Facilitation Training
MBA’s Teacher Training Department focuses on training instructors in how to be with deep emotional content skillfully. Because the group process often brings up strong unresolved emotions, and because the young people we serve are often dealing with repeated trauma, instructors are engaged in deep personal work with their own emotional content, so that they are not triggered by it in the young people. Facilitation training also addresses the place that we are relating to eachother from. MBA is engaged in an exploratory process with youth. We are interested in being with them in a deep and authentic way. We’re not in the room to tell them what to do, or how to be. It’s not a teacher – student relationship, so much as a coaching and guiding relationship. We are there to model authenticity, and vulnerability; to share our experience of transformation. Our training process helps instructors to learn to teach from a place of ‘open-heartedness’ rather than a place of ‘knowing’. This invites youth to open their own hearts.
