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Unleash the power of

Inquiry

Hands-On Facilitator Training Course:
Become a Better Facilitator of The Work

10 Week Online Course
​(Wednesdays in September/October/November)
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(Fully booked)

Course Overview
Unlock deeper insights and refined skills in facilitating The Work of Byron Katie with this live online training course, designed for practitioners eager to expand their knowledge and enhance their facilitation techniques.

Led by Ernest Holm Svendsen, a highly experienced Certified Facilitator and trainer, the course takes a hands-on approach, focusing on practical demonstrations, masterclasses, supervision, and interactive feedback. You will explore advanced facilitation concepts through a comprehensive demonstration and exploration of tools, techniques, and innovative approaches that will improve your skills and effectiveness when guiding others through self-inquiry.
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Course Structure
  • Dates: September 25th to November 27th
  • Duration: Ten consecutive weeks
  • Frequency: Two-hour sessions every Wednesday
  • Session Format: Alternates between live online classes via Zoom and triad homework sessions to enhance practical learning
  • Tracks: Two tailored tracks—Intermediate and Advanced—to best match your experience level and maximize learning outcomes
  • Recordings: Recordings will be available for participants
Course Format
  • Hands-on Training: The course focuses on practical application through masterclass sessions, interactive feedback rounds, and engaging triad homework assignments, designed to cultivate your facilitation skills in real-time scenarios.​

  • Tailored Learning Paths: Choose from two distinct tracks—Intermediate or Advanced—based on your current level of expertise. This ensures smaller classes with personalized attention and a peer group that matches your facilitation experience, fostering an optimal learning environment.

  • Collaborative Practice: Engage in bi-weekly practice sessions with a triad of peers. These sessions are dedicated to experimenting with new techniques, allowing you to receive valuable feedback, and refine your approach based on real interactions.

  • Balanced Schedule: The ten weeks of the course alternates between class sessions and homework assignments every other week. This ensures a fixed time to meet your homework partners and allows time for you to integrate new knowledge and maintain balance with your existing commitments.
Course Content
  • Navigating the Open Space of Inquiry: In my perspective, The Work is best understood as a journey of discovery into your inner landscape, rather than a specific procedure of questions and answers. Learn how to navigate this journey, and develop the skills and sensitivity required to identify the most potent beliefs and inner structures to uncover and explore.

  • Holding Space for Transformation: A key element in making The Work impactful is our ability to hold space. Learn how to cultivate a safe container, attune to the process, and create a space of acceptance and compassionate loving-kindness towards all the rejected feelings and abandoned parts that show up during inquiry.

  • Incorporating Emotional Release:  Allowing and cultivating a space for emotional processing is a key element for The Work to have effect. Learn how to activate the client’s nervous system, and how to deepen your work by incorporating emotional release as an integrated part of the inquiry process.
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  • Crafting the Facilitator's Toolbox: There are a lot of skillful means we can employ as facilitators to support our clients. How can we help our client's transition from question 3 to question 4? How can we go deeper in the turnarounds? Explore and develop your own toolbox of tweaks, shortcuts, and techniques to bring potency, depth, and clarity to your work.​
Outcome
By the end of this course, you will have gained advanced skills in facilitating The Work of Byron Katie, enabling you to guide others through their transformative journeys with greater effectiveness. Expect to:

  • Deepen Your Facilitation Skills: Develop a profound understanding of the inquiry process, enhanced by direct, practical experience from supervised facilitations and masterclass demonstrations.

  • Receive Constructive Feedback: Benefit from continuous, personalized feedback in a collaborative learning environment, helping you refine your techniques in real-time.
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  • Harness Innovative Approaches: Learn to integrate new methods and innovative approaches into your practice, increasing the depth and impact of your facilitation.

