Facilitation Training with Caroline Culverhouse

You Are
The Facilitator

Learn how to design and plan every detail of a retreat — while becoming an excellent facilitator who truly changes people’s lives.

This training covers both sides of what it takes to lead a truly great retreat. You’ll learn how to design your retreat from scratch — schedule, budget, lodging, food, location, logistics, every detail. And you’ll learn how to be an excellent facilitator once you’re in the room. Planning it is one thing. Being truly great at it is another. This training gives you both.

“Caroline’s approach is both compassionate and challenging.
She invites people to brush up against their boundaries creating new openings and insights.”

— C.L.B., Client

Is This For You?

You’re ready to lead.
This is your next step.

You have something real to offer. You’ve done the inner work. Now it’s time to step into the room as the one who holds the space — with skill, with presence, and with the tools that separate a good experience from a life-changing one.

Yoga teachers, meditation guides & bodyworkers

Ready to expand your offering and lead your own retreats.

Therapists & coaches

Wanting to transition into group and retreat-based work.

Healers called to hold space

Who feel ready but aren’t sure where to start.

Facilitators deepening their craft

Who want clinical-grade tools and real technique.

Retreat entrepreneurs

Building a retreat-based business and needing a real roadmap.

Anyone who has always known

I’m supposed to be leading this.

The Curriculum

Everything you need to plan a retreat.
Plus how to actually be great at it.

This training covers it all — every practical detail of how to form, plan, budget, and run a retreat from start to finish. Location scouting, scheduling, logistics, marketing, pricing. You will leave knowing exactly how to build your retreat, because you’re learning from someone who has done it over 200 times.

“Over 200 private and group retreats since 2008. This isn’t theory — it’s everything that actually works, passed directly to you.”

And then there’s the layer that most trainings simply cannot offer: the facilitation skills to make your retreat genuinely transformational. How to hold space at depth. How to read and guide a group. How to be the kind of facilitator that people remember for the rest of their lives.

Build, Design & Plan Every Aspect of Your Retreat

From initial concept to the last day — budgeting, logistics, arc, scheduling, venue selection, and every detail in between. You’ll leave with a complete blueprint for your retreat, ready to execute.

The Insider Dos & Don’ts

Nearly two decades of leading retreats has taught Carrie exactly what works, what doesn’t, and what no one tells you before you’re standing in front of a room. You get all of it — the hard-won wisdom, not the sanitized version.

Hold Space — Really Well

The psychological, somatic, and energetic skills that create the conditions for real transformation — not just a nice weekend. Learn what it truly means to hold a group container with depth, safety, and presence.

Market with Integrity & Authenticity

Conscious marketing strategies that honor your voice, build trust, and fill your rooms with participants who are truly ready for the work. No hustle, no compromise.

Choose Your Format

Three ways to
study with Caroline

The most powerful option is always being in the room. If you can come in person, come. If life doesn’t allow it right now, the live online course brings you into the experience in real time. The pre-recorded option is there whenever you’re ready.

⭑ Most Transformative

Live In-Person Weekend Immersion

Two full days with Caroline in an intimate small group setting. You will practice facilitating, receive real-time feedback, feel the dynamics of a group container, and leave fundamentally changed in how you hold space.

Starting at $399

2-day in-person immersion

Small, intimate group setting.

Live facilitation practice

Real-time coaching from Caroline.

Global locations

London, Sedona, Hawaii, New York + more.

Live & Interactive

Live Online Course

The live online format brings you into the training in real time — with Caroline teaching, a live cohort, and the depth of a true learning container, from wherever you are in the world.

$699 early bird

Sept 20 – Nov 1, 2026 · Sundays

6 sessions, 2 hours each.

Live with Caroline

Not pre-recorded. Real cohort, real dynamics.

Self-Paced

Pre-Recorded Master Class

The complete YAF curriculum in a self-paced format. Video content, PDF downloads, integration exercises, and lifetime access — learn on your own timeline, return to it again and again.

$399 one time

Full curriculum + PDF downloads

Integration exercises included.

Lifetime access

Revisit whenever you need it.

Your Facilitator

Meet Caroline

Caroline “Carrie” Culverhouse has been leading retreats since 2008 — over 200 group and private retreat experiences across Hawaii, Pennsylvania, New Orleans, London, Sedona, and beyond. She is a licensed clinical social worker, certified group psychotherapist, E-RYT yoga teacher, meditation guide, and energy healer.

Her approach is both compassionate and challenging. She has a way of knowing what the group needs, and she is able and willing to adjust to hold and maintain a safe space. Her teaching is nontraditional — she doesn’t force the point. You find it yourself.

As the founder of Integrative Awakening and co-founder of HomePym retreat center in Berks County, Pennsylvania, Carrie brings nearly two decades of real-world retreat leadership into every training she offers.

200+

Retreats Led

18+

Years Experience

Countries

What Participants Say

Words from the room

Carrie’s facilitator training was a transformative experience that provided me with invaluable insights into the art of group facilitation. Her expertise as a therapist and retreat guide, coupled with a deep understanding of group dynamics and trauma-informed practices, offered a solid foundation for stepping into this role with confidence.

Amanda Breton

Big Island of Hawaii

Caroline is an excellent teacher and group facilitator. I came out of this experience with a ton of knowledge nuggets, as well as a clear direction for my own future facilitator aspirations.

Justin W.
Big Island, Hawaii

Carrie’s nurturing guidance and genuine belief in each participant’s potential created an inspiring and supportive learning environment. I left the training feeling empowered, equipped with practical tools, and motivated to embark on this journey.

Amanda Breton

Hawaii

This course rocked! I learned so much and am so excited to facilitate my first retreat!

Sarah L.

Reading, PA

I feel You Are the Facilitator has met all my needs for preparing to lead my first retreat! This was an awesome experience!

Kalani

Big Island, Hawaii

Live In-Person Immersions

Join Caroline in person

All weekends run Saturday + Sunday, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM. Snacks and beverages provided. Bring your own lunch. Early bird pricing available for each date.

July 2026

11–12