RIA Transformational Leadership Training
Are you a leader looking to create powerful, transformative experiences that make lasting changes in other’s lives?
This 5 month program is designed to teach you some of the most powerful tools for transformation that have been tested in thousands of workshops by dozens of leaders.
What makes this training so unique?
The Relational Inquiry Approach is a unique blend of group coaching skills, parts work, Jungian Psychology, archetypal work, Shadow work, Circling, Authentic Relating, and leadership training.
This potent combination allows our participants to experience unparalleled transformation in a surprisingly short amount of time.
This has been such an incredible source of community, learning and professional growth for me. As a full time psychotherapist, I’ve learned how to show up with more skill, sincerity, and presence with my clients. I’ve also had some profound experiences of personal healing… I really believe that having this sort of community with other practitioners is essential to our success as leaders and facilitators and that this work can help us solve a lot of global issues.
SAVANNAH HANSON, PSYCHOTHERAPIST
Upon completion of this program you will receive a RIA Certification that you can use to springboard your own group coaching, group facilitation, workshops, retreats, healing practice, and more.
- 5 in-person immersive trainings in Austin, Texas
- Online video trainings packed with content
- Triad groups to receive personalized support from your fellow leaders and facilitators
- Monthly assignments to support you in creating your own group program
- Monthly group accountability calls
- Written course materials to refer back to again and again
- Complimentary access to the Relational Leadership Academy online platform, with 40+ LIVE classes every week to practice these skills
Program Outline
01. Create a Container of Safety & Trust
- Discover how to cultivate deeper emotional and psychological safety in your groups
- Become intimate with your own shadows and limitations. We will invite you to experience for yourself what it’s like to lean into your most vulnerable edges and explore the darkest corners of your shadows so that you show up fully, authentically and vulnerably.
- Make a habit of creating clear boundaries and expectations, resulting in more group trust in your leadership
- Cultivate a culture of consent, acceptance, and self-expression
- Inspire deeper vulnerability and engagement among your participants
- Increase your capacity to be with intense and difficult moments
- Embody authentic attuned leadership
02. Inspire Deep Intimacy & Connection
A special kind of transformation happens in relationships. When people feel safe, held and supported in a group, they allow themselves to be more deeply impacted and transformed. Discover how to inspire more intimate connections among your participants with these methods.
- Teach your participants these essential communication tools to create a container of acceptance and deeper intimacy
- Implement simple yet powerful bonding exercises
- Discover how to unearth the deeper meaning and intentions of your participants
- Bridge gaps between different kinds of people
- Utilize your own vulnerability to inspire your participants to reveal and explore more deeply
03. Create Powerful Transformation with Group Coaching Techniques
Unlike other facilitation programs, you will learn actual coaching techniques to heal and transform patterns in an embodied and relational way. Some of the techniques you’ll learn include:
- Parts work group exercises that allows multiple participants to simultaneously engage and support one another in their process.
- Archetypal work that teaches participants to trust themselves and the group more deeply.
- Self-inquiry to deepen their relationship with their own inner worlds and take this practice out into their own relationships.
- Shadow work to inspire deeper transformation, empathy, and understanding of themselves and others.
04. Master Advanced Group Management Skills
- Feel confident addressing difficult or intense moments
- Skillfully facilitate participants who create chaos or take up a lot of space
- Transform conflict into intimacy
- Manage personal triggers during leadership
- Discover how to handle participant’s defensiveness, walls, and projections
05. Embody Ethical Use of Power in Leadership
- Experience what it means to be a leader within yourself first
- Explore integrity, power and transparency as a leader
- See and name the invisible river of power dynamics
- Create avenues for consent and dissonance in your group
- Clearly delineate our roles and reach of power - what we are and are not responsible for
- Gain clarity on what it means to be an ethical leader in today’s world
06. Sharing your own Group Program with the world
- Receive support in creating or birthing your own group program where you can share these skills with the world
- Receive personalized feedback on your facilitation and program design from our team of experienced trainers, coaches and facilitators
- Collaborate, practice and refine these skils with other faciltaitors, receiving valuable feedback on your facilitation, program ideas and more.
- Receive lifetime access to our Relational Leadership Platform after the end of our 5 months together
Completion of this program will certify you as a RIA Group Coaching Facilitator.
When you complete this training you will walk away with...
- A powerful framework of transformation that you can now use in workshops, retreats, group experiences, and group coaching programs
- Your own group program that will help to transform the lives of others
- An incredible experience of intimacy and growth with other powerful leaders
- Feeling more powerful, confident, and competent as a leader
- Clearer connection to your power and how to use it well
- Community of like minded peers to support you in your growth moving forward
- A clear understanding of how to facilitate lasting change in other’s lives
- The skills to address those who challenge or trigger you
This training is by application only.
To provide the most value to our students and ensure the highest quality experience, we are limiting this training to only 22 participants.
This training is only offered once a year
Before applying please check the training schedule below. Live Immersion Dates:
January 28 - 30
Weekend 1
February 25 - 27
Weekend 2
March 25 - 27
Weekend 3
April 22 - 24
Weekend 4
May 20 - 22
Weekend 5
RIA Transformational Leadership Training - 2022
Dates of the Program: January 28, 2022 - May 22, 2021
Led by Course Leaders Mark Boughton, Peter Will Benjamin, and Jen Burns
Assisted by Cameron Grayson
- Payment plans available
- Maximum of 18 students accepted
- Application Only
- Complete Your Application HERE
About the Facilitators
Peter Benjamin
Peter Will Benjamin is one of the joyful co-founders of The Connection Institute. As lead staff trainer and CEO he delights in caring for the staff and students. Peter also works as a Professional Coach and teaches continuing ed for Coaches and Therapists. Peter’s mission is to support people in feeling worthy of love and goodness, in order to access their personal power. He’s also an intimacy junkie, community builder, and dancer.
Jen Burns
Jen is a Head Trainer and facilitator at the Relational Leadership Academy. Jen trains coaches, teachers and therapists on how to create safe spaces where people feel excited to open up in authentic vulnerability.
She is known for her ability to easily shift the energy of a group from energizing and engaging to deeply vulnerable and intimate. She teaches an array of topics including cultivating trust, the art of self-revealing and embodied leadership.
Mark Boughton
Mark Boughton has been studying communication skills and the psychology of relationships and interpersonal dynamics for over a decade. By the time he was twenty two, he had worked, traveled or volunteered on every continent of the globe, and had discovered a deep passion for understanding people.
He stumbled upon the world of therapy and coaching in his early twenties, immediately knew his calling, and has been facilitating relational practice ever since. He has a love for building community and bringing people together to connect, and also works as a coach helping people vision and actualize their deepest desires.
COVID Policy
These prerequisites are for both participants and staff:
- Participants and staff must receive a negative PCR test within 5 days prior to each live weekend.
- We ask participants to limit contact as much as possible between receiving the PCR test and attending the training. More specifically, we ask that you do not attend any large gatherings in the week prior to the live weekends, and to take extra precautions such as wearing masks indoors with anyone beyond your household.
- Our group will be limited to 22 participants.
- All attendees will receive an additional rapid test upon arrival. You must receive a negative result in order to attend the weekend.
- We will implement a wristband system for participants to visually communicate their preferred levels of physical contact.