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Diploma in Group Therapy (Using the Arts)

For any student or graduate who is in the process of or who has completed group process for two years on the MA Integrative Arts Psychotherapy.

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Duration

Six Days.

Plus 2 years of group process sessions (theory and practice) which will be attended on the course.

About the Course:

This course is appropriate for those with a keen interest in learning about groups and those who already have group work experience. It is grounded in an Integrative frame drawing on Analytic, Humanistic, Existential and Corporate groupwork traditions. The key focus will be on how the arts can promote meaningful contact and support us in understanding more of the tensions and benefits of relating in a group setting. The format combines the experiential with many opportunities to think theoretically about the group experience. Personal and professional reflections on being in groups are seen as vital to the course and high levels of self-awareness and self-responsibility are required.

About the Curriculum

The curriculum will address the following:

  • A comprehensive and in-depth exploration of how human beings relate to one another in groups
     
  • Causal and theoretical underpinnings to group work from a variety of perspectives with particular reference to the work of Bion, Faulkes, Anjoue, Berne, Corey, Wright etc
     
  • The use of the arts as central to facilitating a more meaningful level of discourse between group members
     
  • Types of groups: Task based, Process based, Therapy based
     
  • Troubleshooting and problem solving in groups e.g. ways of addressing anger, acting out, scapegoating between group members
     
  • Styles of facilitation
     
  • Styles of leadership
     
  • Contracting
     
Students will also develop in-depth knowledge of how they are personally challenged by and limited in group

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