A Gestalt Approach to Working with Groups and Teams, Module 2

Working with Groups and Teams is a program designed to upskill personal development and clinical group facilitators, organizational leaders, community leaders, facilitators, consultants, and group/team coaches in leading and intervening with a variety of group/team settings (therapy groups, committees, leadership teams, limited duration work teams, problem solving groups, etc.) to generate increased effectiveness and high-impact results through the application of Gestalt human behavior concepts and principles.

Specifically, this program is focused on cultivating a deeper dive into effective use of self in various group/team settings with a focus on differentiation and conflict, issues and uses of power, intervening in middle phases of groups, working with polarities, and working with group rupture, repair, resistance and persistence.

Participants will leverage existing knowledge of  Gestalt approaches, to recognize, engage, address, and develop the effectiveness of groups and teams at various levels of system (individuals, subgroups, and the group or team as a whole). Increased mastery of Gestalt approaches in group and team settings will result in accelerated and meaningful impact for facilitators/interveners and improved performance/results for the group/team as a whole. 

Within the workshop, you will be provided with ample, real time opportunities to practice use of self in various group settings.  The intensive practicum design enables participants to try on skills in a learning environment while also applying them in a real group setting.    After attending this workshop, you will lead work with groups and teams in a more impactful and different way than you have in the past.

ntiation and conflict, issues and uses of power, intervening in middle phases of groups, working with polarities, and working with group rupture, repair, resistance and persistence.

Participants will leverage existing knowledge of  Gestalt approaches, to recognize, engage, address, and develop the effectiveness of groups and teams at various levels of system (individuals, subgroups, and the group or team as a whole). Increased mastery of Gestalt approaches in group and team settings will result in accelerated and meaningful impact for facilitators/interveners and improved performance/results for the group/team as a whole. 

Within the workshop, you will be provided with ample, real time opportunities to practice use of self in various group settings.  The intensive practicum design enables participants to try on skills in a learning environment while also applying them in a real group setting.    After attending this workshop, you will lead work with groups and teams in a more impactful and different way than you have in the past.

The learning objectives for this training program:

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; and

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