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Groups and teams that become highly effective do not do so by accident. Instead, their effectiveness is built on an integration of knowledge, skills, and interventions that foster effectiveness. Working with Groups is designed to enable group leaders and team coaches in a variety of settings (leadership teams, limited duration work teams, therapy groups, committees, problem solving groups, etc.) to facilitate high-impact results through the application of concepts and principles based in a Gestalt approach to human behavior.
Armed with a well-reviewed base of Gestalt approaches, you, the leader/coach/manager facilitator /therapist will be better able to leverage these approaches to recognize, engage, address, and develop skills within individuals, subgroups and the group or team as a whole. The sum total of the use of these approaches will result in groups, teams, committees, that are high-functioning, results-producing, and individually-affirming.
Within the workshop, you will also be provided with ample opportunities to practice these skills, in a variety of settings, as a way of integrating these skills naturally into the way you lead groups. Having attended this workshop, you will lead work with groups and teams in a different way than you have in the past.
The learning objectives that underlie this unique professional development experience include:
1. Understanding and applying Gestalt concepts and principles as they relate to working with teams and groups;
2. Developing the capacity to see, assess, and intervene at multiple levels of system (intervening with individuals, sub-groups, and the entire group) to address a variety of needs that may be occurring simultaneously;
3. Leveraging the Gestalt concepts and principles for success in clinical/therapeutic groups as well as in task/ leadership teams/community groups and working committees;
4. Establishing and maintaining effective agreements and shared focus within groups and teams;
5. Understanding and leveraging the unique role of resistance/persistence within individuals, groups, and social systems;
6. Reinforcing and integrating the effects of interventions on the group/team and tracking the impact over time;
7. Differentiating the developmental phases of groups/teams and demonstrating how this awareness influences choices in intervening/leading at any given point in time;
8. Creating and managing experiments within the group as tools for growth and expansion;
9. Consistently modeling ethical practice in working with groups;
10. Discovering and leveraging the facilitator’s unique perspectives, skills, talents, and “voice” in working with and leading groups/teams;
11. Understand the alignment of all of the above with the new ICF Team Coaching Competencies if relevant to your practice.