Ontodelic
Introductory Facilitator Training,
Counseling + Guidance
Boston MA (Heart of Transformation only) March 7-9
Berkshires MA June 20-22 & July 19-21
Unlock Profound Transformation:
Elevate Your Practice + Guide Clients to Lasting Change
Are you a psychedelic guide, integration coach, healer, therapist, yoga teacher, or someone dedicated to holding transformative healing spaces?
Maybe you’re looking to start a one-on-one practice that reaches beyond the surface, diving into the subconscious body-memory where profound, lasting change occurs.
Are you feeling limited by surface-level healing methods and seeking a deeper way to access unconscious trauma in your clients?
Do you ever feel overwhelmed or uncertain on how to hold big emotional experiences or trauma responses during sessions and wish you had better tools and ways to support?
Are you missing effective somatic techniques to help clients fully integrate their psychedelic experiences into their body and nervous system?
Are you noticing unresolved trauma in yourself that may be affecting your ability to hold space for others and feeling unsure how to move forward?
Are you feeling burned out from constantly holding space and looking for a more sustainable way to support both your clients and your own well-being?
Do you long to make a deeper impact with your clients or students?
We often say, ‘We can only take our clients as deep and far as we’ve gone.’
This introductory training is designed to support you in doing just that. As a guide-in-training, your own self-knowledge is as crucial as the techniques you’ll learn. This program equips you with the tools to explore and transform at a deeper level, empowering you to lead your clients through their own profound journeys of change.
The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream.”
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Initiate Your Deep Facilitation Practice: An Introduction to Ontodelic Inquiry
Ontodelic Inquiry is a somatic approach designed for those ready to step into or deepen their calling to serve as facilitators at a profound level. This training explores the depths of body-memory, patterns, and emotions to reveal new ways of being and to complete cycles of transformation.
'Ontodelic' combines the Greek words for 'being' and 'revelation,' symbolizing the unfolding of our true selves. In this training, we draw from a grounded mix of perspectives—psychological models, cognitive science, shamanic traditions, and practical mindfulness techniques. These diverse lenses help us access the layers beneath conscious thought, offering a comprehensive approach to transformation.
Through guided inquiry and experiential practices, you'll learn to engage deeply with internal states—thoughts, emotions, memories, and sensations. This method brings hidden processes to light, transforming your perception of yourself and the world. This training is ideal for those who are ready to work with the power of the subconscious and guide others on a journey toward authentic, embodied change.
Inside the Training:
Key Practices + Experiences Awaiting You
In this immersive 7-day Introductory Training, you'll dive deep into the foundational practices of transformational facilitation:
Hold Space with Presence: Learn to be with others and explore unconscious material through intuitive ‘experiments.’
Dynamic Practice Sessions: Participate in dyads and triads, alternating between facilitating and receiving in supportive settings.
Observe Expert Guidance: Watch live demo sessions by lead teacher Antonia and discuss key insights.
Explore Parts and Shadow Work: Practice these techniques within Ontodelic Inquiry, integrating unconscious elements.
Daily Themed Meditations: Ground your learning with focused, guided meditations.
Understand Trauma: Gain essential insights into trauma and its impact.
Harness Psychomagic and Ritual: Explore these practices as catalysts for change.
Learn the Language of Ontodelic Inquiry: Understand its psychosomatic and visionary communication, similar to entheogens.
Do Your Own Deep Work: Engage in healing containers to enhance your capacity to hold space.
Discover a New Language: Communicate with the unconscious, deepening understanding and connection.
This training equips you with essential tools and deepens your own journey, preparing you to lead others through transformative experiences.learn and practice the art of holding space, we learn to how to simply be with people, and how to work with ‘experiments’ in relation to the unconscious material.
Participants Experience a Balance of:
Theory (taught relationally through conversation and group discovery-not a lecture)
The practice and application of the tools
Direct experience through what you discover and what insights you gain between you and your partner in practice sessions..
The Symbolic Power & Art of Psychomagic + Ritual
The unconscious and mammalian part of the brain understands very deeply, prayer, incantation, and ritual.
