Group work
This section provides resources for group work.
The emphasis is on developing and supporting the understanding and skills needed for group work, rather than materials to use during a group work session.
- Defining a Group
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How do you know when a collection of individuals represents a group?
- Top Tips for Group Work
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Here you will find a rich mix of tips from trainers, practitioners and researchers with mixed experiences of group work. If you know any others, please add them using the comment facility!
- Anti-Discriminatory Groupwork:
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What is meant by anti-discriminatory practice in group work, and how can this be incorporated into guidance work? This contribution considers these questions and provides some guidelines for practice.
- Group Work: Facilitative Intervention Strategies
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This contribution considers how to keep a group session 'moving' so it is an active not passive experience for participants.
- Group Work: Facilitation Language
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This contribution reminds us that, as a facilitator, the language you use can have considerable impact on the group dynamics and on the process. Similarly asking participants to re-phrase their contributions can be an important intervention, empowering them and helping them understand themselves and the group process.
- Group Work: guidelines for trainers
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Here you will find a practical guide to working with groups that covers: giving presentations, leading a discussion and some 'do's and don'ts' for trainers.
- Group Work: Training the Trainers
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Here you will find some practical guidelines for dealing with 'problem incidents' in group work.
- Group processes: theories and models
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Different theories help us understand how groups work. They also provide frameworks for managing groups more effectively.
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