Become a Catalyst of Emergence
Summer Intensive Training

12th of July to 22nd of July, 2026

Trefacwn, Wales, UK

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Do you want to midwife the world
that our hearts long for?

Train to dive deeply into Emergent Dialogue

In this 10-day intensive training you will dive deeply into the central practice of Interbeing: Emergent Dialogue

Developed both for those familiar with Emergent Dialogue and for experienced facilitators, the training gives you the in-depth Interbeing practice, feedback and understanding to be able to work with the mystery of emergence in groups, opening up the field of Interbeing and cultivating the capacity to co-create with its intelligence.

Over these 10 days, you will have the opportunity to:

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Eros & the Whisper of Intuition:
Trusting the collective creative impulse
Sensing the Heideggerian Fourfold:
Earth, Sky, the Mortals, the Divinities
Cultivating Radical Openness:
How Openness Creates Openings
Process Consciousness:
Living as a Verb, Not as a Noun
Synergistic Intelligence:
Riding the currents of authenticity and emergence
The Philosophy of Interbeing:
Where does it come from? How does it know?
From Interpersonal to Interbeing:
Shifting our Center of Gravity
Full Presence:
Relating from Deep Authenticity & Care

Avenues of
Exploration

In Emergent Dialogues the intelligence of the field
becomes part of the conversation. Our different perspectives cohere into a living and united creativity.

Thomas Steininger
What is a Catalyst able to do?

As a Catalyst of Emergent Dialogue, you can open a subtle field of coherence between group participants and work with these capacities to create spaces for transformation that are psycho-active. This means that there is an X-factor involved, a mystery living within and between us, that opens up new potentials for transformation and emergence. We refer to this mystery field as Interbeing. As a Catalyst, you are an instrument of this inexpressible mystery. Aligning with the depth and flow that comes alive in the group, you help the richness and diversity within the group become powerfully synergistic.

How can you develop during the Summer Training Intensive?

The ten days of this Training Intensive will focus most on the development of the trust, sensitivity, and freedom that are foundational for a Catalyst. To have the capacity tap into the intelligence of the field takes a deep knowing—at a cellular, embodied level—that the living field is truly a dimension of perceptible reality. That it is not an idea or an experience that you have now and again. It is real.

During these ten days, we will focus on deepening our capacity to sense the collective presence of the field and the creative impulse arising from it—as Catalysts. When does the field come alive? What causes it to flatten and lose its magic? How do we care for the living space between us? What does that mean?

We will also explore the creative impulse and synergy. How do we distinguish between our own impulses and the impulse coming from the field intelligence? Can we experiment with responding before thought, to catch the wind of emergence?

The content and process of the Intensive will depend on the experience of the participants. The deeper intelligence of our interbeing will guide us.


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I want to do what Augustine did as the Roman Empire was falling. He laid the foundation. He laid the cultural cognitive grammar for an entirely different culture and they stole the culture from the bottom-up.

John Vervaeke

This program is not for everyone.

This Summer Training Intensive is for you, if:

  • You love to work with groups (and have experience leading them—in whatever role or context)
  • You have been part of an emergent dialogue program and want to go further OR you are an experienced facilitator and want to learn to catalyze emergence
  • You have a longing to go beyond… yourself, the usual, the known
  • You are committed to your own development
  • You really know how to let go of your mind
  • You are self-responsible and reflective
  • You enjoy working in flow, flexible with changing plans
  • You want to live in service to something larger than yourself

This Training Intensive may not be for you, if:

  • You only work one-on-one, or don’t work with others in groups
  • You are just starting your work as a facilitator or space holder
  • You haven’t done much meditation or practice that gives you some objectivity on your mind and self-motives
  • You need strong structure from others
  • You are primarily interested in theories or models
  • Your understanding of truth is limited to scientific materialism

If you think you really have to join us this summer, but might not match the profile we are looking for, then talk to us. Tell us why.

Your Guides

Elizabeth Debold

Sarah John

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Elizabeth Debold, Ed.D. is a developmental psychologist, writer, activist, researcher, and co-developer of emergent Interbeing practice. For the past decade, she has been an editor of evolve Magazin, a German-language quarterly, where she writes feature articles on gender. For over thirty years, she has been engaged in discovering and exploring the potentials of collective emergence. With her partner, Dr. Thomas Steininger, she has developed a dialogical process of “Emergent Interbeing,” that enables us to co-consciously engage with differences to create unexpected synergies. Through the platform of evolve World, she, Thomas, and their team of practitioners seek, in some small but meaningful way, to catalyze islands of coherence in a fragmented world. Through events such as the 24-hour online vigil One World Bearing Witness, she is helping to bring sacred activism into the global digital age.

