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
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:
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.