Parallelizing on Test Suites instead of individual Test Cases

Is it possible to create batches of Test Suites instead of batches of individual Test Cases? For example, I am using JBehave for BDD Scenarios and running them via the maven failsafe plugin to run JUnit style tests. In the result TEST-*XML, it is treating every individual step(i.e Given, When, Then) in the scenario as a ``. The `testsuite` element is really what I want to look at for creating batches to run.