Facilitation Experience

I have been accompanying groups for many years across different contexts: retreats, trainings, circles, workshops, and collective space of belonging. My way of facilitating grows from listening, presence, and attunement to what is alive in the group.

I guide groups with an understanding that trauma and grief are always present, whether named or not. They influence how people enter a space, how they relate, how they speak, move, withdraw, or connect. To facilitate is not to manage these realities, but to create conditions where they can be met with care.

Group of people sitting cross-legged on a grassy lawn having a discussion or meeting. They are outdoors in front of a building with large windows.

My facilitation is trauma- and grief-informed, relational and draws from indigenous ways to hold circles.

I work with:

  • pacing and slowness

  • attention to nervous systems and collective rythm

  • clear structures that allow emergence

  • space for silence, a lot of silence, laughter, joy, tears and complexity

I am attentive to race, gender, ability and power dynamics. Cultural, historical, political and relational. I see facilitation as a shared responsibility rather than a performance.

The spaces I hold are not only for processing difficulties, they are also spaces of joy, belonging, creativity and regeneration.

Group spaces matter to me because they remind us that grief is not meant to be carried alone, and that joy grows when it is witnessed.

The images below are traces of moments of togetherness, movement, rest, laughter, ritual and connection. They reflect what becomes possible when people feel held enough to show up as they are.

People sitting in a circle on yoga mats during a meditation or yoga class in a room with yellow walls and large windows.
Three women are engaged in conversation at a social gathering, with one woman smiling and wearing a blue hoodie, another woman with dark curly hair, and a third woman in black in the background, with flowers and refreshments on a table behind them.
Woman kneeling on the floor arranging wooden tiles or pieces.
Two people are arranging horizontal wooden planks on a reddish-pink surface, with a blue yoga mat and a white paper with an outline of a country or island in the background. One person's hand is visible with painted nails, and the other person's curl
A person drawing a shape on a sheet of paper with a red colored pencil, surrounded by colored pencils in trays on a pink table.
A smiling woman with glasses and short, coiled hair, wearing a cream-colored dress, gold jewelry, and a black patterned sash, holding a string of black beads in her right hand, standing indoors against a plain wall.
Person practicing yoga, sitting cross-legged on a mat with palms pressed together in a prayer position, on a wooden floor.
Three women sitting on yoga mats on the floor in a room with yellow walls. They are smiling and appear to be engaged in a discussion or workshop. The woman in the middle wears a white traditional dress and headwrap, the woman on the left wears glasse
A group of women standing in a circle indoors, engaged in conversation or activity, in a room with yellow and purple walls and wooden ceiling.
A woman with braided hair smiling and holding hands with another person who is partially visible in a cozy indoor setting.
Group of people sitting on the floor in a circle, participating in a workshop or class with papers, notebooks, and a man leading the activity.
Silhouettes of eight people standing on a beach during sunset, with the ocean and horizon in the background.
A group of seven women swimming and standing in a natural freshwater stream surrounded by lush green foliage and rocks.
Two women laughing and playing in the surf at the beach during sunset.
Group of six women enjoying a swim in a natural creek surrounded by rocks and lush green trees.
A group of twelve women enjoying a sunny day at the beach, sitting and standing on sand, with a clear sky and distant hills in the background.
Silhouette of a woman standing on the beach at sunset, facing the water.
Group of women swimming and chatting in a natural forest creek surrounded by green foliage and rocky banks.
A woman with eyes closed floating peacefully in a river surrounded by green plants.
Group of people hiking through a lush forested trail.
Group of 13 women and one dog sitting and standing together in a cozy room with stone walls, smiling at the camera.
A group of nine people sitting in a circle on the grass outdoors, engaging in a discussion or activity on a sunny day. There are trees and a building with large windows in the background.
A group of people posing together on a large, bright porch with a glass ceiling, outdoor scenery, and potted plants in the background.
Two women having a conversation in a bright, minimalistic room, with one woman touching the other's neck.
Group of diverse women chatting and smiling indoors, one holding a mug.

DO YOU NEED A FACILITATOR ?

Tobi Aye wearing glasses, a black headwrap, and traditional attire sitting on the floor during a group event.

If you are sensing the need for a facilitator who can hold complexity, grief and joy, slowness, structure and emergence, I invite you to get in touch. My facilitation is trauma- and grief-informed, and grounded in indigenous ways of holding collective spaces.