
Group therapy is a powerful approach to work with interpersonal subtleties and unconscious dynamics. Expressive therapies are especially useful to build cohesion and work in depth. In this virtual workshop we will focus on group facilitation, specific examples for creative engagement, and special boundaries to maintain safety and enhance healing in group process. While group topics may focus on specific trauma, identity concerns, or affected populations, expressive therapies create a third presence for the work through active imagination.
The flow of imagination, framed by Yalom, May and Ogden, necessitates an immersion in immediacy and innovation-in-the-moment. How we facilitate and contain creative group process, engage with heightened presence, necessitates practice to balance group dramas of personal and collective narrative. We amplify and ground group process through art, poetics, symbols in sand and metaphor. These expressive approaches bring depth and complexity, they open stories held in safe keeping, enrich layers of meaning for personal and collective narrative. Metaphorically, group is nested in the existential wounds and the potential healing of this unique encounter — group, facilitator, and the imagined.
If you want to sign up for this course and missed the registration deadline, please don’t worry. You can still contact Gerri Baum at gerrib@theferentzinstitute.com or call 410-409-7061 to inquire about joining the class. We will do our best to accommodate you. We appreciate your interest in our workshops and look forward to seeing you soon!
8:45 – 10:00 AM
10:00 – 10:08 BREAK
10:08 – 11:00 AM
11:00 – 11:08 BREAK
11:08 – 12:00 PM
12:00 – 1:00 PM LUNCH
1:00 – 2:00 PM
2:00 – 2:08 PM BREAK
2:08 – 3:00 PM
3:00 – 3:08 PM BREAK
3:08 – 4:15 PM