​This hands-on course is designed to empower you with the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to significantly improve your ability to guide others through the transformative process of The Work of Byron Katie.
Who Should Attend?
This course is tailored for facilitators, practitioners, or individuals who are already familiar with The Work of Byron Katie and possess experience in facilitating. Whether you're looking to refine your facilitation skills, deepen your understanding of the process, or embrace advanced techniques, this training offers a rich, hands-on experience that will enhance your ability to support transformative inquiry. Ideal participants are those committed to their personal and professional growth in the art of facilitation.

Before enrolling, if we haven’t met previously, I will arrange a brief online call with you to determine the most suitable track based on your experience level. This ensures a personalized and impactful learning journey.

How to join

If you feel inspired to join this course, apply below!​
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Practicalities

Dates and Times:
  • Course Duration: September 25th to November 27th
  • Weekly Sessions: Every Wednesday for two hours, alternating between class and homework sessions.
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Schedule by Time Zone:
  • Central Europe (CET):  19.00 - 21.00 
  • US Eastern (ET): 1.00 pm - 3.00 pm 
    • ​Note: On October 30th, sessions will begin at 2:00 PM ET
  • US Pacific (PT): 10.00 am - 12.00 pm
    • Note: On October 30th, sessions will begin at 11:00 AM PT ​
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​Technical Requirements:
We meet in the video conference system Zoom.
  • A stable Internet connection and audio/video is required
  • Use a smartphone or a tablet by installing the Zoom app
  • Use a computer or laptop by using a regular internet browser
  • You do not need to create a zoom account to join
  • You will receive easy to follow instructions and support prior to the first session

​​​Price:
The course fee is set at 2,500 Danish Kroner (approximately 335 euros or 360 USD). This investment includes full access to all course materials, live sessions, recordings, and homework sessions to enhance your learning and facilitation skills
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"This is one of the best classes about The Work of Byron Katie I have ever done. "
Katerina Korolkova

"A great encouragement to do The Work with more flexibility and with more emphasis on its essence."
Michael Kilpper

"A very powerful course."
Laurent Dommee

"Ernest’s courses have been the most thought-provoking, free-wheeling, and unconventional that I have taken in The Work."
Brenda Dixon

"Ernest has an authentic, advanced integration of Inquiry that inspires and clarifies."
Alara Tiernan

"It felt like stepping onto an island full of new treasures of the work."
Hedda Seemann

"I learned nuances in the roles of facilitator and clients that deepens the practice for me."
Keitheley Wilkinson

"I felt so safe going deep at the course with Ernest. His experience and loving kindness opened my mind."
Ragna Rosengren

Questions?
If you have any questions, please contact me!
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What people say about this course
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I highly recommend this course for those looking to deeply explore themselves as facilitators in the Work. The materials Ernest provides are invaluable, the class content is engaging and interactive, and the partnering homework is wonderfully structured for optimal growth and self discovery as a facilitator. This course is a gem.
Abby McDowell, USA

This course with Ernest showed me a new dimension of how to facilitate with The Work in a more playfull, authentic and relaxed way. He shares his experience openly and gives a lot of references for the facilitation, that are easy to handle. I would recommend everybody the course who wants to have a fresh approach to the facilitation and who is looking to give their clients more value. 
Anke Fieles-Kahl, Germany

I signed up for the facilitator training with Ernest because I felt stuck in the way I was facilitating. I hoped to have new input and inspiration. What I didn´t expect was to feel so free after these 5 weeks. Not only as a facilitator but also sharing other modalities I love such as yoga and massage. I experience a significant change in the way I hold space now. Thank you so much Ernest for an amazing course! 
Nina Medin, Sweden

This course shed so much light on how my facilitations can be more effective, connecting, and fulfilling for both client and facilitator. The gifts of Ernest's clarity, generosity and deep understanding of The Work will stay with me. In the short time since the course, my facilitations have already shifted into something far more meaningful. Thank you.
Heidi Gedlaman, Canada

I recommend this course to everyone who wants to work with clients and is looking for their own way to do it. This course really answers my exact questions. Very personal!
Irina Petersone, Latvia

