Professional Facilitator Access opens the full Choose Forward Play Suite for use with your clients and groups — with the guides, structures, and licence to run it properly in your practice.
Use one short activity as a way in — a shared, low-pressure entry point before the deeper conversation. The Cartographer or Checkmate the Pattern work well here.
Build a half-day around one domain — money, body, relationships, identity — and let the relevant games carry the group through feeling it, naming it, and re-deciding.
Give a client a single activity to sit with before you next meet, then debrief using the prompts in the Facilitator Guide.
Some activities surface real emotion. The guide flags these so you can plan the pacing — the most meaningful conversations rarely stay on schedule.
One tool travels further than any other in practice. When a client says they want to be respected, valued, or taken seriously, ask them to finish "I would like you to stop ___" or "I would like you to start ___". If a stranger could verify it, it is a boundary and it can be stated this week. If they can only name how they want to feel, it is regard — which cannot be requested, only produced, by asking for the smallest behaviour underneath it. The guide sets out how to run that sort, and what to do when someone discovers there is no behaviour to ask for.
The guides are written to be usable by trained counsellors and coaches, and by people facilitating informally — a group lead, a manager, someone holding space in a community setting. Both are welcome, and the guide says clearly which is which.
Where an activity can open into territory that needs professional containment — estrangement, contempt, grief for a living person, a relationship that will not be repaired — it is flagged, with an instruction to acknowledge and move rather than explore. If you are facilitating informally, your job is to run the structure and hold the room, not to work with what surfaces underneath it. Ending a segment early is always the better call.
Nothing here is therapy, and none of it replaces clinical judgement. If you are a registered practitioner, your own professional standards and supervision take precedence over anything in our materials.
If you're drawn to facilitating this work, you may be exactly the kind of person we're looking for as a Choose Forward Accountability Partner — someone who has done the work and can hold space for another person doing theirs. It's peer accountability done properly: structured, supported, and paid (partners receive 85% of session fees).
It isn't therapy and it isn't coaching. It's walking alongside someone who is stuck — with the training, guides, and structure so you're never starting from nothing.