Facilitator

Facilitation Discussion 2 Group Session 7 Sandy Kamel Kutztown University Submitted to: Professor Brenner COU 546: Fall 2015 September 20, 2015 Facilitation Discussion 2 Group Session 7 Initial Experience as a Group Facilitator During our first group session, the topic was based on rapport building. This was the very first group I have conducted at Kutztown and I believe that as a group we have built that rapport. We are now entering group session seven, and with each group held, we…

Dual Relationships and Their Effects on Group Counseling with the Addicted Population The American Counseling Association (ACA) lays out a substantive and encompassing groundwork in terms of ethical guidelines for practicing counselors in their Code of Ethics. Many areas are addressed, including confidentiality, personal values, issues related to diversity and multicultural competence, just to name a few. As a future counselor, who is himself in recovery from addiction, one of the ethical…

How I will require members to assert themselves and to help ensure equal group time would be by, calling them out. If we are talking about a topic and I know they are well-informed in that area I would feel confident calling on them and asking them to share their thought on the topic. At the beginning of each class I can call on someone new to start off the conversation for the day. How I will help members overcome feelings of alienation, stigmatization, and isolation is by talking to each and…

counselor who is responsible for facilitating the group. These participants must be students who have undefined sexual identity, or be a g/l/b individual. Group Logistics: Recruitment Multicultural awareness programs should be included into the school’s curriculum to address sexual orientation with respect to cultural and social diversity and forbearance. The facilitating counselor will announce the availability of the support-therapy group to all the students especially the g/l/b students…

activities that my group and I had constructed, and I had a feeling things would go smoothly. I felt most connected to the other mentors and to the content of Mezirow’s article when I was facilitating my station. I truly felt like I was just purely a facilitator. I didn’t express my ideas, or enforce my opinion on anyone else, I “step[ped] back from the group of working [mentors]” (Bruffee, pg. 46) and let them be autonomous within the station. This is what I try to mirror when I interact with…

As a practicum student at YMCA Finch Scarborough center, I have learned many different techniques when it comes to group facilitations. I shadowed three different employment resource specialists and observed the techniques they used when interacting with clients. I especially enjoyed learning their styles of how they taught clients during workshops. Furthermore, I have practiced and tried their styles of coaching into my own workshop facilitation. For example, before I used to present by reading…

psychoeducational, counseling, task, and psychotherapy. Regardless of what type of group it is, all consist of four stages: the initial, transition, working, and termination stages. Each of these different stages contain distinct characteristics of facilitators and members that set them apart from one another. The movie, The Breakfast Club, provides a clear example of each of these stages as a group of students go through Saturday detention. Initial The initial stage of group counseling is…

As a UNIV facilitator, I will often have to an effective resource to help students as they develop through college. As Students Helping Students states in chapter two, the considerable changes that students undergo are natural. Students who are of college age, 17 to 25, give rise to many changes in their thinking process, their beliefs, and how they act. These are thus described in the book as “formative years.” One reason that UNIV facilitators are especially helpful to students through this…

Facilitators of Active / Successful Aging According to Rowe (1998), factors contributing to successful aging are the individual’s lifestyles choices, their innate personality in how they approach life, and a positive attitude build in resilience. Consider resiliency, by definition—quality of life does not always relate to physical illness. When comparing similar socio-demographic factors, those factors relating to positive outcomes for resiliency were the ability to recognize the people who…

Group Co-Facilitation Papers Seeing that most of the sessions were running with a sad story, we wanted to come up with something different. Something that will empowered the group members to lift up themselves and have a positive attitude in their life. It was a long journey, each time after our morning class, we tried to figure out what we were going to talk about and finally, one of our teammate came up with “Positive Affirmation.” I told them also about Self-Esteem but they wanted to stick…