Facilitate the work. Hold the licence.

As a guide, the training investment is in the region of a year of Moments Awake inquiry, payable monthly or as agreed. That covers the three-day intensive and the full twelve months of mentoring, session review, and shaping. Travel and accommodation for Tasmania sit outside it. Exact figures are confirmed in the individual conversation — nothing is committed before then.

The licensing agreement sets out the ongoing terms — covered in full in the individual conversation. What’s already firm: the annual retreat is a condition of the licence, and the cost is waived for any facilitator who brings a participating body along.

The facilitator neither sets it nor defends it. Moments Awake sets a benchmark floor for facilitation — non-negotiable and non-discountable across the ecosystem, so every student knows what they’re getting and no facilitator undercuts another. The benchmark rises as accreditation matures into its second year and beyond. When a student asks for flexibility, the answer is simply: it’s set by Moments Awake. The intent is genuine revenue — enough that facilitators can create real flexibility in their working lives and commit to the work.

During the mentoring year, the fixed load is modest: one monthly cohort call, one facilitation session a month (recorded and submitted), and reviewing the shaping received. The real commitment is attention, not hours. After licensing, the load is what each facilitator builds: one-on-one students, a monthly group, and the annual retreat.

By default, each trainee facilitates a fellow cohort member — the pairing is built into the programme, so no one has to go and find bodies to practise on. Anyone in a trainee’s own ecosystem who wants to be facilitated in self-inquiry works too. Either way, every session is recorded, reviewed, and individually shaped: what was caught, what was missed, what to catch next session. Each trainee finishes the year with twelve to eighteen shaped sessions behind them.

For anyone already in individual inquiry — yes, those continue alongside the training and remain the personal work. Trainees not currently in inquiry can book individual sessions separately.

Sign-off is a genuine assessment, not a formality. If the facilitation isn’t yet clean, that’s simply what is and isn’t happening — and the path forward (further shaping, more recorded sessions, a later sign-off) is worked out individually. Covered in the individual conversation and the licensing agreement.

The model anticipates two to three facilitators per area so that no region rests on one body, groups have resilience, and students have choice. Specific territory questions belong in the individual conversation.

The licensing agreement maps it out. The standing conditions: the work delivered as the work, sessions remaining reviewable, the facilitator’s own inquiry continuing, and attendance at the annual retreat — including its facilitators-only final day, where the whole cohort recalibrates so there’s no drift in method or capacity. A small governance board (rather than any one body) handles anything that needs to be dealt with. And a licence can always simply be dropped; nothing holds anyone here.

An existing coaching practice continues untouched — nothing about the licence reaches into what happens elsewhere. The line is at the door of the Moments Awake work: this is not coaching, and inside a Moments Awake session or group, it’s the inquiry, delivered as the inquiry. Different dimension, different audience, different work. Blending modalities inside the work is what the governance board exists to catch.

Duty of care is part of the curriculum: recognising when what’s arising in a student is beyond the scope of the inquiry, with a clear escalation protocol. Beyond that, a struggling student can be flipped over for a few sessions and handed back — no facilitator carries anything alone. Insurance requirements are set centrally so that every licensed facilitator is properly covered; specifics come with the licensing agreement.

The question contains its own answer — notice who’s asking. This work doesn’t require a completely clear body to facilitate it; it requires a skilled one, genuinely engaged in the inquiry, carrying the distinctions, and receiving ongoing shaping. A facilitator’s own material isn’t a disqualifier — it’s curriculum. The struggle with it is the success of facilitating it: without having been lived by a pattern, there’s no catching it in another body. And facilitating is itself one of the most significant clearing mechanisms there is — what’s pointed to in another becomes radiantly clear in the facilitator’s own location.

No quota — an orientation, and a real one. Each licensed facilitator actively engages others: a monthly gathering, online or in person, with people interested in self-inquiry. Some become students; some come along to the retreat. The book and website generate inbound flow — readers arrive, find the facilitator directory, and choose whom to work with — but the model isn’t a cohort waiting for students to be handed over. It’s each facilitator seeding the work locally, month after month.

The ecosystem is built for it: the book is the lead magnet, the website carries the facilitator directory, marketing is produced centrally, and inbound students select their facilitator directly. The first cohort is the directory when that flow arrives. And the whole structure — governance board, licensing agreement, annual recalibration — is deliberately built so the movement rests on no single body.