Networking

[Viktoria Simonyan]

Hello Everyone!

My name is Viktoria Simonyan, I believe I am the new member that was mentioned earlier. Thank you for having me, I am happy to be here!I am curious where people in our group are living. 

I am a psychotherapist, though I have a deep passion for group facilitation and overall systems healing. I live in Israel and am currently looking to shift my career towards Dynamic Facilitation. What I am finding is that people here do not yet know what this is. Has anyone here come across the same problem? Living in a country where DF has not yet been developed? If so, what do you do and how do you go about creating something meaningful professionally? I am very open. I hope to hear your thoughts, ideas and suggestions. Also, if anyone knows of any contacts in Israel for me, please let me know. Thank you!

Shalom, 

Viktoria

[RosaZ]

H Viktoria (six months later...)

I just came across your post as I was reviewing my google groups page on the web. 

My deep apologies...  sometimes when I don't respond right away to something, I lose track of it,

and this was a very challenging winter for me, so it has been worse than usual.

Welcome to this group, though as you have seen, the group has been mostly dormant. 

As for myself, I live in the U.S... where yes, there is a similar situation to what you are describing;

most people are not aware of what Dynamic Facilitation is. 

I love hearing about your "deep passion for group facilitation and overall systems healing". 

My sense is that this is the key for creating something meaningful, professionally... 

to focus on the larger purpose, rather than on one particular methodology for "getting there". 

Germany and Austria are the countries where Dynamic Facilitation is relatively well-known. 

What I see when I look at the websites of practitioners there 

(you can do this by doing a Google search for Dynamic Facilitation in the German language)

is that most consultants who list DF as part of their practice, 

also list a number of other methodologies that they offer. 

In a way it is similar to psychotherapy field, in that many practitioners (at least here in the U.S.)

have studied a number of different approaches. 

If it is a well-known approach, people may "lead" with that...

as in, "I offer Jungian psychotherapy"....

but in many cases, people will lead with the desired outcome: 

"I offer people a safe space for making peace with your inner demons"

and then, list the various methods they have trained in, as part of their qualifications. 

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I hope this is helpful. I am so sorry about how late my response has been...

and I am also curious, about what you are doing now in Israel, 

if you are still thinking about shifting your career toward working with groups,

whether you have already done so or whether life has taken a different turn... 

In any case, I wish you all the best!

Rosa

www.diapraxis.com