Option 1:

Heart iQ Circle Work Facilitator Training

March 1st - October 25th, 2026

A transformational 8-month training to learn the foundations of Heart iQ Circle Work. 

Through live calls, video content, an in-person immersion, and supervised mentorship, you’ll gain the skills, confidence, and experience to begin leading deep, resonant group experiences. This is your gateway into embodied facilitation, emotional fluency, and relational presence — the essential starting point for becoming a Heart iQ professional.

This option offers education in the Heart iQ Circle Work modality only. No certification or accredation is offered by Heart iQ. Recommended for existing therapists, coaches and professionals who have an existing qualifcation in trauma-informed culture of care. 

Option 2:

Heart iQ Circle Work Facilitator Training
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The Field - Certified Facilitator Training

March 1st 2026 - April 2027

A 14-month certification training in trauma-informed group facilitation. 

You'll first complete the 8 month Heart iQ Circle Work Facilitator Training. After graduation, you'll begin an additional 6 month online journey, afterwich you will be equipped to confidently support individuals and groups with trauma-informed principles of safety, regulation, and care.

This option offers education in the Heart iQ Circle Work modality AND certification and accredation. Through the successful completion of the course materials and the final assessment, you will receive a certificate from the Culture of Care (accredited by IPHM), designating you as a Certified Trauma-Informed Space Holder.

PART 1

Fundamentals

March 1st - 31st

Four Weeks to Build Your Foundation in Heart iQ Circle Work

Your journey begins with a four-week online immersion into the foundations and core practices of Heart iQ Circle Work — the essential groundwork for everything that follows.

Through a blend of on-demand training, live group calls, and supervised small-group practice, you’ll be guided step-by-step into the culture, language, and basic structures that make Heart iQ so powerful.

Here’s what’s included: 

• Weekly Live Group Calls with Christian – Join the founder of Heart iQ for interactive sessions where you’ll explore core protocols, ask questions, and practice implementing the fundamentals in real time. Calls are 90 minutes and take place March 10th, 17th, 24th and 31st at 7pm CET.

• Weekly Supervised Pod Calls – Work in an intimate pod of eight participants led by a certified Heart iQ facilitator. These two-hour sessions are experiential, giving you a front-row seat to Circle Work in action and helping you embody the principles you’re learning. Pods are scheduled by your and our supervisors availabilty.

• On-Demand Video Tutorials – Access clear, step-by-step lessons that walk you through every protocol and structure of the foundational Heart iQ Circle.

• Two Cohorts, One Journey – You’ll be part of a 32-person Europe group or a 32-person USA group, journeying in parallel toward your in-person immersion.

At this stage, you’re not yet facilitating — you’re absorbing, embodying, and preparing. You’ll be “landing” in the Heart iQ way of being, building the relational safety and cultural fluency needed for the live trianing retreat.

By the end of these four weeks, you’ll be ready — both practically and energetically — to step into Part Two: The Immersion with confidence and clarity.

PART 2

The Immersion

Seven Days of Live, In-Person Training — Where the Rubber Meets the Road

Choose Your Location:

🇳🇱 Europe (Netherlands)
 April 6th-12th at New Eden

🇺🇸 USA (Colorado)
April 27th - May 3rd at Casa Sagrada

After laying your foundation in Part One, you’ll step into a seven-day deep-dive retreat — the heart of the training and the place where your skills come alive.

This is where you’ll receive a direct imprint and transmission of Heart iQ Circle Work while also stepping into practice as a facilitator. Each day blends live demonstrations, hands-on practice, expert feedback, and immersive retreat experiences that anchor the work in your body.

Here’s what you can expect:

• Live Demonstrations with Christian – Watch the work unfold in real time as Christian leads live demo circles. You can observe from the audience or step into the demo to experience the facilitation process from the inside.

• Skill Development & Practice Pods – Learn the core skills for leading a Heart iQ Open S.P.A.C.E Circle, then immediately put them into action in small pods under the supervision of our most experienced facilitators.

• Daily Debriefs & Harvesting – Reflect on what you’ve seen and practiced, ask questions, and integrate the day’s learnings with your peers and mentors.

• Afternoon Transmission Circles – Step out of the facilitator role and into the seat of the participant, receiving the work as a retreat experience. This dual perspective — holding space for others, while welcoming your full humanity — is essential to embodying the quality of leadership Heart iQ is known for.

• Integration & Co-Regulation – Each evening, we close the day by grounding and integrating together, ensuring the nervous system is settled and the learnings are anchored.

The week is carefully designed:

• Day One – Set the container, create coherence, and prepare the field.

• Days Two to Six – Mornings are devoted to skill development, practice, and feedback; afternoons immerse you in the retreat space, receiving and experiencing Heart iQ firsthand.

