Basic Group Facilitation Skills 2

This workshop is a deeper dive into group facilitation from the first session that we offered.

It focuses on ways to use transference and countertransference in group leadership, in addition to focusing on critical tasks during the different stages of groups.

Along with exploring our blind spots, this training will also focus on challenges that may come up for group facilitators, such as:

• Preparing & screening for group
• Techniques
• Stages of group
• Roles that members play and challenges in small communities
• Conflict and confrontation, dynamics of resistance, and interventions in challenging situations.

You can purchase/attend this workshop on it’s own, or you can also register for the first workshop.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:

Dr. John Sherry

Dr. John Sherry, RCC-ACS, has over 20 years of experience as a clinician and his academic and clinical work has focused on couples, family, and group therapy. Dr. Sherry is one of the founding members of the Community Counselling Centre, the program’s off-site practicum placement for counselling students. He has been instrumental in implementing couple, family and group counselling at UNBC’s training clinic and currently facilitates process groups for graduate students and professionals in the community. His research interests tend to centre around counsellor training and development with a particular interest in experiential approaches to teaching and clinical supervision. More specifically, he is interested in the attachment styles of group co-facilitators and how counsellors use countertransference in their work.

Doriana Pantuso

Doriana Pantuso, RCC, CCC, began her counselling journey as a mental health clinician with Northern Health, Prince George. Doriana’s experience at Northern Health led to a counselling career in a variety of clinical settings both in outpatient and inpatient mental health. Currently, Doriana works with post-secondary education students at the University of British Columbia. Her clinical work has focused on both individual and group therapy with an interest in experiential approaches and counsellor development. Her group experience focuses both on psycho-education and process-oriented group facilitation and she is currently pursuing group training through the Center for Group Studies (CGS).