The Five ArchetypesLabel someone, and you tell them their distorted perception is their identity – valid and permanent with no responsibility to change. When we don’t take responsibility, we believe others must change so we can feel comfortable.
The pattern reinforces itself and things don’t move.
The report reveals the conditioned choices driving dysfunction and the specific steps to change them.
The Five Archetypes Relationship Report is a behavior change tool for relationship practitioners. Certified practitioners can purchase it and deliver it to their own clients.
The report only catalyzes sustainable change when the practitioner can avoid adding their own distortions to the field. Building that capacity is what this six-month certification does first. Then, when you deliver the report, the wisdom integrates well into how a client makes moment to moment choices.
Led by Carey Davidson, author, speaker, founder, Reiki Master, Ayurvedic Nutritionist, tree hugger, and facilitator of enlightenment.
Opening intensive:
October 10–11, 2026.
Final certification demonstration: April 4, 2027.
Early tuition:
$6,950 through September 30
Most change methods begin with an intervention. This certification begins by securing the integrity of the facilitator, the relational field, and the process through which the intervention is delivered.
The Five Archetypes System treats two people as one inextricably interrelated organism instead of two individuals with separate needs to accommodate. Because when one person identifies with a distorted thought, they create an imbalance in the Field within which others have to function. The pain between the two multiplies as the imbalance in the Field reinforces the very behaviors everyone most fears.
This certification teaches the practitioner to notice their own distorted perceptions and regulate out of them. Then, with this capacity, you can facilitate client sessions from a deeply informed, effective perspective. That’s why the certification starts with you.
New to the system? Take the Five Archetypes Questionnaire.
The Five Archetypes System is a behavior and relationship change model rooted in Chinese Five Element theory. It maps five adaptive forces of engagement (Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, and Wood) and shows how each shapes perception, stress responses, relationships, and change. All five are present in everyone. The one you rely on most is your causative factor, or primary archetype, which illustrates your conditioned thoughts and actions, how to regulate out of them and how to prevent them altogether.
In this conversation, Carey Davidson and Lorie Eve Dechar explore the transformative ideas of Jean Gebser, focusing on the evolution of human consciousness and the current mental collapse. They discuss the need for a new understanding of reality, the importance of inner healing, and the role of interconnectedness in navigating uncertainty. The dialogue emphasizes the significance of The Five Archetypes System as a framework for personal and collective growth in these challenging times.
Your primary archetype is a lens through which you interpret thoughts, feelings, sensations, people, and events. Phase I teaches you to recognize when that partial lens is presenting itself as the whole truth.
You learn to:
Level I outcome: You can recognize a distortion, regulate, and choose from integrity before you act.
After demonstrating Level I capacity, you move from self-regulation into active creation.
You learn to:
Level II outcome: You can use the full wheel to prepare for, facilitate, and observe change with greater integrity while delivering the Five Archetypes Relationship Report with clients.
To facilitate relationship transformation with integrity, it is important to experience the work in a relationship of your own.
Your own relationship becomes the laboratory
To provide an experiential and integrated awareness of how the Five Archetypes System creates compassionate change, you’ll embody the system for yourself. Participatns will experience it by learning to transform one meaningful, ongoing relationship of their own.
Throughout the six months, Carey guides each participant through the conscious transformation of that relationship using group facilitation, your own personalized Relationship Report, individual homework, daily reflection, and small practice-pod work.
You will:
This program aims to help you become practitioners whose consciousness and presence change what becomes possible in the room for your clients.
Participants will be able to facilitate Carey Davidson’s Five Archetypes Relationship Reports with clarity, compassion, accuracy, and integrity as well as:
Understand and elevate one of your own relationships through direct experience of the method.
Prepare yourself and the relational field before a client meeting.
Anticipate how your constitution and a client’s constitution may interact.
Recognize and reorganize your own distortion during a session.
Protect the client’s experience of safety, dignity, security, and being seen.
Use the whole Five Elements wheel to support more wholesome outcomes.
October 8, 2026
October 10-11, 2026
April 4, 2027
Complete by October 8, 2026:
Take the Five Archetypes Questionnaire and submit your results.
Choose one meaningful, ongoing relationship to use as your six-month learning laboratory.
Submit that person’s Five Archetypes scores, with their consent, and brief relationship context.
Complete three short introductory video courses.
Read the assigned sections of The Five Archetypes book.
Listen to the featured podcast episode linked above.
A strong fit:
Not the right fit:
Successful participants earn:
Five Archetypes Certified Relationships Facilitator: Level I & II
Attendance alone does not guarantee certification. You must demonstrate the required Level I and Level II capacities. Additional practice and reassessment may be recommended.
Certified practitioners may facilitate proprietary Five Archetypes Relationship Reports purchased from Carey Davidson. Certification does not authorize practitioners to diagnose another person’s consciousness, guarantee another person’s response, claim to produce enlightenment, or independently create or modify the reports.
Carey Davidson is the creator of the Five Archetypes System and author of The Five Archetypes, published by Simon & Schuster.
Carey brings the ancient intelligence of the Chinese Five Elements into modern relationships, leadership, and consciousness development. The work uses Jean Gebser’s integral consciousness as the destination, the Five Elements wheel as the living bridge, and relationship as the place where transformation becomes embodied.
Early enrollment:
$6,950 through September 30
Standard tuition:
$7,950
Tuition includes the opening intensive, 11 live sessions, practice pods, curriculum materials, milestones, supervised practice and feedback, and the final certification assessment.
*Optional April cohort retreat offered at an additional cost.
Applying does not guarantee admission, and the conversation does not obligate you to enroll.
No. Level I and Level II are proprietary Five Archetypes designations. This program does not represent itself as ICF-accredited coach education.
No. Report facilitation is an important Level II application. The foundational work is developing the practitioner’s capacity to catalyze sustainable change by recognizing inner distortion, regulating into stillness, protecting the relational field, and choosing from integrity.
Yes. Each participant chooses one meaningful, ongoing relationship as a six-month learning laboratory. Carey facilitates the group process, while your personalized Relationship Report, homework, reflection practice, and pod work help you experience the method from the inside before delivering it to others.
This cohort is designed for experienced coaches, healers and therapists who already have foundational preparation in ethics, boundaries, scope of practice, and responsible client care.
No. Certification requires successful demonstration of both Level I and Level II capacities. Participants who need more practice may be offered a reassessment path.
You will hear from us within three business days. If there appears to be mutual fit, you will receive a link to schedule a 30-minute conversation. Every applicant receives a response.
After the initial 1.5 days on the first weekend and another half-day on the second weekend, the rhythm alternates between a 90-minute live session and an off-week practice pod. Participants also complete a brief daily reflection practice, milestones, report practice, and certification demonstrations.
If you believe the integrity of the practitioner is an essential part of the intervention – perhaps even the “medicine” itself, and you are ready to embody that responsibility, we invite you to apply.
*Cohort limited to 20 · Opening intensive October 10–11 · Early tuition ends September 30
