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MUSH Facilitator Training
MUSH Facilitator Training (URUBU) is a rolling, hybrid apprenticeship for people who want to help seed safe, playful, agreement-based platonic touch spaces in London. Training happens through monthly in-person labs, online integration, and supervised co-facilitation inside a facilitator network.
Readiness is assessed through practice and peer feedback: you become a facilitator when you can reliably hold both freedom and boundaries, warmth and fierceness, without over-performing or over-controlling. The training prioritises mixed-gender culture, co-facilitation, and community accountability.
Co-creating Safe, Playful, Platonic Touch Culture in London
This training exists to grow a mixed-gender, platonic touch culture in London — one rooted in clarity, warmth, accountability, and shared responsibility.
Through a rolling, community-based pathway, participants are supported to step gradually from presence to responsibility to co-facilitation, inside a living network.
This is how culture is built: slowly, relationally, and together.
The Purpose of the Training
The MUSH Facilitator Training supports people to become steady, trustworthy presences inside platonic touch spaces.
The emphasis is on:
- Co-holding spaces rather than leading alone
- Upholding shared agreements over time
- Attending to nervous systems, group dynamics, and subtle power currents
- Growing culture through consistency and care
Readiness here is recognised through relationship, feedback, and lived experience.
Who This Training Is For
This pathway is suited to people who already have some grounding in embodied or relational practice and feel a genuine call to support community spaces.
Participants typically bring experience from areas such as:
- Touch-positive or consent-based spaces
- Ecstatic dance, breathwork, or movement practice
- Psychology, therapy, or somatic disciplines
Entry into the training also asks for:
- Capacity to uphold agreements and boundaries
- Willingness to reflect on personal impact
- Openness to feedback and repair
This training values maturity, humility, and care for the whole group.
Training Structure
Rolling · Hybrid · Community-Based
Monthly In-Person Training
Sundays · London
A practical, embodied lab space including:
- Skill practice and role-plays
- Facilitation reps
- Supervision and feedback circles
- Nervous-system and group-field awareness
Online Integration
1–2 short sessions per month
Focused sessions covering:
- Case studies from real MUSH spaces
- Consent language and micro-interventions
- Reflective practice and Q&A
- Integration and peer learning
Apprenticeship Inside the MUSH Network
The training unfolds inside the community itself.
Participants move gradually through roles:
participant → assistant → co-facilitator, shaped by readiness rather than timelines.
Timeframe & Readiness
The programme is open-ended and competency-based.
There is no fixed finish date.
Readiness emerges through consistent participation and shared agreement within the community.
Completion requirement:
A minimum of 20 MUSH sessions (or equivalent supervised reps) before independent co-leading is considered.
Core Agreements
Facilitators operate within shared network standards
Safety, dignity, and group well-being are prioritised
The training model is mixed-gender and agreement-based
Co-facilitation and accountability are central to the culture
The Training Pathway
Rolling · Hybrid · Community-Based
Stage 1 — Participant to Apprentice to Co-Facilitator
Focus: Embodying the culture.
Core competencies:
- Embodied consent and boundary literacy
- Awareness of nervous-system cues (freeze, fawn, tension)
- Understanding how personal presence affects others
Milestones:
- Consistent agreement-keeping over time
- Capacity for repair when missteps occur
Stage 2 — Container Skills
Focus: Clarity with warmth.
Skills developed include:
- Opening agreements clearly and simply
- Holding a playful, relaxed atmosphere while maintaining structure
- Naming issues directly and calmly
- Supporting the space without unnecessary intervention
Stage 3 — Love: Embodying Tenderness
Facilitators naturally become a stabilising, reassuring presence in the room.
This stage explores:
- The “good enough parent” quality of facilitation
- How authority and family dynamics can be projected onto facilitators
- Awareness of personal needs for validation or visibility
Training attention is given to:
- Staying authentic rather than performative
- Letting the space and participants take centre stage
- Holding reassurance without taking focus
Outcome:
A facilitator who can remain present, warm, and unobtrusive while maintaining clear boundaries.
Stage 4 — Fierceness & Boundary Enforcement
This stage focuses on confident, humane authority.
Skills include:
- Clear, firm boundary setting
- Calm intervention when agreements wobble
- Repair processes that restore safety and dignity
- Awareness of personal power patterns and their impact
Stage 5 — Co-Facilitation & Network Culture
Operating standard:
- Each MUSH is held by at least two facilitators
- Roles rotate between lead, support, observer, and safety anchor
Network culture includes:
- Ongoing peer feedback
- Shared tone and agreements
- Mutual support in challenging moments
Stage 6 — Readiness & Permission to Lead
Readiness is recognised through relationship and practice.
Assessment includes:
- Self and peer reflection
- Observation by senior facilitators
- Demonstrated capacity in live spaces
Indicators of readiness:
- Consistent agreement-holding without rigidity
- Calm, clear intervention skills
- Ease in co-leading without power dynamics
- Ongoing prioritisation of safety, tone, and dignity
What Graduates Step Into
- Active facilitation roles within the MUSH / URUBU network
- Co-holding spaces and supporting new nodes
- Optional supervision when working beyond London or in different configurations
They become people the community trusts to hold space with steadiness and care.
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