Toolkit for Group Leaders
BOOK LAUNCH - JOIN US!
At Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA. Saturday, July 14th - Bastille Day!
Come help us celebrate the release of my latest book, Help Your Group Thrive: A Workbook and Planning Guide, Routledge Books, for leaders of work groups, book and service clubs. This book is also written for leaders of book groups, writer’s and critique groups, self-help groups, and community organizations. Like my popular book for therapists, this workbook and planning guide includes an overview of different kinds of groups, leadership tips, sample group agreements, online netiquette agreements, tips for dealing with "difficult group members," etc.
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ABOUT Help Your Group Thrive: A Workbook and Planning Guide
This easy-to-use manual guides leaders of discussion groups, peer support groups, organizations and workplace teams. It provides leadership tools, sample group agreements, online netiquette, and numerous modifiable forms.This workbook includes guidelines that can enrich and protect writer’s critique groups, book groups, work groups, psychotherapy groups, etc.
The material has been applied successfully to self-help groups, and other paraprofessionally led groups. Whether you are considering starting a book group or wanting to find ways to recruit new members who will stay, this book has tips and suggestions that will help make your group safer and longer lived.
“A rich resource for anyone starting a group…any group.”
J. Scott Rutan, Ph.D., Contributing author, Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy, Distinguished Fellow and Past President, American Group Psychotherapy Association
“Masterful and comprehensive workbook, this easy-to-follow planning guide prods group leaders to think through the best ways to select members for different types of groups, collaboratively set goals, and plan an important goodbye process upfront.”
Nannette Rundle Carroll, Management Educator author, (2009). The Communication Problem Solver: Simple Tools and Techniques for Busy Managers
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Second Edition Now Available!
How to Create and Sustain Groups that Thrive: Therapist's Workbook and Planning Guide
About this workbook:
This revised workbook includes guidelines that can enrich and protect a wide range of groups.
Whenever I teach "How to Start and Sustain Groups that Thrive", participants ask for my forms and worksheets. I created this workbook to provide a hands-on approach to the challenges of forming and maintaining cohesive, durable and effective groups. This easy-to-use manual includes a screening and preparation system, complete with modifiable forms.
My screening and preparation system for establishing therapy groups is collaborative in nature. Over the years clients have found that the screening and life history formshelp them clarify what they want out of being in a therapy group. By using the forms and focusing on important areas when screening potential group members, clients and I decide whether they are likely to both benefit from and contribute to the group. Now that I use these forms and worksheeets, new group members feel more connected to the group process and the groups have significantly less turnover.
This handy guidebook includes templates that can be modified for your particular group. Practical tools include:
- Screening Protocols
- Sample Group Agreements
- Group/Life History Forms
- Designing Group Agreements that can be tailored to your group
- Agreements for Healthy Termination in Groups
- Different Groups for Different Folks: From Self-Help to Psychodynamic Groups
- Tools for Self-Help Group Leaders
"Dr. Steiner has put together a remarkably thorough and practical workbook for anyone considering starting a group…any group. Too often practitioners decide to start a therapy group, or are assigned the task of running a therapy group, without sufficient training. The workbook covers everything from therapist style, to the needs of different groups, to screening and group contracts, etc.
There is no more difficult task in the world of therapy than beginning a therapy group. Dr. Steiner's workbook is a rich resource to be consulted periodically and prior to beginning your first group."
J. Scott Rutan, Ph.D. Author: Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy
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Related Materials for Psychotherapists:
The Therapist's Professional Will: The Complete Guide™
Group therapists need to plan in advance for their unexpected absences.
Dr. Steiner has created the downloadable Therapist's Professional Will,™ a document that spells out your wishes for the continuing care of your clients in your absence.
Please see this page for more information, or here to order your Therapist's Professional Will.™
The Rollercoaster of Chronic Illness: How to Add Joy to the Ride™ Audio CD
In this audio CD, Dr. Steiner offers an upbeat, practical guide for people living with arthritis, diabetes, chronic illnesses or pain. She shares her story of discovering ways to coexist peacefully with arthritis and describes how she has been able to make her limitations just one part of who she is as a person.
She helps listeners find new ways to make the most of life with limitations. Topics include: relationship issues, trust, and intimacy. The CD also benefits family members, health care workers, and those whose lives are affected by ill relatives and friends.
This recording includes materials that have been road-tested over a long career of offering one-on-one counsel, lecturing, and giving presentations to professionals, patients, caregivers and family members nationally.
Hear ways to:
- Increase understanding of your reactions to the limitations illness brings.
- Meet your needs through suggestions and practical tips.
- Discover the gift of compassion for yourself.
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The Rollercoaster of Chronic Illness: How to Add Joy to the Ride™ Book (in process)
Group therapists who work with the medically ill are likely to be interested in this upcoming book. This easy-to-read, self-help work benefits providers, patients and all whose lives are affected by ill relatives or friends.
This upbeat, practical guide for people living with chronic illnesses helps readers find new ways to make the most of life with limitations, deal with the challenges that illness brings to trust, intimacy, and other relationship issues.
Dr. Steiner is a psychotherapist specializing in work with the medically ill. She has lived with arthritis since she was fourteen. As an author, professional speaker and former wheelchair user, she has a natural compassion and wisdom about the challenges of bringing joy, comfort and meaning to those with limitations. Many insightful discoveries from her personal challenges are distilled into the book and its worksheets.
Until the book is available you may want to learn more about Dr. Steiner's work by ordering her CD: The Rollercoaster of Chronic Illness: How to Add Joy to the Ride.