The Art of Group Facilitation for Practitioners
3 Hours, 0 Minutes
Friday, February 21st, 2025 12:45 PM EST Shira Sameroff, LCSW
Friday, February 21st, 2025 12:45 PM EST Shira Sameroff, LCSW
3 CEs
Price
Paid
$59.99
Yahoo!
Webinar Description
This continuing education webinar offers counseling practitioners with insights and skills in group facilitation, a powerful therapeutic approach that fosters collective healing and growth. We will cover areas including creating and maintaining supportive and inclusive environment for clients, understanding and navigating group dynamics, stages of group development, purposeful use of activity, self-awareness as a practitioner and dynamics of oppression and power This engaging and informative session aims to empower participants to lead impactful and transformative group sessions.
Qualifications:
Shira Sameroff, LCSW with decades of practice with people of diverse identities, ages and life stories in a wide array of settings. Her professional roles have included therapy, supervision, professional development, college teaching, coaching, community organizing, transformative decluttering and a decade and a half on the leadership team of a community-based social work agency.
Shira weaves together a range of therapeutic healing modalities including IFS, Hakomi and other somatic, nature-based and anti-oppressive practices. She offers professional development for individuals and organizations around themes including shame, group facilitation, supervision, giving and receiving feedback, empowering practice with youth, tending to self as a practitioner and trauma-informed and oppression-informed therapy. Her approach is collaborative, intuitive and full of heart and is rooted in her own lived experience of healing, learning and emerging.
Learning Objectives:
- Demonstrate knowledge of how to foster safety, mutual support and empowerment of participants in a group through intentional facilitation
- Demonstrate knowledge of importance of and tools for self-awareness as a practitioner of group facilitation
- Demonstrate awareness of and knowledge about addressing dynamics of oppression (racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-semitism, islamophobia, age-ism, etc.) that can be present in interactions among participants and between facilitator and participants.
Agenda:
Introductions - Interactive Activity
Key ingredients for effective groups
Types of Groups
Understanding Group Purpose
Stages of group development
Purposeful use of activities
Use of self as group facilitator - self-awareness and self-tending for practitioners
Dynamics of oppression and power
Review and Q&A
Closing - Interactive Activity
Certificates Provider - This Webinar Offers 3 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits
- CE You! is an approved sponsor of the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners for continuing education credits for licensed social workers in Maryland.
CE You! maintains responsibility for this program. - Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0774.
This presentation is open to:
- Behavior Analysts
- Social Workers
- Professional Counselors
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
- Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
- Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
This online class is offered at an introductory level ,and is beneficial for a beginner level clinician:
- New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
- Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
- Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
- Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
Official information
- Refunds: Registrants who are unable to attend a Thrapy Express seminar or live webinars may ask for, and will receive, a credit or refund (your choice). Refund requests will be processed within 3 business days. When an attendee knows in advance that they are unable to attend we ask that they inform Thrapy Express ahead of time by emailing [email protected] or by calling or texting (631) 202-1010 this allows us to free up the spot in the training in the event that a training is at or near capacity.
- Disability Access: If you require ADA accommodations, please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.
- Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often, and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling.
- The grievance policy for trainings provided by the NEFESH INTERNATIONAL is available here
- Satisfactory Completion: Participants must have paid the tuition fee, logged in and out each day, attended the entire webinar, and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate (If this is a pre-recorded program, a post-test with a passing grade of 80% to receive a certificate.) Failure to log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates are available after satisfactory course completion by clicking here
- Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.
- There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.