Taking place over 4 months, the course will provide a mix of therapeutic groupwork theory, significant opportunities for supervised group facilitation practise and a reflective space to progress your own journey as a group facilitator/therapist.
Course content will include:
- Setting up therapeutic groups and group formation
- Fostering dialogue, contact and connection
- Inter-personal group process
- Addressing rank, difference and tackling oppression
- Dealing effectively with conflict, aggression, apathy and silence
- Facilitator styles, choices, interventions, boundaries and use of self
- Stages of group development, including ending well
The course will explore the factors needed for therapeutic groupwork to be emotionally responsive, reflective, stimulating and safe enough to be an effective intra- and inter-personal learning laboratory for group participants. It will cover a range of group leadership possibllities, across different therapeutic settings and formats, from psycho-educational and brief work in groups to facilitating ongoing process or therapy groups.
The course is suitable for qualified counsellors and therapists and allied professionals who facilitate groups or plan to in the future, who have completed some basic training in therapeutic group work (such as an Introduction to Therapeutic Groupwork with Tim Foskett or an agreed equivalent). Places are limited - course will have up to 14 participants.
Tim Foskett is a group psychotherapist who has been working extensively with groups for over 30 years in a range of different contexts. He draws from humanistic, integrative, body-centred and psychodynamic models, and works creatively, interactively and responsively to the needs of the group. Tim Foskett is an accredited Psychotherapist, a Relationship therapist, Trainer, Supervisor and 5 Rhythms™ dance teacher. He trained at City University, PHYSIS and Spectrum, within a Humanistic - Integrative framework, and more recently has been studying Modern Analytic Group Therapy. He is a director of North London Group Therapy, and currently runs several ongoing therapy groups including Therapy Therapy, a group for counsellors and therapists, and a fortnightly Supervision Group, Touchstone. He is particularly interested in supporting the application of therapeutic groupwork in a wide range of contexts. More info: www.timfoskett.com.
Tim sees group therapy as a therapeutic art-form combining well-established principles of practice, with the artistry of the practitioner, interacting with the unique personality of each group.
Consequently, almost anything can happen - welcome to the adventure!
2025 Dates
18/19 January
22/23 February
29/30 March
10/11 May
10.30 am - 5.30 pm each day.
Cost: Earlybird - £1200 payable in instalments. Deposit to be paid before 1st October 2024 to qualify for the Earlybird. Thereafter £1400.
To book: Pay your £300 deposit on Eventzilla.
Some concessionary places may be available please email tim@nlgrouptherapy.co.uk.
Terms & Conditions
Your deposit is non-returnable. When you pay your deposit you are committing to the course and the following terms and conditions.
When you pay your deposit please email tim@nlgroutherapy.co.uk with the following information:
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What therapeutic training you have had, when and from where.
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Some details about your current therapeutic work.
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What you hope to get from the course.
50% of the balance of the course is payable by 15th October 2024, and the remainder by 15th January 2025, unless we have agreed a different payment plan. Bank account details will be provided when you have paid your deposit.
After the 1st December 2024, the full balance for the course is payable whether or not you complete the course. There is no refund or discount available in the case of missing a weekend through ill-health, transport issues or other reasons.
If you cancel your place before 31st October 2024, 50% of any balance you have paid, over and above your deposit (which is non-refundable), will be returned. If you cancel your place after 31st October 2024, there are no further refunds available.
