AGPA e-Learning Events
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Registration information, learning objectives, and references for the events listed below will be posted to the AGPA e-Learning Library approximately 1-2 months prior to each event date. Most of these events will be recorded and made available in the e-Learning Library approximately one week after the live event.

August 2022‎

Online Institute: The Sexual Infant Within
Sundays, August 21 & 28, 2022 from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM & 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM‎ (Eastern) *Please be cognizant of applicable time zones

Hilary Callan Curtis, PsyD, LMHC, CGP‎

The roots of infantile sexuality have an abiding impact on our self-concept, our relationships, and group ‎culture/process. How do we integrate various levels of sexuality in our lives? How do we allow the enigmatic to ‎stimulate ongoing development? This Institute explores our significant, early introduction to the complex and peculiar ‎world of the sexual as defined by LaPlanche.‎

‎12 CE Credits available at $240 for members/ $480 for nonmembers. This event is not recorded. ‎

Webinar: LGBTQ+ Topics Consultation and Supervision
Sunday, August 21, 2022 from 6:00 - 8:00 PM (Eastern) *Please be cognizant of applicable time zones

William Sharp, PsyaD, LMHC, CGP

Experienced and new (or new to topics related to serving lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning, and more) clinicians alike encounter nuanced, interesting, sometimes tricky topics in providing group therapy to LGBTQ+ people of all ages. This experiential offering is a chance to collaborate with fellow group therapists to discuss anonymized or hypothetical group therapy case issues and dynamics relevant to people who have marginalized social status as a result of their sexual orientation of gender identity.

Participation for members is free. Participation for nonmembers is $80.00. 2.0 CE credits are available at $40.00 for ‎members or $80.00 for nonmembers.


September 2022‎

Online Institute: Process Group Experience

Thursdays, September 8, 15, 22, 29, Oct. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2022 from 1:00 - 2:30 PM (Eastern) *Please be cognizant of ‎applicable time zones

Janice M. Morris, PhD, ABPP, CGP, FAGPA


The process group experience sections will stress the basic elements of group ‎functioning, development, here-and-now group process and examine both the dynamics ‎and process of group psychotherapy.  The Institute is structured to maximize learning ‎about group formation, and the role of the leaders and participants in the establishment ‎of group roles, boundaries, norms and structure. Psychodynamic concepts including ‎transference, individual and group resistance and defense mechanisms will be examined ‎as they emerge in the group process.  The contribution of the leader to the development ‎of a cohesive and functional group will be examined.‎

‎12 CE Credits available at $240 for members/ $480 for nonmembers. This event is not recorded. ‎

Webinar: Starting a Group in Private Practice: The How, the Who, the Where
Sunday, September 18, 2022 – Time TBD

Jill Lewis, MA, LCSW, CEDS-S, CGP

The webinar will provide members all the tools to help start and build a successful private practice. Discussing starting ‎dates, fees, advertising, group norms, consultations, telehealth vs in person, conjoint vs combined, criteria for inclusion ‎and exclusion. Everything someone needs to help facilitate this process successfully. ‎

Participation for members is free. Participation for nonmembers is $60.00. 1.5 CE credits are available at $30 for ‎members or $60.00 for nonmembers.‎

October 2022‎

Online Institute: Process Group Experience
Saturday and Sunday, October 1 and 2, 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM & 3:00 - 6:00 PM (Eastern) *Please be cognizant of ‎applicable time zones

John Caffaro, PhD, CGP, FAGPA ‎
Sophia Chang-Caffaro, PsyD, CGP


The process group experience sections will stress the basic elements of group ‎functioning, development, here-and-now group process and examine both the dynamics ‎and process of group psychotherapy.  The Institute is structured to maximize learning ‎about group formation, and the role of the leaders and participants in the establishment ‎of group roles, boundaries, norms and structure. Psychodynamic concepts including ‎transference, individual and group resistance and defense mechanisms will be examined ‎as they emerge in the group process.  The contribution of the leader to the development ‎of a cohesive and functional group will be examined.‎

‎12 CE Credits available at $240 for members/ $480 for nonmembers. This event is not recorded ‎

Webinar: TBD

November 2022‎

Online Institute: Process Group Experience 
Sundays, November 6, 13 & 20, 2022, 1:00-3:00 PM & 3:30-5:30 PM (Eastern) *Please be cognizant of applicable time ‎zones

Martha Gilmore, PhD, CGP, LFAGPA


The process group experience sections will stress the basic elements of group ‎functioning, development, here-and-now group process and examine both the dynamics ‎and process of group psychotherapy.  The Institute is structured to maximize learning ‎about group formation, and the role of the leaders and participants in the establishment ‎of group roles, boundaries, norms and structure. Psychodynamic concepts including ‎transference, individual and group resistance and defense mechanisms will be examined ‎as they emerge in the group process.  The contribution of the leader to the development ‎of a cohesive and functional group will be examined.‎

‎12 CE Credits available at $240 for members/ $480 for nonmembers. This event is not recorded ‎

Webinar: Coping with Aging in our Clients and in Ourselves

Sunday, November 20, 2022 – Time TBD

Kenneth Schwartz, MD, FRCPC
Shayne Vitemb, MA, LMFT, CGP‎


Description Coming Soon!‎

Participation for members is free. Participation for nonmembers is $60.00. 1.5 CE credits are available at $30 for ‎members or $60.00 for nonmembers.‎

December 2022‎

Online Institute: Coming Alive: Exploring the Vitalizing Power of Groups
Date and Time TBD

Angelo Ciliberti, PsyD, CGP, FAGPA

In a group pulsing with aliveness, risks ‎are taken and new meanings emerge as ‎‎members engage with a wider range of ‎feelings. But how do we understand and ‎work with a group emotionally retreating into ‎silence or defensive chit-chat? ‎This ‎institute explores what animates and inhibits vitalizing engagement in groups.‎

12 CE Credits available at $240 for members/ $480 for nonmembers. This event is not recorded ‎

Webinar: Time-Limited Interpersonal Group Therapy Training
Sunday, December 18, 2022 – Time TBD

Meenakshi Denduluri, MD
Laura Kasper, PhD, CGP ‎


We will present one training model for group therapy facilitation. The model draws from Focused Brief Group Therapy by ‎Dr. Martyn Whittingham, long-term modern analytic groups, and T-group from an interpersonal dynamics business school ‎course. We will discuss the core components of setting up the group, recruitment, facilitation, and supervision. ‎

Participation for members is free. Participation for nonmembers is $60.00. 1.5 CE credits are available at $30 for ‎members or $60.00 for nonmembers.‎