Facilitating a WeSpace group is very simple! So take a deep breath and relax. This brief guide will hopefully answer your questions and help you feel at ease with taking on this role. 

We also want to stress that every person in the group is responsible for how the group goes. Even when you are not the facilitator, please make an effort to support and be responsible. 

Why facilitation?

We choose to have each member facilitate for several reasons:

1. It empowers everyone to receive a degree of ownership of the group.
2. A form of loose leadership and “holding” is necessary for healthy group dynamics.
3.  Good facilitation makes everyone (including the facilitator!) comfortable and free to engage in the practice.

What do I do?

As facilitator, your role is to “hold the space” in a few ways: 

1.    Holding the time
Be aware of the time for each segment. Make sure the Connection time doesn’t linger on too long—also remind everyone to be respectful when sharing so everyone has time to share. For the WeSpace meditation, play a recording or give your own simple guidance (prompts below). Help the group transition from each section, if necessary, using the words from the WeSpace Process document (or the “Cheat sheet” below). 

2.    Holding the energy
How can you help carry the group into greater depth and love? This is a helpful question every time we are present in the group, but especially as facilitator. Can I share a little more from the heart? If I sense struggle in someone can I love and support them, even if just with silent, affirming energy? Ask yourself a few questions like these, but don’t feel any pressure or burden from them. 

3.    Holding the values
Make sure the group is all holding loving space. If you notice someone going against those guidelines, gently remind them of the guidelines for holding loving space from the WeSpace Guide and move the conversation forward. Those are Deep Listening, Unconditional Positive Regard, Sit with what Is, and Allowing. 

That’s it! If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Luke at admin@integralchristiannetwork.com

Facilitator’s Cheat Sheet

1. Connection – 30 min – 1 hour (Sharing from the heart as the beginning of our practice together)

This is the opportunity to share what of significance has been going on in our lives lately.  We may choose to share about something we are learning spiritually, or experiences we’ve been having lately in our own Whole-Body Mystical Awakening prayer/meditation process.

Ask a Question. This group is the perfect space for talking with one another about questions we may have related to the spiritual journey and our own evolving.

2. WeSpace Whole-Body Mystical Awakening Meditation – ~20 min

Play a recording of the guided meditation, or guide your own, using the prompts on the next page for guidance.

(see this link for some pointers on how to lead a WBMA meditation).

3. Resonating Prayer – as long as needed, not exceeding end time

·      Individual – 2 or more minutes per person (name each person to start focused time)
We are now engaging in a flow of love and healing by sharing the impressions and arisings for each other as we learn how to sense from this state of awareness - for the purpose of comforting, encouraging, and strengthening.

“We are listening not for what we already know, but for what we are about to know.”

·      Whole group:
“Now let’s move our focus to the whole group energy field, opening for any emergent knowing that might be for the whole group. Feel free to share anything that might be arising.”

4. Geyser of Love – To close the practice after Resonating Prayer has concluded

“We close our practice by gathering up this spiritual energy of love, compassion, hope, healing and all the fruits of our dedicated mystical practice—and raise them up like a geyser, sending them out as an offering for the loving evolution of Christianity and the world to our neighbors, our cities, and the whole earth!”

5. Reflection – optional, if time left at the end

Ask: “Do you have any reflections or impressions about our shared time just now?”

Notes:
·       At first it will be helpful to say each of the phrases in italics. As the group gets the rhythm of the practice, it will become less necessary to say these exact words.
·       Also available on the website are several helpful documents for WeSpace Group Members: “What Goes on in a WeSpace Group” and “WeSpace Orientation Guide”

WeSpace Whole-Body Mystical Awakening 

Simple Guided Meditation 

To lead the guided meditation, you can play the recording of Luke’s meditation on the website or use the following very simple prompts as a guide:
(Feel free to adapt this guide and use whatever words fit for you, keeping in tune with the guidelines for leading WBMA)

1. Deep breathing – 1 minute

“Start with a few deep breaths to move into your center of stillness.”

2. Heart Radiating within – 3 minutes (total: 4 min)

“Now move to the radiant center of your heart space and emanate energy of love and bliss.”

3. Heart Connection among – 4 minutes (total: 8 min)

“Now move out into the WeSpace among us, into the experience of loving connection.”

4. Feet Grounding– 2 minutes (total: 10 min)

“Now Ground your feet and legs to the earth, rooting in Christ energy.”

5. Spiritual Womb Being– 2 minutes (total: 12 min)

“Now move your awareness into your gut space, your spiritual womb, and just be.”

6. Embodied Interbeing among – 3 minutes (total: 15 min)

“Bring the energy up into your heart and then out into the group, into experiencing interbeing.”

7. Head stillness – 3 minutes (total: 18 min)

“Move back into your heart and then up into you head, into the vibrant, cleared stillness.”

8. Whole-Being WeSpace Emergence among – 2 minutes (total: 20 min)

“Now move back down into your whole body, then out into the WeSpace of emergence.”