Run by Bob Cooke, TSTA

This Five Day Certificate is for experienced professionals who wish to gain further understanding in the world of Group Facilitation.  

This Certificate is open to qualified counsellors and psychotherapists from all modalities and participants will need to have completed a first training in Counselling or Psychotherapy, or Counselling up to Level 4, as well as the completion of 450 clinical hours – this might of course include the 100 hours gained in your placement.

This course will be a mix of experiential and didactic teaching; running through the course will be high emphasis on experiential learning.  To that end there will be chance to run small groups in a confidential setting so that you get experience of group facilitation and facilitation skills and style.  During the therapeutic groups you will be either a facilitator or a group member (being a client).

Areas covered:

*           Group Facilitation skills

*           Different types of Therapeutic Groups from a TA perspective

*           Different types of Therapeutic Groups and different styles

*           Contracting

*           Sessional and overall contracting within the group

*           Setting up formation of groups

*           Assessment skills

*           Maintenance of the group throughout

*           Roles and dynamics in the group and how to handle them

*           How to set and maintain boundaries

*           Analysis of Transactions

*           Analysis of Games

*           Analysis of Scripts within the group

*           How to use ourself within the group

*           How to work with Transference within the group

*           A discussion of closed / open therapeutic groups

*           Discussion of how long the groups will last

*           Endings of termination of therapeutic group

This certificate programme will cover the areas above and you will also learn how to create a safe and supportive environment for group members. We will look at Relational Group Process and Hybrid Group Process.

The course will allow people to gain confidence in facilitating a small group and explore their strengths and learning edges.

The course is 30 hours run over five modules and provides a Group Facilitation Certificate which is recognised by the Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy.

It is taught at Post Graduate Level 7 standard.

Trainer: Bob Cooke, TSTA.  Bob is the founder of the Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy (1988). He has been a group therapist for 36 years as well as seeing individual clients. 

He is an international Trainer, Supervisor as well as presenting at the UK and international conferences, both in the TA world and the Integrative Psychotherapy world.

He has an extensive Youtube Channel where you will see videos of many different areas of psychotherapy, supervision and group work. His work can also be found in 2 other websites – therapyvideos.co.uk and bobcooke.org

Dates: Mondays on:

Module 1 – 8th February 2027

Module 2 – 22nd February,

Module 3 – 8th March,

Module 4 – 5th April,

Module 5 – 26th April 2027

Time: 10.00 am to 5.00 pm

Venue: Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy.

Cost: £975.  A (non-refundable) deposit of £150 is required to secure your place. Your balance can be paid in instalments if need be.

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