are payment plans available to pay for the training?
Yes, payment plans are available and can be discussed with registration.
Are scholarships available for the training?
A few partial scholarships will be available for the training to make it more accessible. Please inquire if this is something that would support your commitment to participating in the training.
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