Become a No Barriers Here Facilitator
Are you passionate about reducing inequities in palliative and end-of-life care?
Do you want to develop the confidence, knowledge and practical skills to support more equitable advance care planning?
Are you committed to ensuring that underserved people and communities have the opportunity to express what matters most?
If so, No Barriers Here Facilitator Training will equip you with the skills to use our innovative, arts-based approach in your own practice and communities.
Our highly interactive, experiential training introduces the principles, values and evidence that underpin No Barriers Here, while giving you first-hand experience of the creative methods that make the approach accessible, inclusive and person-centred. Throughout the day, you’ll explore how creativity can help overcome barriers to conversations about planning ahead and support people whose voices are too often excluded from decision-making.
By becoming a No Barriers Here facilitator, you’ll be joining a growing community of practitioners committed to advancing equity in palliative and end-of-life care, strengthening death literacy, and creating opportunities for people to explore their wishes, values and priorities in ways that work for them.
Training options
We offer:
- Open Facilitator Training – ideal for individuals or small teams wishing to become No Barriers Here facilitators.
- Bespoke Organisation Training – delivered in your locality for organisations, partnerships and integrated care systems that want to build a shared approach across services and communities.
Bespoke training is particularly valuable for organisations working collaboratively across health, social care, voluntary and community sectors, enabling teams to develop a common understanding and embed equitable advance care planning within local practice.
Please note: From April 2025, bespoke training requires a minimum of 10 participants.
Whether you are a clinician, social care practitioner, community worker, educator or voluntary sector professional, No Barriers Here Facilitator Training will help you create more inclusive conversations, reduce barriers to advance care planning, and ensure that more people have equitable opportunities to plan for the future
“A brilliant day with inspiring trainers who held the space for reflection so well. It is really valuable to future palliative care practice to experience this.”
What Our Facilitators Say
The most powerful way to understand the impact of No Barriers Here Facilitator Training is through the experiences of those who have taken part.
People from health, social care, community and voluntary organisations consistently tell us that the training has transformed the way they think about advance care planning. They describe feeling more confident to facilitate inclusive conversations, use arts-based approaches to engage underserved communities, and champion more equitable palliative and end-of-life care.
Read what some of our facilitators have to say about their experience.
“I attended the No Barriers Here course in March which was absolutely amazing. The course helped me develop skills and understanding in using arts-based approach to advance care planning. Since then, I have carried out a number of community workshops for adults with learning disabilities which have gone really well. It has also been really effective by going into some of the local supported living homes to explore advance care planning together through ‘No Barriers Here’. The project has been so accessible and inclusive for all. It’s been lovely holding the workshops in groups as it has opened up discussions between everyone in terms of what would be important for us when we are at the end of our lives. It really is creating a truly personalised care plan and I am so pleased to be using this approach in my practice to support underserved populations.
Advance Care Planning Nurse (Learning Disabilities), London
“Sharing space and creativity with No Barriers Here renewed my faith that it IS possible to have real and important conversations about what really matters, and that the paperwork can follow but is not the primary aim. No Barriers Here is both astoundingly simple (Who? Where? How? What is important? What is my legacy? And highly complex…we are after all mixed up, interconnected, complicated creatures with rich history, experience, values and beliefs. But the joy of it is the space it holds to be and the play, art, gentle guidance, lack of judgement and dismantling of barriers which create REAL and meaningful conversation. Time to reflect without a tick box, without someone else’s agenda…The essence of safety… a true ACP opportunity which really matters for everyone. Designed by and with those who are truly not heard.”
Palliative Care Strategic Nurse Consultant, Warwickshire
“I can honestly say that this has been the most enjoyable training I have carried out in a long time. Facilitation was excellent- I feel like I have a new view on the subject.”
Palliative Care Nurse, Somerset
“We are holding our first No Barriers Here workshops next week, very excited to get started.”
Dementia Palliative Care Nurse, Derbyshire
