Advanced Training in Small Group Processes

This is an intensive three-day workshop for six people only and by invitation only.

On the following three consecutive days:
25th, 26th & 27th November 2011
2nd, 3rd & 4th March 2012
6th, 7th & 8th July 2012
23rd, 24th & 25th November 2012

Fee:
£550

You can book a place for the workshop online via HSBC secure ePayments:

Online Payments — November 2011

Online Payments — March 2012

Online Payments — July 2012

Online Payments — November 2012

or if you prefer by cheque to:

Lionel Stapley
Director OPUS
26 Fernhurst Road
London SW6 7JW
United Kingdom

The aim is to build on previous Small Group Experience (such as Making the Difference) with a view to providing advanced learning about small group processes and to develop consultant capabilities.

More specifically the overall aim is to further Members' knowledge and capacity for integrating thinking and feeling as they explore their experiences as members of a small-study group. This integrative process which involves recognizing, accepting and appreciating one's own emotions, along with acquiring an intellectual understanding of their derivations and effects, is a fundamental component of the learning achieved in a group relations setting and is essential for understanding the dynamics of group behaviour in the 'here and now'. The essential focus is on learning at a group-as-a-whole level.

Our concept of how one comes to recognize and understand the unconscious dynamics that occur in groups is central to the structure and content of the learning situation. We define three learning goals: (1) improving the ability to observe what is happening at an overt level (2) improving the ability to identify the nature of oneís own internal experience, and (3) being able to analyse how these two sets of data, in turn, may shed light on the covert processes taking place.

This involves learning about small group processes by working at three levels:

1. Observation.
   1. What we hear — what other members of the group say.
   2. What we see — the non-verbal cues that other group members give us.
2. What we feel — being in touch with one's own emotional feelings and open to the emotional experience of other group members.
3. Linking (1) and (2).

These workshops have been highly rated by a range of managers, leaders, executives, consultants or professionals, from both the public and private sectors, who have attended the workshop.