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The Art of Group Facilitation for Practitioners

Previously Recorded
Shira Sameroff, LCSW
$59.99 USD

This continuing education webinar offers counseling practitioners with insights and skills in group facilitation, a powerful therapeutic approach that fosters collective healing and growth. We will cover areas including creating and maintaining supportive and inclusive environment for clients, understanding and navigating group dynamics, stages of group development, purposeful use of activity, self-awareness as a practitioner and dynamics of oppression and power This engaging and informative session aims to empower participants to lead impactful and transformative group sessions.

About the Presenter

Shira Sameroff, LCSW is a speaker, trainer, therapist, coach, and facilitator of transformative workshops and groups with over three decades of experience supporting personal and collective healing. Shira has worked with people of diverse identities, ages and life stories in a wide array of roles and settings.


Through inspiring talks, experiential trainings, and deeply engaging workshops and one-on-on sessions, she helps practitioners, organizations, and communities explore pathways toward liberation, connection, and belonging.


Integrating modalities such as IFS, Hakomi, and other holistic, somatic, anti-oppressive and nature-based approaches, Shira is passionate about her work teaching on themes such as healing shame, ending oppression, undoing imposter syndrome, strengthening facilitation with groups, transforming loneliness and separation and empowering practice with youth.


Shira’s work is heart-centered, collaborative, intuitive and rooted in a deep commitment to liberation, reconnection, and a just, compassionate world.


Learning Objectives:

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of how to foster safety, mutual support and empowerment of participants in a group through intentional facilitation
  2. Demonstrate knowledge of importance of and tools for self-awareness as a practitioner of group facilitation
  3. Demonstrate awareness of and knowledge about addressing dynamics of oppression (racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-semitism, islamophobia, age-ism, etc.) that can be present in interactions among participants and between facilitator and participants.

Agenda:
Introductions - Interactive Activity Key ingredients for effective groups Types of Groups Understanding Group Purpose Stages of group development Purposeful use of activities Use of self as group facilitator - self-awareness and self-tending for practitioners Dynamics of oppression and power Review and Q&A Closing - Interactive Activity

This workshop offers 3 Continuing Education Credits
This webinar is recorded and will not grant live credits.

This presentation is open to:
  • Social Workers
  • Professional Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
  • Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
  • Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
Course Level: introductory
Level of Clinician: beginner
  • New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
  • Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
  • Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
  • Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives

Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.

Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations, please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification. Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often, and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling. The grievance policy for trainings provided by NEFESH INTERNATIONAL is available here Satisfactory Completion Participants must have paid the tuition fee, logged in and out each day, attended the entire workshop, and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate (If this is a pre-recorded program, a post-test with a passing grade of 80% to receive a certificate.) Failure to log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates are available after satisfactory course completion by clicking here.
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
  • CE You! is an approved sponsor of the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners for continuing education credits for licensed social workers in Maryland.
    CE You! maintains responsibility for this program.
Refund Policy:
Full Refund until 48 hours before scheduled date.
48 hours before: full refund less $5.00 processing fee. After event no refund will be given.
*exclusions apply for reasonable need and cause.