A Gestalt Approach to Working with Groups and Teams, Module 2

The expectation and need to more effectively lead senior teams, all types of work groups, community organizations, and personal growth groups is stronger than ever. We invite you to join us for Module II of Gestalt Approach to Working With Groups and Teams and refine your skills and mastery as a group leader, facilitator, or team coach. We have designed this training to provide opportunities for you to apply core Gestalt principles, deepen understanding for your group and team intervening skills, and build a learning community with people who are similarly motivated to do stronger work in the domain of groups and teams.

This program is open to anyone interested in gaining deeper perspectives and increasing their capacity for working with different types of groups and teams.  Specifically, this is a follow up for those who:

*completed Module I of a past Group Intervention Training Program,
*attended a Working With Groups and Teams workshop,
*have past group training,
OR
*other relevant facilitation experience.

This is an advanced, highly experiential  program. Participants will have opportunities to participate in and facilitate groups of varying sizes and foci, offer and receive feedback, and most importantly, practice and apply what is learned. 

The learning objectives for this training program:

1. Understand and apply Gestalt concepts, principles, and frameworks as they relate to intervening with groups and teams;

2. Deepen your knowledge of Gestalt approaches for understanding conflict, differentiation, rupture, and repair within groups and teams;

3. Leverage Gestalt concepts, principles, and frameworks for success in clinical/therapeutic, community, task leadership, and personal development groups;

4. Increase your understanding and capacity to support teams and groups characterized by many types of diversity;

5. Increase awareness of how your presence affects your role as an intervener with groups and teams;

6. Understand and leverage the unique role of resistance/persistence within individuals, groups, and teams;

7.  Expand knowledge of how to intervene in the middle phases of groups and teams;

8. Increase capacity to use embodiment in the service of deeper learning and development;

9. Increase capacity to create and manage the Gestalt approach to experiments as a tool to raise awareness and expand choices that groups and teams can make;

10. Consistently model ethical practice in working with different types of groups and teams;

11. Understand the alignment of these objectives with the new ICF Team Coaching Competencies, if relevant to your practice.