SOMOS Facilitator Training
Become the practitioner of genuine depth and uncommon skill that has always been emerging in you.
This is not a course about facilitation. This is a living transmission — a structured, deeply supported journey into becoming a world-class group leader, retreat designer, and community builder. SOMOS Facilitator Development gives you the skills, the framework, the field experience, and the community to step fully into your calling.
The Framework
Be. Become. Belong.
Be
Rest in the offering that lives within you. Before you can hold others, you must first know what you carry. We begin here — with you, your practice, your depth, and the unique transmission only you can offer. We help you see it, name it, and trust it.
Become
Access the depth within. Make what is invisible visible. With the full support of the SOMOS community at your back, you step into the next level of facilitator that wants to emerge from you and through you. This is where the real transformation happens.
Belong
Upon completing the program, you earn a place on the SOMOS platform — hosting your own group, participating in ongoing weekly mentorship, and cross-pollinating with a living ecosystem of world-class facilitators. Your community grows because ours does.
What You'll Learn
From holding the group field to leading transformative retreats in the world.
SOMOS Facilitator Development is comprehensive. We are building world-class facilitators — people who can hold a group field, co-regulate a space, work with what's emerging, and guide meaningful long-term encounters. But we go further than most. We teach you how to take your work off the screen and into the world.
Group Facilitation Mastery
- •Holding the group field and co-regulating shared space
- •Working with emergent dialogue and what arises in the moment
- •Deep group process — mediation, facilitation, teaching
- •Building your own courses, communities, and group containers
- •Delivering embodied, relationally-informed group experiences that create genuine belonging
Retreat & In-Person Leadership
- •Designing and delivering meaningful multi-day retreat experiences
- •The full logistical architecture of running in-person gatherings — from venue to flow to facilitation
- •Leading experiences that give depth, breadth, and duration to your community
- •Building long-term in-person encounters that sustain and nourish your people
- •Drawing from Zach Evans's decade of luxury adventure travel guiding and academic background in ecotourism
This is where the magic happens.
The SOMOS approach to in-person experience design is not bougie tourism dressed as transformation. We call it what it is: truth in action. Depth and purpose finding their way into a format for learning. We develop people into world-class facilitator retreat leaders — quickly, completely, and with full support.
Beyond Training — A Career Architecture
We don't just develop facilitators. We launch them.
Our faculty draws from the forefront of somatic science, relational neurobiology, contemplative tradition, and decades of hands-on clinical practice across multiple continents — bringing you not a curriculum assembled from textbooks, but a transmission carried by people who have dedicated their lives to this work.
What follows your training is as important as the course of study itself. SOMOS holds the infrastructure — the community, the research, the global reach — that allows your work to scale without losing its soul.
Global Tour Infrastructure
When you're ready to take your work on the road, SOMOS has the infrastructure to make it happen. Our dedicated tour management team builds bespoke touring programs for facilitators — handling logistics, venue sourcing, scheduling, and on-the-ground coordination across multiple countries and continents. You focus on the work. We handle everything else.
Legal & Licensing Support
Delivering workshops, retreats, and trainings across different jurisdictions requires navigating a complex web of licensing requirements, liability frameworks, and local regulations. SOMOS works with a dedicated legal team experienced in multi-jurisdictional facilitation and training delivery — ensuring you are fully covered, compliant, and protected wherever your work takes you.
Retreats, Trainings & Long-Form Programs
Whether you're designing a weekend immersive, a weeklong residential retreat, or a year-long certification program, SOMOS provides the frameworks, templates, and operational support to bring it to life. We draw from over a decade of experience designing and delivering high-caliber in-person experiences around the world — and we put all of that at your disposal.
Books, Media & Public Presence
The most impactful facilitators in the world are also authors, speakers, and cultural voices. SOMOS supports the development of your public presence — from writing your first book to securing speaking engagements, media appearances, and partnerships that amplify your work and extend your reach far beyond the room you're standing in.
A Bespoke Path for Every Facilitator
Not every facilitator wants the same career. Some want to go deep with small intimate groups. Others want stadiums. Most want something in between. SOMOS Facilitator Development meets you exactly where you are — and builds the specific infrastructure your work requires to reach the people it's meant for. This is not a one-size-fits-all program. It is a living, responsive career architecture designed around you.
Where This Takes You
Graduation is just the beginning.
Completing SOMOS Facilitator Development earns you a place on the SOMOS platform — where you can host your own group, reach new communities, and grow alongside a living ecosystem of world-class practitioners and facilitators. There is no obligation on either side. But when the alignment is right, we open the door — and invite you to bring your work to the world through SOMOS.
Host Your Own Group
Open a group on the SOMOS platform and build your community with our full support.
Ongoing Mentorship
Weekly support from your key facilitation mentors, for as long as you need it.
Cross-Pollination
Your group naturally steers people toward others. Growth here is collective, not competitive.
Next Cohort Entry
June 2026
Our next facilitator cohort opens June 2026. Places are limited and filled on a person-by-person basis. Investment is determined in conversation — we want the right people in the room, and we will work with you to make that possible.
Scholarship pathways available. Reach out to discuss.
Book a Discovery Call with Our Core Faculty →This is a conversation, not an application. Come as you are.