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This interactive continuing education presentation offers mental health professionals insights and skills in group facilitation, a powerful therapeutic approach that fosters collective healing and growth.
In this 2-hour continuing education webinar, Shira Sameroff, LCSW will cover key areas of successful group therapy facilitation including creating and holding supportive and inclusive spaces for clients, understanding and navigating group dynamics, developing purpose of a group, stages of group development, purposeful use of activity, self-awareness as a practitioner, and dynamics of oppression and power among participants and between facilitator and participants. This presentation aims to empower therapist participants to lead impactful and transformative groups of any duration, size, and setting, with any demographic of participants.
This introductory continuing education webinar is open to licensed practitioners of any group facilitation experience level and is designed to help mental health professionals:
Statement of program material's accuracy, utility, and risks: A list of references supporting the course content will be provided to participants.
Declaration identifying any potential conflict of interest and/or commercial support: No conflict of interest indicated.
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Before the scheduled event, all registered attendees will be sent a reminder email from GoodTherapy with specific instructions on how to log in to the webinar, as well as links to optional handout materials if applicable.
To attend the event, registered attendees will log in to the Microsoft Teams web conference center using a computer or device with internet access and/or call into the teleconference line on a phone. Attendees will be able to submit questions during the webinar via text chat in the Microsoft Teams web conference center and will be able to see the live streaming video and/or document sharing.
At the conclusion of this event, participants will receive an email with information about how to request a CE certificate in your GoodTherapy Account. To confirm attendance, participants must enter the start code and end code announced at the beginning and end of the live presentation. Participants will also be prompted to complete an online survey evaluating the event. Participants will need to complete this online survey within six days after the event. Once completed, participants will be able to download a copy of their CE certificate right away by logging in to their GoodTherapy account.
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2 CE contact hours will be provided by GoodTherapy for attending this web conference in its entirety.
GoodTherapy is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements.
GoodTherapy.org, provider #1352, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 3/30/2022 – 3/30/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 2 continuing education credits.
GoodTherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. GoodTherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
GoodTherapy, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0395. GoodTherapy, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0022 and for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0031.
To receive CE credit hours for an archived event, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 12 or 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events generally are considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.
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Mental health professionals who are not members can attend this live web conference for $30.95 or access the homestudy recording for $15.50. Sign up here to purchase this CE course and earn a CE certificate.
If the event is canceled by GoodTherapy, registrants who purchased the event will be notified and the charge for the event will be refunded
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Shira Sameroff is a licensed clinical social worker. She has decades of practice with people of diverse identities, ages, and life stories in a wide array of settings. Her professional roles have included therapy, supervision, professional development, continuing education and college teaching, coaching, community organizing, transformative decluttering and a decade and a half in leadership in a beloved community-based social work agency.
Shira offers professional development for individuals and organizations around themes including shame, group facilitation, supervision, giving and receiving feedback, empowering practice with youth, tending to self as a practitioner and trauma-informed and oppression-informed therapy. She weaves together a range of therapeutic healing including Internal Family Systems Therapy, Hakomi, and other somatic, nature-based, and anti-oppressive practices to enable individual and collective healing transformation.
Shira’s approach is collaborative, intuitive, and full of heart and is rooted in her own lived experience of healing, learning, and emerging. You can learn more about her and her work at shirasameroff.com.