Developmental Group Training
Growth. In Relationship.
For Coaches, Therapists and Individuals Engaged in Ongoing Personal Growth Work.
Why Social Therapeutic Coaching
The Three Pilars of Social Therapeutic Coaching
Social Therapeutic Coaching (STC) challenges the conventional Western individualistic assumptions about the nature of the self and the processes of coaching, therapy, and personal growth work.
Developed over 40 years ago, tens of thousands of social therapeutic sessions have occurred globally. Carrie Sackett has advanced this approach over the past 15 years by focusing on a group coaching method that empowers deeper human connection, emotional growth, and relational being-based development. Gordon Medlock is a therapist, coach, and educator with over 30 years’ experience working with a broad range of individual and group modalities. He has most recently found STC to be an exceptionally powerful relational framework for facilitating personal growth in ANY relational context – in families, intimate relationships, work environments, and developmental coaching and therapy.
Relational Being
Presence
Being/Becoming
Emotional-Cognitive Attunement
Informed Improvisation
Theater/creative performative engagement
Building the group ensemble
Designing new performances
Integrative Development
What’s Needed in the Moment
Facilitating Developmental Movement
From Egocentrism to Transcendence
This is your opportunity to:
Enliven your personal and professional relationships
Increase your effectiveness in working with groups, teams, families, couples and 1:1 work
Enhance your overall sense of well-being
Experience small cohort learning
Training Program
3 months, 9 continuing education units (cces), certificate in Social Therapeutic Coaching. Enrollment limited to 8 participants.
Introductory Weekend
Introduces the conceptual framework, group facilitation methods and fundamental principles and agreements. Expect experiential learning, engaged dialogue, coaching simulations in an intimate learning and development environment. (9 cces ICF)
11:00am - 5:00pm ET Saturday and Sunday
90-minute Social Therapeutic Group experience followed by 30 minutes meta-processing of the group experience.
Leadership of weeks 6-10 will rotate among group participants. The last two groups will be devoted to further integrative reflection on learning and application in your life and your practice.
These sessions are recorded for optional review and self-reflection on the principles, processes, and outcomes of the group experience for that week.
12:00pm-2:00pm ET Mondays or Wednesdays (TBD)
12 Weekly Life Development Group Sessions
2 Individual Sessions
With the principal facilitators Gordon and Carrie. To be used as you wish to support your personal work and/or your application of the STC principles and processes in your work with clients.
To receive a certificate in Social Therapeutic Coaching, you will include the submission of learning artifacts that demonstrate your understanding and application of the STC Pillars, Principles, Processes, and Expected Outcomes in your personal life and in your practice (if applicable).
By participating in the initial cohort experience, you will receive a 40% discount. Registration is $1,750. After the initial cohort the program will be offered at $2,500. Please contact Gordon or Carrie for further details.
About the Group Leaders
Carrie Sackett, MS, PCC
A leading global authority on group work, Carrie is recognized as a coaching method innovator. ICF-accredited coach trainer, her work has been described as “paradigm-shifting” and a “game-changer”.
She is the founder of Social Therapeutic Coaching, a group-based and relationship-centered approach to emotional growth, and the author of one of the few practical books on group coaching with case studies and applied examples. (See Social Therapeutic Coaching: A Practical Guide to Group and Couples Work, Routledge 2024).
Carrie specializes in Life Development Groups, supporting clients to experience growth in the moment and in relation to others. She trained with the founders of social therapeutics in New York and has led global change management and employee engagement initiatives within Fortune 500 organizations.
She is a frequent contributor to coaching publications and podcasts, an international speaker, and has trained more than 1200 coaches worldwide through The Center for Group and Couples Coaching.
Carrie received her MS from Columbia University and BA from Duke University.
A licensed clinical social worker and professional certified coach, Gordon has over 30 years of experience facilitating personal growth work through therapeutic and coaching lenses—integrating emotional depth and reflective action to enhance relationships, careers, and overall well-being.
Gordon has over 12 years’ experience teaching in university-based coaching and therapy programs. He also has over a dozen published peer-reviewed articles in areas related to transformational growth and learning. He has found Social Therapeutic Group Coaching to be a highly effective relational approach to facilitating personal development, providing an alternative to the highly individualistic approaches of mainstream Western therapy and coaching.
Gordon received a PhD in philosophy from Yale University and an MA degree in Clinical Social Work from the University of Chicago, where he specialized in working with families, individuals, and groups. His personal interests focus on appreciating the creative process in everyday relationships, work, and the arts. For relaxation and fitness, he enjoys golf, hiking, and triathlon sports. He lives with his wife and their pet dog, Perdita, in the Hudson Valley in New York and in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
Gordon Medlock, PhD, LCSW, PCC
If this kind of practice feels meaningful to you, we invite you to step in.
Training Testimonials
“This was an exceptional session. Really challenged our thinking, gave us opportunity to practice a method, and think more broadly and deeply about group coaching.
“Thank you for providing a foundational understanding of Social Therapeutic Coaching and then sharing very practical tips to help shift my mindset and practice.”
Carrie’s coaching.com training to 200 professionals. Rated 9 out of 10 by participants.
“I cannot say enough about the immediate sense of community and belonging I feel in my group. It’s transformative.”
— Maria S.
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