Effective Group Leadership
This workshop helps you develop leadership skills to facilitate more interactive and engaging group work in community and counselling settings.
Overview
Who It's For
Our training is ideal for group leaders, managers and team leaders who want to equip themselves with proven techniques to help balance different views within groups, increase motivation, and adapt their leadership styles to suit every situation.
What You'll Learn
You’ll develop group facilitation and leadership skills, and learn to better understand different styles of communication, how to deal with different group dynamics, how to give feedback, and how to run creative group exercises.
Why Us
Backed by over 70 years of real-world clinical experience and results, we provide a confidential, safe and supportive environment that welcomes all cultural backgrounds, genders and sexual orientations.
Workshop Outcomes
Develop effective group leadership skills.
You’ll develop the confidence, presence and practical skills to facilitate engaging, strengths-based groups that create meaningful change.
Develop a confident and authentic group leadership style
Strengthen communication, body language and presentation skills
Facilitate groups using trauma-informed and strengths-based approaches
Apply advanced facilitation techniques to achieve meaningful group outcomes
Use experiential learning, creative education and multi-sensory facilitation techniques
Increase participant motivation and support positive behaviour change
Respond effectively to group dynamics and build a shared sense of purpose
This training is ideal if you work in one of the following roles:
How it works
Format
This workshop consists of 2 x 3-hour workshops, delivered live and online via Zoom.
Cost
$968 per person including GST.
A discount of 10% applies when booking for 3 or more participants.
Experience
Our facilitator, Andrew King is a leading group work specialist in community services, counselling and health. An author of multiple textbooks and training programs, he has devoted a large part of his career to working with men, fathering and domestic violence.
“Thank you for the recent session you ran with the Drug Education Network educator team. From conversations with the team, they all report having gained further tools and inspiration for their different presentation styles. It was clearly a worthwhile and valuable personal development session."
Drug Education Network, Effective Group Leadership Course Participant
“The training gave me many skills that I was missing for effective group work and the confidence to do the activities."
Effective Group Leadership Course Participant
“The training allowed me to achieve some confidence in my existing practice, whilst also challenging me to stretch and grow into a better group leader.”
Effective Group Leadership Course Participant
Upcoming Workshop Dates
15-16 July 2026
9:30am to 4:30pm both days
Relationships Australia NSW Parramatta
Level 6, 126 Church Street, Parramatta 2150
$880 + GST
SOLD OUT
14-15 September 2026
9:30am to 4:30pm both days
Relationships Australia NSW Parramatta
Level 6, 126 Church Street, Parramatta 2150
$880 + GST
Our Facilitators
Julie Wilson
Julie is the Practice Specialist, First Nations Manager at Relationships Australia, NSW. She is a proud Barkindji and Ngyiampaa woman and is the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Practice Specialist at Relationships Australia NSW.
Julie has over 30 years’ experience in delivering groupwork and training programs regarding trauma, grief and loss, cultural awareness, domestic violence, Men’s Behaviour Change programs and groupwork.
Andrew King
Andrew is the Practice Specialist, Groupwork and Community Education Manager at Relationships Australia,
NSW. He is a leading group work specialist in community services, counselling and health.
Andrew is also a respected author of multiple textbooks and training programs regarding groupwork and working with men, fathering and domestic violence.
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