How do we create spaces where people can truly think together — especially when emotions run high, voices are unequal, and disagreement feels risky?

Join us for the launch of _The Art of Group Facilitation: Difficult Conversations and Effective Reflective Practice_, exploring the facilitator's role in cultivating environments that support reflective groups to move beyond disorganised, stagnant dynamics toward genuine, contained and sustainable change.

Drawing on decades of real-world experience across education, healthcare, social care, law, journalism, and community and humanitarian work, the book offers practical, ethically grounded ways to hold the frame, work with power and unequal voices, and stay present when conversations become difficult. Expect real case material examined from multiple angles, and key ideas — dynamic safety, intelligent empathy, compassionate inadequacy, kind courage — that reframe what skilled facilitation actually looks like in practice.

This is what Neil Kinnock says about the book:

_"Humanity is – as ever – divided. But – as always – there is more care than conflict. Taking advantage of that reality, Beverley Costa uses 30 years of professional experience to help all who foster understanding, as their work or through goodwill, to enable disparate groups to communicate honestly, safely and effectively in an ethical framework."_

This session is for anyone who facilitates or takes part in reflective groups: therapists, supervisors, educators, and other relational practitioners who recognise the power of people thinking together, and want tools to do it constructively with more dynamic care, confidence, and fairness.

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