Transform Lives with Training in Advanced Group, Team, Couples and Family Coaching
FROM ME TO WE
Empowering Practitioners with Social Therapeutic Coaching Innovations for Personal and Collective Growth
Welcome! Discover an advanced method to effectively engage and transform groups, teams, couples and families.
Our social therapeutic coaching approach empowers clients to unlock new life and professional possibilities, forge meaningful relationships and foster transformative growth.
Social Therapeutic Coaching was developed 40 years ago as a powerful and adaptable group-based method to enhance emotional resilience, relational awareness and community building. Our mission is to spread the social therapeutic method widely, promoting its flexible and impactful practice to create profound growth experiences in all types of coaching.
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Is Social Therapeutic Coaching right for you?
Social Therapeutic Coaching is an innovative, group-based approach to emotional well-being and personal growth. It offers coaches and helping professionals a powerful toolkit for turbo-charging client growth—especially emotional and relational/relationship growth.
The four pillars of social therapeutic coaching are grounded in solid multidisciplinary and intellectual roots: a holistic, social/cultural understanding of human development (Lev Vygotsky); tools drawn from theater and improv, relationality and our human capacity to create new language and meaning together (Ludwig Wittgenstein). Fused together, they produce a new lens—the WE lens—through which to see and understand what people do, say and feel.
Many of today’s most sought out thought leaders (David Brooks, Adam Grant, Batja Mesquita, Terry Real, Johann Hari, etc.) are calling out the limits of the ‘ME’ model that dominates American (and increasingly global) culture. They rightly point out that hyper-individualism fuels loneliness, decreases corporate productivity and innovation and keeps us trapped in emotional spirals of disassociation. These are great insights. Now what do we do about it?
Social therapeutics offers a proven, practical, learnable toolkit for practitioners to empower their clients with the ability to: create with emotions, rather than manage them; build up relational muscles that foster meaningful connection with others; see new possibilities of communicating, feeling and doing and act upon them. This approach is flexible and customizable, making it adaptable and effective in diverse coaching contexts.
Coaching greats Dr. Richard Boyatzis, Jonathan Passmore, Hetty Einzig and Bob Anderson are inviting and challenging us to move beyond goal-focused coaching and toward transformational and group work. Social therapeutic coaching is a methodological upgrade that builds on where we’ve come from as an industry and pragmatically offers something new.
Check out our media page for the growing recognition of the impact of social therapeutics—books, articles, podcasts, videos and presentations/workshops.
Social Therapeutic Coaching is right for you if you are a…
Professional
Coach
Learn how to add the ‘we’ lens and enhance your coaching techniques Expand your business with innovative social therapeutic methods.
Therapist
or Counselor
Transition to group coaching, family and couples sessions, integrating social therapeutic principles to offer new pathways for client growth and relational development.
Group & Team
Practitioner
Become a Certified Social Therapeutic Coach, using advanced methodologies to foster deeper connections and holistic development within groups and teams.
Training with us you will learn…
Holistic Group Coaching Dynamics: Understand and relate to the group as a whole (family, couples, teams).
Dual Communication: Address both the group and individuals simultaneously.
Emotional Intimacy: Foster a supportive group coaching environment.
Activity-Centered Growth: Focus on activities that build connections in your group.
Inspired Engagement: Encourage in-the-moment creativity.
Flexible Leadership: Develop a grounded presence in group coaching sessions.
Relational Encouragement: Promote meaningful group interactions.
Emotional Reflection: Highlight emotional growth moments in group coaching sessions.
Challenge Assumptions: Rethink embedded language assumptions.
Curiosity and Playfulness: Use playful and insightful questioning techniques.
How to get certified in Social Therapeutic Coaching
Step One
Read & Watch
Get our book and watch the video
Start with our book, Social Therapeutic Coaching: A Practical Guide to Group and Couples Work and watch the introductory video.
Step Two
Get Certified
Select either Level I
or II program
Learn from highly experienced trainers in an online community learning environment.
Step Three
Practice
Apply the power of social therapeutics
Develop your skills by practicing social therapeutics, empowering clients to create the lives they want.
Why the World Needs Social Therapeutic Coaching
Like coaching, social therapeutics was developed in the 1980s as an out-of-the-box, multi-disciplinary alternative to the traditional therapy. Since then, tens of thousands of social therapeutic group, family, and couples sessions have taken place worldwide.
Social therapeutics and coaching share
three essential core competencies:
Co-Creation: commitment to collaborative building
Emergent Growth: focus on what’s emerging
Transformation: emphasis on growth and change
Social therapeutics adds a unique lens of seeing and relating to groups (families, couples, teams), embodying emotional growth, emotional elasticity and relational awareness. In order to seriously address the loneliness crisis and widespread social anxiety—not to mention life’s everyday challenges and enhanced well-being—group-based emotional workouts are needed now more than ever.
When clients build up their emotional and relational muscles together, they grow and transform their lives, rather than be passive victims of an increasingly isolated, uncertain and destabilized world.
Increasing numbers of coaches seek to combine a sustainable business model with an innovative practice. More clients desire to experience belonging and community in their journey to become their best selves. Social therapeutic coaching groups unite these two needs and empower clients to become creators, with others, of their lives, their relationships, their families and teams.
The Book on Social Therapeutic Coaching
Social Therapeutic Coaching:
A Practical Guide to Group and Couples Work
Social Therapeutic Coaching: A Practical Guide to Group and Couples Work by Carrie Sackett and Murray Dabby introduces four key concepts and nine competencies of the method. The second half dives into what a coach might say and do as well as provides over two dozen practical examples of group and couples work.
The reader will likely see connections in social therapeutics with how they already practice and also feel challenged to stretch into new ways of speaking, feeling, doing and seeing.
What practitioners and thought leaders are saying.
“I am in awe of” social therapeutic couples coaching. — Jonathan Passmore, award-winning coach, psychologist and thought leader to his 20,000 LinkedIn followers
