Liberation Lab Fundamentals Course Outline

6-Week Foundations Course

This 6-week course provides a comprehensive foundation in relational, somatic, systemic, and transpersonal liberation work.

It is also designed for facilitators, practitioners, organizers, and participants who want a grounded, ethical, and integrated entry point into Liberation Lab practice — and who may be considering ongoing training/practice cohorts.

Week 1 — Orientation & the Four Domains of Liberation

Setting the container and shared language

  • Introduction to the Liberation Lab framework

  • The four domains:
    Personal · Interpersonal · Systemic · Transpersonal

  • Trauma-informed, liberatory, and decolonial facilitation principles

  • Group agreements, scope, and ethical container

  • Somatic grounding and centering practices

Focus: clarity, safety, and orienting attention before “doing work”

Week 2 — Personal Foundations: Inner Awareness & Regulation

Learning to work with self before working with others

  • Emotional literacy and nervous system basics

  • Somatic awareness and self-tracking

  • Protective patterns, inner critics, and survival strategies

  • Attachment, identity, and early conditioning

  • Practices for regulation, clarity, and self-responsibility

Focus: capacity, self-awareness, and reducing unconscious reactivity

Week 3 — Interpersonal Skills, Group Dynamics & Boundaries

Relational presence in shared space

  • Attunement, listening, and communication fundamentals

  • Sharing space with care and accountability

  • Rupture–repair cycles

  • Group roles, power dynamics, and common patterns

  • Consent, pacing, and boundary clarity

Focus: ethical participation and relational literacy in groups

Week 4 — Emotional Safety, Somatics & Ethical Process

Working with intensity without harm

  • Recognizing regulation and dysregulation

  • Responding to emotional activation (self and others)

  • Boundaries and boundary repair

  • Allyship and accountability in process spaces

  • Ethical responses to conflict, intensity, and vulnerability

Focus: when to slow down, intervene, or not intervene

Week 5 — Systemic Power, Rank & Institutional Patterns

Seeing beyond the interpersonal

  • Core frameworks of oppression and privilege

  • Internalized oppression and internalized superiority

  • Power and rank across personal, relational, and systemic levels

  • How institutions reproduce harm and trauma

  • Decolonial and intersectional foundations

Focus: reducing harm through power awareness and ethical reflexes

Week 6 — Transpersonal Integration, Synthesis & Readiness

Bringing it all together and discerning next steps

  • Transpersonal dimensions of liberation work

  • Ritual, imagination, and symbolic intelligence

  • Ecological kinship and beyond-human relationship

  • Differentiating insight from spiritual bypassing

  • Seeing all four domains operating together

  • Reflection on strengths, edges, and learning goals

Readiness Assessment & Pathways

  • Review of core competencies

  • Guided reflection and/or facilitator conversation

  • Clarifying readiness for Training/Practice cohorts

  • Introduction to next-step pathways

Focus: integration, discernment, and ethical readiness

What This Course Prepares You For

By the end of Liberation Lab Fundamentals, participants will have:

  • A shared language across the four domains

  • Increased emotional and somatic literacy

  • Clearer relational and ethical boundaries

  • Awareness of power and systemic dynamics

  • Discernment between depth, intensity, and bypassing

  • Clarity about whether and how to continue into Training/Practice cohorts.


Who This Course Is For

Liberation Lab Fundamentals is for people who already facilitate or hold group spaces and want to deepen their ethical stance, complexity awareness, and relational discernment.

This is not a how-to facilitation course.
We do not teach basic group mechanics, scripts, or techniques.

This course is for facilitators, educators, organizers, coaches, therapists, and community leaders who:

  • Have some exposure to trauma-informed, relational, or power-aware frameworks

  • Want greater clarity in moments of conflict, intensity, or ambiguity

  • Are interested in refining how they perceive and respond, not just what they do

  • Value restraint, ethics, and responsibility over performance or speed

Participants enter with different levels of exposure and experience.
What matters is not expertise, but capacity for reflection, self-regulation, and honest inquiry.

Who This Course Is Not For

This course is not a fit if you are:

  • New to facilitation or group leadership

  • Looking for step-by-step facilitation techniques

  • Seeking certification, credentials, or guaranteed advancement

  • Wanting emotionally cathartic or accelerated experiences

  • Unwilling to examine your own authority, power, or impact

Liberation Lab Fundamentals stands on its own and also serves as preparation for ongoing Training/Practice groups.