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The Five Archetypes Relationships Report

Based in the five elements system of Chinese medicine and integral consciousness theory, the report uncovers the conditioned choices driving dysfunction and the specific steps to change them.

Other systems label people and tell them their distorted perception is their identity – valid and permanent with no responsibility to change. When we aren’t taught to take responsibility for the content of the mind, we get stuck believing others must change so that we can feel comfortable.

This pattern reinforces itself and things don’t move.

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Learn to Facilitate a Conscious Shift
in Relationships

The Five Archetypes Relationship Report is a behavior change tool for relationship practitioners. Certified practitioners are able to purchase it and teach it to their own clients.

You catalyze sustainable change with the content in the report as long as you’re not adding your own distortions to the relational field with the clients. Building that capacity is what the six-month certification does first. Then, when you utilize the report, the system integrates, becoming how the clients live instead of just another acronym or tip that sounds great and is easily forgotten.

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

Interventions generate change when the facilitator knows how to secure the integrity of the relational field. That’s how this certification begins.

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What Makes the Report Different
Other systems record a person’s thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors to create a report that defines them as a fixed identity everyone else has to accommodate. The Five Archetypes System is different. It shows each person the limited lens that creates the distorted perception they mistake for the full reality and provides the steps to regulate into the truer, whole view. From there, choices can be made with integrity for a more fulfilling relationship.
 
Reactive behavior is a symptom. It comes from the belief that one’s conditioned lens is the whole truth, when each primary archetype only sees one fifth of the picture.
 
The Five Archetypes Relationship Report treats two people as one interrelated organism, not two individuals with separate needs to accommodate. When one person identifies with a distorted thought, they create an imbalance in the field everyone else has to function within. Relational pain multiplies. When we free that limited view, the whole field changes.
 
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What's Inside the Report

Every report is a roadmap for harmonizing a relationship. Built for one specific pair, the content is completely customized by the intersection of both people’s Five Archetypes Questionnaire results. 

From each pair’s questionnaire results, it predicts:

  • The distorted thoughts and sensations each one defaults to
  • The relational scenarios that trigger them 
  • The blame loop they fall into
  • How that loop shows up in their plans, projects, and decisions
  • How to regulate and prevent it from happening in the future


Clients learn responsibility. They catch their own distortion, build resilience to it, and learn how to speak to each other with dignity and respect when the Primary Archetype gets triggered.

Our secret sauce is teaching people to predict and avoid disharmony before it happens. 

The analysis, the regulation strategies, and the scripts to move through conflict are delivered through certified practitioners.

Why This Certification Exists

A report that addresses this level of two people’s conscious awareness needs to be delivered within a deeply compassionate relational field. A practitioner carrying their own distortion weakens the capacity for the clients to feel safe being honest, and respected and dignified for sharing their humanity.

So the training starts with you. Learn to notice your own distorted perceptions and regulate out of them first. Deliver from a field filled with the conditions for unconditional love, and the report does what it’s built to do. That’s why certification comes before you can deliver the report.

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This Certification Strengthens Three Functions
  1. The facilitator. Recognize distortion, regulate into stillness, and choose from integrity.
  2. The relational field. Build and protect the conditions required for safety, dignity, honesty, and growth.
  3. The change process. Use the whole Five Elements wheel to create healthier outcomes without imposing, rescuing, judging, withdrawing, or controlling.

Why Good Methods Fail to Create Change and
How The Five Archetypes System is Different

Carey Davidson and Lorie Eve Dechar on what actually creates change and why the person delivering the work is part of it.

What You'll Learn

Level I: Understand your perception and choose from integrity

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:

  • Separate what is happening from what your constitution is making it mean.
  • Recognize the thoughts, stories, feelings, sensations, and impulses of your primary distortion.
  • Understand how acting from that distortion can trigger reactive states in others.
  • Use stillness and constitution-specific practices to regulate.
  • Wait until a choice rooted in integrity becomes available.


Level I outcome: You can recognize a distortion, regulate, and choose from integrity before you act.

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Level II: Use the Five Elements wheel to create better outcomes

After demonstrating Level I capacity, you move from self-regulation into active creation.

You learn to:

  • Define a clear, wholesome outcome.
  • Read a situation through all five elemental perspectives.
  • Anticipate how different constitutions may interact.
  • Choose the elemental strategies the moment requires.
  • Adapt as the relational field changes.
  • Create balanced conditions without trying to control another person.


