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.
https://nefesh.org/workshops/TheArt2025/viewFREE WEBINAR
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
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.
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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.