A.R.C.H. Training Program 2024-2025

ARCH Life Coach Training: A Trauma- Informed Approach

Facilitated by:  Heather Ensworth, Ph.D. (clinical psychologist, astrologer and shamanic practitioner) and Kristina Lea (certified Psychosynthesis life coach and energy medicine practitioner)

This program is especially designed for therapists, healers and coaches but is also open to those who want to deepen in their personal healing journey and who have done therapeutic work in the past and want to learn a new more holistic model for healing and integration. This program is about healing on all levels — emotionally, physically, relationally, energetically and spiritually. It is founded on the ARCH model and the book by Kristina Lea and Heather Ensworth From Trauma to Freedom: One Woman’s Journey and a Holistic Path to Healing. The ARCH model works with the ancient shamanic medicine wheel as a path of self-awareness, healing and integration. The ARCH model has five core components: Alignment, Relationship, Consciousness, Healing and Integration. It is a way of working through all aspects of healing, of reclaiming your true self and coming into a place of integration, wholeness, freedom and empowerment in your life purpose. This program also incorporates an understanding of the larger shifts that we are in individually and collectively, and the realization that as we heal, we help heal the world and are able to co-create new ways of being. 

The program will meet online (on Zoom) once a month for four hours and will include video lectures in addition to the class time. It will also include monthly assignments and dyadic practice sessions as well as opportunities for ongoing supervision for those continuing on as life coaches.

If you are interested and want further information, please contact Heather Ensworth: heather@risingmoonhealingcenter.com or Kristina Lea: kristina@truefreedom.blue. 

To register, you will need to complete an application and pre-program interview to ensure that the program is a good fit for you. 

Please note: All classes will be recorded in case you need to miss a class or want to review the material. 

NOTE: This program will qualify for supervision hours for those seeking licensure as a therapist. If you are interested, please let us know.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE: 10 months – Dates for 2024-2025:  Sep 21, Oct 19, Nov 16, Dec 14, Jan 18, Feb 22, March 22, April 19, May 17, June 7  — class sessions will meet on Zoom: 1 – 5pm EST

Group size: maximum: 20 participants (minimum: 15 participants)

Cost of program: $4400 

To register: please contact Kristina Lea (kristina@truefreedom.blue) or Heather Ensworth (heather@risingmoonhealingcenter.com)

A deposit of $440 is required to hold your reservation for the program.

Cost of program: $4400

Outline of program

Class outline:

 Overview of the program

Journey of self-discovery and healing and learning a trauma-informed approach to Life Coaching
Overview of the ARCH model
Coaching vs. Therapy
Understanding Trauma and Healing
Intake for the coaching process – assessing the your client’s needs and goals and how to stay clear about your own parameters as a                     coach
Setting the foundation in the coaching relationship
Reflective listening – empathy – establishing safety and trust
The frame for the process
Setting up healing dyads for the program

Working with the ARCH model

Understanding the medicine wheel and the meaning of the directions
How to set up the ARCH medicine wheel
Using the ARCH medicine wheel as a meditative practice and technique for understanding the healing process
Using ceremony and ritual
Creating sacred space – for working with the ARCH medicine wheel and for your sessions with your clients
The importance of working your own ongoing healing and meditation process as you work with client

ALIGNMENT  

Ways to come into stillness/alignment
Meditation practices
Breathing exercises
Establishing the witness self and connecting with the soul self
Holding sacred space in sessions and feeling the larger healing energy field – with the Earth and sky and healing guides
How to stay in alignment in sessions with clients
How to hold space for when you don’t feel centered

RELATIONSHIP 

Establishing, strengthening and maintaining the healing relationship
Fostering collaboration and exploration with your client vs. a hierarchical dynamic
Forms of healing relationships
Characteristics of a healing relationship
Challenges in the relationship process
Boundaries and honoring the parameters of the coaching/healing relationship
Processing your own emotions and experiences in the sessions

CONSCIOUSNESS

Topography of the Self – levels of consciousness
Hawkins Consciousness Scale
The impact of trauma on consciousness and on the self
Short-term and long-term coping mechanisms for trauma:
Fight, flight, freeze, fawning
Dissociation
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Ways to bring what has been buried or split off back into awareness
How to use your own feelings in the work with your clients to add insight to your client’s split off emotions

