Leading from the Heart

Red Tent Aotearoa

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Expressions of Interest will open in September 2026
Intake 17 - 21 March 2027

Red Tent Aotearoa Facilitator Training

Imagine creating a group of women who show up for themselves and lead from the heart. In this training you will learn everything you need to know to do this. As we do this, we become more aware and responsible for our own growth whilst supporting each other. Red Tent Aotearoa invites you to become a holder of sacred space for women.

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The invitation

Red Tent Aotearoa invites you to become a holder of sacred space for women.
 
JOIN THE FASTEST GROWING SISTERHOOD IN THE COUNTRY!

We will be accepting registrations for the 2027 Facilitator Training in September 2026. We need MORE sisterhood to make the societal changes we wish to see.

Becoming a Red Tent host not only up-levels your radiance and confidence, it calls you forward in your voice, your visibility, and in your purpose. The more you're seen, the more you see! 

In this way, Red Tent Aotearoa is changing our society.

 

"Never could I have imagined that a training would have the power to change who I am at a fundamental level. My confidence, my self esteem and my happiness have risen beyond belief. Thank you Jill, I am so grateful to have you in my life and wish that every women and girl could do this training"
Tracey, Sydney.
  • Arrival 2pm.
  • Opening circle at 3pm-5pm.
  • Welcome dinner.
  • Menstrual Cycle Awareness Mapping Session.
  • Red Tent documentary showing.

"Fill YOUR Cup" Thursday 5th March 2025

  • The Importance of Openings and Closings, creating a safe container.
  • Red Tent Aotearoa ethos, goals, and vision.
  • Sacred Commerce, business as a path of awakening.
  • Dream Manager- share, believe, create, and succeed.
  • Spreading the word- promoting your tent.
  • Craft - Create your Red Tent's Talking Stick.
  • Closing ceremony, creating a sisterhood.
  • Global healing.

Module Two - "What is Sacred Space?" Friday 6th March 2025

  • Setting the scene for magic to happen, awakening the senses.
  • Cacao Activation.
  • Working with The Elements.
  • Understanding greatest gift you can give another.
  • The 3 types of listening & knowing when to use each one.
  • Advanced Promotion procedures.
  • Craft: Feather Fan for smoke clearing.

Module Three- "Boundaries & Hard to Hear Messages" Saturday 7th March 2025

  • How to recognize shadow archetypes within the circle and ourselves and what to do about them.
  • We will talk about how without boundaries there can be no freedom.
  • How important it is to own our 'stuff' before someone else makes us.
  • We will talk about how it feels when our boundaries are being tested so that we can recognize it quicker.
  • Knowing what to do when our boundaries are being tested.
  • We’ll play with how to take and deliver those hard to hear messages.
  • Listening to our intuition to help us get over the blocks in our way.
  • What to do when you feel challenged by someone who doesn’t share your views or opinion.
  • We’ll set some energetic boundaries and notice where our boundaries might not be quite strong enough.

It may not be a fun, warm and fuzzy day but it will certainly help you grow.
To begin the day we will be getting grounded and putting our energies into clay and will form our tent’s Goddess Statue.

Module Four - "Accessing our Resources" Sunday 8th March 2025

Day four will be about putting what you have learned into action. The day will include practical knowledge in the morning with advanced Humanitix and Facebook procedures. Marketing your tent, making it stand out in the crowd!

Then in the afternoon, we will connect with our ancestors through ceremony, ritual, and meditation.

  • Connecting with our ancestors to improve our world.
  • Asking for and being able to accept help.
  • Looking back to go forward.
  • A Global Healing that really is for the whole world.
  • We will also make your tent's Mother Candle!!

By the end of Module Four, it is our hope that all Red Tent Aotearoa Facilitators will be able to:

1. Act to meet their needs while still respecting the needs of others.
2. Confront (care-front) others effectively and sensitively when their behaviour interferes with us meeting our needs.
3. Prevent some problems and conflicts through self-disclosure.
4. Deal with our anxiety about being more open and direct.
5. Resolve conflicts without damaging relationships.
6. Deal effectively with value conflicts.
7. Listen effectively when another person has a problem.
8. Set goals and make plans to achieve them.
9. Hold Sacred Space with confidence and reverence.
9. Enjoy running a successful Red Tent Aotearoa Branch
10. Have formed bonds with the other RTA Facilitators to last a lifetime.

