ACI Training for Practitioners

An immersive 3.5-day introduction to the Art of Collective Integration (ACI) — an emerging approach to working with polarization and fragmentation in people, groups, and systems through somatic, relational, and historical awareness.

October 8th – 10th, 2026 | Lisbon, Portugal | Led by David Young

“Polarization doesn’t just live in opinions. It lives in bodies, relationships, and the space between us.”
David Young

Why ACI, Why Now?

If you are working with people, groups, or systems, you are aware how increasing speed, complexity and pressure of modern life are intensifying the divides in collective spaces—resulting in hyper-activation, overwhelm or shutdown in individuals.

You have likely encountered the limits of existing approaches.

You’ve tried:

- better communication

- more precise facilitation

- frameworks for dialogue and alignment

And yet, conversations stall. Tension doesn’t resolve. People are not able to feel or even hear each other.

You are not alone.

Mental Health Practitioners

Often highly skilled at individual regulation but lack training in sensing and working with the collective dimension.

Group Facilitators

May be excellent at delivering content and relating to specific audiences but feel overwhelmed when disagreement or conflict erupts in the room.

Social Activists and Changemakers

Tend to over-focus on fixing problems rather than sensing where integration is already emerging.

The Art of Collective Integration (ACI) is a trauma-informed, somatic, and relational approach to working with collective systems

ACI builds on individual somatic awareness and extends it into relational, group, ancestral, and societal fields.
Rather than forcing coherence, ACI trains practitioners to sense fragmentation, integration, and developmental movement already underway.

What Makes This Training Different

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Embodied Awareness

Learning to feel how history, trauma, and meaning live in the body
Differentiating individual sensation from collective sensation

Relational Field

Sensing how groups co-create emotional, nervous-system, and energetic atmospheres
Working with resonance, charge, and coherence in real time

Collective & Ancestral Dynamics

Understanding how collective history and inherited patterns shape present experience
Learning to sense collective trauma without collapsing into it

Presented by Tamala Francis,
Founder & CEO at Francis & Co.

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