Next Stage
Celtic Wheel Facilitator Training
Applications are now closed for cohort 2
A professional practitioner training for women who are committed to ushering in a new paradigm
and wish to become a facilitator, teacher, leader and guide...
- in the sacred work of the feminine though the mythic map of the Celtic Wheel of the Year.
- in reconnecting women to our relationship of reciprocity with the natural world, our ancestors, our wild kin and the sacred Cosmic order.
- in re-souling the world by weaving ancient Celtic ancestral wisdom with modern scientific knowledge into your life and work.
A nine month training that starts with a 5 day in-person immersion retreat in Sligo,(Nov 7-11 2025) on the land of the sovereign Queen Medhb.
Next Stage Celtic Wheel is a map, a methodology and ancient modern medicine for this momentous time of chaos and change.
Your unique wisdom, leadership and medicine are needed right now to mid-wife a new wiser more beautiful world.
Next Stage Celtic Wheel body of work that has empowered and emboldened 1,000+ women over the last 11 years to live the rhythms of nature and to embody the forbidden sovereign feminine.
We are Re-souling, Re-wilding, Re-santifying, Re-enchanting and Re-imagining ourselves and our world
through
Remembrance,
Reconnection,
Restoration,
Reweaving
and Reunion
"Ní neart go cur le chéile"
There is no strength without unity
(Irish Proverb)
In this training you will ......
deepen your CAPACITIES and SKILLS
as a facilitator, guide and ritualist of Celtic cyclical wisdom and Next Stage Celtic Wheel methodology.
gain a deeper understanding of the CELTIC WHEEL OF THE YEAR
it's origins and history through an evolutionary lens. Become a Celtic cyclical guide who weaves ancient ancestral wisdom with contemporary science; reaching into the past, rooted in the present, looking to the future.
receive activations on the SACRED LAND OF IRELAND, attunement to its myths and ancestral wisdom
The training begins with a five day retreat in the ancient Ox mountains, Sligo - the land of sovereign Queen Medh. We will visit sacred sites, immersing in the traditions that reconnect us to the land, the ancestors, our wild kin and our soul's depths.
Aquire a license to use NSCW MATERIAL + GRAPHICS
Weave the NSCW teachings, materials, maps and foundational practices to complement and enrich your current offerings. I'm excited to announce that we will have beautiful new maps and illustrations of the Wheel coming this Autumn.
deepen into the path of your DÁN, your Soul's unique medicine
Understand more deeply the unique gifts that you were born to bring into the world as a Bean Feasa, a medicine woman at this time.
apprentice with a SMALL GROUP of fellow Medicine Women
journeying together over 9 months in a small intimate soul sisterhood which ensures space for rich connection and meaningful depth.
The impact of this training
what the previous participants had to say....
“I’ve come into a deeper, more embodied relationship with my cyclical nature, met soul sisters for life, and learned to hold space with more confidence, clarity, and heart"
“The training has equipped me with renewed recognition and trust in myself, allowing me to enjoy more and fear less.”
"This past year on the Celtic Wheel Facilitator Course brought me back to myself. It has equipped me with renewed recognition and trust in myself, allowing me to enjoy more and fear less. Best of all, the course has given me the immense gift of 11 wise soul sisters as well as the confidence to facilitate, and not simply the materials we studied, but in other forums based on skills accumulated in my professional and personal life. It has been an eye-opening, contemplative, heart warming and brilliantly transformative experience."
–Sarah O'Connor, Cohort 1
“Not only did I expand my knowledge of what it means to be a facilitator, but .......where and how I wish to be of service within this rapidly evolving, turbulent beautiful world.”
"I feel very blessed to have been accepted onto Mari Kennedy’s Next Stage Celtic Wheel Facilitators Course.
Not only did I expand my knowledge of what it means to be a Facilitator, but an holistic relationship developed and strengthened between my body, soul and the cyclical way of being together with the land, and all she holds, her myth, the cosmos and where and how I wish to be of service within this rapidly evolving, turbulent beautiful world.
Mari created a strong container, where, through a very welcome and nurtured sisterhood, a great remembering of Feminine wisdom blossomed in a rich and safe environment.
I learned that no matter how much personal growth and development I felt I had done, there is always something new to learn. Wisdom is infinite!