Facilitator Training Experiences

H. Mali | Waikato

"The Red Tent Aotearoa Facilitator training has not only gifted me the foundational jewels and framework that I need to hold a safe & sacred space for women to commune and connect, but also the appreciation and gratitude of the inner strength and power of courageous ‘ordinary’ women paving their extraordinary path. We, Us women, are indeed leaders in our own rights - birthing, nurturing, grounding, forging alliance with the womb of creation. Red Tent is that resounding trumpet calling us to commune in sisterhood, embracing our leadership of guiding virtues of compassion and grace. So it is!"

Samara | Westport

"I thoroughly enjoyed the Red Tent Facilitator training I took part in, in October 2023. It opened doors to my own healing that I was not aware of. It is not for the faint hearted. Jill's teachings have allowed my own experiences to become the foundation for the capacity in which I can offer and provide a container to allow other women to learn about themselves. I am grateful for the sisterhood that I have been blessed with because of the Red Tent."

TJ | Sunshine Coast

"Unlike other trainings I've done, during the Red Tent Aotearoa Facilitator Training an unbreakable bond is formed. A bond, that I can still feel even though it's been 4 years since I did the training and I am still connected with the women I trained with and we speak regularly. It's the kind of thing I've always needed in my life but didn't know it until I found it."

Ali Davies | Greymouth

"If you are wanting to connect with other women, or are longing for a supportive and safe space to be, and express yourself, share deep thoughts. Look no further you have found a safe place! Highly recommended for self care, growth and connection with women."

Shona | Brisbane

"My experience with the Red Tent Facilitator Training was truly incredible!
I felt so included, so loved, so honoured and so acknowledged. I was really blown away that there could be so much love between women as this was not my life experience (hurt mother would not let any woman near her and conveyed that fear to all her kids). I laughed, I cried, I spoke out, I was listened to (a really big thing for me). All in all I rate this experience as one of the best things I have done for myself in order to be able to help others!
Much love"

Join the next Red Tent Facilitator Training 17 to 21 March 2027

Expressions of interest will open in September 2026, numbers are limited to 10 participants.

This training will ask you to level up in many ways. To look at the 'good, the bad and the messy' in order to provide a safe space for women in your community.
Imagine creating a group of women who show up for themselves and lead from the heart. In this training you will learn everything you need to know to do this. As we do this, we become more aware and responsible for our own growth whilst supporting each other.
Imagine being surrounded by like minded women who have let go of the need to compare or compete. Women who are only interested in becoming the best version of themselves and helping others do the same. Being a space holder and creating a community of women who chose to step into their own empowerment, is magical AF!
We are inviting women to enter the Red Tent and become leaders of this movement from all over Aotearoa.
Become the beacon of light for women in your town or city and gather the tribe!
Do you want to make a difference in women's lives?
Do you want to be a leader in your community?
Do you want to learn more about the Red Tent Aotearoa movement?
Red Tent Circle 2 (400 x 300)
Women dressed in red, their backs to us, outside under a willow tree, with arms linked.
Jill Natalia Red Tent 4 (400 x 300)
Two women holding the Red Tent Aotearoa completion certificate.
Red Tent Circle 1 (400 x 300)
Jill Natalia Red Tent 2 (400 x 300)

What does the training cost and what does it include?

Join us for the Red Tent Aotearoa Facilitator Training to become a fully qualified Facilitator.
All four nights, five days need to be attended in order to graduate.
Total Training Cost $2,200 NZD | Note this includes your accommodation for four nights.
 
  • One year Corporate Membership for you to open your branch under the Red Tent Aotearoa banner (renewable April 16th 2027)
  • Deep sharing circles and rituals.
  • Four Modules of Teachings.
  • Daily craft sessions for our Circle Tools.
  • Breakfast, morning teas, Lunches, afternoon tea and dinners provided. We will have tea and coffee making facilities available.
  • Training Manual.
  • Name Badge.
  • Craft Materials, and many other Resources.
  • Bunk style accommodation, and a few single rooms. 

