Releasing Community Survey | August 2026

41 people paused for five minutes to tell us who we are

The forty-one people who answered this survey represent the most engaged members of the Releasing Community. Coaches play an active role. A strong majority of us are trained facilitators. Three findings in particular will shape how this community develops from here.

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Are you currently practicing as a coach or facilitator?

Coaches play an active role. Twenty-four of forty-one practice in some capacity, and twelve are working with paying clients.

  • Actively, full-time4 (10%)
  • Actively, with paying clients (part-time)8 (20%)
  • Occasionally, informally (friends, family, no paying clients)12 (29%)
  • Not currently17 (41%)

Completed Hale Dwoskin's Facilitator Training Course?

A solid majority of the Releasing Community are trained facilitators of the Sedona Method.

  • Yes23 (56%)
  • No18 (44%)

What certifications or trainings do you hold?

The Releasing Community reflects the diversity of the worldwide releasing community.

Sedona Method / Hale Dwoskin
21 (51%)
Heart of Releasing / Kate Freeman
3 (7%)
Release Technique / Larry Crane
2 (5%)
None currently
16 (39%)
Other certification
11 (27%)

Select all that apply. Other certification spans eleven distinct trainings.

Is the Sedona Method your primary modality?

Many use the Sedona Method as a toolkit supporting other kinds of healing modalities.

  • Primary / only modality10 (24%)
  • One of several19 (46%)
  • Not currently using it professionally12 (29%)

What region are you in?

Europe and America are even, and Asia Pacific is growing.

  • Europe / Middle East / Africa19 (46%)
  • North America16 (39%)
  • Asia Pacific6 (15%)

Biggest bottleneck right now

Twenty-one people wrote open-text answers. In respect of their privacy, here are the aggregated responses.

Finding or growing a client base
7
Not currently coaching / stepped back
3
Life circumstances (health, relocation)
2
Time
2
Considering retirement or a different focus
2
Not applicable / general note
2
Confidence and follow-through
1
Building supporting infrastructure
1
No bottleneck right now
1

Want to hear more about AI for Releasing Coaches?

Split almost exactly down the middle.

  • Yes, add me to the list23 (56%)
  • No thanks18 (44%)

Preferred way to engage with AI for Releasing Coaches content

Among those interested, on-demand access matters as much as live.

Not interested
21 (51%)
Either works
10 (24%)
Recorded / on-demand only
7 (17%)
Live monthly call
3 (7%)

What would help most, for those interested in AI

The most common answer was not knowing yet.

Managing client sessions (notes, follow-up, records)
8 (30%)
Marketing and content creation
11 (41%)
Business admin / operations
8 (30%)
I don't know yet, but I'd want to see what's possible
12 (44%)

Asked only of the 27 who showed interest. Percentages are of that group.

Three things I am taking from this

01

We are broader than one lineage

Kate Freeman and Larry Crane practitioners are here, alongside Hale Dwoskin's students, who still constitute the majority. I created the Open-Mic Support Calls group as an experiment, open to anyone who wants to host, certified or not, provided they work with releasing modalities. This group has proven popular with the community.

02

The Method works as a toolkit alongside other modalities

Nearly half of us use the Sedona Method in combination with other healing modalities. It serves many of us as a toolbox that complements other work. This is a strength worth naming out loud.

03

Asia-Pacific is growing

We currently have a practice call scheduled for Wednesdays at 5pm Pacific, which lands Thursday morning in Indonesia and Sydney. We will continue to work to schedule call times that are convenient to Asia Pacific.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to answer.

Twenty-three of you asked to hear more about AI. I am starting a separate project called AI for Releasing Coaches, distinct from the Releasing Community. Everyone who opted in will hear from me there.

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—Steven