Group Leadership Training – Melbourne
Deepening Your Understanding and Leadership with Emerging Group Process
Thursday 22, Friday 23 and Saturday 24 August 2024.
The current trend of reliance on learning techniques and skills-based training of group leaders has grown exponentially. Training programmes have provided a formulaic and relationally avoidant approach to leading groups, rendering outdated the art and complexity of training group leaders. Reliance on more theoretical principles and cognitive reasoning fails the development of the artistry of working at relational depth.
“Fewer and fewer training programmes – whether in psychology, social work, counselling or psychiatry – provide in-depth training and supervision that future practitioners require.”
(Yalom and Leszcz, 2020, p.20)
Training Overview
The training will delve into the realms of working at interpersonal processes, illuminating the potential to deepen your understanding of working with the emerging group dynamics. Yalom’s Interpersonal group therapy process model will be the foundation of the training and other theories of group will be offered.
In this training Adam will invite you to embark on a journey of self-discovery as a group leader with an opportunity to participate experientially as a group member.
What Adam will cover:
- How to work with the emerging relational dynamics. For example, power, politeness, or conflict.
- Understanding the group space of mutual intersubjective experiencing.
- Irvin Yalom’s here and now activation process as a reflective loop.
- Three key components of the group leaders’ presence.
What you can expect.
A deepening of your group leadership by immersion in experiential group practice over the three days supported by underpinning theoretical knowledge.
Who Should Attend
The training is for group leaders and group therapists who have experience in leading groups and wish to enhance and deepen their existing knowledge and experience through working with mutual intersubjective group process.
The Details
- Dates: Thursday 22, Friday 23 and Saturday 24 August 2024.
- Training Time: 9.30 am to 4.30 pm. Includes (1 hour for lunch and a morning tea break).
- Location: MIMOSA. 2/436 Waverley Road, Malvern East, VIC. 3145
- Cost: $620. Includes GST. (Payment is required by 6 June 2024). Bank details will be provided on registration.
- CPD hours 18
Cancellation Policy
- Full refund for 4 weeks before the start date
- 50% refund 2 weeks prior to the start date
- No refund 7 days prior.
What to do Next
Contact Adam by return email to register your interest
- E: adam@changehappens.com.au
- M: 0407 915 076 give Adam a call to discuss
Dr Adam McLean D.Prof (Psychotherapy & Counselling)
Adam is a clinical psychotherapist, supervisor, educator and trainer with over 35 years’ experience and a continuing interest in the human capacity for opening up to the possibilities in life. He is recognised as a leading group therapist and group supervisor and provides training in both areas. Adam’s doctorate focused on what it takes to elevate group leader technique to the art of group leader presence. Adam has a thriving private practice, is a Director of the Centre for Existential Practice, Sydney.