Cacao Facilitator Training
Learn how to work with the medicine of cacao and the power of building connection.
Learning to weave connection, safety, and presence with cacao as a supportive medicine.
Learn how to guide transformational cacao ceremonies
This program is an invitation to learn how to facilitate cacao ceremonies with depth, clarity, and integrity.
Cacao is a beautiful and powerful plant medicine. Yet in this work, cacao is not the centrepiece, connection is.
Connection to the body.
Connection to emotions.
Connection between people.
Connection that feels safe, grounded, and real.
Cacao, like breathwork, is an amplifier.
It supports the nervous system, opens the heart space, and helps people soften into presence.
What truly shapes a meaningful ceremony, however, is the facilitator’s ability to hold space, guide group dynamics, and create conditions where trust and regulation can unfold.
Why work with cacao?
Ceremonial cacao has long been used to support heart-opening, emotional connection, and embodied presence.
From a physiological perspective, high-quality cacao can:
- Support the release of serotonin, associated with wellbeing and emotional balance
- Influence dopamine pathways related to pleasure, motivation, and engagement
- Increase blood flow and somatic awareness, supporting embodied states of connection
These properties can gently support people in opening, feeling, and relating more honestly, when held within a safe and well-facilitated space.
This training honours both the traditional wisdom and the modern nervous system understanding of cacao work, without over-romanticising the medicine or bypassing responsibility.
What this training is really about
While you will learn how to work with cacao responsibly, this training goes far beyond cacao preparation.
The core focus is learning how to:
- Facilitate deep, safe connection in group spaces
- Guide people into their bodies with clarity and consent
- Support emotional expression without overwhelm
- Navigate group dynamics with confidence and sensitivity
- Create rituals and exercises that feel grounded, playful, and meaningful
- Recognise nervous system responses and work with them skilfully
This is nervous system–informed facilitation. Cacao becomes a supportive ally- not the driver - of the process.
What you will learn:
Working with cacao responsibly
- Understanding cacao as a ceremonial medicine
- Dosage, preparation, and serving
- Contraindications and safety considerations
- Working ethically and responsibly with participants
Nervous system–informed facilitation
- Creating safety and trust in group spaces
- Recognising activation, shutdown, and regulation
- Supporting participants to stay connected to themselves
- Facilitating without pushing, forcing, or bypassing
The art of connection
- Guiding people into embodied presence
- Exercises for self-connection and relational connection
- Creating moments of playfulness, softness, and authenticity
- Supporting emotional expression in a contained way
Holding group spaces
- Opening and closing ceremonies with integrity
- Navigating group energy and dynamics
- Supporting connection between participants
- Facilitating with clarity, attunement, and leadership
Training format
- 4 live online sessions
Each session is approximately 2–3 hours - Live teaching, experiential practices, and guided exercises
- Q&A at the end of each session
- Recordings available
You do not need to attend live to benefit from the training - Optional cacao package
There is the possibility to receive a block of ceremonial cacao to work with during the training
Who this training is for
This training is for you if you:
- Feel called to facilitate cacao ceremonies or conscious group spaces
- Want to work with cacao responsibly and ethically
- Are more interested in connection than performance
- Want to deepen your understanding of nervous system–informed facilitation
- Value grounded, embodied leadership over spiritual spectacle
You do not need to be an experienced facilitator — but a willingness to learn, feel, and show up with integrity is essential.
Bonus: Nervous System Essentials Course
When you register, you will receive free access to the Nervous System Essentials Course.
This course offers foundational understanding and practices to support regulation and safety, deepen embodyment and self-awareness and strengthen your capacity to hold space for others. This bonus is designed to support and deepen your facilitation skills and integrate seamlessly with the cacao training.
Registration:
Dates for the 4 live modules, each between 2-3 hrs
(recordings will be available if you can't join us live)
23rd and 30th of January, at 10am WEST, 11am CET,
6th of February, at 10am WEST, 11 CET,
13th of February at 9am WEST, 10 CET
