The Facilitator Self-Audit
A free in-depth reflective tool for practitioners and leading facilitators to assess their real capacity in expanded-state, transformational, somatic, and depth-oriented work.
Explore your strengths, blind spots, shadow edges, and developmental growth areas across facilitation, power, ethics, psychological literacy, group dynamics, business structure, and self-stewardship.
A high-value mini course. Free and instant access.
12
CORE DOMAINS
100%
FREE
45–60
MINUTES TO COMPLETE
∞
ACCESSIBLE ANYTIME
FOUNDER'S NOTE
Hi, I’m Natasja.
I created this self-audit because facilitation has become a word many people use, but far fewer people truly stop to examine what it actually asks of us.
This work is not only about insight, intuition, or meaningful experiences. It asks for range. It asks for honesty. It asks for the ability to stay present with power, projection, shadow, uncertainty, intensity, and the very human realities that emerge when people enter transformational or expanded states.
Over the years, I have seen how easy it is for facilitators to focus on the visible parts of the role while overlooking the quieter foundations underneath it. Our nervous system. Our relationship to authority. Our blind spots. Our capacity to hold complexity without making ourselves central to it.
That is why I wanted to create something practical, honest, and substantial. Not a performance of readiness. Not a polished checklist to make you feel good. But a real reflective tool to help you look at where you are already embodied, where your edges live now, and what may be asking for deeper development.
Whether you are already guiding others or still discerning your path, I hope this self-audit offers you a meaningful pause. A moment to sit with yourself, tell the truth gently, and strengthen the foundations underneath your work.
No one is grading you here. This is simply an invitation to look clearly, with rigor, humility, and kindness.
Natasja Pelgrom
Founder, Eudaimonia Institute
WHAT'S INSIDE
What this free Course Includes
This is a substantial guided audit designed to support meaningful reflection, not surface-level self-scoring.
01 A multi-dimensional facilitator self-assessment
02 Scoring across key areas of real facilitation capacity
03 Shadow inquiry questions for each domain
04 Reflective prompts to identify blind spots and next steps
05 Exploration of both inner capacity and outer structure
06 A practical tool you can return to over time as your work evolves
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WHO THIS IS FOR
Built for practitioners who want to develop with honesty and depth.
Emerging facilitators who want to build on solid ground
Experienced facilitators ready to refine their leadership
Space holders, guides, coaches, therapists, and retreat leaders
Practitioners working with transformational, somatic, ceremonial, or expanded-state spaces
Those who want to develop with more honesty, depth, and accountability
You do not need to have all the answers to begin. You do need the willingness to look clearly.
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Inside the audit, you will explore
The self-audit covers the areas that most shape facilitation quality, ethical range, and long-term trustworthiness.
Liminal and expanded-state navigation
Your ability to stay grounded around ego dissolution, ambiguity, archetypal material, and non-ordinary states.
Shadow and self-awareness
Rescuer patterns, unmet needs, recognition hunger, self-erasure, attraction, irritation, and unconscious role attachment.
Projection, transference, and power
How you relate to idealization, criticism, erotic charge, dependency, and authority.
Somatic and trauma-informed capacity
Your ability to track activation, freeze, collapse, dissociation, catharsis, and embodied regulation.
Psychological and relational literacy
Attachment, shame, dependency, splitting, developmental wounds, and scope of practice.
Group dynamics and leadership
Working with systems, unspoken hierarchy, exclusion, alliances, field shifts, and intervention.
Communication and teaching
The overlooked craft of pacing, clarity, guidance, language, and educational leadership.
Integration and continuity
How you work after the peak, support ordinary integration, and translate insight into life.
Business and structural integrity
Pricing, boundaries, agreements, consent, sustainability, ethics, and the reality of facilitation as a profession.
Servant leadership and stewardship
Holding authority lightly, honoring lineage, staying humble, and not making yourself central.
Self-care and compassion fatigue
Recognizing depletion, maintaining range, and sustaining your work without burning out.
Supervision and accountability
Mentors, feedback, repair, reflection, and the willingness to keep developing.
WHY THIS MATTERS
The quality of your work is shaped by what happens under pressure.
In transformational work, people often focus on insight, peak experience, or the visible role of the guide. Far less attention is given to what makes facilitation truly trustworthy over time.
How you handle power.
How you respond when someone projects onto you.
How you work with trauma, uncertainty, intensity, or group tension.
How you care for your own system so that exhaustion does not quietly distort your judgment.
This audit helps bring those layers into view. Not to shame you. Not to prove anything. But to support real maturation in a field that needs more honesty, more structure, and more accountable leadership.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
Make this a real pause
Set aside 45 to 60 minutes. Longer if you tend to reflect deeply.
Make a cup of tea. Bring your journal. Sit somewhere you can be honest with yourself.
No one is grading you. No one is watching. This is not about getting a perfect score.
It is about seeing clearly where you are already embodied, where your growth edge lives now, and what kind of support would actually strengthen your work.
Be honest. Be kind. And wink along the way.
FREE MINI COURSE
Facilitation is not about being special
It is about being clear, resourced, and accountable.
The most trustworthy facilitators are not the loudest, deepest, or most mystical. They are the ones willing to keep refining their range, their ethics, and their honesty.
This self-audit is here to support that process.
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