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In this episode of The Web: Weaving Psychology and Soul in Circle, Carrie sits down with Andrew L. Brimhall, PhD, Assistant Director of Training and Group Services at Colorado State University’s Health Network, where he oversees the training of doctoral psychology interns in Interpersonal Process Group Therapy.
Together, they explore what it means to stay with the process when difference, tension, or rupture enters the group room. Drawing from Andrew’s Yalom-inspired and social justice-informed approach, they talk about working with differences in identity, power, neurodivergence, lived experience, and political beliefs—and the responsibility facilitators hold when harm or rupture occurs. They also explore how easily groups can get pulled into the content of a conversation, and what becomes possible when we help members move underneath the content toward the feelings, fears, needs, and relational patterns unfolding in the here and now.
You’ll hear:
How to stay with the process when the content becomes compelling
Ways of working with difference, identity, and power in groups
What facilitators can attend to when harm or rupture occurs
How to move beneath content toward the relational process unfolding in the room
The role of curiosity and immediacy when things get complicated
How a social justice-informed lens can deepen interpersonal process work
Carrie and Andrew will also be teaching together this November in Fort Collins in Here and Now: An Experiential Training in Group Dynamics and Interpersonal Process, a two-day experience for therapists who want to deepen their understanding of process groups through both learning and direct experience.
Direction: Carrie Haynes
Production: Hayley Lewis
Music:
Song: Embrace
Composer: Sappheiros
License: Creative Commons (BY 3.0)
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Additional music from Alsever Lake and Reveille