AGPA is “the foremost professional association dedicated to the field of group psychotherapy…with 26 local and regional societies located across the country.” It is also the governing body through which a counseling professional can become a Certified Group Psychotherapist (CGP). Their annual AGPA Connect meeting is highly respected and well-attended. https://agpa.org

CGS is a training program based in New York City that offers a “psychodynamically-oriented understanding and experience in working with groups wherever they occur.” Their training includes a weekend program that meets three times a year and leads to a Certificate in Modern Group Leadership. They also offer workshops in person and online throughout the year. https://www.groupcenter.org

CGPS is an affiliate of AGPA whose mission is to “provide training experiences through workshops, conferences, and supervision and consultation groups; provide networking opportunities and peer support for professionals interested in psychotherapy and group psychotherapy; support members in establishing and leading process oriented psychotherapy groups,” and more. https://carolinasgps.org

Founded and facilitated by Jacob Winkler, MGTC meets on Zoom three days week to watch and analyze footage of demo process groups, discuss articles about group therapy, and talk about anything else group related. Peer supervision, referrals, mentorship, and continuing ed credits are also included in the monthly membership. https://grouptherapynj.com/mgtc

Required watching for anyone interested in leading groups or being a member of them! Renowned group leader and CGS faculty member Elliot Zeisel plays the leader of a long-standing group who has a new member. All of the group participants are actors, but they’re mostly improvising, and viewers get to be flies on the wall of a realistic portrayal of three separate group therapy sessions. Watch here.

CGS graduate Angelo Ciliberti interviews dozens of leaders and teachers in the group psychotherapy field, including such esteemed figures as Bob Unger, Ronnie Levine, Aaron Black, Elliot Zeisel (of YouTube’s Group fame), Irvin Yalom, Richards Beck and Billow, Robert Pepper, and Lucy Holmes. An absolute must-listen for anyone interested in process groups! Listen here.

Best friends for thirty-plus years, Sarah Taylor and Vanessa Caruso discuss what they’re learning in their early days as process group co-leaders. Their gift for meaning-making and metaphor mingling, infused with the intimacy that comes with knowing each other so well for most of their lives, makes this podcast a pure joy to listen to. Inspiring and edifying! Listen here.

Podcast host and producer “Sarah B” Simpson (cofounder of AGPS) shares her thoughts on anything having to do with philosophy and spirituality, with a handful of episodes that apply such ideas to interpersonal process groups. Check out the one on The Group Therapy Experience, by CGS founder Louis Ormont, as well as the one in which Sarah interviews Saying the Unsaid group leaders Vanessa Caruso and Sarah Taylor.

In this short interview, renowned process group leader and Naropa University professor Bob Unger discusses the many benefits of group, how it differs from individual therapy, and his own inspirations in the field. He says that leading groups “keeps me alive and keeps me interested, and appreciative of the dilemmas of anyone and everyone.”