• Final Day – Integrate your entire journey and close with our signature Sunday Church ceremony — a collective, heart-opening celebration of everything you’ve learned and become.

By the end of this immersion, you’ll leave not just with techniques, but with a felt sense of the field and the kind of embodied leadership that comes from living the work, not just learning it.

Your meals are included in your package, however accomodation at New Eden is extra (approximately €65 per night for a shared room)

PART 3

Mentorship

May - September

Four Months of Guided Practice, Feedback & Deep Integration

The immersion may be complete, but your real growth as a facilitator is only just beginning. Over the next four months, you’ll be supported through a high-touch mentorship process designed to refine your skills, deepen your embodiment, and integrate everything you’ve learned.

We begin with an Integration Call the week after the retreat — one for the Europe cohort and one for the USA cohort — to reconnect, harvest the learnings from our time together, and set your focus for the months ahead.

From there, the heart of this phase is your weekly supervised pod practice:

• Pods of Eight – Meet in your dedicated small group every week for a two-hour call.

• Hot Seats – Each week, two people step into the facilitator role to guide an Open S.P.A.C.E Circle while the rest of the pod participates, witnesses, and learns.

• Real-Time Feedback – Receive targeted feedback from both your pod peers and your certified supervisor, with the option to pause, reflect, and recalibrate in the moment.

This practice develops two essential skills:

1. One-to-One in a Group – Learning how to support an individual to feel safe, open, and express fully within a group setting.

2. Reading & Working with the Field – Engaging the entire group so that the experience moves from personal to transpersonal, ensuring that every participant receives medicine from every moment.

Even when you’re not in the facilitator seat, you’re learning — absorbing imprints from your peers, witnessing different styles, and experiencing how the work lands from the inside.

Alongside pod practice, you’ll also receive:

• Seven Group Mentorship Calls with Christian – Space to ask questions, receive deeper insight, and watch live demonstrations.

• Home Study Resources – Including on-demand training videos, case studies, and “pull back the curtain” commentary where Christian breaks down exactly what’s happening in a live circle.

• Specialized Applications of the Open S.P.A.C.E Model – Explore how to adapt this work for grief circles, generational healing, conflict resolution, wisdom councils, and more.

This phase is deliberately high-touch and intimate, with limited enrollment to ensure that every participant gets multiple opportunities to facilitate, receive feedback, and anchor their learning in real-world application.

By the end of these four months, you’ll have a deeply embodied confidence in your ability to hold space — not just as a technician of the method, but as a leader who can read the room, respond to the moment, and transmit the Heart iQ field wherever you go.

PART 4

Integration

September 16th - October 13th

Four Weeks to Refine, Complete & Step Into What’s Next

The final month of your journey is designed to tie everything together — not with a rigid curriculum, but with a living, responsive approach that meets the group exactly where it’s at.

Over four weekly 90-minute calls with Christian, you’ll enter emergent Circle spaces where anything that’s still alive in you can be brought forward — for insight, clarity, corrective experience, and deeper imprinting. This is where the gaps close, the edges get smoothed, and the wisdom of the whole group is brought to bear on each individual’s journey.

What to Expect: 

• Weekly Emergent Circles – Held September 22 & 29 and October 6 & 13 at 7 p.m., these calls are shaped by what’s needed most in the moment.

• Space for What’s Alive – Bring forward parts of yourself that need to be seen, felt, or integrated before graduation.

• Personal & Collective Focus – We work both with individuals and the field as a whole to ensure nothing is left unresolved.

Alongside these live calls, you’ll receive home study content introducing the R.E.A.L. Model — four advanced Circle energies that expand your range as a facilitator:

• Relational Circles – Coaching two or more people simultaneously, exploring the space “between” and deepening connection, polarity, and intimacy.

• Emergent Circles – A surrender into what’s naturally arising, where the field itself sets the direction — often dissolving the circle’s fixed form into a more fluid, alive configuration.

• Alchemy Circles – Trauma-informed spaces for corrective experience and deep nervous system repair, often involving mat work for full-bodied integration.

• Liberation Circles – Emotional range expansion and shadow reclamation, bringing home the parts of ourselves we’ve denied, exiled, or orphaned.

While mastery of these formats takes years, this phase offers a powerful introduction to the possibilities they hold — giving you a roadmap for where your facilitation can evolve long after the training ends.

By the time you complete this month, you’ll not only have integrated your learning, but you’ll also be carrying forward a holistic, embodied confidence in your ability to hold space in both structured and fully emergent environments.

PART 5

Graduation

October 9th - 11th

 A Homecoming Like No Other

Your eight-month journey culminates in a weekend unlike anything you’ve experienced before — The Ecstasis Heart Summit event.

