MODULE 1: A PROCESS MODEL OF GROUP DYNAMICS
This module presents an innovative model for group dynamics that is straightforward to understand and apply.  You will learn the way in which groups constellate within a field of influence, noticing emerging themes and polarising roles that may be confluent or dissonant.  Working within a contextual field of influence allows groups to explore in a way that moves the purely personal into an additional sphere of larger enduring processes to be unfolded. This has the potential to be both personally and collectively satisfying, encouraging emerging authenticity and developing the courage to enter relationally robust explorative dialogue.

MODULE 2: LEADERSHIP AS A PATH OF EVOLUTION
During this weekend we examine the archetype of leadership in its many facets and both the shadow distortions and evolutionary potential within leadership and facilitatory roles.  Deep democracy with compassionate leadership is explored as a path towards connective relationality, generating the safety necessary for groups to be vulnerable with the challenge needed to move tribal tendencies into catalytic space.  

MODULE 3: CONFLUENCE AND DISSONANCE; WORKING WITH CONFLICT
This module expands on the essential group dynamic model to address the deeper archetypal influences that constellate within groups, offering a sage perspective for facilitation. Addressing cycles of contact that are joining and separating from a potential oriented place allows conflict to occur in a way that is more relaxed and courageous.  Discovering shared values within opposing dynamics offers a way to respect differences whilst also uncovering mutual ground.  Conflict is explored as a dynamic connection beyond a problem to be resolved, offering the prospect of creative interaction that is alive and exciting.  

MODULE 4: SHAME AS BORDERGUARD OR OUTRIDER
This weekend examines the role that shame plays in groups, both as a guard that restricts our ways of being and as a signal that we are on the verge of breaking new ground.  Many groups constellate around normalising tribal behaviour that dictates the rules for engagement, creating cohesive tribes.  However, learning to tolerate the shame that occurs when we are heading into new ways of being, is necessary if groups are to move towards creative risk taking that refreshes and inspires them.   

MODULE 5: THE EDGES FROM GROUP PATHOLOGY TO GROUP MYTHOLOGY
This module tackles the thorny arena of pathological structures that might arrest group development, creating developmental repeating patterns.  We will be teaching the capacity to notice defensiveness and the way in which defences are both helping and hindering the individuals involved to explore as differentiated others within the group field. Utilising the capacity to describe group development as a mythological narrative rather than solely relying on clinical terms which may activate defensiveness, offers a way of encouraging groups to move beyond compulsive cycling which prevents forward movement.

MODULE 6: GROUP GROUND OF BEING

This weekend examines the elements of group work that establish containment within the context that brings them together.  Whether they are collegial work groups, student groups, process groups or personal groups, containing elements such as contracts, boundaries, minority awareness and group values, provides the mutual ground on which groups experience respectful safety, with the freedom to be authentic and to challenge elements that cause discontent.  Established ground creates a field of influence into which groups can lean when the going gets tough, offering an allying and strengthening sense of identity for the individuals within it.