CONSCIOUSNESS – continued

Working with parts of the self
Creating safety
Dialoguing with parts
Creating a coherent narrative
Helping parts to heal
How to work with pre-verbal parts
Strengthening the witness self
Integrating parts into the self
How to stay conscious of your own process and parts as a coach/healer

HEALING

Creating a healing environment and staying in alignment
Having a support team – both as client and coach
Different approaches to healing and how to heal on all levels: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual
Honoring the pace and cyclical nature of the healing process
The importance of courage and taking responsibility for the self in the healing process
How to honor your own limitations as a coach and “care but not carry” your clients

HEALING – continued

Working with challenges to the healing process:
How to work with triggers and flashbacks
How to work with dreams
How to deal with times of crisis
How to work with depression and anger
Possible blocks to the healing process:
Denial
Fear
Blame or Shame
Acting out
Returning to alignment and compassion; holding the wholeness of the process
How to work with ruptures in the coaching relationship and come back to a healing dynamic

COMING TO CENTER – INTEGRATION

Integrating parts into the self
Developing healthy beliefs and behaviors
Grief and letting go of the past
Developing a stronger sense of self
Integrating the personality, witness self and soul self
Living in gratitude and opening to joy
Moving into higher consciousness
Gifts of the healing journey

Weaving it all together and getting closure

Supporting your clients in aligning with their path and purpose
Ways to identify and strengthen a sense of purpose
How to take action on the changes in the sense of self
Ongoing growth and evolution
Review of the ARCH healing journey and coaching process
How to terminate the coaching process
Assessing and reviewing progress
Honoring the healing and integration is an ongoing process
How to honor the relationship process and allow transition and closure on the coaching process
How to get ongoing support and supervision for your coaching
How our individual healing impacts the healing of our world and of our Earth

Outside assignments, processing and the Integration sessions:

Assignments will be given for reading portions of the book From Trauma to Healing for each session and additional resources and hand-outs will be given for each class.

All participants in the program will be encouraged to journal regularly about their process — both what comes up for healing within themselves and questions about or integration of the process of coaching others. There will also be specific prompts each month for writing and processing the material presented in the classes.

Each month, participants in the program will be paired with another member of the group to share and support each other in the healing journey and to practice the coaching process.

There will be ongoing group discussion available for questions and sharing of insights and experiences.

The integration sessions will be a time to process the experiences of the training and healing journey and to ask questions and to delve into certain topics in more depth.

 

We want to support you in healing, helping others to heal and together, we can help heal the world. 

Presenting the A.R.C.H. Model

A Healing System Consisting of Four Primary Components for the Recovery from Trauma

Alignment

Connecting with inner stillness and aligning with your true self.

Relationship

How to find and develop healing relationships in your life. 

Consciousness

Bringing into awareness the hidden
and lost aspects of yourself. 

Healing

Practical ways to heal on all levels and how to integrate a new sense of self. 

The ARCH model includes all aspects of the self:  spiritual, emotional, mental, physical, and relational. We want to support you in finding the path to healing that works for you. And as we each heal and step into our wholeness, we are then able to support the healing of our global community and the planet.

Just as Your Trauma is Unique to You… so is Your Path to Healing

If you have experienced any level of trauma, neglect or abuse and are lacking a strong and clear sense of yourself, this book is for you. It will guide you in how to heal and regain a sense of wholeness and empower you to live a life with more purpose, meaning and joy.

The journey to healing and freedom takes time, but is a profound path for personal growth and empowerment.

We all have experienced some level of trauma — from early experiences of emotional and relational trauma to more extreme experiences of physical, sexual and emotional neglect or abuse. We want to empower you in finding your own path to healing and reclaiming your true self. This is a holistic guide providing practical steps and techniques that you can use as tools in your healing process.

We want to support you in stepping into your healing process and reclaiming your true self. 

Presenting
The A.R.C.H. Model

A Healing System Consisting of Four Primary Components for the Recovery from Trauma

Alignment

Connecting with inner stillness and aligning with your true self.

Relationship

How to find and develop healing relationships in your life. 

Consciousness

Bringing into awareness the hidden
and lost aspects of yourself. 

Healing

Practical ways to heal on all levels and how to integrate a new sense of self. 

The ARCH model includes all aspects of the self:  spiritual, emotional, mental, physical, and relational. We want to support you in finding the path to healing that works for you. And as we each heal and step into our wholeness, we are then able to support the healing of our global community and the planet.