SPIRE Training Program
SPIRE Training Program
SPIRE Training Program
Year
Ongoing
Year
Ongoing
Year
Ongoing
Type
Online & In-person
Type
Online & In-person
Type
Online & In-person
Timeframe
Continuous and Formative
Timeframe
Continuous and Formative
Timeframe
Continuous and Formative
What is it?
What is it?
What is it?
We build facilitation from the inside out: presence, process, and practical moves that work in real rooms with real stakes. Expect live labs, tight feedback loops, and repeatable patterns you can remix. You’ll practice dialogos, regulation-in-action, and sensemaking that scales from pairs to whole teams. By the end, you’ll have a facilitation spine you can trust, plus the flexibility to improvise.
Standard leadership training is top-down: one expert, lots of content, a few roleplays, and an exam. You leave with concepts, maybe confidence, but little supervised time actually holding a room with peers. Advancement usually depends on one coach’s impression, not a distributed process. Safety is implied, not cultivated. And practice happens in simulations, not with live participants where timing, repair, and judgment are tested. In short, great lectures; thin transfer. The result is predictable: bright facilitators who can talk about containers, but hesitate to run one or burn out trying.
We build facilitation from the inside out: presence, process, and practical moves that work in real rooms with real stakes. Expect live labs, tight feedback loops, and repeatable patterns you can remix. You’ll practice dialogos, regulation-in-action, and sensemaking that scales from pairs to whole teams. By the end, you’ll have a facilitation spine you can trust, plus the flexibility to improvise.
Standard leadership training is top-down: one expert, lots of content, a few roleplays, and an exam. You leave with concepts, maybe confidence, but little supervised time actually holding a room with peers. Advancement usually depends on one coach’s impression, not a distributed process. Safety is implied, not cultivated. And practice happens in simulations, not with live participants where timing, repair, and judgment are tested. In short, great lectures; thin transfer. The result is predictable: bright facilitators who can talk about containers, but hesitate to run one or burn out trying.
We build facilitation from the inside out: presence, process, and practical moves that work in real rooms with real stakes. Expect live labs, tight feedback loops, and repeatable patterns you can remix. You’ll practice dialogos, regulation-in-action, and sensemaking that scales from pairs to whole teams. By the end, you’ll have a facilitation spine you can trust, plus the flexibility to improvise.
Standard leadership training is top-down: one expert, lots of content, a few roleplays, and an exam. You leave with concepts, maybe confidence, but little supervised time actually holding a room with peers. Advancement usually depends on one coach’s impression, not a distributed process. Safety is implied, not cultivated. And practice happens in simulations, not with live participants where timing, repair, and judgment are tested. In short, great lectures; thin transfer. The result is predictable: bright facilitators who can talk about containers, but hesitate to run one or burn out trying.
What it addresses
What it addresses
What it addresses
SPIRE is TIAMAT’s long-form facilitator pathway that prioritizes peer learning and participatory practice over content consumption. You train in bands, co-organize to run public events for real feedback, and progress through a transparent rubric (the MAIL model: Model, Assist, Instruct, Lead) toward certification to lead TIAMAT containers.
Think apprenticeship, not auditorium; rehearsals with an audience, not just exams.
Progression pathway:
Level 1: Model-Assistant -> Instructor -> Leader
-Can lead Crossroads & Connections and Tier 1
Level 2: Model-Assistant -> Instructor -> Leader
-Can lead Intros and Tier 2
Level 3: Model-Assistant -> Instructor -> Leader
-Design bespoke programs through practice-as-research
-Reiterate and refine TIAMAT as a whole and lead Tier 3
SPIRE is TIAMAT’s long-form facilitator pathway that prioritizes peer learning and participatory practice over content consumption. You train in bands, co-organize to run public events for real feedback, and progress through a transparent rubric (the MAIL model: Model, Assist, Instruct, Lead) toward certification to lead TIAMAT containers.
Think apprenticeship, not auditorium; rehearsals with an audience, not just exams.
Progression pathway:
Level 1: Model-Assistant -> Instructor -> Leader
-Can lead Crossroads & Connections and Tier 1
Level 2: Model-Assistant -> Instructor -> Leader
-Can lead Intros and Tier 2
Level 3: Model-Assistant -> Instructor -> Leader
-Design bespoke programs through practice-as-research
-Reiterate and refine TIAMAT as a whole and lead Tier 3
SPIRE is TIAMAT’s long-form facilitator pathway that prioritizes peer learning and participatory practice over content consumption. You train in bands, co-organize to run public events for real feedback, and progress through a transparent rubric (the MAIL model: Model, Assist, Instruct, Lead) toward certification to lead TIAMAT containers.
Think apprenticeship, not auditorium; rehearsals with an audience, not just exams.
Progression pathway:
Level 1: Model-Assistant -> Instructor -> Leader
-Can lead Crossroads & Connections and Tier 1
Level 2: Model-Assistant -> Instructor -> Leader
-Can lead Intros and Tier 2
Level 3: Model-Assistant -> Instructor -> Leader
-Design bespoke programs through practice-as-research
-Reiterate and refine TIAMAT as a whole and lead Tier 3
Orientation
Orientation
Orientation
How SPIRE works, in practice:
You train in bands with a coach, meeting every two weeks for 2–3 hours.
Sessions rotate formats with expert Q&As, advanced practice, theory-based lectures, roleplay & peer observation so you learn the why, rehearse the how, and watch others do both.
You then co-facilitate public drop-in events live reps with supervision, plus compensation, so timing, tone, and repair get tested in real rooms, not just in drills.
