This course is a live, interactive webinar held on January 10, 2025, from 12pm-3:20 pm Eastern Standard Time.
This reduced price webinar does not offer CE Credits. The same live event is available for purchase and offers 3 CE hours for behavioral health clinicians. See "related products" below.
Registration closes at midnight (EDT) the day before the event
Groups are a powerful therapeutic medium that fosters individual and collective healing and growth. This course provides counseling practitioners with the necessary tools to design, structure, and facilitate effective therapeutic groups. We will delve into the intricacies of group dynamics, offering a robust framework for understanding and developing group purpose. You will learn best practices for outreach and member screening, ensuring that your groups are composed of individuals who will benefit most from the collective experience.
Contracting with members and establishing and sustaining a safe environment are crucial components of successful group therapy. This course will guide you through these processes, emphasizing techniques for maintaining a supportive atmosphere where all participants feel valued and heard. We will explore co-facilitation techniques and discuss working with both mandated and voluntary participants and strategies for working with groups of diverse sizes, settings and demographics.
Self-awareness as a practitioner is key to effective group facilitation. This course will help you develop this self-awareness, enabling you to recognize and address your biases and improve your facilitation skills.
By the end of this course, you will be equipped to lead transformative group sessions that can significantly enhance your clients' progress. Learn practical strategies that you can immediately apply in your practice and empower your clients through effective group work.
Topics Covered:
- Understanding and developing group purpose
- Outreach and member screening
- Contracting with members
- Establishing and sustaining safety
- Co-facilitation techniques
- Working with mandated and voluntary participants
- Self-awareness as a practitioner
Schedule: (listed in Eastern Standard Time)
- 12:00 pm - 12:50 pm Lecture
- 12:50 pm - 1:00 pm Break
- 1:00 pm - 1:10 pm Q&A
- 1:10 pm - 1:40 pm Lecture
- 1:40 pm - 1:50 pm Break
- 1:50 pm - 2:00 pm Q&A
- 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm Lecture
- 2:30 pm - 2:40 pm Q&A
- 2:40 pm - 3:10 pm Lecture
- 3:10 pm - 3:20 pm Q&A
Upon completion of this training, professionals will be able to do the following:
Learning Objectives:
- Foster safety, mutual support, and empowerment in group settings.
- Address dynamics of power and oppression among group members and facilitators.
- Develop and articulate the purpose of a group.
- Apply self-awareness tools in group facilitation practices.
Shira Sameroff, LCSW
Shira Sameroff, LCSW, is a therapist, coach, and teacher with experience rooted in decades of practice with people of diverse identities, ages, and life stories in a wide array of settings. Professional roles have included therapy, supervision, professional development training, coaching, teaching, community organizing, transformative decluttering and a decade and a half on the leadership team of a community-based social work agency in Brooklyn, NY, US.
Shira weaves a range of therapeutic healing modalities, including IFS, Hakomi, and other holistic, somatic, nature-based, and anti-oppressive practices into her practice. Shira offers therapy, coaching, and professional development for individuals and organizations around themes including group facilitation, working with shame, oppression-ending practices, giving and receiving feedback, empowering practice with youth, and tending to self as a practitioner.
Shira’s approach is collaborative, intuitive, creative, and full of heart and is rooted in my own lived experience of healing, learning, and emerging.
This reduced price webinar does not offer CE credits, just great content.
The same live event is available for purchase and offers 3 CE hours for behavioral health clinicians. See "related products" below.
Participants may request a printed version of their certificate of attendance to be delivered by mail. A shipping/handling fee of $6.95 will be charged per request. Shipping internationally may require an additional charge.
Register on the website before midnight the day of the event. In order to attend, you are required to:
- login and access the direct link to the webinar through your account
- your attendance is marked automatically when you use the direct link and attend fully
- complete a post-test with a passing score of 80% or higher (which can be retaken until passed), and complete a course evaluation
- collect your certificate of completion on your account after steps 1-3 are completed
Recordings are not provided to webinar registrants. No refunds are offered to those who do not attend.
Directions for completing a course and collecting CEs can be found here
Enroll in the webinar by adding it to the cart and proceeding through the check out process. Create an account (or login to yours) during the checkout process.
Prepare: Download Zoom software. Participants must use a device that is connected to adequate internet speed with a camera, microphone and speakers (or headset).
Attend: At least 15 minutes before the designated start time, login to your account on the website. Go to "My Courses", click on the title of the webinar. The link for the webinar will be listed in the course content.
Attendance is recorded automatically when you use the direct link and attend the full event.
By registering for this event you are agreeing to the following:
24 hour notice is required if you are not able to make it to a live event. Recordings are not provided to webinar registrants.
To update and test using Zoom.us/test before the event to ensure you are ready for the event.
Since this is a live interactive event it means that your interaction during the event is expected. Your name and image will be visible to other participants during the live event. You will NOT be included in any recording made.
An evaluation must be completed within one week of the event. Continuing Education credit(s) cannot be issued unless you attend the event and the evaluation is submitted. (Evaluation is not mandatory for APA hours)
Partial CE credits are not possible; therefore you are required to be present throughout the event in order to receive CE credits.
Respect all other participants during the event as though you would if you were sitting with the other attendees at a conference table:
- Dress appropriately
- Be in a private location void of distractions
- Do not multitask
- Do not drive during an event
- Remain on mute unless you are sharing with the group
Closed captioning is offered for all live webinar participants.
This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.
This is a live, interactive webinar
