Advanced Group Facilitation - 2 day course with Michael Ellis

Date: 4 & 5 July 2013

Time: 10am – 5pm both days

Fee: Business organisation funded – £365 / Public/voluntary sector – £290 / Self-funded – £250*
*20% discount for self-funding GC Members

This course is for people who have a significant active interest and on-going experience in group facilitation. The focus will be on the process oriented aspects of work in groups and how to work with group dynamics effectively.

It is not primarily intended to offer particular “toolkits” for working with groups, but the emphasis will be on in-depth reflection on what you personally bring to the role of group leader/facilitator/consultant, with opportunities to explore and practice bringing an increase in awareness of your influence, capacities and areas for development.

It will provide a rich mix of professional development and opportunities for personal reflection and review.

It will be very helpful for people who are running groups; leading teams, managing development projects and consultants facilitating teams and organisational change. This may include: team leaders; managers; coaches; consultants; human resources professionals; counsellors; psychotherapists; psychologists; social workers.

CONTENT

reflection on and use of self in the leadership role
presence; what this is and is not
practice with focussed application of skills
peer and tutor feedback and review
appropriate application of theory; gestalt field theory and phenomenological exploration
reflection and learning from the experience of being in the workshop group

Course tutor: Michael Ellis MA, UKCP & BACP Registered practitioner is a psychotherapist, consultant and trainer with 20 years’ experience of working with groups and consulting to teams in various settings particularly in the public and voluntary sector. His MA is in Consultancy with Organisations from the Tavistock Clinic. He is particularly interested in how our ideas and beliefs affect our interactions with others and how they affect the organisations we work in, as well as how individuals are affected by the organisations themselves.