Posts tagged with 'group work'
Recent research: egosystem & ecosystem
13th November 2008
In the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. Beatles This is essentially the Beatles closing statement. It is the last lyric on the last album they recorded. (Let It Be was the last album they released, but it was recorded earlier). Every now and …
Peer groups: Wiston autumn group – second reflection
12th November 2008
Yesterday was a normal day's work for me. The group is getting a bit more distant. In writing the reflection yesterday, I skipped past the structure of the final morning. Waking, writing, tea, fruit, greeting, breakfast. We negotiated details of the final morning timings. The start was the last meeting …
Peer groups: Wiston autumn group – first reflection
11th November 2008
When I woke this morning I lay for a few minutes, asked myself how I felt, went inside, and there's sadness, a sense of tears in my chest. And when I touch the sadness, try to sense what it's about, it seems about "missing", missing warmth, the hugs, a sea …
Peer groups: Wiston autumn group – fourth morning
10th November 2008
Yesterday I was away from the group for most of the day. I started as usual - got up, wrote, met others, breakfast. Then we came together briefly as the full 37 standing in a big circle outside the house on the gravel. OK, we had already been the full …
Peer groups: Wiston autumn group – third morning
9th November 2008
So yesterday was the second full day of the group and it went roaring along - like holidays where initially time moves slowly and then seems to accelerate. Here the "train" of group memories seems to gather pace for me by this second day. My sense has been that for …
Peer groups: Wiston autumn group – second morning
8th November 2008
Saturday - the group has now been running for 36 hours or so. As I'd expected, I slept much better last night than on the first 'just-arrived' night of the group. Getting up at around 7.00am, I still seemed to be the first person up and about - so it …
Peer groups: Wiston autumn group – first morning
7th November 2008
Back in May I wrote about a peer Mixed Group I have been involved in for many years. I explained how I'd been coming to this Mixed Group since 1991 and how the group had evolved and budded off both a Men's Group and Women's Group. I talked about the …
Peer groups: Cumbria spring group - second reflection
13th May 2008
There's a huge amount more I could reflect on about the group. I'll keep it here, though, to just a final set of thoughts about the overlapping field of group therapy. These peer groups are about all kinds of things - friendship, wellbeing, ‘retreat', fun - and they are also …
Peer groups: Cumbria spring group - first reflection
12th May 2008
Why are these groups often so great, so welcome, so precious? Real life is very rich - theories only capture aspects of this richness. However a theory, that I like a lot, highlights one reason why these peer groups are so important. The theory is Self-Determination Theory (SDT). It has …
Peer groups: Cumbria spring group - final day
11th May 2008
I wake feeling sadder this morning - partly because it's the last morning, partly because there are still feelings from yesterday hanging around. It's so interesting to notice the hugely different emotional spaces I move through over the intense four days of this kind of group meeting. Again a blessing …