Honestly, as an experienced facilitator I was doubting whether this course could bring me more than I already 'knew', but I am pleasantly surprised! Ernest and this course have given me new insights in my skills and challenges. They provided me with some very good tools. And mostly, they allowed me to trust myself and my facilitation skills much more, and to feel free to use them. I definitely recommend this course to anyone!
Marijke Tops, The Netherlands

Besides Ernest’s clear and well-structured explanations, I enjoyed the manifold learning channels offered like e.g. recorded clips, handouts, graphical content presentations, different settings of live demonstrations. It was an insightful and divers learning journey.
Björn Schulz, Germany 

This course palpably deepened my level of trust in myself, the client, and in The Work. Through these 5 weeks of exploring ways I've held myself back in facilitation, I've noticed a new level of freedom to show up fully. Even a long-time client seemed to notice a difference, offering "that was the best session ever!" I really recommend this course with Ernest for being a facilitator (vs. doing facilitation).
Jimmy Lundeen, Brazil

Ernest has a lot of practice and it's a gift to learn from his experience. I feel grateful he wants to give courses and build them from his journey. I experience him honest, kind, open to show up as a facilitator, open to receive critics and at ease to give feedback that are very helpful. He gives space and time for our questions which support me in my practice.​
Murèle Lasserre, Schwitzerland

Oh my! So happy and grateful to have been offered this train-the-trainer-course! Ernest was guiding us through the art of facilitating a client. I love the mix Ernest is offering to support you in your own style of facilitating and still help you to improve it and work on it. He has tons to give out of his experience of being a faciliator of doing The Work. He has found his own style of faciliating and is supporting us in doing so as well. Thank you, Ernest!​​
Verena Conzett, The Netherlands

What an inspiring, in-depth inquiery on inquiery! In a gentle and loving, yet firm and structured way, I was guided towards what to look for, and how, facilitating The Work for others. Lots of insights along the way, and answers to my questions and doubts. I continue, after having done this course, with my facilitating The Work with much more confidence, flexibility and loving presence. Thank you!​
Mads Beck, Danmark ​

I found the course very useful. Every detail seems to have been thought out very carefully: chosen topics, tasks, groups in triads, information on the website, information in the FB group, the Facilitator's Toolbox and other additional material that were very useful. I have gained more peace of mind and confidence in the unknown and trust a client more than my control. Ernest shares not only his wisdom and experience but his inner peace and trust as well. I found it extremely effective. Thank you very much for the course and for your peaceful energy.​
Nomeda Sabeckiene, Lithuania

Ernest's facilitation course is transformative. I have learnt a new and expansive way of using The Work's core teachings to facilitate deeper and swifter insights and discovery. It is remarkable. Thank you, Ernest.​
Kaeren Lea, UK

I highly recommend to attend the profound course that Ernest teaches. As part of classes with people from all over the world, you have an immediate opportunity to practice and deepen the use of this amazing tool. The platform that is being suggested, gives you a 24\7 access to answering questions, sharing thoughts and experiences with the kind, serious and warm help of Ernest. 

I enjoyed very much attending Ernests course. It was very meaninful for me to work with people from all over the world. We brought questions, shared experiences, facilitated one another and observed. All with Ernest's kind, serious and warm guidance. I loved it !!!!​
Liora Ben Simhon, Israel 

I loved this course! Ernest is very generous in his sharings, and I've had a wonderful playground to try new ways of facilitating. 
Cendrine Pasquier, France 

Ernest's Facilitator Training Course gave me extra tools for my facilitator's toolbox and great insights about how to facilitate which has helped me enormously. I highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to sharpen their facilitator skills.
Annette Birkman, Denmark

This workshop invites you to trust the process, the client and yourself thus widening the spaciousness and depth of any facilitation. The tools are clear and to the point and come in a variety of support: reading material and videos.
Nanou Anne Evrard, Belgium

A generous exploration to fully include myself as part of the facilitation equation. This opportunity attuned me to the subtle nuances of my internal in real time as facilitator, with a newly tested freedom to share what was alive in me with the client. This attunement and freedom carried over into my experience of being the client as well. A wonderful romp of self-discovery in a well held space. You da man, Ernest. 
Dale Steele, USA

