Working with Groups and Teams, Module 3

Would you like to make more of an impact by enhancing how you meet and engage in groups, track systems, assure that interventions you make have impact and are sustainable? Would you like to deepen your presence to be able and really make a difference? This training program focuses on how to maximize use of self in supporting transformation in individuals, groups, organizations and social systems in which we live and thrive.

This advanced, experiential training program is designed to support the integration and mastery of skills in facilitating teams and groups. Working With Groups and Teams Module 3 is the capstone training for participants who have completed Modules 1 & 2 (or who have previous training or experience in group facilitation). This is an opportunity to bring forth and further hone your unique style, transform and develop your specific growing edges as a facilitator and intervener, learn from your skilled peers, and receive “real time” feedback from a Faculty consultant. With a focus on practice and application, participants in Module 3 will work in co-facilitator pairs to facilitate a team or group, utilizing a Gestalt approach. You will manage the process of building ground with “random participants” or an intact organizational team, explore and hold multiple perspectives in the field, and make “here and now” impactful interventions that support group development and learning.

Prerequisites 
Open to those with Gestalt training, plus a group training or facilitation experience, which can include: Module I or Module II of Working With Groups & Teams, a previous Gestalt group training, or other relevant Gestalt facilitation experience.

Learning Objective

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

Discuss Gestalt concepts and principles to facilitating groups;

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

• Recognize the developmental phases of group process; 

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

• Develop interventions that emerge from areas of strength; 

• Practice creating interventions to integrate multiple perspectives; and

• 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.