From the Greek word for “standing outside oneself”, Ecstasis describes a state of expanded, transpersonal love — a place where the boundaries between me and we dissolve, and the field becomes one living, breathing organism.

Over the course of this extraordinary weekend in the Netherlands (also available via livestream), you’ll step into a high-frequency, amplified circle of 300+ souls — graduates, newcomers, tribe, and family — all opening, deepening, and surrendering together. Even in such a large group, the space is held as a single circle, with the same resonance, safety, and coherence you’ve been training in… now magnified many times over.

What Makes Ecstasis Unique: 

• A Living Circle at Scale – Imagine the depth of your pod or training circles, now expanded into a room of hundreds, yet still intimate, attuned, and alive.

• Full-Field Transmission – Christian will lead from the stage, weaving music, movement, and emergent facilitation into a seamless, embodied journey.

• Transpersonal Breakthrough – This is where personal work meets collective awakening, giving you a lived experience of what’s possible for humanity when we come together in truth, love, and presence.

• Celebration & Recognition – You’ll be officially honored for completing the Heart iQ Facilitator Training, receiving your Certificate of Completion in the presence of your peers and the wider tribe.

• A Bridge to What’s Next – As a graduate, you may also be invited to assist, support, or act as an ambassador for future cohorts — carrying the work forward.
  
  

Ecstasis is not just a celebration — it’s a homecoming. A chance to integrate your personal journey into the greater story of the Heart iQ community, and to witness the next wave of transformation already beginning.

Your ticket to Ecstasis is included in your training, though travel, accommodation, and meals are not. While livestream participation is available, we strongly recommend making the trip — because to be in the room, in the resonance, and in the arms of your tribe… is an experience words can’t touch.

Relational Circles

A space where two or more individuals come together to explore the intelligence of the field between them — deepening intimacy, polarity, truth, and connection.

This is the evolution of “us.”

Emergent Circles

A surrender into the intelligence of the collective field — where “we” awakens and something greater moves through us all.

This is where “me” becomes “we” — and the magic unfolds.

Alchemy Circles

A therapeutic group space where trauma is gently revisited, re-patterned, and healed through physicalization, attunement, and corrective experience.

This is healing in motion — where the nervous system rewires in connection.

Liberation Circles

A space for shadow work, emotional range expansion, and the reclamation of bound life force.

This is where power and permission meet.

Sylvie Fröhlicher

Heart iQ Facilitator 

Sylvie Fröhlicher is a skilled somatic coach, circle facilitator, and embodiment teacher passionate about empowering clients to embrace bold, vulnerable, and authentic self-expression. She has a unique ability to create playful yet deeply transformative spaces, enabling individuals and groups to connect with their true essence and foster meaningful growth.

Sylvie’s expertise spans conscious communication, somatic intelligence, powerful self-expression, deep listening, and loving curiosity.

A strong advocate for inclusion, Sylvie is dedicated to amplifying unheard voices and creating spaces where diversity is celebrated and respected. She believes in the power of authentic self-expression as a catalyst for social change, beginning with the transformation of individuals and radiating outward to impact communities.

Sylvie’s holistic and integrative approach reflects her belief that true transformation arises from embracing both our strengths and vulnerabilities, enabling us to show up fully for ourselves and the world around us.

Sumir Brown

Heart iQ Facilitator

 Sumir is a sought-after international facilitator specializing in Women’s, Men’s, and Couples retreats. Her work focuses on attunement to love, expanding consciousness, and the art of beingness, guiding individuals toward deeper connection and self-awareness.

As the co-founder of New Eden, a retreat center in Friesland, The Netherlands, Sumir has created a space for personal and collective transformation. She is also co-owner of The Lilley Center, a wellness hub in the United States, and founder of Feminine Rising and Humanity’s Heart, a nonprofit fostering compassion and unity.

Since 2014, Sumir has played a vital role in nurturing Heart iQ, co-creating New Eden, and building multiple successful ventures. Her partnership with Christian reflects her commitment to cultivating relationships founded on emotional intelligence and mutual growth. Through her unique blend of personal growth and professional expertise, Sumir empowers individuals and couples to unlock their potential, embrace vulnerability, and embody their fullest expression of being.

Stephanie Fabela

Heart iQ Trainer

Stephanie Fabela is an expert in embodiment, relationship intimacy, and human dynamics, with over two decades of study in somatic healing, energy work, and personal development.

As one of the first graduates of Heart iQ in 2012, she has been instrumental in shaping the Heart iQ Academy, serving as Director of Programs and Education from 2014 to 2018, and continues to train and mentor facilitators as a core part of the team.

Stephanie is also a founding leader of the Heart iQ Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to developing community and bringing Heart iQ practices into everyday life.

She brings a wise, elder presence to the circle, embodying tribal leadership and offering deep, intuitive guidance to the Heart iQ community.