Current Programs
GroupWORKS is pleased to offer the following courses during the Spring/Summer 2008 school semester. Contact us with special requests for workshops, seminars, retreats, presentations and consultations by emailing drtoby@groupswork.org or calling Dr. Feinson at (201) 819-9285 or (212)362-3458.
The Dynamics of Teaching, Learning and Counseling in Groups: Group Leadership for Educators (Grades 5-9).
Best practices and research in group dynamics and group leadership can strengthen the role of teachers and counselors as group leaders when working with students transitioning into middle school, throughout middle school and transitioning into high school. Participants develop group leadership skills and intervention strategies to maximize student achievement and cooperation in classroom and counseling groups. Participants reflect on social and emotional group processes that impact on teaching, learning and counseling and learn to effectively use the intense feelings stimulated when teaching and counseling in groups with students in grades 5-9.
Tuesdays and Thursdays
July 8,10,15,17,22
8am-3pm
5 sessions
Instructor: Mrs. Carrie Grochow
Location:
Simon Baruch Middle School #104
330 East 21 St.
Between 1st and 2nd Aves.
New York, NY 10010
Fees: $300.
This course earns 3 “P” credits through the New York City Dept. of Education After School Professional Development Program.
Course #: P8-67SS08
Registration begins May 5, 2008 at www.nyaspdp.org. If you encounter difficulty registering, call us at (201)819-9285 or (212)362-3458 or email us at drtoby@groupswork.org.
The Emotional Experience of Teaching and Counseling in Groups.
Using readings from the fields of education and group psychotherapy, participants, working in small grade level groups, will follow the social and emotional processes that accompany learning. Teachers, as classroom group leaders, and counselors leading groups, learn applications of group dynamics to the classroom, intervention strategies to resolve obstacles to learning and how to use the intense feelings stimulated when teaching and counseling in groups.
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays
9am-4pm
July 9, 11, 15, 16, 18, 2008
5 sessions
Instructor: Dr. Toby Chuah Feinson
Location:
Office of GroupWORKS for Education
154 West 70th St.
Suite #10A
New York, NY 10023
Fees: $300.
This course earns 3 “P” credits through the New York City Dept. of Education After School Professional Development Program.
Course #: P8-57SS08
Registration begins May 5, 2008 at www.nyaspdp.org. If you encounter difficulty registering, call us at (201)819-9285 or (212)362-3458 or email us at drtoby@groupswork.org.
Innovative Solutions for Challenging Behaviors in School Settings
This research-based course will promote an understanding of the intimate relationship between traumas to which children and adolescents are exposed and their disruptive behaviors in the classroom and other school settings. Teachers and counselors working in small grade level groups will learn trauma informed strategies to provide safety, enhance resiliency, promote healthy relationships and a more positive attitude toward learning and school relationships.
Saturdays
9:30am-4:30pm
April 26; May 10, 24; June 7, 14, 2008
5 sessions
Instructor: Ms. Cristina Casanova
Location: Office of GroupWORKS for Education, Inc.
154 West 70th St.
Suite #10A
New York, NY 10023
Fees: $300.
This course earns 3 “P” credits through the New York City Dept. of Education After School Professional Development Program.
Course #: P8-76S08
Register now at www.nyaspdp.org. If you encounter difficulty registering, call us at (201)819-9285 or (212)362-3458 or email us at drtoby@groupswork.org.
Resilient Educators Support and Training (REST) Groups: Advanced Group Training for Educators
This group provides an antidote to despair. Meet with other teachers, school counselors and social workers who are often stymied by classes and groups that fail to gel or get stuck in repetitive destructive or unproductive interactions. Using protocols modeled on Parker Palmer’s “The Courage to Teach”, work together in a safe, collegial environment and expand your repertoire of responses to difficult teaching and counseling situations. Through case presentations and role plays, participants develop creative solutions to critical incidents rather than reacting from habitual ways of seeing, hearing and feeling.
Wednesdays
Beginning April 16, 2008
4:30-6:30pm
3 sessions. One/month
Instructor: Dr. Toby Chuah Feinson
Location:
Office of GroupWORKS for Education
154 West 70th St.
Suite #10A
New York, NY 10023
Fees: $150.
Registration: Call (201)819-9285 or (212)362-3458
This is an advanced course for those who have completed their “P” level courses or the 12 Hour Principles of Group Psychotherapy course and wish further professional development.