67th Annual Conference

Thursday, February 25

Morning Workshops

10:00 A.M - 12:30 P.M.

Workshop 5

Creating you Own Style of Leadership

Chair:                

Neal Spivack, Ph.D., CGP, Psychologist, VA NY Harbor Healthcare System, New York, New York

Open to participants with less than four years of group psychotherapy experience.

Having your own leadership style seems more difficult in today's climate of practice guidelines and evidence-based treatments. However, leaders who cultivate their own style can empower members to grow. This workshop will examine how leaders can develop their own brand while being sensitive to members' reactions to more dynamic leadership. didactic-demonstration-experiential-sharing of work experiences

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify a quality that he or she would want to incorporate into his or her personal leadership style.
2. Discuss how a leader's distinctive style could be helpful to members.
3. Discuss how a leader's distinctive style could feel unhelpful to members.
4. Describe how developing one's own leadership style could be helpful to the group leader.

Course References:

Ghent, E. (1999). Masochism, submission, surrender: masochism as a perversion of surrender. In S.A. Mitchell and L. Aron (Eds.), Relational Psychoanalysis: The Emergence of a Tradition (pp. 211-242). Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press.

Johnson, B. (1996). Polarity Management. Amherst: HRD Press.

Livingston, M. (2006). Discussion: Vulnerability, charisma, and trauma in training experience: Four personal odysseys. In R. Raubolt (Ed.), Power Games (pp. 83-89). New York: Other Press.

Practice Guidelines for Group Psychotherapy (2007), The American Group Psychotherapy Association, Science to Service Task Force.