Cultivating Safe Spaces
Train the Trainer

• Self-Paced eCourse (Online): Learn at your own pace with videos, reflections, and assignments. Includes feedback check-ins and certification review. Investment: $3,500

• 1-Day Intensive (Virtual - Live Zoom): Small cohort (2–4 people) led by one of our Level 3 Master CSS Facilitators. Includes live facilitation practice, feedback, and certification assessment. Investment: $3,800

• 1-Day Intensive (In Person -Penticton, BC + rotating hosts): Live, full-day facilitation with one of our Level 3 Master CSS Facilitators.  Includes practice, peer coaching, and certification assessment. Investment: $4,250

The program is for people who want to teach, integrate, or live the CSS framework in their own practice, organization, or daily leadership. Some participants bring CSS into classrooms or community learning. Others use it inside their organizations for ongoing relational work. Many simply want to embody the framework personally to lead, parent, or work with more steadiness, accountability, and care.

It helps, but it’s not required. We’re not looking for polished presenters, we’re looking for people who can hold space, stay regulated under pressure, and stay connected to themselves and others in difficult moments.

Certification recognizes that you can teach and model CSS responsibly, not that you’ve memorized the material. The CSS Train the Trainer gives you Level 1 Certification. Once you've delivered the training, you may apply for Level 2 and 3. 

Each level builds on the last:

• Level 1 — Intro Facilitator: delivers the 5-hour Intro to CSS workshop.

• Level 2 — Advanced Facilitator: customizes for different audiences and contexts.

• Level 3 — Master Facilitator: mentors others and supports CSS integrity at the systems level.

Certification recognizes that you can teach and model CSS responsibly, not that you’ve memorized the material. The CSS Train the Trainer gives you Level 1 Certification. Once you've delivered the training, you may apply for Level 2 and 3. 

Each level builds on the last:

• Level 1 — Intro Facilitator: delivers the 5-hour Intro to CSS workshop.

• Level 2 — Advanced Facilitator: customizes for different audiences and contexts.

• Level 3 — Master Facilitator: mentors others and supports CSS integrity at the systems level.

Yes. We recommend completing both the Intro to CSS and Enhanced CSS Add-On eCourses before the Train the Trainer. However, only the Intro to CSS is required before applying. They provide the grounding you’ll need to teach and model the framework with integrity.

CSS isn’t about delivering content, it’s about living the content. You’ll be trained to model emotional regulation, accountability, and relational safety in every room you lead. We don’t hand you a script; we help you embody a way of teaching that strengthens trust and communication, even under pressure.

Naqsmist doesn’t police facilitators we trust them to uphold their own integrity and accountability. If you have a concern, we encourage you to address it directly and relationally. This framework is designed to help us have uncomfortable conversations, not avoid them behind policy or authority.

Most participants complete Level 1 Certification after one intensive (virtual or in-person) and required pre-work. Level 2 and 3 certifications come through continued practice, mentorship, and deeper facilitation experience.

Yes. Certified facilitators are invited into ongoing learning and mentorship spaces, access updated materials, and stay connected through Naqsmist’s relational leadership community. We host two monthly calls with our CSS Facilitator Community. 

No, and that’s intentional. We choose not to pursue formal academic or institutional accreditation because CSS is a living, relational framework, not a standardized curriculum.

Accreditation often requires fixed content, rigid assessment, and external control over what and how we teach. That model doesn’t fit a framework rooted in Indigenous Knowledges, lived experience, and relational accountability.

Instead, our certification process emphasizes practice, embodiment, and integrity and how you carry the work, not just how you perform it. Facilitators are certified through demonstrated understanding, relational capacity, and consistent alignment with the CSS teachings.

CSS is a relational framework. That means concerns are addressed directly whenever possible.

Naqsmist does not police facilitators. We trust facilitators to uphold their integrity, take accountability, and repair when something has not landed well.

Discomfort alone is not a reason to avoid the conversation. This framework exists to help us build capacity for honest dialogue.

Step 1: Address it directly

If you have a concern about a facilitator, speak with them directly first.

Name what you experienced. Be specific. Allow space for response and repair. Remember the CSS Framework, make sure you're working from a place of understanding self and regulation before having a conversation from a place of triggering or emotion. We expect that our CSS Facilitators will work to do the same.

This is the first practice of accountability.

Step 2: If accountability does not occur

If you have addressed the concern directly and the facilitator is unwilling to take accountability or work toward repair, you may contact: admin@naqsmist.com

We will follow up to clarify expectations and address patterns if necessary.

Exceptions

If the concern involves serious misconduct (e.g., harassment, discrimination, exploitation, or clear boundary violations), you may contact admin immediately.