GPS Training

Advanced Training and Practice

Facilitating groups is powerful work, and it takes ongoing learning, reflection, and support to keep it going. GPS Advanced Training and Practice is designed to inspire facilitators, strengthen leadership, and expand your toolkit, so you can continue creating safe, welcoming, and transformative spaces for the people you serve.

Deepening Skills, Staying Inspired, and Sustaining Your GPS Certification

Through workshops, webinars, seminars, and community learning, facilitators stay connected, energized, and equipped to bring their best to every group. By staying engaged, you’ll also maintain your active GPS certification status, ensuring your practice remains strong and recognized.

Why It Matters

Advanced Training and Practice is about staying inspired, not just maintaining certification. Facilitators gain:

New Ideas and Skills: Explore advanced strategies for group dynamics, equity, and cultural responsiveness.
Renewed Confidence and Engagement: Stay connected to the passion that first brought you to this work.
Expert Coaching: Receive feedback that keeps your facilitation strong and aligned with GPS values.
Community Connection: Learn alongside a network of facilitators dedicated to equity, healing, and the power of groups.
Certification Continuity: Ensure your GPS certification remains active through meaningful engagement in ongoing training.

How It Works

Each year, GPS offers opportunities for facilitators to deepen their practice and sustain certification:

Webinars: Stay current on best practices and emerging topics.
Advanced Seminars: Dive into specialized themes such as trauma healing or adapting GPS for unique populations.
Participating in GPS Groups: Experience the model as a member.

Facilitating GPS Groups: Apply your skills in real group settings.
Fidelity Coaching: Get individualized feedback to keep your practice strong.

Engagement in these opportunities keeps you inspired, connected, and ensures your GPS certification remains active.

Certification at a Glance

Staying engaged in GPS Advanced Training and Practice keeps your skills fresh and your certification active.

Maintain certification status through meaningful engagement
Choose from webinars, seminars, group participation, facilitation, or fidelity coaching
Ongoing learning = renewed confidence and certification continuity
Stay connected through a community of practice and strengthen your skills while building a supportive, professional network.

The GPS Difference

GPS Advanced Training and Practice is not a checkbox. It’s an ongoing invitation to:

Stay connected to a thriving facilitator community
Bring fresh creativity and confidence into your groups
Sustain your own energy while supporting others
Grow in trauma-informed, evidence-based practice
Keep your GPS certification status current through engagement

“The beauty of the GPS model is how it encourages us to simply name our truths without needing to defend them. We don’t have to explain or justify our lived experiences—we can just speak them and know that others understand. This shift in perspective is profound and transformative.”
GPS Training Participant
“I now have a safety net to support me in leading groups as a trauma-informed Facilitator. My doubts and questioning of whether or not I was creating a safe group have all dissolved knowing I have learned the GPS model. I feel much more confident in leading groups.”
GPS Training Participant
“GPS teaches ways to be confident, respectful, genuine, and inclusive. Teaches how to set boundaries and still be accessible to members. Teaches the importance of the power of the group.”
GPS Training Participant
“You cannot run a group by the seat of your pants. Preparation is essential.”
GPS Training Participant
“GPS training helped me to be more confident in my skills. It allowed me to be my genuine self as a peer recovery support leader.”
GPS Training Participant