This course will introduce students to the foundational concepts and skills required for group facilitation. Students explore different stages of groups, group processes, and therapeutic forces, as well as the purpose of groups. Additionally, the course covers the introduction, conduction, and process of exercises, and how to engage group members in counselling and therapy sessions.  What will you learn:  Identifying various types of group facilitations, the stages they proceed through, dynamics, therapeutic forces, clarity of purpose, the three evaluation models used to evaluate groups, and the four goals of closing final sessions.  Utilizing the nineteen subjects to consider in a first session, applying the thirteen specific leadership skills and the three models of co-leading, as well as holding, shifting, and deepening the focus of a group.  Recognizing the importance, procedures, and common reasons for cut-offs, common practices for round, dyad, and the advantages and disadvantages of triads, as well as various exercises, goals of those exercises, and when to best conduct them.  Understanding the importance, skills, techniques, and common mistakes of middle sessions. Describing the applications of rational emotive behaviour therapy, reality therapy, Adlerian therapy, gestalt therapy, and solution-focused therapy in groups, as well as the three stages of change.