NEW: A Gestalt Approach to Working with Groups and Teams, Module 1 2 3

Module 1: February 2-6, 2026

Module 2: April 13-17, 2026

Module 3: November 4-7, 2026

Upon completion of Module 1, participants will be able to:

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.

Upon completion of Module 2, participants will be able to:

1. Understand and apply Gestalt concepts, principles, and frameworks as they relate to intervening with groups and teams; 

2. Deepen your knowledge of Gestalt approaches for understanding conflict, differentiation, rupture, and repair within groups and teams;

3. Leverage Gestalt concepts, principles, and frameworks for success in clinical/therapeutic, community, task leadership, and personal development groups;

4. Increase your understanding and capacity to support teams and groups characterized by many types of difference;

5. Increase awareness of how your presence affects your role as an intervener with groups and teams;

6. Understand and leverage the unique role of resistance/persistence within individuals, groups, and teams;

7.  Expand knowledge of how to intervene in the middle phases of groups and teams;

8. Increase capacity to use embodiment in the service of deeper learning and development;

9. Increase capacity to create and manage the Gestalt approach to experiments as a tool to raise awareness and expand choices that groups and teams can make;

10. Understand the alignment of these objectives with the new ICF Team Coaching Competencies, if relevant to your practice.

Upon completion of Module 3, participants will be able to:

1. Discuss Gestalt concepts and principles to facilitating groups;

2. Demonstrate methods for working with resistance/persistent at the individual and group levels;

3. Recognize the developmental phases of group process; 

4. Apply principles of embodiment within the group to support deeper learning; 

5. Develop interventions that emerge from areas of strength; 

6. Practice creating interventions to integrate multiple perspectives; and

7. Demonstrate the ability to choose among possible interventions in order to support more effective connection and development of individuals, and the group as a whole.