Closed Practitioner Event
Groupwork Matters: How to facilitate groups more effectively
This 2-day course is about exploring, learning and practicing how to effectively facilitate groups in therapeutic and work based settings.
Date: Saturday 1st & Saturday 8th August 2026
Time: 10:00am – 5:00pm
Venue: The Engine Room N17
Outline
This 2-day course is about exploring, learning and practicing how to effectively facilitate groups in therapeutic and work based settings. The course is designed to be highly experiential, is theory based and assumes that the more aware you are of what goes on in groups, the more likely you are to be able to facilitate them successfully.
What Will the Training Cover
There will be opportunities to develop your knowledge, confidence and skills in leading groups through an intensive exploration of;
- beginnings, middles & endings
- group dynamics
- stages of group development
- using icebreakers/games
- traffic cop guide to groupwork
- dealing with conflict
- practice and develop facilitation skills.
Who Can Attend the Training?
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This course is aimed at counsellors, therapists & other helping professionals or anyone new to or interested developing group facilitation skills in their day-to-day work and who are of African, South Asian or Caribbean heritage.
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The experiential nature of the course will require you to be willing to take part in exercises, groups discussions and use your own experience as material to learn from.
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We all have a wealth of experience of groups because we grow up in them: family, school etc. However no specific experience of facilitating groups is needed in order to attend.
Facilitators
Venue
The Engine Room
Unit A Eagle Heights, Lebus Street, Hale Village, London, N17 9FU
Programme
10.00am – 5.00pm, Saturday 1st August 2026
10.00am – 5.00pm, Saturday 8th August 2026
Day 1
- Introductions
- Name Game
- Agreements
- Types of Groups
- Planning Groups
- Sociogram
- 5 Stages of Group Development
- Group Drawing (exercise)
- Therapeutic Factors (Yalom)
- Beginning Groups
- Reflection & Endings
Day 2
- Welcome Back
- Re-cap Day One
- Focus of Groupwork & Levels of Facilitation
- Beginnings, Middles & Endings
- Groupwork Skills & When to Intervene?
- Traffic Cop Guide to Groupwork
- Dealing with Conflict
- Coaching
- Your Next Steps?
- Evaluations, Reflections & Endings
Cost
£180 for members
£150 for student members
£200 for non members
£280 for Organisations
(Click here to become a member)
Booking Conditions
- Bookings can be made any time up until Thursday at 5 pm before the day of the event.
- Only the next two upcoming dates will be open for registration at any one time.
- If you have difficulty booking, email the events administrator
- If an event is full, email the events administrator to go on the waiting list. If a place becomes available before 5 pm on the day before the event, priority will be given to those at the top of the waiting list.
Full payment will need to be made to guarantee a place.
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