Just as the unconscious accepts placebos, it accepts metaphorical acts. In fact, it takes a symbolic act as a fact. This adds to the depth of each couple’s transformation by working with the deep symbolic language of life and objects that relate deeply to your soul and shared soul.
Our key principles are:
Mindfulness
Presence
Leading by Following
Wisdom in the walls- Respecting, listening to, and understanding the key role of the defenses
Consentual Experiments (from both the conscious and unconscious)
Deep Curiosity
Interrelated-ness
Retreat Schedule + Details
Details within the days may evolve marginally from what’s listed.
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After we receive your application questionnaire, we’ll set up a preliminary call to be sure its the right fit. We will have the opportunity to meet and explore deeper some of what you may be wanting to hone through the training, and whats alive in your life and in your practice.
We’ll review your form. We will also refrence core patterns in the framework of 5 survival strategies in our personalities. So we encourage you to read this book.
During the call we will work together in defining and clarifying anything want to be supported.
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Monday-Thurs
Berkshires MA
10-6:30
Intros & Principals
Being with ourselves and Eachother
connection and authenticity
Creating a safe container/Agreements
Ontodelic Demo
Teaching
Practice
Ontodelic Demo
Teaching
Practice
Close
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Berkshires MA
Friday, Saturday, Sunday 10-6:30
* The nature of Trauma and meeting trauma responses
* Internal Family Systems Parts Work
* Taking Over for Parts
* Psycho Magic / Psycho Drama / Gestalt
Demos
* Practicing Experiments in session
*Closing
Organic Vegetarian Lunch Included
Housing not included
If you feel called to this work, please fill out the questionnaire and we will reach out to you.
Each person is a story that
the Soul of the World wants to tell to itself.
- Michael Meade
Meet your Guides Antonia + Roger
We are honored and excited to support a new wave of facilitators discovering the flowering of the soul through the somatic wisdom of the body.
We are here to support each of you in your own unique experience.
We look forward to the experience of group hive-mind (group genius) and the combined energy of our training cohort that brings forth healing, empowerment, and gems for us all,
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Antonia is an intuitive energy healer and guide. She walks through your worlds with you with exceptional safety and security throughout your paradigm shifts, holding you with love, compassion, grace and skill in becoming realized in your Divine expression, supporting you in living through your heart’s intuition, and guideing you towards embodying your innate essence.
Through her trauma informed understanding that nonverbal expression reveals more than our verbal stories can ever tell about the core material that organizes our experiences, she works with the body as a direct route to the unconscious.
Antonia has a profound adeptness and deftness in working with the body, self and soul on all levels, and in the multidimensional field. Through through the wisdom of the body, and setting up experiments in mindfulness, we can an invoke the psychedelic experience without the psychedelics.
Between co-regulation and self regulation, deep full body listening & awareness, Antonia supports your self healing by evoking and midwifing you through your body and soul's natural, healing processes and through re-consolidating formative experiences using the relational space and sometimes, support from others, including comforting touch.
Antonia has been practicing, and facilitating deep meditation journeys for 22 years, using various modalities.
She leads a yearlong immersive training, theRainbowBridges.com to support therapists, healers, bodyworkers, leaders, change agents, guides and facilitators.
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Roger is a somatic therapist, awakening + embodiment guide, and facilitator of transformational journeys. 17 years ago, inspired by an awakening, he committed himself to a lifelong path of rubber-meets-the-road growth and sharing it with others along the way.In his session-work, the transformative power is in the catalyzing field of co-regulated presence. You can start with anything in your life that is alive for you right now. The present moment is the starting place, and looking deeply is the journey. The body and emotions are deeply affected by the shared inquiry process, as the deeper body awakens, purges, heals, and reveals its histories and secrets. Together, he navigates with you in a safe, deep and compassionate process towards naturally emergent discoveries that pivotally change one’s inner-outer experience.
Roger has been practicing + facilitating deep journeys and gatherings for over a decade, using various modalities.
Hear what people are saying:
ABOUT LEAD TEACHER,
ANTONIA VANORO
“Learning from a master is such an incredible privilege, and Antonia is a true master. She has such an impressive breadth of knowledge and wisdom. Every lecture, every question answered and every live session was vibrant and yielded so much learning on my part.
