How To Structure A Group Coaching Session

The document outlines eight steps for leading groups, including establishing rituals, centering practices, introductions, explaining the topic and process, sharing experiences, closing ceremonies, and social time. The steps are intended to generate benefits and address potential problems in group settings.

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Activation™

Method Guide
Eight Steps for Leading Groups In Person or Online
By Magali & Mark Peysha

Here are eight steps we recommend you follow when setting up Group Work. They accomplish
more than it may appear at first – allowing you to generate more benefits and anticipate
possible problems before they appear.

This PDF is intended as a companion to Magali Peysha’s video training, How To Set Up A Group
Coaching Session.

Step 1: Group Leader Ritual
It’s important to establish a ritual for your own self-centering, purpose, and connection before
entering a group setting. This invokes your inner resources as the group leader and prepares
you to enter the zone of connected presence-based leadership.

Step 2: Centering Practice with Group Members
This grounds the group and establishes a strong energetic connection – a connection with gives
everybody the strength to share and discover more deeply. This is also an experience which
group members can return to as needed whenever they feel they lose their center. Learning
this practice helps the group members stay more present, connected to their center and able to
be in deep connection with the other participants. Examples of centering practice might
include:

-Self-connection
-Connection with universal energy field
-Personal connection with all group members together

Step 3: Introductions and Intention-Setting
This introduction sets the tone and highlights some of the policies that will enable a successful
and fulfilling Group Coaching session. Especially if you’re establishing a group for the first time,
participants are often unclear about what the group is for. Hearing this from you enables them
to develop trust in the process in an accelerated way. Some of these may include:

-Listening to others and being heard with no judgment, criticism, side comments, or
prying questions. This prevents critical participants from developing conflicts.
-Group members each share where they are today and what their intentions are for the
session. Hearing each other’s object of focus enables participants to learn from each other.

If you have over ten members then split into groups of 6 to do this. This is like personal goal
setting and welcoming of individual self into group atmosphere.

Step 4: Topic of the Day and Story
Clearly explain the day’s process. Explain it once in a linear way. Then it’s good to explain it
again in the form of a story. We teach our Group Coaches how to develop explanatory stories.
Stories can be derived from own personal discovery story or someone else’s story from your
coaching tradition.

The leader’s sharing sets the larger group spirit and intention. You will be showing courageous
vulnerability, hope, and curiosity. This increases all resources in group members. There is shared
intention and purpose.

Step 5: Group Process
This is a self-discovery process to activate creativity and resources in each participant. This
might be a guided process with time for members to journal, move, do art and so on.

Or

Step 5: Group Exercises
This can be a time to demonstrate an exercise in front of the group with one member. Next,
create break out rooms for partners or groups of 3 to work together.

During this time the group members are gathering resources and welcoming greater connection
with self, flow, creativity, insight and drive.

Step 6: Sharing Experience and Questions
A time to learn what happened personally for some of the participants. Sometimes you will
coach an individual group member at this point. Sometimes you’ll pick up on a theme, question,
or observation that you can expand.

This is time of integration of the work with the rest of a person’s life. How will this affect their
work, their spouse and so on?

Step 7: Closing Ceremony
In the closing ceremony you will be guiding the group to create a safe ending to their process.
This way they can re-enter the stream of life with awakened love and creativity.

You will ask everyone to create a self-generated commitment to practice one part of process at
home. You may want to use sound or breathing to form deep connection as a close to the
container of the group. Remind the group that this a sacred space of no judgment. The process
is confidential and information doesn’t leave the group. Even during the next phase of social
time, members should be careful not to place any of their own beliefs or judgments onto
another member’s experience. Instead, practice deep respectful listening and sharing.

Step 8: Social Time
After the official group has ended, it’s good to establish time for friendship, grounding and
relaxed connection. There can be an option to join small groups to talk together for the last half
hour. Or there can be in person social time to mingle, dance or decompress through chatting
and snacks or beverages. Online Groups can keep chat on for people to connect.

Creates deeper support network for group members. Allows for an integration of group self with
social self.

These Eight Steps are deceptively simple, yet they help you avoid 90% of the problems that
tend to develop in Group Coaching sessions. A more detailed version of this sessions structure
is offered with the Activation™ Method Group Coach Training. Enrollment is available here:
www.GroupCoach.net