Building Blocks 2027

This 8-day training will take place in-person at North London Group Therapy, Holloway, and builds on the foundations of our Introduction to Therapeutic Groupwork course.

Taking place over 4 months, with up to 16 participants, the course will provide a mix of therapeutic groupwork theory, significant opportunities for supervised group facilitation practise and a reflective space to progress your own journey as a therapeutic group facilitator.

Guest tutors: Anup Karia & Gaie Houston.

Course content will include:

• Setting up therapeutic groups and group formation
• Fostering dialogue, contact and connection
• Addressing rank, difference and tackling oppression 
• Working in the here & now with inter-personal group process
• Dealing effectively with conflict, aggression, apathy and silence
• Facilitator styles, choices, interventions, boundaries and use of self

Booking: The course is suitable for qualified counsellors and therapists and allied professionals who facilitate groups or plan to in the future, who have completed an Introduction to Therapeutic Groupwork with NLGT/Tim Foskett.

There are several Introduction to Therapeutic Gropwork courses available before Building Blocks 2027 begins.  See our website for details.

Please email info@nlgrouptherapy.co.uk for more information.   

Feedback from previous groupwork training participants:
The course was fantastic - one of the best CPDs I've ever done.
Thank you for holding the space I appreciate your years of experience and enjoyed your style.
I was very impressed by the way Tim modelled the skills/tools implicitly through his facilitation of the group as well as teaching them explicitly through great use of powerpoint slides.
I came away feeling much better-equipped to run groups in a therapeutic setting.

2027 Dates

• Block 1: 20/21 February
• Block 2: 20/21 March - with Anup Karia
• Block 3: 24/25 April - with Gaie Houston
• Block 4: 22/23 May

10.30 - 5.30 pm each day.

To find out about our courses when they are announced, please join our mailing list here.

Cost:  Earlybird: Full cost £1400 payable in instalments. Deposit to book your place is £350. To qualify for the Earlybird rate book your place before 1st October 2026. Thereafter the full cost is £1550.

Discounted bursary places available for therapists from marginalised or under-represented groups.

We want to make a contribution to tackling under-representation in the therapy sector, and to creating a more representative group therapy profession in the long-run.  As a result we have a couple of significantly discounted places available on Building Blocks 2027.

If you are a therapist who wants to train to facilitate therapeutic groups, and you are from a marginalised or under-represented group within the therapy profession, please email us on info@nlgrouptherapy.co.uk to find out more.