Life Development Groups

What is a Life Development Group?

Life Development Groups (LDG) offer a unique opportunity for coaches to broaden their client base. LDG bring together diverse people with diverse life challenges to collaborate for real-life relational growth. Both ongoing and short-term groups provide more comprehensive support than individual sessions while also securing a stable revenue stream for practitioners.

Enhance your practice with Life Development Group Training Programs:

Colorful leaves explaining how you can enhance your presence with life development groups through social therapeutic coaching

  • Holistic Group Dynamics: Understand and relate to the group as a whole (family, couple, team).

  • Dual Communication: Address both the group and individuals simultaneously.

  • Emotional Intimacy: Foster a supportive environment.

  • Activity-Centered Growth: Focus on activities that build connections.

  • Inspired Engagement: Encourage in-the-moment creativity.

  • Flexible Leadership: Develop a grounded presence for leading sessions.

  • Relational Encouragement: Promote meaningful interactions.

  • Emotional Reflection: Highlight emotional growth moments.

  • Challenge Assumptions: Rethink embedded language assumptions.

  • Curiosity and Playfulness: Use playful and insightful questioning techniques.

Experience a Life Development Group for Practitioners

The next 6-week group starts Wednesday, September 11

Prerequisite: Book Study or Weekend Intensive. Limited to 8 participants.

Why Groups?

We are a social species; pretty much everybody agrees on that.

We live in groups, though we often do not see or experience our group-ness. Our culture prioritizes the individual and their interior experience. This focus can limit our growth and our ability to relate to others, contributing significantly to loneliness, social anxiety and addiction.

The commonly proposed solutions—for emotional pain, feeling stuck and achieving life goals—often focus on the individual changing themselves and their behavior using a made-for-an-individual approach, creating a methodological mismatch.

Thought leaders like David Brooks and Adam Grant, couples therapists like Terry Real, and even neuroscientists are now advocating that the unit of development and growth is the group, the team, the couple, the family, and the community. 

That’s where social therapeutics comes in. It was engineered as a group-based method from the start, aligning with how people actually live: in groups. 

Social therapeutic groups are diverse demographically and by the issues participants work on. Without the presumption of sameness, the focus shifts to the activity of building the group, building with all the different experiences, pain, and issues that participants bring to it. 

Group members (family members, partners) learn to give emotionally in the moment. They develop the capacity to express how they are being impacted on by others. These activities function differently than giving advice, comparing, competing or withholding judgement. Groups are messy, like life is messy. And when people discover they can create with the mess and uncertainty, they discover their power to create their lives and relationships.

What Participants Say

  • “Now I see group as a place to practice taking emotional risks with others. The sense of trust and intimacy has had huge impact on me. My relationships outside of group have become more fulfilling and honest.”

  • “We never really had hard conversations in our marriage. Now we are and we are discovering that the relationship can handle it. This has allowed us to feel closer and enjoy each other much more.”

  • “Our family has come to accept the different ways we are each grieving the loss of our son. We have stopped judging and competing with each other. We are relating in completely new ways.”

  • “I cannot say enough about the immediate sense of community and belonging I feel in my group. It’s transformative.”