Leadership, groupwork and coaching experiential development program

This leadership, groupwork and coaching program is an experiential development program designed for leaders being run in Ipswich in 2009. This program addresses leaders capabilities to meet a perceived need in leadership development as well as improving coaching capacity and confidence in running group and community processes. The program's methodology offers a comprehensive way for individuals to extend, expand and refine their leadership and inter-personal capacities.

Training Cohort

The participants in the program will form an ongoing leadership and peer training cohort. This will ensure that participants have support and challenge both during and subsequent to the program. The ongoing development of the peer cohort will provide opportunities for peer supervision, peer support and ongoing creative stimulation.

Training Program

The training operates on an ongoing cycle with participants enrolling and committing to the year of training. This experiential training uses a graduated and recursive learning cycle to deepen and integrate your role development as a leader, group worker, coach, systems thinker and analyst in your professional practice and larger life. By the end of the year you will have learned more of yourself as a leader, you will have discovered deep ways to work with individuals and groups and the enormous potential of experiential learning, group processes and methods as well as a range of practical applications. You will have experienced yourself as part of a large number of individual and group experiences and taking up a wide variety of roles throughout the year. The program will be a great opportunity to develop wholly individualistic and creative ways to work as a leader.

If you have further questions about this program or training in general you could 1) Send us an enquiry or question by clicking on our general enquiry email form; 2) Browse our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) 3) Contact Peter directly on 0411 873 851 and leave a message if he is unable to answer.

Group functioning and leadership

Good group functioning is essential to any form of leadership and studying the methods used at the Moreno Collegium such as sociodrama, psychodrama, role training, sociometry, action learning, action research and group work requires proficiency in being a group leader. You will see different forms of group interventions modelled. You will try your own and write and reflect on all of them. Within these group experiences you will be encouraged to try different responses. You will be encouraged to actively take different types of leadership. You will engage with others cooperatively in different ways. You will encourage others to do likewise. You will find different ways to recognise both individual and group progress and development. To this end you will learn a great deal about yourself and how you function in groups with others. You will learn how you function under stressful as well as relaxed times. You will learn how to maintain adequate thought, feeling and action in easy as well as tough times. Unlike in the saying and song "When the going gets tough the tough do more than ‘get going'". They get thoughtful and passionate as they get going. Given the wide range of groups that leaders are a part of, such as management groups, staff groups, admin groups, community groups, and strategic groups, being a good group leader is vital.

Reflective learning practices

Written reflection and written tasks form an essential part of the learning program. Participants are expected to use writing as part of their ongoing learning process. The writing is not an evaluation tool it is a learning and reflection tool. Writing is seen as a powerfully integrative tool for developing your own ideas and understanding from experiences.

In this training you will:

• Be coached and supervised in your practice as a leader, as a coach and as a learner. The focus will be on strengthening your existing capacities, overcoming some weaknesses and developing yourself as an active learner. This supervision often takes the form of coaching you in the moment as you practice. It aims to be at your own level and attempts to have you recognise and consolidate previous learning. You are also encouraged to progress at your current learning edge.
• Be coached and supervised in your practice of the leading the group with some focus on using creative group methods such as the sociodrama and the psychodrama methods. The focus will be on your unique learning needs and encouraging you to extend yourself.
• Read and integrate theory with action via practice, feedback critique, supervision, report writing and forming a peer group. Theory is taught through appropriate and timely reading, as required during practice and with short experiential input sessions.
• Learn to expand your imagination in relational situations. One of the ways you will do this is through the production of meaningful group interactions, scenarios, simulations, sociodramas, role training and other enactments. You will integrate the use of specific group production techniques. You will try a wide range of group interventions techniques and processes.
• Build on your previous learning, experience and role development. This will progress the development of a well-grounded understanding of the sociodramatic and psychodramatic method and its strong relationship to leadership and learning.
• Capitalise on your current professional identity. You will find ways to extend what you already know and do and at the same time finding overlaps and congruencies with sociodrama and psychodrama. This will assist you in trying out your learning in appropriate ways in your work and community environments.

If this program interests you:

If this program is of interest to you or if you have further questions about these programs or psychodrama in general you could 1) Send us a general enquiry or question through our email by clicking here; 2) Browse our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) 3) Contact Peter directly on 0411 873 851 and leave a message if he is unable to answer.

Dates

Leaders considering coming are encouraged to commit to the whole year. The advantages are obvious because of the strong development of peer relationships, and the degree of deep learning possible. However the program is flexible in that participants are able to commit for one semester at a time. New participants are able to join during the year as well. Joining during the year will be taken on a case by case basis and discussed with the existing participants as well.

Times

The Tuesdays are run from 2 - 5.30 pm.

The Friday afternoon and Saturday afternoon (and one morning) times are designed to give a block of working time that has minimal impact on either work or home life.

Costs

The program costs $1850 for the 2009. Individual semesters cost $550 each. There is a 10% discount for participants from a single organisation. To discuss this please contact Peter on 0411 873 851

This leadership, groupwork and coaching program is an experiential development program designed for leaders being run in Ipswich in 2009. This program addresses leaders capabilities to meet a perceived need in leadership development as well as improving coaching capacity and confidence in running group and community processes. Please contact Peter or Elizabeth if this program might interest you. This method is a comprehensive way for individuals to extend, expand and refine their leadership capacities.