What are your skills and training in running groups?

Jon and Helen are two highly experienced and qualified men’s group facilitators. We both also have extensive personal experience being members of groups as part of our healing and growth journeys. 

Helen brings over seven years of experience as a Men’s Behaviour Change group facilitator. She has completed a ‘Graduate Certificate in Men’s Behaviour Change – Individual and Group-work Interventions through NSW Health. She is also a trained and experienced group facilitator of the Caring Dad’s group program developed in Canada. She has also trained in the Gestalt psychotherapeutic approach to groups, emphasising working in the ‘here and now’. In addition, Helen has completed training in “Yalom Group Psychotherapy: Leadership and Facilitation skills”.

Jon has been facilitating groups for the past six years that include Men’s Behaviour Change, Engage, and psychoeducational programs, and has received extensive training in motivational interviewing, behavioural change strategies, and groupwork-specific techniques. The various programs that Jon has delivered include a broad range of topics, such as: Addiction and Recovery and Other Dependencies, Family Systems, Emotions, Anger, Conflict Resolution, Resentments, Stress Management, Managing Sadness, Depression and Loneliness, Self Esteem, Relationships, Shame and Guilt, and Self-Awareness.