Guest Facilitator ✨ Guest Facilitator ✨

Guest Facilitator ✨ Guest Facilitator ✨

As a guest facilitator, I am here to serve you and your group for your intentional gathering with a unique support designed specifically for your group, theme, and intention. Allow me to create an unforgettable offering to enhance your event, retreat, conference, or other soulful gathering.

Learn more about how I can serve you below.

Serving Your Community

It [learning about Spiritual Temperaments] was both validating and freeing. And now, as I’m out exercising listening to my favourite praise and worship songs, I feel closer to God than if I were to be reading the daily verse on my Bible app first thing when I wake up in the morning…” - from a retreat participant at the Cultivate Women’s Retreat from a session on Spiritual Temperments

Your community is unique, valuable, and is one you desire to serve well. As a guest facilitator, I aim to serve you in the best way I possibly can; weaving storytelling, reflection, and teaching that’s aligned with your theme and intention for your time together to create a session that is memorable, impactful, and tailored to you and your needs.

From teaching and exploration sessions, to Soul Care Yoga, Spiritual Direction, and even resource building, I am here to serve you, enhance what you’ve already set out to create, and be a support in any way I can

For your next gathering

Teaching Sessions

Tailored to your theme, sessions are more than just teaching. Sessions are created to invite intentional reflection and exploration on topics that will complement your retreat or event, adding an additional level of depth.

Soul Care Yoga

Yoga fused with Contemplative Practices and Spiritual Direction style contemplative and evocative questions is an embodied practice that can add a welcome ‘movement’ component to your event or retreat, while continuing the theme exploration.

Spiritual Direction

As a guest Spiritual Director, sessions of Spiritual Direction can allow those attending your retreat or event to explore what they are learning, and how it’s impacting their relationship with God, in a safe and confidential space.

Theme Building

Have an idea or two, but not sure how to build out the theme for your retreat or gathering? Allow me to help weave together your ideas and create a robust plan for your gathering from session topics to free time activities to create a nourishing event.

Guided Prayer Practices

Expanding your participants understanding of prayer can deepen their relationship with God. From Breath Prayer and Imaginative Prayer, to Lectio Divina, Praying in Colour, Prayer of Lament and More, shared practices will impact their lives once they return home.

Resource Building

You have your theme and your sessions, but how will your participants take what they learned home with them? From bookmarks with prayer practices, to booklets with questions for further reflection, let’s keep your participants growing and engaging.

  • Here's what Carla says about Aelea as a Guest Facilitator

    "Having Aelea lead multiple sessions at several retreats has been an amazing experience that I cannot recommend highly enough. Her calm and approachable demeanour immediately puts everyone at ease. Aelea’s passion for God and His creation shines through at each session, drawing you into a deeper appreciation of the beauty and wisdom in our world. She has an incredible gift for making each person feel heard and valued. She brings insight, thoughtfulness, and a uniqueness to each session. She is a delight to work with and I would recommend her for your next event or retreat!" - Carla, Co-Founder of the Cultivate Women's Group

Serving you

  • Yoga Festivals

    From Life Coaching workshops, to guiding 75-minute sessions of Imaginative Meditations utilizing scent and sound, Yoga Festivals have been a joy to share at.

  • Small Group Retreats

    Tailoring a Soul Care Yoga session for accessibility as a chair yoga class for a smaller group retreat.

  • Large Group Retreats

    Allow your retreat participants to select the Soul Care Yoga session that works best for them by offering multiple sessions during a period of free time.

  • Resource Creation

    Support your participants as they continue their journey with booklets on topics covered, book marks, and more.

  • Unique Events

    Open or close your unique or corporate event with a period of intention with meditation, reflection, and group sharing.

  • Virtual Sharing

    We can connect anywhere you are. From fully virtual gatherings, to streaming sessions, distance is no hindrance.

The Process

How we work together to bring to life something special and unique for your community is a straight-forward process of dreaming and creating.

First, we discus your needs. Are you looking for resource building or a session of Soul Care Yoga? Would you sessions of Spiritual Direction available for your participants or for a time of guided prayer? We’ll connect and explore your unique needs.

From there, we move into a time of ideas and dreaming. What would serve your community best? What will be engaing for them? What are they curious about? As we dream, we find ways to see how I can serve you and enhance what you already have planned.

Before the event we will connect to review any kind of resources, materials, or sessions created for your event to ensure they offer the intended support for your participants and align with your vision. 

At the event, I facilitate the session, offer direction, or fulfill my end of the contracted offerings to the absolute best of my ability. If resources are being provided, I ensure you have everything needed to provide polished and professional resources for your group.

After the event we take time to connect and chat about how it all went! I want to hear your feedback so we can continue a mutually beneficial working relationship.

  • My favourite topics to teach on are as follows:

    • Prayer as an Ocean (the variety of prayer practices)

    • Spiritual Temperaments

    • Faith as a journey of deeper, not further

    • Embodiment

    • Self Care and Soul Care

    • Meeting God Moment by Moment

  • Meditation is a beautiful way to foster creativity to begin your corporate event! Especially if your event is centred around vision planning or team building. Allow me to support your event with a guided meditation to set the tone for your time together.

  • Yes! I can! I am fully set up and able to share teaching sessions, meditation and contemplative prayer sessions, and Soul Care Yoga sessions virtually through Zoom.

    If you're hosting a session where your group will be gathered together, on your end, you'll need a great wifi signal, a computer, and a projector to project the session large enough for your gathered group to engage with.

    If you're hosting a fully virtual gathering, then you're good to go with each participant having their own technology.

  • Yes! I am available for travel dates to attend your event or retreat in person to facilitate. Travel and lodging expenses would be covered by you and your group. If that isn't available to you, I would love to share virtually!

  • Most events or retreats centre around a common theme that guides everything being offered.

    Themes may arise from:

    • Topics your group has been studying or learning about

    • The time of year in the Christian calendar (advent, Easter, etc)

    • The time of year seasonally (winter, spring, etc)

    • Topics of interest to your group (women of the Bible, Identity in Christ, Fruit of the Spirit)

    If you don't know where to start with a theme, we will talk about the points above and see if we can identity a theme for your retreat or event that will flow naturally for your participants, that will pique their curiosity, and will foster a time of genuine learning.

  • You may be familiar with Bible study booklets, bookmarks with prayer practices, or handheld journaling prompts or guides that are used for those wanting to be reminded of something they learned. These are all resources that can be made to facilitate a deepening understanding of what was covered at your retreat or event.

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