Counselling group workshops
Launch checklist
Ten things before session one, and the same three lists every week. Tick with a pen.
Before session one
- Pick one topic and one audience, narrow enough to name in six words
- Choose the format, the number of sessions and the length
- Confirm your licence covers a paid group and check the title you advertise
- Book the room. Chairs in a circle, no table in the middle
- Write the one-page flyer: who it is for, the dates, the price, how to apply
- Run a fifteen minute screening call with every applicant
- Consent form signed: confidentiality and its limits, cancellation, recording
- Write all session plans before session one, not the night before each
- Book your own supervision for the whole run, weekly for a process group
- Print the feedback form. Give it at session one and at the last session
Every session
Before
- Chairs in a circle, no table in the middle
- Plan printed, one idea only
- Forms and task cards on the seat
- Phone on silent, door closed
During
- Rules stated in thirty seconds
- Everyone speaks in the opening round
- Task written down before they leave
- Closing round done, nobody walks out opened up
After
- Notes written the same day
- Attendance logged
- Anything for supervision noted
- Message anyone who missed