Marlene Pothoff

Marlene Potthoff studied biology and political science and has been working in the environmental movement for over 20 years. In addition to her commitment to climate protection and the development of environmental awareness, it has always been important for her to recognize and gain a deeper understanding of the spiritual impulse within herself. Through her intensive engagement with these two interests – the need for social commitment and the perception of the importance of the spiritual dimension – she discovered the significance of the evolutionary development of consciousness in us humans. She sees emergent dialogue as an ideal combination of these two impulses for the development of a new human culture. She runs the Emergent Interbeing programs and the emergent dialogue offerings on a voluntary basis.

Nadja Rosmann

As a cultural anthropologist, Dr. Nadja Rosmann has been working for many years on how cultural identity unfolds and how new forms of life emerge in the course of this development, which promote a more connected togetherness and co-creativity. Since 2010, she has organized the biennial Meditation & Science congress in Berlin, which sheds light on the perspectives of a new culture of consciousness. As a member of the editorial team of evolve magazine, she and her colleagues have built up a network of almost 30 evolve salons in German-speaking countries, in which participants can delve deeper into the magazine's topics on the basis of emergent dialogue. In her experience, emergent dialogue is a life practice that opens up a broader horizon of meaning and allows people to be together in a shared sense of the essential.

Mike Kauschke is an author, poet, editor, photographer, translator and dialogue facilitator. He is managing editor of evolve magazine. He practiced Zen Buddhism with teachers in the USA and Europe, explored an integral spirituality and worked in palliative care and hospice work. He has translated books from the fields of integral philosophy, mindfulness, Buddhism and organizational development into German (Steve McIntosh, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Rick Hanson, Frederic Laloux, Brian Robertson, Amy Edmondson etc.). For many years he has been practicing and facilitating dialogue work in evolve World. In 2022 his first book was published, „In Search of Lost World: A Journey to the poetic dimension of our lives”, and in 2024 he published “In Conversation with the Living World: Poetic impulses for a creative and meaningful existence”.

Mike Kauschke

Maria Zacherl

Maria Zacherl has been leading our annual international meditation marathon for many years. Her great passion is meditation and emergent dialogues, which she regularly practices as a dialogue facilitator. In both, meditation and dialogue, she experiences the potential for concrete change. For her, the development of humanity is the top priority, as a direct result of the transformative power of meditation and the experience of non-separation in dialogue. In her everyday life, this is also particularly noticeable in her work as a naturopath. In this deeper and transformed togetherness, a completely new basis for treatment emerges, and thus for her, spiritual practice never stops outside of meditation and dialogue times.

Cost
& Fees:


Program Fee: 1,850.00 Euros


Special prices for those who have been in our Emergent Interbeing course modules 1-3. Please contact us if you are seriously interested in the program and would find it a hardship to pay the full fee. We do not want to turn away anyone whose heart beats for catalyzing emergence.

Accommodation Fee: between 750£ to1,200£dependingon your accommodations. Including three very tasty and creative vegetariameals per day and tea and coffee at any time.

Find our more about the place and history of Trefacwn here: https://www.trefacwn.co.uk/ 

Marlene Potthoff, our Program Manager, would be happy to speak with you.
marlene.potthoff@evolve-world.org
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Our
Venue:

Trefacwn is a magical four-acre estate situated on the edge of the Pembrokeshire Coastal National Park overlooking the Celtic sea. The land has an ancient healing energy that is palpable for all who come. The Georgian Mansion is set in a stunning location, with panoramic views over countryside and sea from Strumble Head just six miles north, to
St Davids Head an equal distance south.

Become certified as a Catalyst for Emergent Dialogue

This 10-day live, face-to-face, shoulder-to-shoulder event is part of our Catalyst certification process. It fulfills the requirement to take part in an on-location event for certification; the remaining training can be done online. To find out more about certification, click here.

Marlene Potthoff, our Program Manager, would be happy to speak with you.
Schedule a Call