I am beyond grateful to have had access to her both a teacher and a healer.
— Jeni Wishmeyer
ABOUT CO-TEACHER
ROGER VANORO
“Roger is a master tracker - among the finest of minds. Yet he’s soft. There’s a patient heart to this man that naturally opens the paths of insight within me. Bountiful kudos are owed to him for facilitating a process that is as disarming and gentle as it is incisive, deep, and clear.”
— Award-winning Film Director Emmett Brennan ('Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective', 'Reflection: A Walk with Water')
FAQ
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A: Yes, please fill out the questionnaire form in the blue button and after receiving, we will reach out.
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A: We will all be reading ‘The Five Personality Patterns’ by Steven Kessler as a powerful and essential primer for getting the most out of these workshops. Having some background in healing work and an interest in deepening your practice is all that is required.
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A: Tuition is $1111.00 for both weekends
If you are are really wanting to come and are needing support with a payment plan we are happy to explore options with you that will make it possible for you to be with us.
Partial scholarships are available for BIPOC with application for those doing active facilitation or outreach work within your local communities.
If you’d like to apply for a partial scholarship, please let us know more about you and what kinds of work you’re doing in your community.
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A: Great! Ontodelic Inquiry will support and enhance the other work and trainings you are doing.
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A: Then joining the group will require courage on your part but, rest assured, the group will be a truly supportive atmosphere and a confidential safe atmosphere to grow together. This is an opportunity to help you heal that wound, and have more comfort in groups experiences that you are a part of, maybe even in your family.
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A: This is an in person training. Recordings will be available of the sessions. If you miss a day, you will still benefit. Best to not miss any days as each day builds on the next. Though if you know in advance you’ll miss multiple sessions, understand that you will miss out on the deep experiential learnings and benefits of the container. It’s definitely best to commit to all 6 days.
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A: This group is what is called a closed group once its formed. The members you meet on the first day are the ones that will be with you the whole time. Unless someone drops out, no new members will be added once the training is underway.
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A: For those who need help, you may request a payment plan, we are happy to support in that way.
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A: Due to the commitments of our planning process, all sales are final past Feb 20th
After that, no refunds or transfers will be granted.
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A: If you have any questions, requests, or considerations about signing up for the course OR during the course, you can reach out to us AntoniaVanoro@gmail.com
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If you are traveling and plan to stay the weekend in the Berkshires for one or both retreats,
we would recommend staying at an Air B&B. You can look for ones in Sandisfield, Monterrey, Otis, Lenox, Lee, or Great Barrington.
All are within 20 mins.
If you are coming to the retreat with friends or people you know, you can all share a place.
What airport do I fly into?
Albany NY is 1 hr away
Hartford CT is 1 hour away
NYC is 2.5 hrs away
You’ll need to rent a car.
Do I need a car or is there public transportation?
You need a car to get here. There is no public transit or Uber’s to get to Sandisfield.
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This is an introductory training but this is not a full certification as an Ontodelic Inquiry Guide, which we currently don’t offer, but will in the future. We will have a 2 year training.
To continue my training, what other programs do you offer?
We offer an on-going practice program every two weeks called ‘Touchstone: Somatics’ to continue to refine and embody your practice.
In order to run Touchstone we need at least 4 participants.
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A: This is a trauma-informed training, but it’s not a trauma training.
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A: - This somatic approach is something we consider a ‘fundamental skillset for safe psychedelic-assisted therapy’ but this is not a psychedelic guide training or certification. To deepen further in this domain, we offer a 2 year-long Training immersive called ‘The Rainbow Bridges’.
What’s Included in The Heart of Transformation:
Embodied Awareness: You will learn to deeply connect with your body’s wisdom, developing the ability to witness your internal landscape with curiosity and compassion. This enables you to experience and shift even deeply entrenched patterns.
Healing Presence: The power of being witnessed and held in this way facilitates deep, lasting transformation.
Somatic Exploration: You’ll work with the subconscious mind—the hidden architect of your thoughts, beliefs, and habits. By attuning to sensations, emotions, and energy, you will unlock profound insights, allowing the body to complete unprocessed survival responses and heal from within.