Progression is via the MAIL rubric:
Model/Assist (enact exercises, give contextual adjustments),
Instruct (set frames, guide sense-making), and
Lead (hold dynamics, preserve structure, orient under stress).
Promotions require peer nominations across bands and secret-ballot endorsements, reducing bottlenecks and bias.
Instructor nominees co-run 2–3 containers before promotion;
Leader certification requires leading several containers with multi-layer supervision, including an external coach.
How SPIRE works, in practice:
You train in bands with a coach, meeting every two weeks for 2–3 hours.
Sessions rotate formats with expert Q&As, advanced practice, theory-based lectures, roleplay & peer observation so you learn the why, rehearse the how, and watch others do both.
You then co-facilitate public drop-in events live reps with supervision, plus compensation, so timing, tone, and repair get tested in real rooms, not just in drills.
Progression is via the MAIL rubric:
Model/Assist (enact exercises, give contextual adjustments),
Instruct (set frames, guide sense-making), and
Lead (hold dynamics, preserve structure, orient under stress).
Promotions require peer nominations across bands and secret-ballot endorsements, reducing bottlenecks and bias.
Instructor nominees co-run 2–3 containers before promotion;
Leader certification requires leading several containers with multi-layer supervision, including an external coach.
How SPIRE works, in practice:
You train in bands with a coach, meeting every two weeks for 2–3 hours.
Sessions rotate formats with expert Q&As, advanced practice, theory-based lectures, roleplay & peer observation so you learn the why, rehearse the how, and watch others do both.
You then co-facilitate public drop-in events live reps with supervision, plus compensation, so timing, tone, and repair get tested in real rooms, not just in drills.
Progression is via the MAIL rubric:
Model/Assist (enact exercises, give contextual adjustments),
Instruct (set frames, guide sense-making), and
Lead (hold dynamics, preserve structure, orient under stress).
Promotions require peer nominations across bands and secret-ballot endorsements, reducing bottlenecks and bias.
Instructor nominees co-run 2–3 containers before promotion;
Leader certification requires leading several containers with multi-layer supervision, including an external coach.
The aim is leaders who embody
Service: Committed to and responsible for the development of others
Pilgrimage: Culturally mobile and fluent in adopting multiple different perspectives
Inquiry: Humble wonder towards themselves and others
Ritual: Trains for transferring knowledge, skills and perspectives across contexts
Enlightenment: Orientated towards self-correction as an ongoing process, not a final destination
These are the principles by which we train facilitators to hold the stages of the TIAMAT ecology with craft, safety, and poise.
Ethan Hsieh
Practice Researcher, Transformational Facilitator
Ethan Hsieh is working in the intersection between actor-training and 4E cognitive science. With an MA in Professional Practice: Theatre and Drama Facilitation from Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, Ethan has designed and delivered transformational community-building programs, retreats and workshops in Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia, France, Czechia and Singapore.
Ethan Hsieh
Practice Researcher, Transformational Facilitator
Ethan Hsieh is working in the intersection between actor-training and 4E cognitive science. With an MA in Professional Practice: Theatre and Drama Facilitation from Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, Ethan has designed and delivered transformational community-building programs, retreats and workshops in Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia, France, Czechia and Singapore.
The aim is leaders who embody
Service: Committed to and responsible for the development of others
Pilgrimage: Culturally mobile and fluent in adopting multiple different perspectives
Inquiry: Humble wonder towards themselves and others
Ritual: Trains for transferring knowledge, skills and perspectives across contexts
Enlightenment: Orientated towards self-correction as an ongoing process, not a final destination
These are the principles by which we train facilitators to hold the stages of the TIAMAT ecology with craft, safety, and poise.
The aim is leaders who embody
Service: Committed to and responsible for the development of others
Pilgrimage: Culturally mobile and fluent in adopting multiple different perspectives
Inquiry: Humble wonder towards themselves and others
Ritual: Trains for transferring knowledge, skills and perspectives across contexts
Enlightenment: Orientated towards self-correction as an ongoing process, not a final destination
These are the principles by which we train facilitators to hold the stages of the TIAMAT ecology with craft, safety, and poise.
Ethan Hsieh
Practice Researcher, Transformational Facilitator
Ethan Hsieh is working in the intersection between actor-training and 4E cognitive science. With an MA in Professional Practice: Theatre and Drama Facilitation from Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, Ethan has designed and delivered transformational community-building programs, retreats and workshops in Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia, France, Czechia and Singapore.
Ethan Hsieh
Practice Researcher, Transformational Facilitator
Ethan Hsieh is working in the intersection between actor-training and 4E cognitive science. With an MA in Professional Practice: Theatre and Drama Facilitation from Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, Ethan has designed and delivered transformational community-building programs, retreats and workshops in Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia, France, Czechia and Singapore.
Ethan Hsieh
Practice Researcher, Transformational Facilitator
Ethan Hsieh is working in the intersection between actor-training and 4E cognitive science. With an MA in Professional Practice: Theatre and Drama Facilitation from Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, Ethan has designed and delivered transformational community-building programs, retreats and workshops in Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia, France, Czechia and Singapore.
Facilitators-in-training (aka Aspirants) are arranged into bands for continued reps, mentoring, and real-world runways. Join the bench, keep sharpening together, and bring better rooms wherever you go.
Facilitators-in-training (aka Aspirants) are arranged into bands for continued reps, mentoring, and real-world runways. Join the bench, keep sharpening together, and bring better rooms wherever you go.
Facilitators-in-training (aka Aspirants) are arranged into bands for continued reps, mentoring, and real-world runways. Join the bench, keep sharpening together, and bring better rooms wherever you go.
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