M9: Cultivating Collective Healing: The Art of Group Facilitation

This session offers practitioners insights and skills in group facilitation, a powerful therapeutic approach that fosters healing connection with self and others. We will cover areas including understanding and developing purpose, establishing and sustaining safety, working with mandated and voluntary participants, creating and maintaining growing, inclusive environments for clients, stages of group development and how to work within each stage, handling conflict in groups, the therapeutic value and purposeful use of activity, self-awareness as a practitioner and dynamics of oppression and power. This session aims to empower participants to facilitate groups spaces of healing connection and transformation with a diversity of participants.