Group Psychotherapy: An Ongoing and Developing Dance
Co-Chair: Bradley Lake, LICSW, LCSW-C, CGP
Date: January 24-25, 2025
Time: 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM on Friday, January 24th and 8:00 AM - 5:15 PM on Saturday, January 25th, 2025
Location: Friends Meeting House of Washington, 2111 Decatur Pl NW, Washington, DC 20008, In-Person Only
11.25 CEs
Program Description:
This conference will delve into the three-dimensionality of group therapy through the lens of dance, highlighting the significance of movement, interactions informing both commonality and conflict, development towards the whole, the spark of creativity, and the amalgamation of individual "voices" that together create a rich, multifaceted narrative. Participants are encouraged to bring all of their creative selves to this conference.
Learning Objectives:
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Discuss the impact of the following psychological theories on Group Psychotherapy: Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Self-Psychology, Object relations and Jungian
- Discuss, through didactic presentation, the impact of the above psychological theories on the Use of Self as Leader and/or Co-Leader of Group Psychotherapy
- Identify the importance and techniques within the concept of Use Of Self, as discussed by Irvin Yalom and Carl Jung.
- Identify the similarities, subsets and differences in the way Yalom and Jung saw the Use of Self as a Pscyhotherapist and provide two examples from each.
- Discuss the role of Identity, Diversity, Implicit Bias, Micro-Aggressions, Racism in Group Psychotherapy, using three examples and the importance of the Group Leader to understand, absorb and demonstrate knowledge of these concepts.
- Outline the basics of Harry Stack Sullivan's Interpersonal theory and how his insights might apply to issues of both sexual and racial othering.
- Explain how a Group Leaders lack of awareness of Identity, Diversity, Implicit Bias, Micro-Aggressions and Racism can be destructive in groups and how Sullivan’s idea of “Prehension” may play a role.
- Identify at least one way in which each knowledge and understanding of Identity, Diversity, Implicit Bias, Micro-Aggressions and Racism play a role in the Use of Self-concept for the group leader AND on the group process.
- Explore how unaddressed unconscious biases and prejudicial attitudes can cause harm to group members.
- Explain the impact and provide two examples on group members when the group leader is not aware and knowledgeable about Identity, Implicit Bias, Micro-Aggressions and Racism
- Identify the subset between the potential for Othering by group leader if not aware of the impact of the above concepts
- Describe and provide three examples of Othering and how it happens in Group Psychotherapy
- Identify various art forms and the literature that speaks to the impact on the awareness of Identity for the group leader, as addressed by Carl Jung
- Identify specific dance techniques and choreographers, Merce Cunningham, Ballet, Jazz, Ethnic, Paul Taylor, Kenneth King, and Trisha Brown and the subset and awareness on dance as seen as group work, allowing for dance to be a lens for the group leader to see, identify and attend to group members
- Describe the concept of the “group as a whole” and the use of dance as a lens to these processes and group members
- Identify various parts of self that make up their Identity and its impact on other participants and the large and small group processes.
- Identify dynamics of Implicit Bias, Micro-Aggressions and Othering that are always present in groups but often unseen or not addressed.
- Effectively apply didactic and experientially learned material to address the Use of Self, Identity, Othering, Micro-Aggressions and Implicit Bias in their therapy groups.
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