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. 

How You'll Learn

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:

  • Understand how your constitution interacts with others.
  • Observe how your primary lens shapes what you perceive and contribute to the relationship.
  • Practice regulating before you interpret, speak, or act.
  • Use the full wheel to catalyze healthy conditions.
  • Track what changes when you change what you bring to the field.
  • Experience receiving and living the work before you facilitate it for someone else.

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Outcomes: What You'll be Able to Do

You’ll deliver the Five Archetypes Relationship Report with clarity, accuracy, and integrity, having experienced what it does firsthand.

You will facilitate concrete shifts in your clients’ relationships. They stop perceiving their fear-thoughts as truth and start seeing them as the conditioned impulse of an out-of-balance archetype. Then they apply the change strategies that transform what is possible.

Blame stops and responsibility becomes the operating model.

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.

Curriculum and Format

The program includes:

  • Two-day opening intensive
  • Half-day follow up workshop
  • 11 biweekly, 90-minute live sessions
  • Full-day final class & demonstration
  • Practice pods during off-weeks
  • Brief daily reflection and embodiment practice
  • A guided six-month transformation of one relationship in your own life
  • Your personalized Relationship Report, used as a study map

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  • Five element embodiment assignments. One guided practice for each element, helping you experience Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, and Wood as capacities you can recognize and use
  • An observed Level I readiness demonstration. Show that you can notice a real primary-lens distortion, separate the event from your interpretation, regulate into stillness, and choose from integrity before beginning Level II facilitation work
  • Five-archetype case practices. Work through the same relational situation with Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, and Wood primary clients so you learn how context changes what the facilitator should notice and do
  • Relationship Report facilitation practice and feedback
  • Final observed certification demonstration

pre-work due

October 8, 2026

opening intensive

October 10-11, 2026

final demonstration

April 4, 2027

Pre-Work

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.

Ideal Participant

A strong fit:

  • Are an experienced coach, healer or therapist.
  • Have foundational training in ethics, boundaries, and responsible client care.
  • Know that having the right strategy is not the same as delivering it with integrity.
  • Are willing to examine how your own conditioning affects your work.
  • Can receive feedback and practice with real relational patterns.
  • Want increased embodied conscious capacity.

Not the right fit:

  • Want only a quick technique, script, or credential.
  • Want to diagnose or change others without examining yourself.
  • Are unwilling to practice between sessions or receive feedback.
  • Cannot commit to the experiential work and certification demonstrations.

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Credential and Professional Scope: What certification means

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.

About Carey Davidson

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.

Tuition:

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.

Application Process:

  1. Submit the application.
  2. Hear from us within three business days. You will receive a response either way.
  3. Schedule a 30-minute mutual-fit conversation if the program appears to be a potential fit.
  4. Receive an enrollment decision within two business days of the conversation.


Applying does not guarantee admission, and the conversation does not obligate you to enroll.

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Frequently Asked Questions

No. Level I and Level II are proprietary Five Archetypes designations. This program does not represent itself as ICF-accredited coach education.

The report is the tool you’re certified to deliver. Reading it is the easy part. What makes it effective, and what this training builds first, is the capacity to deliver it without putting your own distortion into the field. Catalyzing a transformative, safe relational field is the difference between insight a client sees as nice to have and wisdom that becomes integrated as part of their operating system. 

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.

Those tools record a person’s behavior and hand it back as a type the other person has to accommodate. They describe the relationship and prescribe skills. The Five Archetypes treats two people as one organism and works on transforming the limited, conditioned lens each one interprets their experience through. Liberate that lens in one person and the whole relational field transforms into something that catalyzes integrity, trust and unconditional love. When we do our relationships by accommodating another’s distortion, we set ourselves up for a lifetime of exhaustion and disappointment. Change the consciousness through which we experience our thoughts and we elevate the potential in any interaction.

Are you Ready to Become an Instrument of Change?

“If these systems worked, we’d all be out of jobs. Nobody would feel unseen, undignified, or disrespected anymore.” ~ Carey Davidson

The integrity of the practitioner is the most important part of the medicine. If you’re ready to walk that walk, I hope you’ll apply.

*Cohort limited to 20 · Opening intensive October 10–11 · Early tuition ends September 30

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