Group Therapy Training
with Betty Cannon, Ph.D.
November 2008 - May 2009
Working with groups is both an art and a science. This workshop will combine techniques drawn from Gestalt, existential, psychodynamic, and systems approaches to group. Group members will observe and experience groups and practice leading the group in a safe learning environment.
Where: 1140 Lehigh Street, Boulder, Colorado, 80305
Date: Friday afternoons, twice a month, November to May.
Date: 4:00 to 8:15 P.M. (first fifteen minutes gathering and social time)
Eligibility: Mental Health Professionals and Psychology Graduate Students (Exceptions may be made on
individual basis following an interview.)
Cost: $20 an hour or $80 per four-hour session (All sessions are videotaped.
You are responsible for missed sessions, which may be viewed on DVD.)
The Workshop Leader: Betty Cannon is a licensed psychologist and certified Gestalt therapist who has worked with individuals, couples and groups in Boulder for thirty years. She holds doctorates in both literature and psychology. She is the author of numerous journal articles, book chapters, and an internationally recognized book on existentialist therapy, Sartre and Psychoanalysis: An Existentialist Challenge to Clinical Metatheory (University Press of Kansas, 1991; French translation, Presses Universitaires de France, 1993). She is a member of the editorial boards of three professional journals, Sartre Studies International, The (British) Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis, and The Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, and an internationally known lecturer and workshop presenter. She is a senior adjunct faculty member in the Transpersonal Counseling Psychology Master’s Program at Naropa University, an adjunct faculty member at Regis University, an Emerita Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Colorado School of Mines, and president, co-founder and co-director of the Boulder Psychotherapy Institute. She is an executive committee member and former president of the Colorado Group Psychotherapy Society, which is a branch of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, and a former chair of the North American Sartre Society. Her work combines Gestalt, existential, psychodynamic and body oriented approaches with a special emphasis on interpersonal work and group therapy. She offers individual and group psychotherapy as well as individual and group supervision for mental health professionals.
Registration: To register for this workshop or to receive further information about our training program or therapist e-mail networking list, call us at 303-494-0393, or e-mail our managing director, Reed Lindberg, M.A., L.P.C., at BPI.training (at) boulderpsych.com. A $40 deposit holds your place in the workshop.