Facilitator In Training™ (FIT)
Facilitator In Training™ (FIT) provides health professionals and community paraprofessionals with a dynamic process and curated content to facilitate learning by people from diverse backgrounds. This model combines wisdom, science, and collective engagement. Rather than teach people what to think, we create the space for learners to listen and learn, investigate, and respect all valid views.
TUITION: $1,495
“The times they are a changing.”
—Bob Dylan, 1964
Well-facilitated group learning is empowering as people recognize and release misinformation they received through the media, in school, or from the internet. Our aim is to use authentic education as a powerful tool for transformation.
“As a certified Integrative Wellness Facilitator, I attest to the value of my training. Our cohort members came from diverse communities, ethnic backgrounds, and institutional affiliations. We harmonized beautifully, gained confidence and skills to bring Dr. Bauman’s workshops to our clients and community.”
— Kory Ward-Cook, Ph.D., Health and Wellness Coach, Integral Qigong and Tai Chi (IQTC) Teacher, Founder and CEO, Dovetail Coaching
Learning Objectives
- How to prepare to facilitate a class.
- How to build rapport with participants.
- How to apply the facilitation process to lead programs.
- Time management of content with process.
- Learn facilitator skill sets for successful virtual and on-site teaching.
- Build your voice and communication skills.
- Practice public speaking to purge gratuitous words such as “um, you know, and so…”
- Use pre- and post-survey questionnaires and course evaluation.
- Facilitate a lesson receive feedback from our FIT cohort.
- Design your own wellness program using facilitator skill set.
Curriculum
FACILITATOR IN TRAINING™ (FIT) LEVEL ONE: (8 Lessons)
How To Be a Skillful Facilitator of the Ways to Be Well™: Tools For Healing course.
Learning Objectives:
- Complete the pre- and post-training Facilitator Skills Inventory.
- Identify the facilitator skills areas you need to improve, such as communication skills, time management, preparation, practice, student engagement, expression, diligence, and completion.
- Re-experience the six (6) lesson Ways to Be Well™: Tools For Healing Course with deep attention to course readings, slides, activities and homework.
- Receive guidance on how to present this material as a facilitator, not instructor.
LESSON ONE: Training Overview
How to build group rapport by asking students to share their personal and professional aspirations, introduce the Ways to Be Well™ Course, and explain the vital role data collection plays in documenting the measurable impact of group wellness training.
LESSON TWO: How to Incorporate Integrative Wellness Practices
Data and experience is provided that supports the efficacy of each wellness practice to promote well-being and to hasten recovery and rejuvenation. Breakout groups will be used to allow participants to share their experiences.
LESSON THREE: How to Teach the Eating for Health™ Model
We will compare it to conventional dietary guidelines and to other healing food diets, such the Ketogenic, Paleolithic, Gluten-, Dairy-, and Sugar-Free approaches. The key aspects of Eating for Health™ will be introduced.
LESSON FOUR: How to Lead Joyful Movement™
Data will be shared on the health benefits of various forms of exercise. By practicing movement done joyfully, much of the exercise resistance, unwell people disappears.
LESSON FIVE: How to Guide Mindfulness Meditation
The Bauman Mindfulness approach is derived from the teaching of Thich Nhat Hahn. We will learn and practice four aspects: (1) being fully present, (2) being non-judgmental, (3) sending loving kindness to others; (4) embrace unity with nature, humanity, and spirit. A guided mindfulness practice will be shared.
LESSON SIX: How to Facilitate Healing Relationships™
Of all the wellness practices, relationship is the most challenging as most people have had transactional pain that they have not transformed, that they unconsciously transmit. We will practice active listening, learning to release, forgive, and seek higher ground as a daily practice shared.
LESSON SEVEN: How to Facilitate Soulful Service
The top of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is being of service to others. This can be a simple as a smile, or as concrete as sharing food, shelter or finances with someone less fortunate. We will discuss how praise, acknowledgment, empathy, helping out, giving back creates peace within us. Loving kindness and generosity is what heals us and society.
