Sacred Women’s Drum Circle Facilitator Training (accredited course)

It is with great joy that you are welcomed to this transformative training.

Below you will find information on the course (dates, cost, venue and content) and

information on how to pay in full or your deposit.

This training was born after many years of working with women in women’s circles,

healing spaces and drum circles. Essentially it skilfully merges all of these and enables the

participants to land in a safe space to fully access their authentic expression as well

as bringing about deep healing for those in attendance and in the wider world.

This work is vital for the new world we are beginning to inhabit. It brings people

together, creates community and connects deeply into the earth and the sky. It

enables travel between worlds, raises our vibration, lets us remember who we are and brings us always back to the heart.

It is sacred.

It is ancient.

It is needed.

Details of the training are as follows:

Dates are: Friday 19th September 2025 to Monday 22nd September 2025.

( Im running another course June 13th to 16th 2025 if these dates dont work for you)

We begin at 9am each day and we will work until around 5:30pm each evening.

Camping is free and recommended to make the most of the extensive space. Camper hookups are available at low cost and hot showers and a full kitchen is provided.

Price of the training is £895. EARLY BIRD PRICING OF £795 is LIVE until MARCH 2025.

The Venue is:

The Clophill Centre, Shefford Road,Clophill,Bedfordshire,MK45 4BT

This glorious earth based centre will hold us throughout, we get an opportunity to walk a labyrinth and spend time in the underground earth chamber, a space dedicated to the divine feminine, and visit an altar to Pan and we will work in a round house with an extensive outdoor kitchen and the forest.

FREE camping or Low cost campervan hookups are available on site. Other attendees may also be interested in shared local accommodation.

We have exclusive access to our part of the site and so evening walks, drumming, ritual, ceremony and more is welcome.

Content:

Across this training you will be immersed in the Sacred Women’s Drum Circle method, developed over 10 years and 1000’s of drum circles!

You will drum, share, sing and create your own ‘Leader Drum’ to start your circles with.

You will be given all of the theory around opening safe space when drumming, creating the right conditions for participants to feel safe, developing intentions for drumming, encouraging free self-expression, understanding the way drumming changes the brain, what people experience when drumming, when and how to intervene, contraindications for drumming and how to shift the activities in the circle for the optimum benefit of attendees.

You will learn how to gauge the space and provide all that the energy of the time and the people attending require.

Once the in-person training is complete you will be asked to submit 6 case studies on circles that you have held and a reflective essay on the impact of Sacred Women’s Drum Circles on participants using evidence from your own practice.

Dont worry, templates and examples will be provided. This is more about self reflection than academia!!

There will be 12 months to complete this.

During this time you can practise as a student.

Once these are complete you will be awarded an Accreditation as Sacred Women’s Drum Circle Facilitator and your certificate will be posted to you.

Closer to the course dates I will send information on what to bring including: things for drum making, food across the course, instruments you may already have etc.

I will also send you a student information form to fill in and return to me.

There is an opportunity to purchase low cost drums for your circles also.

What have participants said?:

' I feel honoured to have spent time with such wonderful, honest, authentic, kind, caring, supportive and funny women. so many memories from the 4 day course. @thedrumwoman is an amazing space holder, leader, teacher and so much more. Her ability to allow such freedom and let space develop as it should and her generous sharing of knowledge and time is without rival.'

Sarah Broome

' I booked onto Melonie's Facilitator training last minute and quite intuitively...and WOW! The way Melonie held the space, the depths we reached together and the power and healing that came through 4 days of our drumming together was beyond what I could have imagined. It was one of the best 4 days of my life and I truly cannot recommend it enough. Melonie creates a truly safe, devotional space for you to fine your inner medicine woman and drum with her and let her rebirth you into a facilitator of this magic! Thank you so much. I will always treasure these days in my heart.'

F arah Orths

Payment:

A deposit of £150 or the full course cost secures your space. Deposits are non refundable after March 2025. Final balance, if paying in instalments, is due 1st July 2025. Payment becomes non refundable 8 weeks before the course start date as travel, materials, venue etc will have been paid for. This listing is for full payment.

You can also pay just the deposit and instalments or the full balance by bank transfer to swerve fees. Email me to arrange this web@thedrumwoman.com

You can set up monthly standing orders to pay in instalments or pay in full.

If you need anything else or have questions feel free to contact me.

With love, and gratitude,

Melonie

Sacred Women's Drum Circle Facilitator Training - Accredited Course