Two-Day Institute Evaluation 2021

Welcome to the Two-Day Institute session evaluation page for AGPA Virtual Connect 2021.
To evaluate your sessions and obtain your CE certificate, follow this process:

1. Fill out an evaluation for the session you attended.

2. If you're attending additional events (Special Institute and/or Conference), complete those evaluations before submitting your CE Form.

3. If Two-Day Institute is the only Connect 2021 event you're attending, on the "thank you" page select the link for the online CE form

4. Complete the CE form only once and include all sessions you attended

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify phases of group development and the leader’s role in each phase.

2. Recognize one's role in the group and those of others.

3. Define and apply such concepts as transference, resistance, content versus process and termination.

Course Code: II

Presenters: 1. Sharon Sagi Berg, MA, CGP

2. Ido Peleg, MD, CGP

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Work with emerging self states in the group.
2. Focus on relational issues as they emerge in the process.
3. Understand the meaning of relational approach in the group.
4. Work with enactments and through reparations.
5. Recognize the limitations of the leaders.
6. Review the challenge of moving between different self-states.
7. Use relational interventions in the group.
8. Understand the role of "not me" self -states in the enactment.

Course Code: III

Presenter: Jeffrey Hudson, MEd, LPC, CGP, FAGPA

Learning Objectives

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe the difference between objective and subjective countertransference.
2. Define countertransference resistance and recognize its role in group leadership.
3. List common sources of countertransference resistance.
4. Identify leader values which encourage acceptance of their groups.
5. Discuss the role of self-acceptance in effective group leadership.
6. Identify interventions to facilitate emotional communication.

Course Code: V

Presenters: 1. Martha Gilmore, PhD, CGP, FAGPA
2. Haim Weinberg, PhD, CGP, FAGPA

Learning Objectives

The attendee will be able to:

1. Appraise their own and the other members' subjective experience focusing on presence.
2. Focus on relational issues in group psychotherapy.
3. Use relational/intersubjectively-informed interventions in groups.
4. Work with enactments and reparations in group therapy.
5. Accept and utilize their limitations as group therapists.
6. Work with different emerging self-states in the group.
7. Describe the meaning of being present.

Course Code: VIII

Presenters: Gail Brown, MA, LP, CGP

Learning Objectives

The attendee will be able to:

1. Define and identify Emotional Insulation.
2. Define and identify Observing Ego.
3. Define and identify Induced Feelings.
4. Define progressive communication
5. Define ‘here and now’ and its relationship to progressive communication.
6. Describe three obstacles to staying emotionally present.
7. Utilize the observing ego to distinguish between historical and present feelings.
8. Formulate interventions based on the leaders understanding of induced feelings.
9. Differentiate subjective from objective feelings.
10. List three ways to develop a healthy observing ego.

Course Code: IX

Presenter: Leo Leiderman, PsyD, ABPP, FAACP, FAGPA

Learning Objectives

The attendee will be able to:

1. Discuss how contemporary interpersonal, relational psychodynamic group psychotherapy constructs are contributing to current understanding of enactments and dissociation and other complex trauma symptoms.
2. Name the three ways members can present dissociated states in group process.
3. Identify the role of addressing traumatic loss and grief in group therapy.
4. State countertransference reenactments and develop a greater awareness for its role in group leadership while treating members with complex trauma.
5. Describe the application of at least three interventions to address complex trauma and dissociative reactions in group members and leaders.
6. Define how the concepts of immediacy, intersubjective relatedness, resistance, enactments, dissociation and termination impact group process.

Course Code: X

Presenters: 1. Joseph Acosta, MA, LPC, CGP, FAGPA
2. Katie Griffin, LPC, CGP, FAGPA

Learning Objectives

The attendee will be able to:

1. Compare binary and static understanding of gender and sexuality with more complex and fluid understanding.
2. Describe the limitations of psychotherapy groups due to binary approaches and the advantages of a more complex and fluid approach.
3. Identify group leader fears related the discussion of gender, desire and sexuality in group.
4. Identify their own potential countertransference issues about these topics.
5. Detect ways their own groups may be limited by static perspectives.
6. Formulate new interventions to expand the conversation of longing, gender and sexuality.

Course Code: XI

Presenters: 1. Maryetta Andrews-Sachs, LICSW, CGP, FAGPA
2. Farooq Mohyuddin, MD, CGP, FAGPA, FAPA

Learning Objectives

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify the strong reactions generated in the group by the exploration of current losses due to the pandemic and social unrest in the country.
2. Discuss the tasks of the life cycle of the group as members explore issues around isolation and connection.
3. Apply the didactic material to the groups they lead.
4. Analyze the impact of "existential given"s of responsibility and freedom within the group and outside the group.
5. Define existential psychotherapy.
6. Recognize the resistance to exploring these "existential givens" and the subtle ways that it impacts our lives.
7. State the impact of transference and countertransference on the exploration of these existential concerns.