Ernests facilitator course has been inspiring and has given me tools and confidence to continue practicing The Work on my own and as a facilitator.
Jasmine Chouri, Sweden

Immense gratitude to you Ernest!
​I knew the course would be good, but I did not expect it to so profoundly meet needs I wasn't even aware I had. 
I can already feel a shift in the way I facilitate, and even in the way I do my own work. I had lost quite a lot of confidence in myself as a facilitator, and this experience has reignited something in me. 
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Heidi Gedlaman, Canada
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Ernest expands the experience of The Work and brings an enriched understanding of the process which allows for exploration and insights that have become invaluable to me. I learned nuances in the roles of facilitator and clients that deepens the practice for me. I came away from his course with a renewed excitement for The Work.

​Keitheley Wilkinson, California USA
Going Deeper has provided a safe environment in which I have found myself able to push at the boundaries of my comfort zones through class discussion, partner work, and guided meditations.
Highly recommended! 

​Abby McDowell, Connecticut USA
Very effective to work with others at the same skill levels to dive deeper in The Work, and see so many different styles of delivering it. I also loved experiencing it back to me and not just practicing it as the deliverer.
​Wende Wylie, California USA 
It felt like stepping onto an island full of new treasures of the work.

Hedda Seemann, Germany
I didn't expect "Going Deeper" to be so powerful. Deep is precisely the right adjective to describe the profound coverage of the course. The chance to share and work with someone means each week I get past a vulnerability. It makes the group more intimate and closer. I feel less fearful of speaking about the thoughts that arise and open to sharing something of myself which is profound. It really feels like a deeper experience of being human is taking place.

Wayne Baron, United Kingdom
This was an extremely effective course. I loved Ernest's personal style, simultaneously encouraging and challenging, assisting each of us individually and as a group to rise above the beliefs we are carrying that are holding us back. Before the course was over, I was already circling back to Ernest's schedule, trying to figure out when I can take his next course. It was indeed a successful invitation to go deeper.

Brenda Dixon, Maryland USA
In my experience, Ernest has an authentic, advanced integration of Inquiry that inspires and clarifies. I appreciate his occasional off beat humor and the warmth and presence of how he holds a group. I was dubious about learning with someone other than Byron Katie, but I was happily surprised and will be back for more. 

Alara Tiernan, California USA
Ernest is an extraordinarily skilled facilitator. He can put his finger precisely on the core issue underlying your suffering and use this insight to sensitively craft a pathway through the blockage. The power of "The Work" in his hands is amazing to behold. 

Lynn Wilkinson, Connecticut USA
This is one of the best classes about The Work of Byron Katie I have ever done. I would take it one more time without hesitation. 

Katerina Korolkova, Florida USA
I felt so safe going Deep at the course with Ernest. His experience and loving kindness opened my mind and his deep respect for what happens during the course gives us such an opportunity to learn to accept what is within ourselves and our clients. To practice with other open-minded participants was also a great gift. 

Ragna Rosengren, Sweden
Ernest’s courses have been the most thought-provoking, free-wheeling, and unconventional that I have taken in The Work. He is simultaneously challenging and tender with us, which has propelled me to deeper personal insights and to better relationships with my husband and son. The various techniques he has shared have given me new tools to deepen my inquiry. His honesty and openness have also been thought-provoking for me, as I am habitually more guarded. I also very much appreciate his playfulness in class. I am so glad I have had the continuing opportunity to learn from Ernest. 

Brenda Dixon, Maryland USA
A very powerful course that made us go deeper in the inquiry. Ernest is very kind and have so much years of experiences that we can ask him any questions, he will have the answers.

​Laurent Dommee, France
I can highly recommend Ernest`s course "Going deeper with The Work", which offers so many valuable insights from years of practice. And it is a great encouragement to do The Work with more flexibility and with more emphasis on its essence as an experience - experiencing situations, stressful beliefs, and facilitating as a connected journey for client (and facilitator) in every step. 

