Village Certification

The Invitation

Beyond Individual Healing

The Village Solution invites therapists, counselors, and helpers of all kinds to pause, look again, and ask a different question: What if the pain my clients carry isn't just personal, but cultural?

"Consumer culture dismantled the villages that once held us. Without them, each of us is left to attempt the impossible: to carry alone what was always meant to be carried by many."

With this understanding, our roles as clinicians can gently open outward—honoring inner work, yes, but also moving beyond it, stepping into the hopeful, relational work of helping people find their way back to one another, back into shared life, back to the human village.

The Program

Learning to Host Living Villages

The Village Certification program was developed in partnership with Cassie Krajewski, a respected clinician and educator who co-created the largest EMDR training program in the United States.

This Is Not a New Modality

Instead, in this program, clinicians learn how to host and sustain five-to-twelve-person circles that slowly mature into something extraordinary: a living village.

What You'll Learn

Village Certification teaches therapists and helpers how to:

Create and hold safe, compassionate space for small groups (5-12 people)
Guide participants in cultivating Stillness and Compassion
Facilitate deep listening and authentic sharing
Support groups as they evolve from weekly gatherings into living villages
Navigate the transition from structured meetings to organic mutual care
Recognize and address cultural patterns that isolate us from one another
Use the Companionship workbook as a guide for group practices

Training Format

The certification program blends presentation, experiential learning, live demonstrations, and ongoing consultation. Drawing on Carl's decades of international training experience, the format balances academic rigor with the mentorship-based, experiential approach that allows genuine transformation.

Who This Is For

Therapists, Counselors & Helpers

For Therapists

Psychotherapists, counselors, social workers, and mental health professionals who recognize that healing happens not just in individual sessions, but in the restoration of connection and community.

For Helpers

Coaches, spiritual directors, group facilitators, community organizers, and anyone who works with people and senses that our modern isolation is at the root of so much suffering.

International Training Background

Carl serves as an international trainer and supervisor for the International Integrative Psychotherapy Association (IIPA), providing training programs in the U.S. and delivering workshops in England, France, Italy, and Slovenia. This global perspective informs the Village Certification program, bringing decades of cross-cultural experience in helping therapists facilitate profound healing and connection.

The Movement

Villages Spreading, Culture Shifting

As each certified facilitator begins hosting Village Circles, something remarkable happens. One Village Circle inspires another, and one becomes two, two become ten, ten become hundreds. The movement spreads like morning light sweeping across a wide, waiting field.

"Village Culture returns to the human family, and, at last, we remember what it feels like to truly belong."

This is how culture changes—not through policy or proclamation, but through the patient, tender work of helping people remember how to belong to one another.