EXCLUSIVE BONUS- Rongoā Menstrual Medicine and Sacred Anointing Oil to take home. 

 
$250 non-refundable deposit is required to secure your place with the balance to be paid in full 2 weeks prior to course commencement.
Payment plans are available. *Attendance is by application only*

Faq's for becoming a Red Tent Aotearoa Facilitator

The total cost for the 4 1/2 day training is $2,200
We can attend your opening circle and support you every step of the way.
You are not alone! We offer use of the logo, handbook, and TONNES OF SUPPORT!

Yes! You will receive 100% of your ticket sales! You can hold as many circles and workshops as your schedule permits. The business model we hand you is built on Sacred Commerce and lets you be able to do as much as you desire.
Run with it and build an empire, we will support you all the way!!
OR hold one circle a month to make some incredible connections and offer the gift of connection to your community, we will support you all the way!!
You will be required to be a current corporate member of Red Tent Aotearoa while you are running circles using the Red Tent name and logo.
Our facilitators experience lots of rewards from providing life-changing experiences to the women in their community. We respect your time, talent and experience, so we want to make sure that you earn an income for your time; the bigger your circle the more you earn. But that should not be the goal…
Even if one woman attends it will have been worth it.

We teach you how to manage your branch’s Facebook page/group at the training.

We provide you with a handbook that contains scripts for meditations and running orders for each type of circle. We encourage you to create your own flow. We want each circle to have an individual look, feel and flavour. We just ask that you always treat the Red Tent as Sacred Space.

None. But preference will be given to Holistic Wellness Practitioners, Counsellors or Mental Health Experts. Women's well-being leaders.

Please try and attend at least one Red Tent circle if you can before completing the training.

Recommended Reading
1. Sacred Commerce - Terces & Matthew Engelhart
2. The Red Tent - Anita Diamant

3. Big Magic- Elizabeth Gilbert
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Other Desired Skills

  • First Aid Qualifications, Working With Children Checks, Counselling, Therapy, Community Work, or Health Certifications, Women's Work (such as rites of passage, women's circle facilitation, group work) are helpful, but not necessary to undertake this training.

To start with you will be spending a few hours per week reading everything, learning the ropes and talking to people about your branch and you will love every minute of it. After your branch is established and you have a list of potential topics and guest speakers it will take less time to organise. You will create your events on Facebook and then invite all your connections and ask them to share it. Hanging posters at like-minded businesses is a great idea and putting articles in the free section of your local papers is good too. The actual circle is 2-3 hours once a month plus set up and pull down time. YOU CHOOSE YOUR HOURS! It's completely up to you how much time, effort and energy you put into growing and nurturing your branch, it is your business to grow as you wish!

You will be joining a sisterhood of Facilitators who have a wealth of experience; you will be welcomed with open arms. We have an Executive Committee who are dedicated to your success and want to help you shine.

Yes- if you are a Corporate Member of RTA.
With all respect to Tupperware, we do not want to turn RTA circles into Tupperware parties. We encourage business owners to become members of our trusted network of service providers, our alternative economy; our Corporate Directory. We also encourage our facilitators to look to our Corp Members to be special guest speakers at their branches. We want to support our sisters and share the knowledge!!!
You can be a special guest at your own branch talking about your business, just not every month.

Founder Insights: Jill Natalia on Red Tent Aotearoa Facilitator Training

Red Tent Aotearoa is committed to providing a platform for women to initiate their healing.
A place to laugh, cry, share and learn.
"What women want is CONNECTION. Not on a superficial level, but REAL connection and support.
The Red Tent is a place for women to feel that connection and to offer and receive that support.
We want to help women to free themselves from the isolation of today’s modern world and find their tribe."
~Jill Natalia (RTA founder)
 
This is a life changing training, you will not regret this decision.
If you have found your way to this Application Form this is the next step on your journey, please know that you will be welcomed into an ancient sisterhood that will from now on be your safety net.
Are you ready dear one?
Then let's begin.....