BCACC Workshop – Basic Group Facilitation Skills: Part 1

This is one of two workshops on basic group facilitation. They are standalone workshops that complement each other to build out your knowledge on facilitating groups.

This first workshop is designed to assist the participants in gaining a better background of understanding regarding the objectives, procedures, and experiential climate of group counselling.

This experiential and didactic workshop consists of:

• lectures,
• demonstrations of small groups in action,
• discussions,
• and other role-play activities.

The focus is on the evolution of the group process, awareness of the different types of groups, screening for groups, the stages of group development, critical tasks of group leadership at the various stages of a group, and the creation and implementation of group techniques to facilitate awareness and change among group members.

You can purchase/attend this workshop on it’s own, or you can also join the second workshop.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:

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, 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).

ONLINE SESSION INFORMATION: 

Dates: Thursday, Feb 29, 2024

Time: 12 PM – 3 PM

Format: Online

Cost:

• $80 for BCACC Members
• $40 for BCACC student members
• $160 for Non-Members

NOTES:

• The registration deadline is Tuesday, Feb 27, 2024. Pre-registration is required. If you have any issues registering, please contact Cassandra Leong at [email protected] 
• Are you a student member? To register for this event, please send an email to [email protected] 
• A separate email will be sent the day prior to the event to the confirmed registrants containing the information for joining the webinar. 
• The workshop will be recorded and made available to members once it’s completed. The recording will be available for registrants, without additional cost, as part of the registration.