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group facilitation training

2009-2010

Introduction

The course will provide a transpersonal framework for engaging the life and dynamics of a group as well as practical coaching in the design and leading of groups. The first part consists of 6 Saturdays and 12 evening groups over nine months. The focus will be on the how rather than the what of leading.  The coaching will balance learning to develop an imaginative and empowering context with the practical competences of skilful group facilitation.

While learning to hold a space within which the extraordinary may emerge within the life of a group, the practical aims of this training are to enable participants to:

• understand and apply group dynamics
• contain and catalyse unconscious process in groups
• experience a range of facilitator styles and skills
• assess your facilitating strengths and weaknesses
• increase your range of group facilitation skills

This training is for:
counsellors, psychotherapists, trainers and those in the helping professions who have group work experience and are facilitating or planning to facilitate workshops and training courses. It is suitable both for those who wish to incorporate a facilitation element in their work and for experienced trainers who wish to refine their skills.

Method

The learning method will model a teaching style of mixing theory and experience to foster 'inside-out' learning in which the participants' understanding is intimately connected to their inner experience. We will attempt to situate ourselves within the gap between experience and the language we use to describe or reflect on that experience. This gap is a liminal space that fosters empathic attunement and creative response.
Creating a free space to allow for emergent possibilities takes a commitment to breaking open old patterns. Facilitators will face the ways in which the group process reflects both their own inner process and something unknown attempting to make its presence felt. The unknown includes both pre-personal projective material evacuated into the group and trans-personal or collective material constellating within the group. 

Inside-out learning includes:

• learning from the experience of being a group participant
• facilitating group sessions with live feedback
• integrating learning within the work situation through supervision  

Course Schedule

Saturdays (10am-5pm)

1. Transformational Fields              21 November                        Chris Robertson
2. Group Dynamics                        12 December                         Lesley Brown
3. Group Facilitation                      30 January                           Lesley Brown
4. The Shadow of Groups                20 February                          Chris Robertson
5. Group Leadership                       17 April                               Jane Weinberg
6. Course Design                            15 May                                Chris Robertson

Wednesday Evening Groups (6-9pm)

Group Life          25 Nov; 13 Jan; 3 Feb; 10 March; 28 April       Jane Weinberg
Group Dynamics             9 Dec; 27 Jan; 24 Feb; 24 March               Lesley Brown
Course Design              12 May; 26 May; 9 June                              Chris Robertson 

Fees
£980

Training Team

Lesley Brown C.Psychol., MSc. is a registered psychotherapist trained in Gestalt, Integrative Psychosynthesis and Group Therapy. She now combines teaching at Re•Vision with a private practice working with individuals, couples and groups. She has a keen interest in Interpersonal Group work and supervision.

Chris Robertson BSc, MPhil is a registered psychotherapist and has been a supervisor and a trainer since 1978 working extensively in several European countries. As well as psychosynthesis, he trained in child psychotherapy and family therapy. He is a co-founder and training director of Re•Vision He has a private practice with individuals and couples and works with executive coaches and consultants through Spiral Consulting.

Jane Weinberg LLM ,LLB, Cert. Ed. is a registered psychotherapist trained in Humanistic  Counselling and Integrative  Psychosynthesis and has a private practice working with individuals, groups and supervisees. She also co-ordinates a team of counsellors working with young people and adults in a secondary school.  'Therapeutic Circle Time' for groups has been developed and is delivered as a part of that service. 

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