Group Facilitation Skills for Healthcare Practitioners

In a well-facilitated group, participants feel supported and will learn from each other in a safe and cohesive environment. They experience a sense of empowerment from shared experience and knowledge, helping them to transform their personal life and/or their professional practice.

Our workshop will be tailored as much as possible to suit your requirements. Over the course of two days you will:

• develop a critical appreciation of the requirements of facilitating effective groups
• engage in group work, both as a participant and facilitator, learning from your own and others experience
• critically examine the role of facilitator.

We'll cover the following topics:

• the rationale for group work
• group work values, models and research evidence
• developing anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive group work
• awareness of group facilitation styles
• developing a strategy to promote positive group practice
• the process of planning and facilitating a group, and evaluating it
• developing strategies to deal with common problems in groups
• experiencing group dynamics which foster genuine support and learning

Recommended pre-course reading

Brandler, S. and Roman, C.P., 2012. Group Work – Skills and Strategies for effective interventions. Routledge.

Greif, G.L. and Ephross, P.H. (Eds.), 2001. Group work with populations at risk. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Rogers, J., 2012. Facilitating Groups. McGraw Hill Open University Press.