Event Description:  Working with abusive partners in a group setting can be both challenging and incredibly rewarding. This two-day training will offer concepts, skills, and perspectives on how to enhance your group work with this population. The first day will focus on enhancing group facilitation including working with resistance, creating a positive peer culture, how to shift your facilitation style based on the functional level of the group, and deepening your critical thinking and confrontational skills. Time will also be spent identifying some of the most common and challenging types of group members and how to most effectively work with them. Attendees will be encouraged to share their own knowledge and wisdom of how to do this work. The second day will focus on ways to enhance the structure and curriculum of abuse intervention groups by providing an overview of the Allies in Change model and curriculum, highlighting the most innovative and important aspects of this approach. Aspects of the Allies in Change model and curriculum can easily be integrated into a preexisting abuse intervention program. This training will have valuable and validating content for seasoned facilitators while also being appropriate for those newer to the field.