Join the GPS Facilitator Training
GPS Group Peer Support provides you with a map to support people in your community. GPS is a perfect tool for communities facing unique challenges. Whether you are supporting parents, frontline healthcare workers, students, faith communities, refugees and immigrants, communities striving for solidarity, those struggling because of long COVID, those in recovery, or dealing with grief, GPS is an effective and impactful approach to support connection, resilience, and participant’s ability to act on behalf of themselves, their families and their communities.
GPS is a nationally-recognized group model that is being successfully implemented in state, local, and community settings, in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic.
Bring GPS to your community:
- GPS for Academic Success - for your school community
- GPS for Faith - Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, and spiritual communities
- GPS for Health - addressing chronic and acute health conditions
- GPS for Healthcare Workers - bringing support in the midst of COVID-19
- GPS for Parents - for parents at all stages of parenting
- GPS for Recovery - for those struggling with addiction and in recovery
- GPS for Work - equity issues, job burnout, mental health concerns, and other workplace conditions
“The GPS Training not only gave me the skills and techniques to facilitate a support group, it also allowed me to recognize my own strength and ability to be a better version of myself.”
~ Maria Jose Mojardin Lopez, Maternal Mental Health Task Force, Tucson, AZ
IN THIS TRAINING YOU WILL LEARN:
- A trauma-informed support group model that is straightforward to learn and can be implemented easily in various settings, with different groups of people, and in multiple languages.
- How to address challenges such as trauma, economic hardship, and the lasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic with compassion, openness, and skill.
- Specialized trauma-informed techniques for creating group environments built on mutual respect, understanding, compassion, and safety.
- How to integrate proven techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction into group settings.
- A strengths-based approach that creates welcoming and transformative group experiences for all participants.
- How to facilitate groups effectively, resulting in benefits and empowerment for both participants and group leaders.
THIS TRAINING IS FOR YOU!
Whether you are experienced or are a first-time group leader, you will learn skills that will change the way that you run support groups and gain the confidence to lead consistently impactful groups for your community.
- Business leaders
- Clergy and lay leaders
- Mental health and medical professionals
- Peer specialists
- People with lived experience
- Supervisors and administrative leaders
- Teachers and education leaders
- Volunteer leaders
* Social Work CEUs are available. Inquire about other continuing educational credits at info@grouppeersupport.org.
TRAINING SCHEDULE
LIVE attendance to 1 opening practicum is REQUIRED
OPENING PRACTICUM OPTIONS: 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm ET*
- October 21 | Opening Practicum - 1-3:30 pm
- October 22 | Opening Practicum 1-3:30 pm
TRAINING MODULES: 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm ET* Attending training modules LIVE when possible is recommended. Recordings of all modules will be available to registered participants – viewing recorded modules should be completed before the end of the training.
- Module 1: Power of Groups (pre-recorded)
- Module 2: GPS Mindfulness Rest Stop (pre-recorded)
- Module 3: GPS Guidelines (pre-recorded)
- October 30 | Module 4: GPS Realities & Principles (LIVE)
- Module 5: GPS Check In (pre-recorded)
- November 6 | Module 6: GPS PATH Reflective Listening, Weaving, Grounding, & Closing (LIVE)
* All times listed are Eastern Time (ET)
TRAINING FORMAT
- Opening Practicum - Live attendance is required. Please choose a date/time option in your registration: October 21 or October 22.
- Training Modules - 6 sessions - It is recommended that you attend modules LIVE when possible.
- Live Modules: October 30 (Module 4) and November 6 (Module 6)
- Pre-Recordings and recrodings of all modules will be available to registered participants – viewing recorded modules should be completed before the end of the training.
