Facilitating Sacred Spaces
A Five-Month Online Training
This program does not offer NBCC Credit hours.
January 15 - May 7, 2026
Sacred Space is a liminal threshold between the known and unknown, the manifest and the unmanifest. It is a doorway we conjure and step through, a quality of presence. It’s that subtle shift when something inside us quiets, the edges soften, and we can feel—sometimes in the smallest way—that we’re touching into what matters. When tended with care, this is a place where healing and miracles can happen, a place that kindles opening, alignment, inspiration, and possibility for those who enter.
Still, there are some practicalities to attend to and master—like what are the mechanics of creating and holding Sacred Space? How do you call on the Unseen forces in a way that honors them, you, and those you are holding space for? What are the signs and signals that the Sacred is present? How do you know what to listen to and what to do when there is no instruction manual? How do you create safety in a group container? How can you learn to use your power as a leader so that it can be of the greatest service? And how do you honor the care and feeding of your own nervous system and way of working, while holding the door open for others?
This learning community is for all who long to deepen into their relationship with the Sacred, whether you have heard the call to hold Sacred Space but are relatively new to the exploration, or whether you are a seasoned facilitator wanting to hone your craft. Facilitating Sacred Spaces is aimed at offering you a sense of fluency and confidence in both the design and facilitation of Sacred Spaces, whether they are for yourself or for others. This course will introduce you to both the technology of invoking the Sacred, as well as the Soul-connecting skills needed to create and hold containers that are informed by—and infused with—the Sacred.
Who This Program is For
This course is for anyone who feels called to create spaces of depth, healing, and connection—whether in personal practice, community, or professional work.
You might be:
A therapist, coach, or healer wanting to bring more sacred awareness into your sessions and circles.
A facilitator, teacher, or guide who holds space for groups, ceremonies, or rites of passage.
A spiritual seeker or community member longing to deepen your relationship with the Sacred in everyday life.
Someone who senses that there is “something more” to tending space—and wants to learn the art and structures that allow the unseen to move through.
No prior experience with facilitation is required—only curiosity, presence, and a willingness to listen deeply to what arises.
What You’ll Get From This Course
Through this 5-month journey, you’ll receive both practical tools and Soul-centered guidance designed to support you in becoming more fluent, embodied, and aligned in stewarding Sacred Space—for yourself, for others, and for many of you, in your work.
You’ll receive:
Five live 2.5-hour online gatherings blending teachings, embodied practice, and experiential learning.
Practices, reflections, and homeplay invitations to deepen your relationship with the Sacred between sessions.
Peer connection opportunities for shared reflection and integration.
Ongoing access to recordings and resources to revisit teachings and practices in your own time.
A supportive community exploring the art of sacred facilitation together.
Topics of exploration will include:
The mechanics of consciously creating and tending Sacred Space.
How to open and close Sacred Space with clarity and care.
The art and architecture of creating and facilitating intentional containers.
How to listen deeply––to yourself, the group field, and the unseen.
How to resource yourself and all involved within a wider web of support.
Energetic self-care: tools and practices for tending your own body-mind and honoring your energetic boundaries.
The creation of personal rituals.
The discovery of your unique ways of opening to the Sacred.
How to invite in diverse beliefs among participants and honor others’ ceremonial protocols.
Practical ways to bring the Sacred into your life and your work.
Right relationship with power in leading Sacred experiences.
Course Details
The Facilitating Sacred Spaces training consists of five 2.5-hour live, online gatherings from January - May , 2026. This course will weave together engaging content, experiential practices, and homeplay invitations that will help to anchor you in your capacity to hold and facilitate Sacred Space for yourself and for others.
Dates: We will gather online on the following Thursdays, 11:30am - 2:00pm MT.
January 15, 2026
February 19, 2026
March 12, 2026
April 2, 2026
May 7, 2026
Location: online via Zoom
Price:
Regular rate $750 (five payments of $150/month)
Early bird rate $699 (if paid in full by 01/14/26)
“When the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment.”
About Your Facilitators
With several decades of experience in outdoor education, therapy, teaching, mentoring, and rites of passage guiding, Katie Asmus, MA, BMP, LPC, incorporates present-moment awareness, relationship to the natural world, body-mind connection and ceremonial practices to support people in more deeply and compassionately connecting to themselves, others, and the earth.
She believes strongly in the power of spending time in nature as a way to deeply listen inward, and has a long history of creating, practicing, and facilitating personally meaningful, culturally relevant ceremonies and rites of passage. Katie also has had a 30-plus-year career working with therapy and coaching clients and over 20 years teaching wilderness therapy, adventure therapy, ecotherapy, and somatic therapy at a graduate level.
Currently, Katie directs and facilitates rites of passage trainings and experiences, sees therapy and coaching clients, guest teaches, and trains therapists and healers through The Somatic Nature Therapy Institute. She is known for saying that “Inner work is world peace work.”
For over 30 years, Melody Mischke has been seeking to define her purpose and give it life in the world. She is a certified Transformational Coach, Heart-Based Meditation Instructor, Ayurvedic Practitioner, Yoga Teacher, Writer, and Intuitive. She began studying meditation in India at the age of 18, has degrees in both Environmental Science and Contemporary Spirituality, and is a primary contributor to Banyan Botanicals’ written educational content.
Melody founded both Live In Resonance and Luminous Planet (a partnership with her brother) to help guide others into a more intimate relationship with their innermost essence and purpose. She also co-facilitates Courting Your Medicine with Katie. In all of these spaces, Melody is appreciated for her capacity to create and tend sacred space, her grounded wisdom, her articulate reflections, and her reliable aptitude for seeing and mirroring to others their most exquisite gifts.
Melody is a passionate skier, wilderness adventurer, and singer with a profound devotion to her family, to wild places, and to elevating consciousness on the planet. She lives in Evergreen, Colorado with her husband and son.
Apply for Facilitating Sacred Spaces
To apply, click the link below to fill out an application and share your goals for attending the program. We’ll review your application and schedule a time to talk with you, share more about the program, answer any questions you have, and collaboratively determine if it is the right fit for you.
For questions or if you’d like more information, please contact us.
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