BRAND-NEW!
Dynamic Group Therapy Series 2: Addressing Difficult Group Interactions
Presented by: Hannah Smith, MA, LMHC, CGP
When: Monday, February 10th, 2025 | 9:00 AM – 12:15 PM with optional skills practice at 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM Pacific Time
Where: Live at the Shoreline Center
Continuing Education Credit Hours:
Morning Session: 3 CEs | $95.00 for morning session
Optional Afternoon Session: 2 CEs | $135.00 for both sessions
This is a three-part series but you do not need to register for all three or have taken another one to take this session. Full series:
- January 27th, 2025: Dynamic Group Therapy Series 1: Treating Attachment Wounds & Trauma by Building Cohesive Therapy Groups MORE INFO>>>
- February 10th, 2025: Dynamic Group Therapy Series 2: Addressing Difficult Group Interactions MORE INFO>>>
- April 14th, 2025: Dynamic Group Therapy Series 3: Addressing Special Populations in Group Therapy Practice MORE INFO>>>
It is no surprise that one of the most effective modalities of therapeutic treatment of mental health issues available today is group therapy. From anger to anxiety, trauma to transitions, groups provide a naturally attachment-based, cognitive-and-somatic approach to care that is holistic in its healing.
However, any time you have multiple people in one space working toward a common goal, there’s bound to be trouble at some point. Trouble can lead to more trouble and before you know it, a group can fall apart.
In group therapy circles, we call this “Group disintegration.” Not only can group disintegration destroy the group, it can also damage the facilitator!
In this session, we will distinguish between hurt and harm, uncomfortable and damaging, and will learn modern, evidence-based techniques to redirect, de-escalate, and repair difficult interactions in group so they don’t become all-out disintegration. If you want to run groups but you’ve been afraid of conflict in group, then this is the session for you!
Optional Afternoon Session (1:30 PM – 3:30 PM)
**Optional** Ever feel like learning the skills and theories, even with a bit of practice, isn’t enough? If you have, then return after the session for two additional hours of in-depth, hands-on practical applications, consultation, and case studies. This extra focus will solidify learning and enhance competence and confidence for skills learned in the main session.
Objectives:
- Identify common contributors to group disintegration, their functions, and methods to manage their cognitive and somatic effects.
- Acquire skills based on Attachment theory as well as system-centered approaches to address difficult interactions in group confidently to avoid group disintegration
- Recognize features of brain lateralizations and nervous system activation when aggression and other counterproductive/shame-based behaviors arise in group to provide cognitive-somatic methods to help group members center and repair
- Apply knowledge in real-time group-related activities with immediate feedback