Course Code: XII

Presenters: Jeanne Bunker, MSSW, LCSW, CGP, FAGPA

Learning Objectives

The attendee will be able to:

1. Define aggression.
2. Identify destructive aggression.
3. Identify healthy aggression.
4. Define observing ego.
5. Define progressive emotional communication.
6. Use observing ego to inform intentional, progressive emotional communication.
7. Define intersectionality.
8. Identify personal bias that impedes progressive, emotional communication.
9. Define regression.
10. Define countertransference.
11. Define transference.
12. Utilize somatic awareness for affect regulation.

Course Code: XIII

Presenters: Ginger Sullivan, MA, LPC, CGP, FAGPA

Learning Objectives

The attendee will be able to:

1. Apply RLT (Relational Life Therapy) principles as a supplemental and beneficial frame to modern analytic work in group.
2. Cite the two self-skills necessary for full-respect living.
3. Describe the four relational patterns as derivatives from the center of health.
4. Contrast the use of leverage with the support of adaptive defense.
5. Apply active engagement in furthering maturational development.
6. List the four-stage process of relational maturity as detected in a modern analytic group.
7. Differentiate and utilize the wounded child, the adaptive child and the functioning adult as identified in the group process.

Course Code: XIV

Presenter: 1. Robert Klein, PhD, ABPP, CGP, DLFAGPA
2. Suzanne Phillips, PsyD, ABPP, CGP, FAGPA

Learning Objectives

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe the physical, social, psychological and neurophysiological impact of COVID-19 on sense of self.
2. Define and list the criteria for PTSD as experienced from the enduring threat of COVID-19.
3. Consider in terms of their experience the Enduring Somatic Threat (EST) Model of PTSD experienced by those who have suffered physical illness like heart attack or COVID-19 and for whom trauma and fear of death generate from internal threats as relapse, symptoms, fear of compromised capacity, lack of treatments etc.
4. Define Ambiguous Loss and its relevance to the degree of loss consequent to the COVID-19 pandemic.
5. Give their own definition of Grief and Grieving and consider we deal with grief without the rituals of memorializing and burial rites.
6. Discuss two examples of how the spread and death toll from COVID19 reflects racial and income disparities to healthcare and job exposure.
7. Discuss the role of Self-Compassion in enhancing resilience.
8. Name four aspects of the Group Process that facilitate the safety, remembering and mourning, and connection needed to heal the assaulted and traumatized self.

Course Code: XV

Presenter: Elaine Cooper, MSW, PhD, CGP

Learning Objectives

The attendee will be able to:

1. Explore personal generational history.
2. Study latest clinical and biological research on transmission of generational trauma.
3. Reflect on workshop group process and development of cohesion.
4 Define and differentiate “social legacy” and “social narrative.”
5. List positives of surviving trauma.

Course Code: XVI

Presenters: Annie Weiss, LICSW, CGP, FAGPA

Learning Objectives

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify how impasses, feelings, and challenges occurring within the consultation group can be utilized to understand a therapy group impasse.
2. Examine how the affective reactions that the supervisee experiences in both the supervision and the group therapy relationship can increase competence.
3. Explain how parallel processes occurring between client and supervisee is transmitted to the supervision session.
4. Utilize here-and-now affective material to understand group dynamics and impasses.
5. Explain how supervision enhances clinical outcomes when working with clients.
6. Identify supervisory techniques for identifying parallel process.

Course Code: XVII

Presenters: Justin Hecht, PhD, CGP, FAGPA

Learning Objectives

The attendee will be able to:

1. Apply a Jungian orientation to group psychotherapy interventions.
2. Identify archetypal material in personal stories.
3. Describe the characteristics of complexes.
4. Utilize a Jungian approach to the transference to facilitate individuation.
5. Characterize Jung’s Approach to the unconscious.
6. Define individuation, and encourage it in groups.

Course Code: XVIII

Presenters: Rick Tivers, LCSW, CGP

Learning Objectives

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify and list major components and dynamics of an Executive Leadership Training.
2. Diagnose defenses in self and corporate culture.
3. Design appropriate interventions using business non-clinical language.
4. Differentiate between traditional group therapy and group development in business.
5. Work through fear of internal power and authority.
6. Choose best practices in needs assessment and goal attainment.
7. Select Sociometric methods appropriate for the group.
8. Educate fee structure, ethics and diversity.

