Group Facilitation Techniques for Counseling Practitioners
Enroll in the Online Self-Study and complete the training on your own schedule.
3 CE hours available for behavioral health clinicians completing the Online Self-Study.
Group facilitation is a powerful therapeutic method that inspires profound healing and deeper connections among participants. By mastering the art of guiding a group’s journey, you can significantly enhance your clients’ progress and make your own work more impactful.
When you have the right techniques to foster growth and navigate challenging dynamics within groups, you’ll find your professional confidence growing right alongside your clients’ success.
Shira Sameroff, LCSW, brings decades of hands-on experience working in diverse settings with people of various backgrounds and identities. Her roles as a therapist, coach, educator, and organizational leader have allowed her to develop and refine group-focused approaches that speak directly to the complexities you face in your own practice. Through her lens of holistic, somatic, and anti-oppressive methodologies, she’ll guide you in shaping a truly transformative group experience.
Instructor
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.
In this online self-study course, Shira blends evidence-based theory with practical applications, ensuring you gain confidence in each stage of group development and conflict resolution. You’ll learn specific facilitation strategies and purposeful activities to deepen group cohesion and foster an inclusive, growthful environment. By applying these skills, you can transform your group sessions into catalysts for healing and meaningful change.
Key Takeaways:
- Comprehensive Understanding: Acquire a clear roadmap of group development stages to anticipate needs and adapt facilitation strategies.
- Purposeful Activity Integration: Learn how to use targeted therapeutic activities to spark deeper insights, engagement, and group cohesion.
- Adaptive Group Leadership: Develop techniques to tailor various types of therapeutic groups and foster safe, inclusive spaces.
Why This Course?
- Professional Expertise: Telehealth Certification Institute offers top-tier continuing education that empowers you to excel in today’s rapidly changing behavioral health field.
- Innovative Instructor: With Shira’s expansive background and intuitive, creative teaching style, you’ll gain unique insights that surpass conventional group facilitation trainings.
- Trusted Standards: Grounded in excellence, kindness, and collaboration, this course aligns with our commitment to providing a holistic and ethically driven learning experience.
Learning Objectives:
- List the stages of group development
- Utilize therapeutic activities effectively in group practice
- Differentiate and apply various types of therapeutic groups to meet specific needs
- Foster growthful and inclusive group environments
Whether you’re new to group facilitation or looking to refine your existing expertise, this course equips you with the tools to create truly transformative group sessions. We invite you to explore these advanced techniques and discover how they can enrich your practice, nurture your clients’ progress, and ultimately make your work more fulfilling.
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"Group Facilitation Techniques for Counseling Practitioners" is one of two courses that compromise the Group therapy Essentials Certificate (GTEC) program. Enroll in the discounted full program and earn 6 total CEs and the GTEC.
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Availability: From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework.
Who Should Attend: This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.
Teaching Methods: This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation.
How to attend: Directions for completing a course can be found by clicking here.
This program was recorded January 17, 2025.