Building Blocks: An 8-day Intermediate Groupwork Training

Taking place over 4 months, with up to 14 participants, 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 therapeutic group facilitator. 

Guest tutors: Anup Karia & Gaie Houston.  See biographies below.

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

Booking: Go to NLGT's Eventzilla page.

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 address a range of group leadership possibilities, 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).  

Feedback from previous participants:
The course was fantastic - one of the best CPDs I've ever done.
Thank you for holding the space I appreciate your years of experience and enjoyed your style.
I was very impressed by the way Tim modelled the skills/tools implicitly through his facilitation of the group as well as teaching them explicitly through great use of powerpoint slides.
I came away feeling much better-equipped to run groups in a therapeutic setting.

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!