Following the Unconscious in Groups with Ildiko Gabor, MFT, CGP

Friday, December 5th, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Shepard Garden & Art Center 3330 McKinley Blvd., Sacramento

Interpersonal process groups work in the “here-and-now” and yet have the uncanny ability to bring about each group member’s personal and historical attachment wounds and relational patterns, both conscious and unconscious. Our internal objects come to life in the group room. What an opportunity to talk to them as real people and discern our projections from the real attributes of the other! How can we follow and appreciate these aspects of group work with an analytic attitude? We will explore ways to listen to the unconscious whether it is intrapsychic, interpersonal, “group as a whole”, social, historical, or archaic. In long term groups we can use group members’ dreams as one of the avenues for such exploration. Bring your questions, hopes, concerns, and wonderments about the analytic approach to group work! 

Ildiko Gabor, MFT, CGP works with groups and individuals with a depth orientation, in San Francisco. Having taught group dynamics classes in several Bay Area graduate programs and led process groups for psychiatry residents at Stanford and UCSF, she currently offers groups in her private practice and consults with group therapists. Exploring group work mainly from the modern analytic and Jungian perspectives, she enjoys dialogue about the many ways we approach psychic processes. Ildiko is also past president of NCGPS and a Fellow of AGPA. Her website is ildikogabor.com.