Posts tagged with 'group work'
Peer groups: Scottish Mixed Group – second full day: bumps, maintaining the group, emotions & cognitive processing
18th October 2011
I wrote in the last blog post about the first part of the second full day at Glassie. Later on in the afternoon we moved into a more "bumpy" phase of the group. Often in these more difficult interactions there is the richest learning for everyone involved if one has …
Peer groups: Scottish Mixed Group – second full day: emotional ‘cooking’ in the group, and personal work too
17th October 2011
I wrote yesterday about the first full day of this "long weekend" residential peer group. The second day of the weekend was particularly rich - very nourishing or a bit too much depending partly on one's digestion. So after the usual walks, talks, meditations, long chatty breakfasts, we began again …
Peer groups: Scottish Mixed Group – first full day: small support & full group work, gender ‘fishbowls’
16th October 2011
Again it's a little before 6.30am. Pitch black outside. I wrote yesterday morning about the first evening of this group. We then went on to the first full day. How was it? Well it seemed to me that we've begun to find our feet well. The morning began with people …
Peer groups: Scottish Mixed Group – beginning, initial thoughts, exciting & edgy
15th October 2011
About 6.30 in the morning. The lights of Aberfeldy shining through the dark from down in the valley. We're at Glassie Farm Bunkhouse - fourteen of us staying here for three days. I've written about this kind of peer group residential on a whole series of occasions on this blog …
Peer groups: Cumbria spring group – reflection
12th May 2011
Back from the four day peer group in Cumbria. Back into the rich, busy, fascinating river of 'everyday life'. I've written already about the last full day of the group in "Vision express & where are these groups going?" and, as well, about confrontation in "Authenticity, learning & interpersonal conflict". …
Peer groups, Cumbria spring group – fourth morning: 'vision express' & where are these groups going?
8th May 2011
So how was yesterday? In the blog post "Peer groups, Cumbria spring group - third morning: authenticity, learning & interpersonal conflict" I talked about conflict & confrontation. I think I jumped in too fast and too hard a couple of days ago in a small group interaction that sparked some …
Peer groups, Cumbria spring group – third morning: authenticity, learning & interpersonal conflict
7th May 2011
Have I screwed up? I wrote yesterday about the first full day of this peer residential group. I woke this morning with wisps of cloud in my mind ... a flash of Lady MacBeth ("out, damned spot") ... a whisper of shame, of guilt. I was very direct with someone …
Peer groups, Cumbria spring group – second morning: early stages of a group, self-disclosure, & emotional awareness
6th May 2011
I wrote yesterday about arriving at this year's Mixed Group here in Cumbria. Now it's the second morning. Yesterday was the first full day of the group. How was it? As I've written before "Process groups tend to move through a series of developmental stages. These can be described in …
Peer groups, Cumbria spring group – first morning: beginning, why are we here, & how do I know what I feel?
5th May 2011
First morning of the "Mixed Group". This last week has been such lovely weather. People arriving yesterday evening looking so brown. The forecast had predicted a change to more cloudy weather, and it certainly seems accurate for this morning's rather colder, overcast feel. Good weather to stay indoors for "group …
Setting up a therapists' support group 2
25th January 2011
I wrote yesterday about the email that was sent out last autumn asking several fellow psychotherapists up here in Edinburgh whether they would be interested in forming a Therapists' Support Group. What was some of the thinking behind this initiative? Back in 2008 I lectured at the British Association for …