Training Detail

Facilitating Groups

Counselors and other educators will learn the specialized skills — different from standard educational practices — needed to run support, treatment and aftercare groups with students, as well as the fundamentals of group development and group dynamics.
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Nov 18-19 | Bethlehem, PA | register»
IIRP Campus, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA
 
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Everything was helpful to me: the group, the intimacy, the relationships, the learning, the ‘what ifs.’
- Katherine Hutchinson, Special Education Teacher, Palisades High School, Kintnersville, PA
   

Benefits

  • gain confidence to facilitate any type of group
  • build positive social bonds, trust and empathy among students and staff
  • provide a safe, structured environment to express intense emotion and discuss sensitive issues
  • help students do better work

Focus

  • how to:
    • facilitate strong, constructive groups
    • foster openness in groups
    • teach students to give thoughtful feedback
    • start, close and process a group
    • work with a partner
    • work within a time frame
  • basics of group dynamics and group development
  • curative factors of groups
  • group process versus group content
  • exercises and team-building activities for groups

Agenda & Materials

  • intensive practice facilitating different types of groups
  • feedback from experienced group facilitators
  • videos of actual groups
  • discussion and analysis of videos

The first day runs from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and the second day runs from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Cost is $280 per person.

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