BLOCK 1 (Posture) – 100% Presential – Facilitator
DEVELOPED APTITUDES AND SKILLS
- Develop a way of being in a relationship that motivates, inspires, and unites professionals and partners
- Know how to account for emotions and deal with relational violence
- Identify personal obstacles that hinder or block cooperation with others
CONTENT
- Discover group phenomena at work in professional life
- Various individual reactions to fears and mistrust and how to appease them
- The role of fears and prejudices
- Work on collective factors of security and trust enhancement
Module 2 – Violence and conflict – 5 days
- The difference made in Social Therapy between violence and conflict
- Link between fears in groups and the emergence of violence
- Personal wounds and temptations of violence
- Different forms of violence towards others and oneself
Module 3 – Stance and leadership: embodying a new relationship to authority – 4 days
- Leading and supporting in high-complexity situations
- Leadership aimed at all actors
- Legitimize oneself as a leader, embody a firm and attentive authority
- Ingredients that establish authority and authority crisis
- Facilitation of cooperation and hierarchical function
BLOCK 2 (Application) – A mix of face-to-face and distance learning (e-learning + live session) – Practitioner
DEVELOPED APTITUDES AND SKILLS
- Identify the needs of a collective and/or group to create a cooperative dynamic
- Identify the stages of an intervention process in Social Therapy TST
- Promote and support encounters between divided and sometimes opposing individuals to recreate trust and cohesion within groups
CONTENT
- Importance of framework and rules
- Contract with oneself and legitimacy
- Define realistic objectives and communicate them
- Inspire trust; presentation and initiation of an action
Module 2 – The contract and addressing resistance – 4 days (Présentiel – Travail du négatif))
- Obstacles to motivation
- Working with resistance and negative transference
- Listening to doubts and fears to understand needs
- Training in questioning and group listening
Module 3 – Increasing group trust – 3 days
- Identifying fears, prejudices, and antagonisms in groups
- The encounter as a key to trust
- Encourage the expression of mistrust and fears
- Overcoming cliques and strengthening trust
Module 4 – Field analysis and training closure – 3 days
- Analysis and assessment of the practical application of discovered keys and stance
- Identify potential areas for strengthening in professional practice
- Recommendations and self-evaluation of observations with the goal of preparing the professional project for Cycle 2
Experiential project for practical application (5 days)
- Define application fields of discovered content around a relevant theme in professional daily life
- Develop a reflection on the implementation perspectives of learned skills
- Outline a project for intervention in social therapy TST and a professionalization project if continuation in Cycle 2 is considered
Work methodology and pedagogical approach
The practiced methodology is the very process of transformational social therapy applied to a training group. It is based on five interdependent pillars:
- The experience and relational dynamics lived in the group and exploited to transform them into knowledge and capacities,
- The understanding of methodological elements and processes from Social Therapy TST and parallels with participants’ professional issues and contexts,
- Theoretical contributions related to 30 years of research and training in Social Therapy TST and related currents in human and social sciences,
- A self-awareness work in relation to others, stance, and understanding one’s own strengths and vulnerabilities facing conflict and within leadership,
- The transposition of acquired relational knowledge to professional situations of group facilitation, meetings, conflict facilitation
POSITIONING AND EVALUATION METHODS
At the start of the training, the trainee fills out a positioning grid to evaluate and assess their skills and expectations related to the training objectives. The end-of-training evaluation is based on the formalization of a field analysis by the trainee during Module 6, preparing for entry into Cycle 2
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