Red Tent Facilitator Training
Next cohort begins in early 2023.
This world needs more Red Tent spaces that are held with integrity, compassion, and love. Now more than ever, we need to remember our connection through our shared humanity.
The Red Tent focalizes the experience of menstruation, and all facets of the womb continuum. These experiences are part of what makes us truly human.
Our humanity is worth remembering, worth worshipping.
I have been guiding people in holding Red Tent Circles for the last 5 years, and now I am excited to offer this online training in a group container. I have expanded and improved the curriculum, brought in amazing guest teachers, and crafted a course that is practical, accessible, and grounded.
This is an intimate and immersive training into Red Tent Circle Facilitation.
This is a container for those ready to embody their innate leadership capabilities and are willing to do the work to show up with integrity, strength, and compassion.
What is the Red Tent?
The Red Tent is a place where we come to be our raw, honest selves. A place where all of us is welcome. A place that aims to be free of judgement and expectation.
The Red Tent is a place to express emotions, a place to celebrate, a place to grieve, a place to be witnessed, and a place to deeply witness others in their truth and vulnerability.
The Red Tent is a place to be slow, a place to rest, a place to nourish.
The Red Tent is a place to process the wildness of the world, a place to transmute and release what no longer serves, a place to dream of a greater future, a place to plant seeds of plenty and trust.
The Red Tent is many things, to many people; that's part of what makes it so special. The Red Tent need not look any particular way, or practice any particular customs necessarily.
The Red Tent is a modern revisioning of an ancient practice often known as the menstrual tent. These spaces existed cross-culturally, with the purpose of housing people whilst they menstruate. This gathering of bleeding people is thought to have been the first ceremony that any humans ever took part in. When we gather in the modern Red Tent, we bow in respect to our ancestors who have come before us, laying the foundation of Sacred Menstruation and the Red Tent.
For me, the Red Tent was and is my salvation, my homecoming, my safe space, and my sanctuary. It was the first place that invited me to travel deep into my body wisdom, cyclical nature, and menstrual cycle in a healthy and empowering way.
I want all people to be able to experience the nourishment and healing that can be experienced through the Red Tent. This is what passionately drives my work.
The course is offered over 12 weeks or 3 Moons, with each Moon focused on a different aspect of Red Tent Circle Facilitation.
Each Moon has 4 weekly modules.
Moon 1: Foundations of Sacred Menstruation + the Red Tent
Module 1: Womb Cosmology, New Moon Tradition, + the Blood Mysteries
Module 2: The Modern Reclamation of Red Tents + Sacred Menstruation
Module 3: Blood Offering Rituals + Menstrual Divination
Module 4: Cyclical Literacy + Happy Hormones, + Nutrition for the Menstrual Cycle with Allie McFee
Moon 2: Challenges to Safety + Intimacy in Circle
Module 5: Healing Kyriarchal Wounds + Reducing Harm in Circle
Module 6: Gender Equity in the Red Tent
with Hara Satori + Gabriel Daly
Module 7: Elevating People of Color in Spiritual Circles with CJ Thomas
Module 8: Processing Week
(Separate Spaces for white + BIPOC processing)
Moon 3: Facilitating Red Tent Rituals
Module 9: Circle Logistics + Considerations before Facilitating
Module 10: Sacred Witnessing + Council Sharing
Module 11: Guiding the Red Tent New Moon Ritual
Module 12: Activities for Intimacy + Closing the Circle
The Flow
~The training is 3 moons long (12 weeks)
~Each Sunday, a new module is released
~Modules include videos, audios, written content, guest speakers, and self-study suggestions (dependent on the week)
~Twice a month, we meet for a group call (6 times total throughout the program)
~All of the content from the modules is available for you even after the course has ended
~You'll also receive a 29 page guidebook that I wrote on Red Tent Circle Facilitation
~You have the option of certification*
*There is an additional fee for certification and certain criteria that must be met. More info below in FAQs.
Receive the Tools to...
~Facilitate Red Tent circles with confidence, embodiment, and integrity
~Navigate conflicts that arise in circle and complexities that arise in facilitation with grace, compassion, and clear boundaries
~Maximize connection, intimacy, and vulnerability in your circles
~Reduce harm in circle by unpacking your own unhealthy cultural narratives and biases
~Connect with your own cycle and body in a way that feels authentic to you
~Develop and nurture your personal practice of sacred menstruation
~Connect with your body and womb wisdom as vehicles of intuition, empowerment, and expression
~Share the teachings of Sacred Menstruation + the Blood Mysteries with others
~Hold a brave space that is dedicated to safety, integrity, and accountability
~Understand circle dynamics and create unique spaces that are deep, powerful, and healing
~Take care of yourself as a facilitator
~Step into a leadership role in your community as a facilitator and menstrual health advocate
What's Included
The Training
3 Month Immersion in Red Tent Circle Facilitation
Includes 12 educational modules that are released weekly. You'll also have the opportunity to work with an accountability buddy for further integration and connection.
The Collective
Biweekly Group Video Calls
Every other week (6 calls total) we meet for processing, integration, and ritual. All group calls are recorded if you can't make it live.
The Guidebook
29 Page Red Tent Facilitator Guidebook
You'll receive my Red Tent Facilitator Guidebook, which I have crafted from years of Red Tent facilitation.
Additional Support
Group Thread and Email Support
You'll have access to a private WhatsApp chat for further connection, support, and accountability. Laura will be available for email support Monday-Friday.
Wondering if this training is for you? This training for people who...
~Want to start facilitating their own Red Tent Circles
~Are currently facilitating circles and want to deepen their abilities as a space holder or create more depth and intimacy in circle
~Are leaders in their communities, or feel ready to step into a leadership roll
~Want to deepen their understanding of their menstrual cycle and connect to their womb wisdom (although, it's not necessary to menstruate or have a womb to take this course!)
What People Are Saying
Laura (in her Red Tent Facilitation) holds a deep presence as a sacred witness and intuitive guide for incredible transformation. Her commitment to radical change of the paradigm is brought into the containers she hosts, and because of this, I left the training with unshakable devotion in service to my dharma as priestess.
Allie McFee, Women's Health Educator, moderngoddesslifestyle.com
Laura Carmody has been for me, an abundant and magical source of menstrual knowledge, womb healing, and circle facilitation. There are few I would trust as much as she to help in my ever unfolding journey into healing the Feminine... Womb work with Laura was (and still is) some of the most healing and mystical work I've done in my life.
Miracle Morningstar, Yin Yoga Instructor + Red Tent Facilitator
Your Facilitator: Laura Carmody
Laura Carmody (she/her) is a menstrual health and empowerment educator, and the founder of Priestessing the Paradigm Shift. She loves to support people as they cultivate deep and meaningful relationships with their bodies and cycles. Laura trains groups and individuals in Red Tent Facilitation, and brings practical Red Tent bleeding spaces to festivals and gatherings.
Laura's approach to sacred menstruation recognizes the systemic inequities that have lead to period poverty, inaccessibility of menstrual necessities, and global menstrual taboos. She believes that all menstruators deserve to bleed with dignity, with access to menstrual education and care, and with clean water. She is devoted to playing her part in stewarding a world where menstruation is truly respected.
Guest Speakers
Allie McFee
"Nutrition for the Menstrual Cycle"
C.J. Thomas
"Elevating People of Color in Spiritual Spaces"
Gabriel Daly Morningstar
"A Trans Man's Experience Through the Cis Paradigm"
Hara Rose Satori
"Decolonization and Breaking the Binary"