LESSON EIGHT: Reflections on How to Facilitate
FIT participants will be asked to reflect on key shifts in their ABC’s, attitude, behavior, cognition, and spirit. Wellness, like any other skill, be it art, music, sports, research, education deepens with daily practice, and high integrity role models to inspire us to stay on track.
FACILITATOR IN TRAINING™ (FIT) LEVEL TWO: (6 Lessons)
Critique of Facilitation leading Affordable Nutrition™ or other approved course:
Learning Objectives:
- Participate as an engaged student and observer of facilitation process.
- Note class structure, function, timing, and participation.
- Learn how to state class objectives, teach and review them within a lesson
- Note facilitator skills in each class.
- Note student participation in each class.
- How did the facilitator draw out each student to share experiences.
- Note shifts in perspective and energy level from participating.
LESSON ONE: Course Objectives — Student Deliverables
Notice how the facilitator built group rapport by welcoming students, oriented them to the course objectives, format, participation, materials and homework.
LESSON TWO: Content — Process Balance
Discuss facilitators introduced learning objective, provided data and research, led a food or activity demo, posed a breakout group question, and concluded with full group discussion and weekly commitments.
LESSONS THREE, FOUR, AND FIVE: Facilitating Group Engagement
Share observations on how the facilitators led commitment/homework check in, created a relevant, engaging, and actionable learning environment and elicited student sharing key of learning, home practice, and skill development.
LESSON SIX: Facilitator Excellence + Student Expression = Success
Give examples of how the facilitators used cognitive, affective and behavioral learning activities. What caused a student or class ‘light up’ with excitement? What class management practices were especially effective? How is facilitation different from teaching?
FACILITATOR IN TRAINING™ (FIT) LEVEL THREE: (6 lessons)
Students Co-Facilitate an Integrative Wellness Workshop:
Learning Objectives:
- Meet with your cohort to identify a target audience.
- Invite a partner to work with you to define wellness practice skills each of you can facilitate in a workshop.
- Write a workshop proposal with topics and a sample lesson.
- Write and present an invitation or promotional flyer to your workshop.
- Learn how to communicate with your interest list and referral sources.
- Co-facilitate a 30-minute sample workshop.
- Record and review the session.
- Receive feedback on your communication skills, group engagement, and time management.
LESSON ONE: Personal Narrative
FIT participants will share a personal biography of how they now see the benefits and challenges of their family of origin. In writing and sharing 3-5 key life turning points, each person will be clearer on what brought them to the place in time, with the aspiration of facilitating self-reflection and growth in others.
LESSON TWO: Identify Target Audience
FIT participants will define the audience they wish to serve by leaning an Integrative Wellness workshop or course. In most cases, people work with others who are dealing with similar issues they have been working on.
LESSON THREE: Pick Your Practice to Facilitate
FIT participants will share which of the wellness practices they want to lead in a group setting. Most people choose Eating for Health™, Joyful Movement, and Mindfulness for their first plunge into leading others in a practice-based wellness group.
LESSON FOUR: Facilitation Practice Demonstration
FIT participants will offer a 20-30 minute wellness demo to the class. Each co-facilitator will lead a topic to our FIT cohort. The most challenging part is to be timely and to engage the group in self-reflection and lively discussion.
LESSON FIVE: Share Workshop Outline and Marketing Materials
FIT participants will then share their workshop or course outline, marketing flyer, target population, and mode of delivery, be it in person or virtual. The cohort will help one another gain clarity, confidence, and vibrancy.
LESSON SIX: Your Wellness Workshop
FIT participants offer their integrative workshops in the community. The cohort is welcome to join the group and be an active participant. Virtual groups can be on Zoom with participant permission, allowing for easy recording for review.
Competency for Certification
FIT graduates will write a 1-3 page reflection on what wellness means to them, how they can continue to work on their own wellness practice, and share Integrative Wellness activities with others.
An Integrative Wellness Facilitator Certificate will be awarded to participants who complete the FIT program and demonstrate a solid understanding of how wellness works. Integrative Wellness Facilitators can obtain licensing rights to use approved Bauman curriculum on an annual basis with approval by Dr. Bauman.
Prerequisite for Acceptance
Completion of Eating for Health™ and Ways to Be Well™ courses.