The Essentials of Starting and Leading
a Successful Psychotherapy Group
Saturday September 25, 2010
10:00 a.p. - 1:15 p.m.

Bayside Business Plaza
Conference Room
2665 Marine Way, Mountain View

In this course you will learn about many important aspects of starting and leading a psychotherapy group, including

• Selection, screening and preparation of clients for group psychotherapy.
• Advantages and disadvantages of different kinds of groups.
• Common clinical dilemmas and pitfalls which arise in group psychotherapy and methods for handling them.
• Methods for maximizing therapeutic factors in group psychotherapy.

The format will include short lecture presentation, group interaction and small group discussion.

Workshop leaders:
Nancy Wesson, Ph.D.,CGP and Jamie Moran, LCSW, CGP,
are both experienced group psychotherapists and workshop presenters in the Bay Area.

Course Fee (until 9/18):
$25 for NCGPS members
$35 for non-members
NOTE: Fees increase $5 after 7/17 (to $30 and $40)

CEU Credit
Three CEUs are available for MFTs, LCSWs and Psychologists.

Registration is limited:
Please mail your check, payable to NCGPS to
Jamie Moran, LCSW, CGP
425 Gough Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

For further information:

Dr. Nancy Wesson,Ph.D.,CGP
Dr.NWesson@sbcglobal.net
(650) 965-7332

Jamie Moran,LCSW, CGP
jammoran@aol.com
(415) 552 9408.

Group Psychotherapy Training Program
Friday, October 29 &
Saturday, October 30

UCSF Faculty/Alumni House

This program is your opportunity to meet one of the three criteria to become a group certified psychotherapist (CGP).

Upon completion of this training you will have enhanced your knowledge and skills in group psychotherapy, while improving your ability to integrate theory and practice.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD BROCHURE,
INCLUDING APPLICATION FORM

For additional information not covered in brochure, contact
Justin Hecht at (415) 673-0283. or justinhecht@prodigy.net.

NCGPS 2010 Fall Event
Saturday, October 2
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Richard Billow, Ph. D., ABPP, CGP:
Loving, Hating, and Knowing: 
Working with Resistance, Rebellion, and Refusal      

International House
UC Berkeley

Psychotherapy is about developing the capacity to tolerate d develop truth, which is limited, desired and feared.   Emotional truths often are difficult to bear, much less to share with others, for they are rooted in our basic urges to love, hate, and know.  Therapist and other members struggle to cope with and make sense of these urges, which define group process and meaning.  How the therapist (along with group members) assesses and responds to the need for truth creates the phenomena of resistance, rebellion, and refusal. 
 
Billow’s relational approach involves the group therapist as central in the action: eliciting, evaluating and responding to the truth needs of the various individuals and the group itself and detecting and modulating the impact of falsity. The Conference will include a  "fishbowl" demonstration group,  and a whole group experience.

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For additional information not covered in brochure, contact Daisy Reese, LCSW at daisyreese@gmailcom or (510) 610-0562

The Group Therapy Salon

How long has it been since you've read a paper about group therapy?
How well are you acquainted with new papers about groups?
When was the last time that you've had a theoretical discussion about some issue in the group psychotherapy field?

The NCGPS is starting a new project: The Group Therapy Salon. The idea is to establish small groups (10-12 members each) that will meet monthly to read papers in group therapy and discuss theoretical issues about groups.

There are three Salons working right now: One in the South Bay, facilitate by Alice and Alan Sklar, One in San Franciso, facilitated by Barbara Elbl, and one in Sacramento/Davis, facilitated by Haim Weinberg.

The Palo Alto Salon meets at 8 PM on the first Monday of every month, and includes 9 members.  There is a volunteer discussant for each reading followed by a leaderless discussion.  You can contact Alice Sklar at a2sklar@aol.com or call (650) 961-3482, to find out the next reading or to get the address and directions.   

The Sacramento/Davis Salon was the first one to open, and currently includes 10 members. It meets on the third Monday every month, 7:30-9:00Pm, alternating between Davis and Sacramento. If you are coming from this area please contact Haim Weinberg at haimw@group-psychotherapy.com or call 916-212-6424.