{"id":2377,"date":"2016-03-17T10:14:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T09:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lionel-thevenard.com\/?page_id=2377"},"modified":"2016-03-22T17:12:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T16:12:06","slug":"therapy-groups","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lionel-thevenard.fr\/?page_id=2377&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Therapy Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"margin-top: 30px; padding-top: 30px;\"><p>Group therapy is often a complement to individual therapy although not always.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The group brings its energy, exchanges, kind confrontations, experience-sharing so that one doesn\u2019t feel alone any more in one\u2019s difficulties &amp; pain.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes a <strong>relaxation<\/strong> or an <strong>awaken dream<\/strong> starts the group session and creates a buffer between the day activities and self-centering. Typically, a first round of work &amp; exchanges in sub-groups around the subject of the day allows everyone to discover and express thoughts\/emotions\/findings prior to restitution within the larger group and work with the therapist(s).<\/p>\n<p>I practice group therapy in a way that there are exchanges between participants as well as <strong>between participants<\/strong> and therapist(s) and not between participants and therapist(s) only. This is what makes the therapy group a relationship laboratory which evolves towards <strong>authentic relationships<\/strong>, thanks to everyone\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p>To experiment this group dynamic in which therapist(s) are the rules watcher(s) and keeper(s), decreases with time <strong>the idea of risk<\/strong> that each participant takes in showing him\/herself in words to the other group members. The beauty of this practice is it allows to <strong>be oneself <\/strong><em>within and outside the group<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Group rules are: free speech, unjudging listening, kind confrontations, no violent or sexual acting-outs between group members and with the therapist(s) and sharing of what\u2019s going on for oneself.<\/p>\n<p>I enforce these rules to which I add <strong>confidentiality<\/strong> covering everything happening in the group.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Group therapy is for up to 12 participants and lasts 3 hours (evening) or 1 day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Group therapy is often a complement to individual therapy although not always. The group brings its energy, exchanges, kind confrontations, experience-sharing so that one doesn\u2019t feel alone any more in one\u2019s difficulties &amp; pain. Sometimes a relaxation or an awaken dream starts the group session and creates a buffer between the day activities and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2294,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2377","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lionel-thevenard.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lionel-thevenard.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lionel-thevenard.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lionel-thevenard.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lionel-thevenard.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lionel-thevenard.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lionel-thevenard.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lionel-thevenard.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}