Cape Cod Training Program

The first week of Cape Cod Training Program focuses on working with pairs or couples and includes: perceiving a system instead of separate individuals, exploring the role of the intervener, and connecting intimate and strategic ways of relating. The second week is focused on working with small groups.

Topics include: working effectively within hierarchical systems, understanding the difference between working with families and organizations, and using experiments.

CCTP is structured so that content and theory presentations are followed by intensive small group practice sessions in which the underlying concepts are applied. Faculty members rotate through the small groups, enabling participants to be exposed to different styles and receive individual feedback from all of them.

This intensive program provides an unusually high level of individual attention and feedback from faculty because of the faculty student ratio (six to one), and the emphasis on experiential learning and practice.

Benefits

Participants will:

• Learn a powerful new perspective that recognizes behavior and interactions of systems, rather than individuals, creating new and dynamic possibilities for intervention.
  
• Use this systems perspective in working with dyads and small groups, including developing a technique for giving compelling, positive feedback that strengthens the system and builds its ability to move toward change.
  
• Learn how to appreciate and articulate what the system is doing well.
  
• Understand a sequence of steps for intervening in any system.
  
• Learn to use the power of oneself as an instrument of influence.
  
• Gain insights into the differences between strategic and intimate ways of relating, and understand the appropriate use of each.
  
• Learn how to create and use experiments with clients to expand their range of behavior.
  
• Discover how to work with differences.
  
• Learn different techniques for working with families and working with organizations.
  

Participants

The Cape Cod Training Program is designed to benefit coaches, organizational consultants, psychotherapists, executives, educators, and other professionals who are concerned with small systems. The Program has been found useful for leaders of and consultants to family businesses. The Cape Cod Model has proven effective in applications across countries and cultures so international students are specifically invited to attend.

“In my organization, after participating in the Cape Cod Training Program, I can adopt and keep an optimistic attitude in a challenging environment. I am astonished by how much that helps to widen the perspectives in a group and improve communication and understanding. This makes it easier to formulate and reach consensus around common goals!”

Eva Axelsson
Business Development Manager
Apoteket Farmaci AB, Swedish pharmaceutical company

"Cape Cod Training Program, although focused on teaching of skills, is a life changing program. I know few people who have not come away from it without saying that it has transformed the way they think and live in the world."

Joseph Melnick, PhD.
Faculty Co-chair