Group Facilitation for Perinatal Mental Health Support

Welcome to our online lunch time seminar focusing on group facilitation for perinatal mental health (PMH) support. Join us on Wed 17th Dec 2024 at 12.30 pm to learn valuable techniques and strategies to enhance your group support.

Many of us will be facilitating and running groups but not had any real training in the art of group facilitation. Understanding group facilitation can help us to learn how to better support our groups, understand group dynamics, encourage participation, maximise contributions and to ultimately encourage group participants to achieve their goals.

Seminar topics

• Stages of group development
• The role of the facilitator
• Basic facilitation and interpersonal skills
• Boundaries and self-disclosure
• Different learning styles
• Dealing with difficult situations
• Conflict resolution

Lifeboat offers a series of lunchtime seminars which are ideal for peer support workers and other practitioners supporting parents with their mental health during pregnancy, birth and beyond. Follow us for more information on future seminars.

We will be running these short seminars once a month and have a variety of topics lined up. However, if you have a particular topic you would like to discuss around perinatal mental health then we would love to hear from you. Just contact us on info@lifeboatpmh.com.

Designed by parents, peer supporters and clinicians, each thought-provoking seminar offers a chance to explore a particular topic and share thoughts and ideas. Topics are evidence based and have been tried and tested over many years, so you can confidently put knowledge into practice.

Please note that places are limited as we prefer to run small groups so that there is time to share your thoughts, questions and experiences.