Thursday Afternoon - The Art of Holding Brave Spaces with Emma Shoesmith
This workshop is for space holders, teachers, facilitators, and wild-hearted folk of any gender who are ready to step up and into their leadership and sit boldly in the seat of the space holder.
It’s for those who know they are here to guide people through their edges, to walk into the fire of human experience, and to keep the space supported, steady, and alive with the frequency of truth.
The Art of Holding Brave Spaces is the culmination of my 20-year journey into creating containers for group evolution and transformation. I’ve made mistakes. I’ve held myself accountable. I’ve held it together and fallen apart in front of a group and in the process learned how to transmute density into joy, and heaviness into light.
I’ve discovered the magic of reading the group field, sensing the subtle energy of each body in the room, and knowing when to lead, when to simply hold, and when to invite reflection.
In this workshop, I’ll share my Expanded Space Holder Methodology and the 4 archetypes that will help you:
● Confidently weave and direct energy in a group setting
● Lead with truth, authenticity, and deep listening
● Become the person people trust to hold the most tender, potent moments
This is the training I wish I’d had when I began. My own path has taken me from leading cacao ceremonies for hundreds at festivals, to standing on stage at women’s business conferences telling my capital-T trauma-to-transformation story, to running retreats in Thailand, France, Munich, Colorado, and across the UK, to working with Soho House and 42 Acres, and most recently introducing Boomtown Festival to the art of the Check-In with a team of ten facilitators.
All of my soul gifts, yoga, embodiment coaching, somatic dance, business mentorship, and energy healing have alchemised into a way of holding space that is brave, transformative, and unforgettable.
It will now be my honour to guide you in crafting your own unique flavour of facilitation, so you can lead spaces where true transformation happens and hearts open wide.
Things to bring/materials required:
Bring a journal and pen, something soft to sit on and a meaningful object to place on the altar.
Date of event: 11th Sept
Time: 1pm - 2.45pm
Cost: £15
No of places: 12
Biography
Emma Shoesmith is a business mentor, embodiment coach, somatic dance facilitator and founder of The Sovereign CEO Membership for female entrepreneurs.
Her superpower is weaving presence, intuition, and finely tuned energetic awareness into spaces that are as transformative as they are heart-opening. She’s known for holding the full spectrum of human experience with grace, transmuting tension into ease, fear into courage, and heaviness into joy.
With a rare ability to make people feel seen, supported and wildly free she has spent the last 20 years, taking her work across the world, from cacao ceremonies for hundreds at uk festivals to intimate retreats in Thailand, South of France, Munich, and Colorado, to high-profile facilitation with Soho House and 42 Acres.
Emma’s mission is to empower leaders to step into their own brave, unshakable space-holding capabilities, expanding their capacity to guide communities in conscious creation, shift culture for the better, and spark movements that serve the highest good of people and planet.