Transformational Practices: Through “little experiments,” we will explore how gentle changes in your experience—whether through movement, touch, kind words, or visualization—can reveal new pathways for healing and growth. These practices offer a unique roadmap tailored to your individual journey.
Deep Relational Work: This training is highly experiential. You will participate in live demos, dyads and group exercises, applying the tools and methods of Ontodelic Inquiry in real time, ensuring the learning is embodied and transformative.
Weekend 1: The Heart of Transformation
Boston March 7, 8, 9, 2025
Berkshires June 20, 21, 22
This first weekend focuses on building a relationship with presence, awareness, and mindfulness as you dive into the somatic layers of self-discovery. Key practices include:
Mindfulness & Awareness: Explore the foundations of presence and discover how to meet all parts in new ways that they have been waiting to be met.
Curiosity Over Defense: Learn how curiosity and intuition creates the conditions for unconscious beliefs to emerge and be healed.
Practicing Somatic Integration: Discover where unresolved trauma is stored in the body and learn techniques to release stored energy.
Experiential Learning: Participate in demos and dyadic practices, working with inner protectors, beliefs, and subconscious patterns.
Building Emotional Intelligence: Develop skills to navigate emotions and somatic responses, while learning to hold space for yourself and others.
Weekend 2: Coming Home to Wholeness
Berkshires MA July 19-21
The second weekend focuses on trauma resolution and parts work, allowing you to reclaim the fragments of yourself that were lost to past wounds. Key practices include:
Trauma Healing: Understand how trauma is stored in the body and learn to complete the survival response cycle, freeing yourself from its grip.
Attachment & Parts Work: Engage with the inner parts of yourself that have been frozen psychic time blocks living from survival strategies. Learn to guide these parts toward healing and integration.
Psycho Magic & Gestalt Experiments: Experience transformative exercises that help you embody and integrate fragmented parts of yourself.
Integrating Unconscious Patterns: Free yourself from old patterns of behavior and beliefs by integrating the “missing experiences” that allow for complete healing.
Advanced Relational Work: Practice holding space for others while navigating your own inner states, deepening your capacity to guide healing.
Harness The Depths of Your Inner Wisdom:
As we journey together, you will uncover the unconscious blueprints embedded in your body, mind, and even your DNA. Your subconscious mind is like a hidden architect, shaping who you are and how you experience the world. The beauty of Ontodelic Inquiry is that it empowers you to not only reveal this subconscious coding but also recode it. The flexibility and adaptability of the subconscious mind offer endless possibilities for growth, transformation, and healing.
By working with this hidden part of yourself, you'll:
Embrace and heal your inner relationship to the multiplicities of self and develop healthy & secure attachment by unwinding behavioral patterns rooted in core wounds beliefs and adaptations.
Titrate trauma stored in the body, allowing the nervous system to begin to trust so it can complete its healing cycle.
Embrace a new way of being with yourselves and others,unlocking your potential to live more fully and freely and hold space with deeper capacities, wisdom and reverence for the emergence field.
Integrate body-mind-soul: Experience deep holistic healing through multi-level, inter-dimensional practices that leave no part of you untouched.
The Quantum Key to Your Inner Evolution
What sets this training apart is its multi-dimensional approach to healing. We integrate five key perspectives—psychological, phenomenological, scientific, shamanic, and metaphysical—to provide a comprehensive understanding of the human experience. You will learn how to hold these paradoxical truths simultaneously, creating space for the magic that occurs when different realities converge.
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Highly Experiential: You won’t just learn concepts; you will actively apply them in real-time, healing yourself as you develop the skills to guide others.
Group Genius: Our training emphasizes collective healing, harnessing the intelligence and energy of the group to support individual growth.
Tools for Life: The practices you will learn aren’t just for this training—they are tools you will carry with you for the rest of your life, both personally and professionally.
Logistics:
Boston, MA : Heart of Transformation March 7-9
Berkshires MA Heart of Transformation: June 20-22 | Coming Home to Wholeness; July 19-21
Time: 10:00 am – 6:30 pm each day
Tuition: $1,111. for both weekends. 595 if you just come to the first. weekend one is a pre req for weekend two.
Rainbow Bridges Grads get an extra Discount of $100
Housing not included