Get to know the of the four pillars of EMPOWER; Authentic Connection, Meditation, Embodiment and Ritual and learn how to structure powerful workshops, ceremonies and retreats.

Undergo the inner work required to step into your role as facilitator

Overcome the fears, self doubt, and obstacles currently in your way, and deepen your sense of inner strength.

Form a tight knit community of supportive women.

Make friends for life and find future collaborators in this container designed for you to learn, make mistakes, and grow alongside each other.

Gain experience by putting your new skills into practice.

You will be required to start your own circle as part of this training. This is a place to experiment, befriend failure and find the courage to spread your wings.

EMOTIONAL

Authentic connection speaks to our basic need for connection and belonging. This module offers techniques to drop the masks and social scripts to create an environment of vulnerability, trust and intimacy.

Practices include: sharing circles, partner enquiry methods, eye gazing, and tantric exercises.

MENTAL

Meditation is about cultivating a relationship with our inner world. This means learning to understand the correlation between our thoughts, emotions, beliefs and behaviours.

You will develop a propensity for self-reflection and cultivate a strong centre that is essential for holding space in highly emotional settings.

PHYSICAL

Embodiment supports you to deepen the mind-body connection through an experiential understanding of how emotions show up in the body as physical sensation. We then explore how to work with the body and the nervous system to express emotion through movement, breath, voice and meditative practices.

You will learn how to employ different kinds of warm ups, techniques and exercises that work with the biology of the body, to shift group energy, and guide a group through the intention of a journey with greater skill and success.

SPIRITUAL

Rituals allows participants to enter a liminal space, where they can connect to something greater than themselves, and invite in the possibility for change. Ritual is an important process for marking life transitions and can assist in making that change feel more real, through the clarity of intention and the experience being witnessed in community.

Reviving ritual in the West is core to this programme as it reconnects us with an ancient way of living, that supports us to feel a sense of belonging to ourselves, each other, and our planet.

LEAD FACILITATOR

Gaia Harvey Jackson is a workshop facilitator and artist creating spaces for deep transformation and specialising in women's empowerment. She runs the courses, retreats and training programmes for women.

Gaia is passionate about the revival of ritual and works with communities to co-create ceremonies around the world, helping people to mark significant moments, move through challenges, and celebrate life. Her work combines elements of theatre games, voice work, meditation, dance and ritual, creating safe and playful environments where people can authentically connect and release.

LEAD SUPPORT

Faye is a creative writer, group facilitator and mother of three.

Years of leading charity work, religious community gatherings and corporate events lead to her dramatically burning out and struggling with her mental and physical health. Through unleashing her inner ‘wild woman’ and finding a new way of being in the world that isn’t performance driven, she has found a new radiant way of living that is aligned with her body, soul and spirit. One of her greatest joys is to create safe gatherings of women who support each other to access their inner truth and deepest power.

POD LEADER

Maya is a youth development and education professional with a focus on social innovation, experiential learning and leadership development; proven ability to design, manage and deliver complex projects; passionate about updating education to ensure the younger generation develop the skills and experience to design the future they need.

Experienced in the design and delivery of leadership and innovation focused trainings, working towards developing social leaders. Trainings have included user centred design thinking, innovation, leadership, public speaking, confidence, identity and diversity.

POD LEADER

Nuvola is a life coach, psychedelic assisted facilitator, mum, dancer and pastry chef

In the past few years Nuvola started a profound process of self-love discovery and personal growth which led her to train as an embodied facilitator on Gaia’s EMPOWER Programme, which had a deep impact on her life, both personally and professionally.

Nuvola’s purpose is to be in service and hold space for others with compassion, empathy and an open heart.

She has launched a mentoring program called "love designer". Through love, with authenticity and integrity we will grow to be the best version of ourselves.

POD LEADER

Earth lover, artist, forager and apprentice herbalist.

Jenny facilitates women to reclaim themselves during mid-life and after. Jenny is passionate about myth, storytelling, and earth-based practices as a way to rediscover our lost wild and wonderful selves.

Jenny completed the EMPOWER programme in 2023

CHEF

Friedel Fink is a Holistic Health Educator specialised in women’ s health and Relationship and Sex Educator in schools and the community. She founded Big Sis CIC in 2020, a UK based wellbeing platform developing girl empowerment initiatives supporting girls 8-12 and their immediate support networks.

Through her interdisciplinary background, rooted in the arts, education and interactive community projects, she is passionate in finding creative and accessible ways that inspire for a positive body image, emotional resilience and a growing self-esteem cross culturally.