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This highly successful group workshop has run every year since 2002 and will be offered again in 2005:
Sunday July 31 evening to Friday August 5 (midday).
The workshop is now open for enrolments and expressions of interest. Bookings will be taken on a first-in-first-served basis.
Contacts for enquiries:
Francoise Ringer:
francoise@groupinstitute.com
Luk Peeters:
training@exponent-cts.com
Martin Ringer:
martinringer@groupinstitute.com
Participants will be group leaders, consultants, trainers/educators, facilitators or group therapists from around the world who already have some experience in working with groups or teams.
The workshop will be based on a psychodynamic theoretical background, including socio-analytic, Gestalt and psychodramatic approaches. The aim is to provide new experiences and ideas for participants so that they build their understanding of the complex dynamic conscious and unconscious systems that are involved in groups.
These systems include:-
| the individual group members, |
| interrelationships between members, |
| subgroups, |
| the group-as-a-whole, |
| the context in which the group runs |
| the functioning of the leader him/herself. |
There will be a consistent focus on working with participants to enhance their ability for attunement to the subtleties of their own functioning in a group context. They will be actively involved in situations where they develop their professional skills in group leadership whilst gaining practice in managing their emotional and relational worlds.
Briefly, the main approach involves building participants’ ability to navigate effectively through the complex emotional and conceptual terrain that is involved with facilitating and participating in groups.
The workshop will aim to build understanding rather than teach specific techniques.
Some of the topics to be addressed and components to be included are:
| Unconscious processes in groups and the leader’s role in working with these |
| Attachment theory as related to group leadership and membership |
| Theories of the group-as-a-whole |
| An experiential exploration of participants’ own conscious and unconscious patterns of thinking, perceiving and behaving in the training group itself |
| Sociodramatic explorations of means of working with specific issues/difficulties in groups |
| Sociometric explorations of the group itself |
| Experiential explorations of inter-group phenomena |
| Group-level exploration of the nature of learning from experience in groups |
The workshop will consist of a variety of events including seminars, discussions, and experiential exercises in the whole group and in small groups.
Luk Peeters (Belgium)
Martin Ringer (New Zealand)
Françoise Ringer (New Zealand)
(See below for details on presenters)
The majority of the workshop presentations will be conducted in English but some presenters are able to work with questions and small group discussions in French and Dutch as well.
BEAUDOUY
24800 Saint-Jory-de-Chalais
Dordogne
France
Beaudouy is the name of a farmlet near the village of Saint-Jory-de-Chalais in the beautiful French Dordogne between Limoges and the historical city of Périgueux. The venue rests in a tranquil rural environment in a property of 20ha which includes fields, forests and a river with pools large enough for bathing.
Participants can choose to bring their own tent to sleep in the camping area on the property or sleep in shared rooms ranging between two-person and four-person. The indoor accommodation is located in a beautifully renovated old barn on the same premises. For those staying in the barn, bathroom facilities are indoors while campers have use of covered outdoor bathroom facilities. Meals are provided and held in an under-cover outdoor setting with lovely views over the surrounding countryside.
Sunday evening 31st July to midday Friday 5th August (inclusive)
Tuition: The standard fee is € 550, with a €50 discount for enrolments fully paid before 30 May 2005.
Lodging:
Own tent with all meals supplied: €30/day
Shared room with all meals supplied €50/day per person.
Participants will be provided at the start of the workshop with a booklet containing brief summaries of seminar presentations and an annotated bibliography. A significant amount of the theoretical basis for the workshop will be drawn from the book Group Action by Martin Ringer and hence participants may find it advantageous to have read the book before attending the workshop.
[Book details: Ringer, T. Martin. (2002). Group Action: The Dynamics of Groups in Therapeutic, Educational and Corporate Settings. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London. ISBN 1 84310 028 2. See www.jkp.com or www.amazon.com for on-line purchasing.]
In certain circumstances workshop presenters may seek from applicants further information to help clarify their readiness for the level at which the workshop is presented. Unsuccessful applicants will have all payments returned to them.
10% of the full fee will be retained by the organizers if participants withdraw within three weeks of the first day of the workshop. The organizers reserve the right to retain 50% of the full fee for participants who withdraw after that date and before the workshop start date. 90% of the full fee will be retained if a participant fails to notify withdrawal. No refund is due if a participant withdraws at any time during the workshop.
A deposit of 10% of the tuition fee will secure a place, and full payment is required before 5th July 05. The workshop is open to 15 people, and participants will be accepted in the order of their applications being received.
Payment of accommodation will be made directly to the venue during the program.
Please complete the enrolment form below and return it with your payment.
Martin Ringer is an experienced group leader, university lecturer and author who has presented extensively in many countries around the world. His current work involves facilitating training development groups for a wide range of clients as well as working in organizations with leadership, organizational culture and the quality of collective thinking. See www.martinringer.com for more details. martinringer@groupinstitute.com
Dr Françoise Ringer is a clinical psychologist, and her professional experience has been varied, combining treatment with research, training and teaching. Her PhD research was on Attachment and eating disorders. She is originally from Belgium where she was trained in the psychoanalytic field for individual and group work. In 1990 she migrated to Australia and then in 2000 to New Zealand where she ran a private practice, and specialized in Attachment theory and Infant Observation. francoise@groupinstitute.com
Luk Peeters is a licensed Gestalt Psychotherapist and has been working in the experiential outdoors since 1985 with a blend of target groups and in several countries. He co-manages Exponent, a European Challenge Course construction and training company and works as an independent trainer for several Train-the-trainer Institutes. See www.exponent-cts.com for more details or email "Luk Peeters" <training@exponent-cts.com>
Registration Form (Keep a copy for your records)
Name___________________________________________________________
Address_________________________________________________________
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Phone Home ________________________ Work________________________
Mobile phone/GSM_________________________________________________
E-mail _____________________________________
Occupation _______________________________________________________
Experience with groups ____
A tuition of € 550 (or € 500 for early bird enrolments) is transferred to the following account:
Number 310-1860811-49 of ING Bank in Belgium on name of "M et MME Thomas Ringer Bovyn" (IBAN electronic BE97310186081149). Include a message ‘International Group Workshop 2005’. Your bank transfer serves as proof of registration.
Contact Francoise Ringer if you experience any difficulties with the bank transfer.
Please return completed form by 5th July to: francoise@groupinstitute.com Contact can be made with Francoise by text message/SMS at +64 21 555 463
Thank you