Cape Cod Training Program

The program has provided a distinctive learning opportunity for consultants, therapists, coaches and leaders from around the world since 1980. In structured and highly interactive sessions, participants learn how to become effective agents for change using the Cape Cod Model^©.

CCTP teaches a specific process of intervening for the highest possible impact for individuals, dyads and small groups/work-teams. The program is structured so that content and theory presentations are followed by intensive small group practice sessions in which the foundational principles are applied. Because of our small faculty-participant ratio, this program provides an unusually high level of individual attention, with each participant receiving daily feedback from our seasoned faculty.

The first week of the program focuses on working with dyads and includes: perceiving the system as a whole instead of as separate individuals; exploring the role of the intervener; examining countertransference and boundaries; and understanding and connecting intimate and strategic ways of relating.

The second week focuses on working with small groups. Topics include: working effectively within a hierarchical system; introduction of the similarities between working with families and working with teams or other small groups; and learning how to help small groups become more effective and successful.

Whether you work with individuals, dyads, families, groups or work-teams, the Cape Cod Training program will enrich your capacity to intervene with impact.

Benefits

Participants will:

• Learn to use oneself as a powerful instrument of influence
  
• Learn an approach that recognizes how people connect
  
• Develop the ability to give compelling, appreciative feedback
  
• Learn how to appreciate and articulate the competence of the client or client system
  
• Understand a sequence of steps for intervention
  
• Gain insights into the differences between strategic and intimate ways of relating and understand the appropriate use of each
  
• Learn creative approaches to helping clients expand their range of behavior
  
• Enhance their ability to work with differences
  
• Have an opportunity for extensive practice
  
• Receive daily faculty feedback
  

Participants

This program is designed to benefit coaches, organizational consultants, psychotherapists and other mental health and social service professionals, as well as leaders, educators, and others.

Further Study
For increased mastery of the Cape Cod Model^© and practice in applying this methodology to specific situations in organizations, participants should also register for Cape Cod Training Program: The Third Week, Coaching and Consulting with Teams: Applying the Cape Cod Model in Organization, Advanced Supervision, and Applying the Cape Cod Model to Coaching. These programs provide extensive practice opportunities for specific application of the Cape Cod Model^©.

Note: This program requires an application along with a $250 non-refundable application fee that will be applied toward tuition. Apply online here.

Continuing Education

Coaches: This program is certified for continuing education credit by the International Coach Federation (ICF) for 85 core competency hours.

Mental health professionals: please inquire about available CEUs.

"The Cape Cod Training Program offers a methodology that makes a difference. With a lot of hands-on practice, and support from an excellent faculty, I walked away with readily transferable skills that enable me to be an even more effective consultant."

Lynn Varagona, MBA, PhD
Co-Founder
Trust Capital Institute

“The Gestalt International Study Center and its faculty have a unique, elegant and wonderfully simple way of working with individuals, groups and organizations. Participants experience the approach and get it in their bones. Unlike a typical training or lecture, this allows therapists, business and community leaders or consultants the means of sharing it directly with the systems they work in to achieve powerful impact. The tranquil setting of outer Cape Cod offers the luxury of a change in environment and the opportunity for reflection, which deepen the learning experience.”

Mark Hollern
Organization Development Consultant
Covance, Inc.

“The Cape Cod Training Program was immensely helpful for me, both personally and professionally. In my work as a psychotherapist, CCTP provided me a way to really ‘see’ my clients in the relationships and systems that they are a part of. This knowledge has improved my effectiveness in my work with couples. On a personal level, CCTP helped me to gain insight into my own dynamics within a system. The largely experiential teaching methods allow for the information to be absorbed in a very meaningful way. I recommend CCTP to any clinician looking for a new form of personal and professional growth.”

Erika Hellwig
Psychotherapist

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