Group Facilitation Series

Course overview

This is a 4 part series training. The focus for this series will be on learning about group structure and providing therapeutic groups to clients. Part 1: Group Structure and Expectations: This training will teach staff how to establish group norms and holding the group accountable. Clinicians will practice setting group expectations, and sharing them with clients. Learn and practice completing a check-in and developing a structure for group treatment. Part 2: Role Play and Skill Building: This training will provide the opportunity for helpers of all types to build and demonstrate skill building and role play techniques within group sessions. By examining the importance of skill building for all clients seeking assistance from the human service industry and practicing skills within the training, participants will increase their level of comfort using these skills in the group setting. Part 3: Responding to Disruptive Behaviors: This training prepares helpers to intervene when disruptive behaviors occur in group without shaming the clients they are working with. Each member of the training will identify a list of strategies they could use to intervene with common disruptive behaviors in group. They will then have the chance to apply these strategies while in training and receive feedback/insight from their peers. Part 4: Effectively Providing Praise: This training will provide the opportunity for helpers of all types to build and demonstrate skill building and role play techniques within group sessions. By examining the importance of skill building for all clients seeking assistance from the human service industry and practicing skills within the training, participants will increase their level of comfort using these skills in the group setting.