I am filled with joy having done this course and am looking forward to weaving this wisdom into my work."
– Sandra Cook, Complementary Medicine Practitioner. Cohort 1
NEXT STEPS
The Application Process
Step 1
Application
Applications open for 2 weeks from August 18 2025 - September 1 2025
Step 2
Interview
Online Interviews will take place on Zoom September 9, 10, 11 September 2025
.
Step 3
Invitation
Invitation to join the training will be issued on September 12 2025
Step 4
We Begin
We will gather online for our opening circle on 21 October 2025 and meet for a 5 day In-person Immersion Retreat in Sligo, November 7-11 2025.
Training Schedule
See the full Schedule here
THE CURRICULUM
The 9 modules will be woven as rhizomatic threads throughout the 9 months to gain a rooted understanding of the foundations of the work while deeply honouring the mystical nature and lived wisdom of the pathless path of the feminine.
Crafting ritual, walking the land, ancestral medicine, embodiment and contemplative practices are at the heart of the learning journey.
The training will be lead by Mari with a number of guest faculty offering their medicine into the container.
Call 2:
Samhain Festival:
The Cauldron
Death and Darkness
Requirements + Time Commitment
To Apply
To apply you must have completed a full year with me on Next Stage Celtic Wheel
Time commitment
I would suggest you will would need to commit to 12- 14 hours a month outside the in person intensives.
1 hour a week - Walking the Land
3 hours a month - Bean Feasa practice group
3 hours a month on training call
I suggest 2 hours a month on project work
Requirements to receive your certification
Full attendance at the two in-person immersions
90% attendance for the online training in between
Completion of a project
Module 1:
Foundations
- Next Stage learning + the pathless path
- The 9 guiding themes of NSCW
- The 9 premises of NSCW
- 3 sources of wisdom and 3 sources of knowledge
- Cyclical consciousness
Module 2
EVER PRESENT ORIGINS
- De-colonising time - Spiral time, circle time, cyclical time, seasonal time, calendar time, mythic time, linear time, Kairos time, Chronos time.
- The origins, history and evolution of the Celtic Wheel of the Year
- Understanding and clarifying what we mean by ‘Celtic” and ‘Next Stage"
Module 3:
Ritual + Cosmology
- Ritual in the Celtic tradition
- Nature, animism, Cosmic rhythms and the cosmology of the ancient indigenous Irish.
- The land and the sídh, sacred sites and the stars, the druids and the fíli, the tribe and the earth, the numinous and the sacred.
- The Directions, the Fifth Province, the ancestors, the Otherworld, Imbas and Silver Branch Perception.
Module 4
NSCW Maps and Materials
- The circle and the spiral
- The 8 festivals
- The 4 seasons
- The 2 halves
- The Sovereign Centre
- Polarities, cycles and nature's seasons
- The NSCW Foundational practices
Module 5:
Next Stage Sovereignty
- Redefining sovereignty in a post truth world.
- Our feminine (Yin) nature and masculine (Yang) nature, beyond gender.
- The Patriarchy, the return of the dark Goddess consciousness and women.
- Banais Ríghe : Divine union of feminine and masculine.
- Leading with the feminine, enacting with the masculine.
Module 6:
Mythology + Folklore
- Cycles within Irish mythology + folklore of the seasons.
- The Otherworld, the Ancestors, the Liminal, the Goddesses.
- Mythology from the women’s perspective.
- Working with archetypes - the 3 faces of the Goddess
Module 7
The Rebel Body
- De-colonising the body - Rebel Body, Animal body, Sovereign Body, Cyclical Body, Elemental body.
- Body, mind, breath, soul, spirit, nature, Cosmos.
- Embodying the seasons.
- Inhabiting the inner seasons.
- The 3 cauldrons- inner weaving, inner alchemy.
Module 8:
Facilitation Skills
- Self as instrument.
- Facilitation skills and group dynamics.
- Facilitating on the subtle and energetic level.
- Facilitating women’s groups.
Module 9
The Path of your Dán
- Deep excavation of your unique constellation of gifts - your Soul highest expression.
- What’s your place in re-souling and re-birthing the world? What medicine were you born to bring at this time?
- Clarifying your noble vow.