“…Only in recent years has the counselor education field proposed specific methods for skillfully training and preparing group leaders. Consistent throughout these discussions has been the importance of experiential training (Hulse-Killacky, 1996; Kaczkowski, 1984;Kline et al, 1997;Stockton & Toth, 1996;Yalom, 1995;Zimpfer, Waltman, Williamson, & Huhn, 1985). Merta et al (1993) identified an experiential method of teaching as one of the most widely used training tools by counselor educators in group instruction programs.…”