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The Art of Group Facilitation for Practitioners

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.

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The Art of Group Facilitation for Practitioners


Friday, February 21st, 2025   12:45 PM EST -3:45 PM EST
$59.99 Shira Sameroff, LCSW

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.

About the Presenter

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.

This workshop Offers 3 Continuing Education Credits
This webinar is recorded and will not grant live credits.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of how to foster safety, mutual support and empowerment of participants in a group through intentional facilitation
  2. Demonstrate knowledge of importance of and tools for self-awareness as a practitioner of group facilitation
  3. 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


This presentation is open to:
  • 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
Course Level: introductory
Level of Clinician: beginner
  • 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

Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.

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 workshop, 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.
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
  • 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 Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0129.
  • Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0325.
  • 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.

Refund Policy: Full Refund until 48 hours before scheduled date.
48 hours before: full refund less $5.00 processing fee. After event no refund will be given.
*exclusions apply for reasonable need and cause.