Facilitator development program · Edition 2026
Liberation of Facilitation
Learn to facilitate from your whole being
An intensive, interactive program for experienced facilitators, coaches and guides who want to develop mastery in transformational work with leaders and teams.
Start
November 2026
Duration
~6 months
Investment
€ 7.650,-
Location
Kloosterhotel Samaya
Certificate
Yes, on completion
Together, our faculty have more than:
1000+
teams facilitated
500+
facilitators trained
20.000+
facilitation hours (incl. Aberkyn)
People from these organisations have developed themselves through our programs
Corporate organisations and leadership boutiques
About the program
Liberation of Facilitation unlocks your potential as a facilitator. You learn to choose your interventions with more precision, less resistance and more effect - and gain insight into what makes you powerful and what gets in your way.
You learn to connect with your essence and from there do - effortlessly - what makes a real difference. You attune sharply to the dynamics of your clients and use that actively to move them forward. The program moves you a step further as a facilitator and as a human being. Whether you work independently or do this inside an organisation, you learn to connect this work to what needs to happen in that context.
Faculty
You are guided by highly experienced facilitators. Beatrijs and Françoise first met at Aberkyn. They met Zeeger at LOF and Fenix and now join forces in this program. Together they have more than 20,000 facilitation hours with leaders, teams and transformations.
Beatrijs Verploeg
Experienced facilitator, trainer and entrepreneur
- Core member of the Aberkyn faculty for facilitation development and community leader for BNLX.
- Guides leaders and their teams worldwide, and has trained hundreds of facilitators.
- Creative designer of learning journeys.
- Trained in Systemic Work, Barrett Values, Leadership Profile Circle and Embodied Leadership. And more.
Françoise Gielen
Experienced facilitator, trainer and leader
- Initiator and 'dean' of the signature facilitator development program as a leader at Aberkyn.
- Guides leaders and their teams worldwide, and has trained hundreds of facilitators.
- Designer and lead facilitator of large-scale leadership and culture programs.
- Trained in Systemic Work, Coaching, Meditation and Inclusion & Diversity. And more.
Zeeger Scholten
Facilitator, advisor and designer of leadership experiences
- Designer of Nomad MBA / Uprise Academy, grown into a global leadership learning program.
- Associate Partner at Fenix Leadership; supports leadership teams in private equity and venture capital.
- Community builder with lots of energy for in-person events and online programs.
- Trained in LOF, Theory U, Coaching and a Master in Systemic Work. And more.
Who is the program for?
You recognize yourself in one of these profiles:
The growing facilitator
You've made the move into facilitation in recent years and want to accelerate and deepen, standing on the shoulders of 20,000+ facilitation hours from the faculty.
The experienced coach
You're an experienced coach and want to translate the magic of '1-on-1' into '1-on-many'.
The strategic guide
You guide groups as an HR professional, change manager, team lead or strategic advisor. You want to add working with the 'undercurrent' and personal leadership to your repertoire.
And you recognize this
- Personal growth is a way of life for you.
- You work / want to work with executives and senior teams ready for deep transformation.
- You want to free clients from patterns and blind spots so they create more soulful impact.
- You're willing to bring yourself and your own development into the room to help clients further - Living the Work.
- You feel: this is your next step.
See what kind of participants join, and what they have to say
The group matters as much as the programme. We select on the fit between what you come to take and what you come to give - everyone has an intro conversation first. That's deliberate: you will learn as much from the people beside you as from us.
Group size
10-14 participants
Who's there
Independent facilitators, coaches, and internal change and HR leaders
Where they come from
From one-person practices to the Fortune 500
"I want everyone who works for and with us to go through this program. You'll be challenged in your personal development as well as in your facilitatorship."
Bart Jan van 't Hoff
Partner & founder of Fenix Leadership
Participants have come from
What does it deliver?
Six concrete outcomes participants look back on. Source: alumni interviews.
