(Un)Training Circle for Group Leaders and Aspiring Group Leaders
Offering One: Ethical Group Facilitation
To ensure your group work is ethically sound, It is essential to design your group frame in service to operating within your scope of practice. This offering proposes the three group types we learn about in grad school are insufficient. Instead they must be progressed and held as positions a confident group leader moves between to facilitate a group that is ethically sound.
Learning Objectives
The attendee will be able to:
Differentiate between Support/Holding, Skills/Learning and Process/Exploratory positions.
Identify the purpose, the focus and the ideal outcomes for each position in the map.
Discuss how the three positions work together to support ethical leadership of any type of group..
Appraise which of these group types/positions may be most ethically suited to your client population.
Agenda
0:00- Orientation to the educational experience, introductions and embodiment practices to support participants to bring nonjudgmental awareness to today’s material.
0:15- Introduction to Left Brain/Right Brain framework and the three basic group forms: Support/Holding, Skills/Learning and Process/Exploratory.
0:30- Consultation/Interactive discussion: application of these orientations to three participants’ groups.
1:00- Model, utilizing the content members have shared, presence-based, relational “psychoeducation.” Potential concepts: implicit memory/neuroception (Steven Porges,) left/right hemisphere perspectives (Ian McGilchrist.)
1:20- Discuss countertransference challenges. Apply the provided frameworks in service to participants’ building confidence in their unique leadership style.
1:35- Review material, question and answer period
1:45- Complete evaluations.
1:55- Concluding reflective practice
2:00- Close