Cutting-edge innovations in human development, community-building and emotional growth 

Accessible training, transformational results

Welcome! If you want to learn an advanced method for seeing and relating to the group (couple, family, or team) as a whole, you have come to the right place.

When you practice the social therapeutic approach, you help clients turbocharge their capacity to create new life possibilities, new kinds of relationships and conversations, and new pathways to growth. 

Self-consciously created as a group-based method, social therapeutics is powerful and unique.

Our mission is to diffuse social therapeutics far and wide, for it is a practice of method and, therefore, highly flexible and adaptable. 

Training with us you will learn to:

  • See and relate to the group (family, couple, team) as a whole

  • Speak to the group and the individual simultaneously

  • Support the group to create an emotionally intimate environment

  • Relate to people’s activity with each other as central to building the group (more central than the content of what people say) 

  • Embody the social therapeutic principle of performance and inspire clients to give and create in the moment with each other

  • Develop deep, grounded presence and the capacity to lead without knowing where the group session is going

  • Encourage relationality among group participants

  • Reflect back moments of group (couple, family) and individual emotional growth

  • Question assumptions embedded in how we speak

  • Ask curious questions

  • Be playful, especially with language

Train here if you are a…

Professional
Coach

Advance your skillset and expand your business opportunities

Therapist
or Counselor

Shift into seeing the group and offer a new service to your clients

Group & Team
Practitioner

Grow your business as a Certified Social Therapeutic Coach

How to get certified

Step One

Read & Watch

Get our book and watch the video

Social Therapeutic Coaching: A Practical Guide to Group and Couples Work is becoming the go-to manual for group and couples practice.

Step Two

Get Certified

Decide on Level I
or II program

Learn from highly experienced trainers in an online community learning environment.

Step Three

Practice

Practice the power of social therapeutics

Develop your capacity to support clients to grow into creating the lives they want.

Our Book

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 fourteen 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 about
Social Therapeutic Coaching
by Carrie Sackett, MS, PCC and Murray Dabby:

  • The innovations of social therapeutics inform my coaching practice every day. This book is a ground-breaking offering for co-creating trust, connection, belonging and community; and, most importantly, for supporting our clients to achieve their goals in life and work.

    — Elizabeth C. Hechtman, MS, PCC, CPCC, Past President, ICF Philadelphia

  • Sackett and Dabby define a new niche in the modern coaching industry. Social Therapeutic Coaching introduces new/old knowledge so that coaches can help the masses during this rather difficult time of “humaning”. This book is brilliant on so many levels.

    — Michael Tucker MA, PCC, CSM, CSPO

  • I have experienced the power of social therapeutic group and couples work as a client. It has changed my own life and my practice as a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Sackett and Dabby teach tools for emotional closeness. I encourage practitioners of all types to read it.

    — Aneil M. Shirke, MD, PhD, FABPN, FABP 

  • This is a rare book that succeeds in uniting theory and practice. Even rarer is doing it with such joy. As a practical-philosophical guide, Social Therapeutic Coaching brings the history, concepts and practices of social therapeutics to the field of coaching and, in the process, enriches both of them.

    — Lois Holzman, PhD, Director, East Side Institute

Why social therapeutics? 

Like coaching, social therapeutics was developed in the 1980s as an out-of-the-box, cross-disciplinary alternative to the traditional therapy available at the time. Since then, tens of thousands of social therapeutic group, family, and couples sessions have taken place the world over. 

Social therapeutics and coaching share
three essential core competencies:

  • the commitment to co-creation

  • building with what’s emerging 

  • the focus on growth and transformation

What social therapeutics adds is the lens of seeing and relating to groups (families, couples, teams) and the embodiment of emotional growth, emotional elasticity and relational awareness. We believe that a crucial element to addressing the loneliness crisis, moving through life difficulties, and enhancing our well-being is for everyone to be invited to participate in group-based emotional workouts. 

When clients build up their emotional and relational muscles together, they grow. They exercise their capacity to transform their lives, rather than be passive victims of an increasingly isolated, uncertain and destabilized world. 

Increasing numbers of coaches are seeking to combine a sustainable business model with an innovative practice. More clients are seeking an ongoing sense of belonging and community in their journey to become their best selves. Social therapeutic groups unite these two needs and empower clients to become creators, with others, of their lives, their relationships, their families and teams.