Six weeks.
One room, tended.
A group is not six one-to-one sessions happening in the same room. It is a different instrument, with a different failure mode.
In a one-to-one session you hold one nervous system. In a group you hold the room, and the participants hold each other whether you planned for it or not. That is the entire opportunity and the entire risk.
What is in it
- The Six-Week Group Arc. Ninety minutes, six to ten participants, with what happens each week and what gets assigned between.
- Session One written out in full, minute by minute, from the sixty seconds of silence at 0:00 to the ritual close at 1:15.
- The Repeatable Structure for weeks two to six, segment by segment.
- Group Agreements, participant facing and printable, with signature lines.
- Five co-regulation exercises that only work in a room, which is what a participant is actually paying a group for.
- Managing Disclosure, the four step move, with the words to say.
- The Four Difficult Moments and what to do in each.
- Group-specific referral triggers, plus what to document after every session.
- Cohesion tracker for all six weeks and a printable participant tracker.
- Logistics and Pricing, including how to price a seat against your one-to-one rate.
Why cohesion, and not content
Cohesion is the group-level analogue of the therapeutic alliance, and it is not a by-product of good material. A meta-analysis of 55 studies found a significant association between cohesion and outcome, and found that deliberate facilitator effort to build it measurably moved the result. Burlingame, McClendon and Yang 2018, Psychotherapy. The co-regulation section rests on Porges 2007 in Biological Psychology.
The page most kits leave out
Week five is where groups go wrong. Someone opens something the room cannot hold, and you have forty minutes and no clinical mandate. This kit gives you the exact move, the sentence to say, and what to do in the ten minutes after the session ends.
It also states the uncomfortable half of the evidence in print: group work can harm as well as help, and badly run groups can produce worse outcomes than no group at all. The safeguards here are not paperwork.
This kit does not confer a clinical qualification, is not group psychotherapy training, and is not a substitute for training, licensure, insurance, supervision, or the scope-of-practice rules where you work. Group work carries risks that one-to-one work does not. You are responsible for practising within your competence.