You trust what you see happening
You choose the right intervention at the moment it matters and, just as importantly, you know when to do nothing at all. Less forcing, more effect.
You design a programme and dare to let it go
You build a day, or a whole journey, that holds together - and can set it aside in the moment when the group needs something else, without losing your objective.
You catch your own trigger before it steers you
You come to know your patterns well enough to see them coming in a charged room, and to choose what you do with them. That is the difference between reacting and facilitating.
You make the unsaid speakable
Unspoken conflict, resistance, the subject everyone walks around. You get the instruments to put it on the table without losing safety.
You can explain it to whoever is paying
You connect this work to what the organisation actually has to do, so it lands as a serious intervention rather than a soft detour.
You go home with material and a certificate
The full Liberated Leader programme: workbook, slides and scripts, plus the practices you can put to work straight away. After successfully completing workshop 4 (the master's test) you receive a certificate.
Where are you on the path to facilitation mastery?
Take the Facilitator Mastery Self-Assessment in about 7 minutes. You'll get insight into your strengths and growth areas across the three pillars: Being, Knowing and Doing.
Being
Yourself as the instrument: presence, essence and inner state.
Knowing
Design, science and wisdom behind your interventions.
Doing
The craft in the room: dialogue, story, conflict and command.
21 questions · ~7 minutes · immediate insight into your scores
Our approach
Our view on facilitation
Facilitation is the art of 'making easy'. By choosing precisely the right intervention at precisely the right moment, what really matters becomes visible. A masterful facilitator uses those transformational moments for acceleration, depth and integration.
As a facilitator you are your most important instrument. The quality of your inner state sets the quality of your interventions.
Being, Knowing and Doing as the foundation of your facilitation
Being (Wezen)
Yourself as the instrument
- Working from essence and purpose
- The power of vulnerability
- Awareness, mindfulness and meditation
- Building and holding space
- Your own transformation as a role model
Knowing (Weten)
Knowledge you draw on
- Designing the intervention
- Understanding personal transformation
- Connecting to business relevance
- Group dynamics
- The psychology of behavior
Doing (Werken)
Skills in the moment
- Facilitating dialogue
- The power of stories
- Constructive conflict
- Transformational questions
- Working with resistance
Practical information
The program starts by experiencing the Liberated Leader program yourself. We then use it as practice material to learn how transformational programs are built and what it takes from you to guide participants through them with impact and depth.
Alongside workshops and webinars you commit to exercises, reflections and depth work - about 6 days in total.
Combine optionally with personal coaching. We're happy to work with Alix Royer.
The journey step by step
Step 1
Onboarding 2026
November 2026
Intro conversation, reflection assignment, literature and 360° interviews.
Step 2
Workshop 1 - Immersion
11-13 November 2026
You experience the Liberated Leader program for your own transformation.
Step 3
Workshop 2
8-10 December 2026
Experimenting with facilitating on being, knowing and doing.
Step 4
Workshop 3
1-3 February 2027
Practice facilitating, feedback and depth. Group work.
Step 5
Workshop 4 - Master's test
24-26 March 2027
Facilitate with fellow participants and real clients.
Ongoing
Webinars & fieldwork
Between the workshops
Three online evening sessions plus practice in small groups.
Wrap-up
Individual closing conversation
Within 2 weeks after workshop 4
Evaluation of your learning journey.
Investment
Program
€ 7.650,-
excl. VAT
Including all materials, also from the Liberated Leader program.
Accommodation
€ 2.995,-
excl. VAT, estimated
Stay and overnights at Kloosterhotel Samaya (Werkhoven, NL).
Blended program: 105 plenary hours and at least 40 hours of self-study.
Also available in-company
Want to offer this program, or parts of it, inside your organization? We're happy to design an in-company track tuned to your team's question and context.
Frequently asked questions
For experienced facilitators, coaches and group guides who want to develop mastery in transformational work with leaders and teams.
Want to know more?
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Liberation of Facilitation · Starts Nov 2026 · €7.650,-