This workshop is only open to certificate holders from the DBSA-Boston Foundations Workshop and/or a Foundations Workshop facilitated elsewhere by Chuck Weinstein, and to people who have facilitated at least eight groups.

The focus of this workshop is a continuation of skills and techniques learned in the Foundations Workshop. Concepts to be discussed and explored include: advanced techniques (e.g. learning how to "embrace the cactus," check-in management, active listening and mindfulness); balancing kindness while addressing safety; emotional boundaries as well as those of time management; understanding crisis/disruption and creating an opportunity for positive change utilizing the energy that this disruption yields. We will use role plays to apply practical application to theory. This workshop is a prerequisite for the Advanced Facilitator Training Workshop.

This workshop is limited to 20 participants.

Registration deadline: February 15, 2012.

Limited to 20 participants. Registration Deadline: February 15, 2012. Pre-Registration is required. No "walk-in" registrations will be allowed.

Date: Sunday, February 19, 2012

Time: Check-in and Continental Breakfast 9:30 a.m. to 9:55 a.m.

Location: Workshop starts promptly at 10:00 am and ends at 5:00 p.m. Francis de Marneffe Building, Ground Floor, Room 132 McLean Hospital, 115 Mill Street, Belmont, MA 02478

Parking: Free Parking in two huge parking lots

Contact: facilitatortraining@dbsaboston.org , or DBSA-Boston at 617-855-2795

To register, download the above linked application or complete one while visiting a DBSA-Boston support group at McLean Hospital

Fee: DBSA-Boston members: $ 20.00

Affiliated DBSA/DMDA/MDDA members: $ 50.00

Peer Services Professionals: $ 65.00

Other Attendees: $ 75.00

MD, Ph.D, Psy.D, LICSW, LMHC: $ 95.00

The training fee includes:

• Six hours of professional instruction,
• All materials, including: Continental Breakfast, Networking Lunch & Yummy Refreshments all day!
• A certificate of attendance

This is not a workshop on starting a new chapter, but on becoming a competent group leader. This training is the first step in learning how to facilitate a support group. People attending this training need not have any prior knowledge of facilitating a group, only the desire and interest to learn. Many people have attended this workshop solely to learn communication skills and to become a better group participant.

The format is fast, fun, and interactive, concluding with several role-play exercises in the Practicum section.

The instructor for the workshop is Chuck Weinstein, LMHC, NCC and the Director of Facilitator Training for DBSA-Boston. Chuck is a former DBSA-Boston President with more than eighteen years of group facilitation experience. Chuck introduced and developed the DBSA-Boston facilitator-training program in 1997. Workshop participants have included mental health professionals, members of law enforcement, and clergy.

Chuck Weinstein, LMHC, NCC, Director of Facilitator Training