Michael Kilpper, Germany
Going Deeper with Ernest is at first a gentle scratching of the surface, however, through what seems like simple exercises, pretty soon I found myself in deep waters. Ernest's style is welcoming and inviting, he holds steady the tension between structured inquiry and the freedom to take sharp turns when the situation calls for it. I simply love journeying with Ernest down the rabbit holes of the present moment. It is such an inspiration!

Inbar Sarig, California USA
Ernest has a wonderful way of communicating and interacting with others when doing The Work. He is present, straightforward, and shares his experience without ever being overly directive. I very much appreciate his presence, and will continue to take & recommend any classes he offers! 

Abby McDowell, Connecticut USA
I love your creativity, the way you see inquiry as a space more than some rigid method to be strictly followed.

Genevieve Shibolet, Israel
A course that I can really recommend. A good mix between theory, discussion and practice. It is noticeable that Ernest has a long experience of working with The work. He is educational, he teaches and guides us with warmth and with a big heart.
Hans Åkersten, Sweden
In his trademark style of clear, concise and fuss-free communication, Ernest structures and facilitates the course very well. In a unique blend of stripping things down to the bare essentials and simultaneously holding the space for honest vulnerability, the course truly offers clarity in a noisy world, and with a big heart.

Teresia Björnberg, Switzerland
Ernest is a great facilitator for learning and applying the teachings of Byron Katie's Loving What Is teachings.

His teaching method is relaxed yet professional and he has a deep understanding and systemised method of teaching the necessary information for us to apply it to our own life.

I have read several of Byron Katie's books however Ernest's deep understanding of Byron's teachings helped me apply her teachings in a more effective way than I had achieved on my own.

Without hesitation I recommend this course. Ernest is the perfect man for this job.

Anton Hooton, Australia
Ernest has a solid experience with the Work. I felt secure with him during the group's sessions. He is open-minded, attentive and very pedagogical. ​I liked the fact that all questions were welcome. It was precious to hear our questions, doubts and inquiries be enlightened by Ernest's knowledge and experience.
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I have already advised two friends to participate in the next class. They are already registered. Thank you Ernest for giving easy, convenient and efficient access to The Work.

​​Laurent Novo, France
Ernest knows his stuff! And he presents the material in a comprehensive way that is very illuminating. His teaching style is excellent and his emphasis on the body sensations/emotions is key. I highly recommend Ernest as a teacher and facilitator!

​Jenny Turco, Massachusetts USA
Ernest’s ability to listen deeply with patience and kindness gave me the confidence and courage to “Do the Work”.

Scott Lindsey, Colorado USA
The class sessions were really good. It felt okay to ask pretty much any questions we could think of and we did! I liked how straightforward you are Ernest and the stories you share from your own life are helpful.

​Kelly Walker, New Zealand
Ernest has a natural way of sharing his knowledge by interweaving theory with questions and experiences that arose during the class sessions. There was this nice balance between theory and practice and I liked the interaction with the other participants.

​I found it also very convenient that I could join from my home, not needing to travel anywhere.

Astrid van Drie, The Netherlands
This course was a fantastic introduction to how to do The Work! Ernest is passionate, knowledgeable, and skilled at communicating and teaching the subtleties of the art of Inquiry.

Derek Cummings, Oregon USA
Thank you for both planning such a delicate course as well as hosting it! During the course I've made several breakthroughs in my life (being able to taking the decision about quitting nicotine after +20 years of heavy smoking, improved relationship to my family, spouse, friends, 'complete strangers' and, not to forget, the relationship with myself). I am now connected with other participants that I do inquiry with on almost a daily basis.

Christian Sams, Denmark
Ernest’s approach to The Work of Byron Katie is creative, intuitive, and confrontational in a way I find very useful and conducive to inner growth. I have learned a lot from “going deeper still” and can recommend it to anyone willing and eager to challenge their limits and open their minds further. ​

Elena Cheah, Germany

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