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• The Field Facilitator Training •October 19-25, 2026
Skeppsudden, Sweden
Practices for Embodied Intimacy & The Relational Field
With Rachel Rickards
More info & Register: https://www.the-field.com/FacilitatorTraining
When a group of humans gathers, something begins to form between us.
It’s subtle at first, almost unnoticeable, and then suddenly it’s everywhere. In the way people are breathing, in the quality of attention in the room, in the unspoken sense of contact that starts to build.
People begin to feel each other. Not just conceptually, but in their bodies. There’s a softening, or sometimes a charge. Longings come closer to the surface. Something real and truer starts to move.
And every now and then, something appears that feels larger than any one of us, and yet it only exists because we are here together, willing to meet.
This is what I call the Field.
And this training is devoted to deepening into a direct, lived relationship with that.
• Facilitating The Field •
This is a one-week version of The Field Facilitator Training. And because of that, I’m choosing not to try to cover everything.
I’m choosing to go all the way into what I know most intimately, what I’ve spent years living, refining, and transmitting through my work.
The heart of this week is transmission.
Not as a concept, but as something that happens through the body, through presence, through the quality of contact we’re able to create with ourselves and with each other in real time.
We will be working with practices that open embodied intimacy in a direct and immediate way.
Practices like Belly2Belly, Primal Play, Attuned Aliveness, and more relational explorations that bring people out of the mind and into the body, into breath, into sensation, into contact.
These are not things you perform or get right. They are entry points into a different state.
A state where the body begins to relax, where the breath becomes a little more natural, where the edges between self and other soften just enough that something like connection becomes inevitable.
And when that happens collectively, something else begins to organize the space.
There is a kind of coherence that forms. A field that feels alive, responsive, intelligent in its own way.
Often, it feels like love, but not the kind we try to manufacture. Something much simpler, and much more honest than that.
Some of what we’ll be working with
• Embodied leadership — learning how to guide from your body, your presence, and your direct experience rather than from an idea or technique.
• Your body as the instrument — developing the ability to sense, track, and respond to what is actually happening in you and in the room.
• Creating relational depth — guiding Belly2Belly and practices like that to bring immediate connection, relaxation, and intimacy into the space.
• Speaking to the body — using simple, precise instructions that land experientially rather than cognitively.
• Tracking the field — reading breath, sensation, and relational dynamics to understand what is opening, closing, or needed.
• Working with aliveness — including primal play and attuned interaction as ways to access truth, expression, and real contact.
• Creating coherence without control — supporting the natural intelligence of the group rather than forcing outcomes.
• Staying present in the unknown — building your capacity to respond in real time as the space unfolds.
• Transmission — refining your ability to create a felt sense of safety, openness, and connection through your presence.
• The Group Heart — understanding how a relational Field forms, and how to stay in contact with it as it evolves.
• The Format of the Week •
This is an experiential training.
Which means you won’t be sitting and learning about this work from a distance. You’ll be inside it.
We’ll move between teaching, practice, and real-time facilitation.
There will be moments where you’re receiving, moments where you’re guiding, and moments where we slow everything down and look closely at what is actually happening.
You can expect a weave of:
• Teaching that gives you orientation and context
• Embodied practices that bring you directly into the work
• Relational labs where you explore connection in real time
• Guided facilitation practice with feedback
• Space for integration so what opens can actually land
Practical Details for Sweden 2026:
Dates & Times
October 19 - 25, 2026
Arrival: 15:00-18:00
Monday, October 19, 2026
Departure: 13:00-15:00
Sunday, October 25, 2024
Venue
We will be gathering just south of Stockholm, Sweden, at Skeppsudden.
It’s a quiet, nature-held space that supports this kind of work beautifully.
Järstad Skeppsudden 1
610 31 Vikbolandet, Sweden
http://www.skeppsudden.com/
Prices
Includes: Course Fee, Food & Accommodation
€1995 early bird (includes dorm style accommodation)
€2395 full price (includes dorm style accommodation)
Triple/Double Room Upgrade €250
Private Room Upgrade €500
*Early Bird Ends August 15, 2026*
Find Out More Here: https://www.the-field.com/FacilitatorTraining
Apply Now Here: https://relationalfield.paperform.co/
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Lead Facilitator & Host: Rachel Rickards
Find out more at: www.The-Field.com
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Skeppsudden, Järstad Skeppsudden 2, SE-610 31 Vikbolandet, Sverige, Norrköping, Sweden
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