Course Code: XIX

Presenters: Ronnie Levine, PhD, ABPP, CGP, FAGPA

Learning Objectives

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify the leader's fears that interfere with addressing loving and angry feelings in group.
2. Identify individual and group manifestations of love and hate.
3. Formulate interventions that address emotional needs of group members.
4. Develop the technique of joining as an emotional intervention in group for individuals, subgroups and groups.
5. Develop the techniques of bridging to promote ego support, feedback, subgroup and group cohesion.
6. Identify the group member's fear of expressing feelings.
7. Examine the interpersonal adaptations to fear and desire that are being expressed in the group.
8. Develop emotional interventions that take in to account the individual and groups' capacity to tolerate and regulate affect.

Course Code: XX

Presenter: Alyson Stone, PhD, CGP

Learning Objectives

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe how societal, familial, and/or religious prohibitions may impact your group leadership and your group's functioning.
2. Identify emotions you are reluctant to feel and to allow your group to experience.
3. Describe ways to welcome and work with resistance in your groups.
4. Articulate how secure attachment relationships facilitate emotional freedom and engagement.
5. Identify ways countertransference to aggression or to religious or spiritual material can enhance or hinder psychotherapy.
6. Identify methods to bring more pleasure and freedom into your work.

Course Code: XXI

Presenter: 1. Kavita Avula, PsyD, CGP
2. Marcus Hummings, PsyD, CGP

Learning Objectives

The attendee will be able to:

1. Explain the process for addressing race-based trauma.
2. Utilize the terms Agent and Target to move beyond simplified ways of thinking about Rank dynamics.
3. Prepare group members to work through internalized oppression.
4. Apply Leticia Nieto’s Target Skill Model of Survival, Confusion, Empowerment, Strategy, and Recentering.
5. Detect attributional ambiguity, which can deplete BIPOC’s psychological energy to interpret meaning of Agent's actions.
6. Appraise who is staying awakened to their own internalized biases, including power imbalances between and among BIPOC group members.
7. Analyze whether repair of micro-aggressions is effective or ineffective.
8. Detect the moral Third, a space of embodied witnessing that can be created when therapists recognize the inevitability of hurting others.
9. Describe Resmaa Menakem’s delineation of clean pain vs dirty pain.
10. Define Robin D'Angelo's concept of white fragility and predict how white fragility can impede progress for conversation about color and culture.

Course Code: XXII

Presenters: Elizabeth Olson, PsyD, LCSW, CGP

Learning Objectives

The attendee will be able to:

1. Define the different types of group resistance.
2. Utilize modern psychoanalytic techniques to help clients work through automatic relational patterns.
3. Identify default reactions in themselves and other group members.
4. Promote progressive communications for group clients that change patterned behaviors.
5. Describe the process of working through with specific modern psychoanalytic group techniques.
6. Explain how resistances manifest in group and how to take active steps toward working through the enactments effectively.
7. Create interventions that modify the habitual reactions, allowing for the freedom to say new things and act in new ways.

Course Code: XXIII

Presenter: Paul Gitterman, LICSW, MSc, CGP

Learning Objectives

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe how difference is experienced from an early developmental perspective and how it can impact future representations of difference.
2. Describe how the group serves as an attachment function.
3. Explain how members of privileged and marginalized identities may experience their attachment to the group differently.
4. Explain how different experiences of the dominant culture may impact group members’ trust and transferential experiences in group.
5. Describe how to welcome difference as a way of building group cohesion.
6. Explain why the leader’s knowledge of their social identities is so important in group work.
7. Describe how ego supportive interventions are useful in addressing microaggressions in groups.
8. Explain how groups naturally want to join around homogeneity and fear difference.
9. Describe how disclosure of emotional vulnerability lessens the potential of replicating oppressive dynamics.
10. Describe how groups with strong cohesion can be curious about difference.

Course Code: XXIV

Presenter: Phillip Horner, LCSW, CGP

Learning Objectives

The attendee will be able to:

1. Define how shame, guilt, and silence around race and racism can inhibit and harm individuals and groups.
2. Define white racial identity in the context of power and oppression.
3. Define aspects of one's racialized self.
4. State an empathic worldview about one's racialized self and others
5. Explain the benefits of creating a brave space versus a safe space when learning from different positions of power
6. Explain how a large group format aids the uncovering of repressed feelings about race
7. Explain how White guilt impedes open, honest discussions about racism.