Posts tagged with 'group work'
Setting up a therapists' support group 1
24th January 2011
Seven of us got together yesterday afternoon to talk about possibly setting up some kind of therapists' support group. We're all therapists ourselves, and some of us are close to or on the mature side of 60. All male therapists, so we're kind of "the Grizzlies". Why do it? It's …
Peer groups: Ravenstor autumn group 7 - feedback, ecology & goodbyes
18th November 2010
In yesterday's second reflection on the Ravenstor residential group, I wrote about friendship and flourishing. This last morning of the residential now moved on to a final meeting of our 11 person, medium-sized group. Checking in. Reviewing. Checking out. Deeper now. Touching. I'd come into this four day group very …
Peer groups: Ravenstor autumn group 6 - respect & friendship
17th November 2010
It's a couple of days since we drove back up to Scotland from Ravenstor. I blogged yesterday about the last morning of the group and I was thinking a bit about judgements and who we choose as closer friends. I feel a bit uncomfortable exploring this issue as I don't …
Peer groups: Ravenstor autumn group 5 - valuing, connection & disconnection
16th November 2010
It's "the morning after", back home, reflecting on the group that finished yesterday at lunchtime. "Peer groups: Ravenstor autumn group 4 - nature, father-son, flow & celebration" took us up to the beginning of the group's final half day together. This last morning was pretty compressed. We'd agreed to meet …
Peer groups: Ravenstor autumn group 4 - nature, father-son, flow & celebration
15th November 2010
So the fourth and last morning here at Ravenstor. Didn't get to bed till after midnight and was up "late" this morning a little before 7.00am. The dawn mist is already clearing on a beautiful day with the sun's glow just beginning to emerge over the ridge. It reminds me …
Peer groups: Ravenstor autumn group 3 - depth & confrontation
14th November 2010
The third morning. So moving on from where I'd described to in yesterday's blog post, we began again in the full group at around 9.30am. Almost immediately a good friend moved very deeply into distress about fathering - his relationship with his own father & fears about passing on some …
Peer groups: Ravenstor autumn group 2 - warming up
13th November 2010
It's the second morning. I wrote yesterday about our arrival at this group. Didn't get to bed till later last night and slept in for longer. The conversations are beginning to "ignite". As we spend more time here, get into it, hear how deeply & openly others are prepared to …
Peer groups: Ravenstor autumn group 1 - arriving
12th November 2010
It's the first morning of this four day, peer-run Men's group. We've been meeting like this every autumn since 1993 - a collection of friends & friends of friends & friends of friends of friends! I've written extensively about these peer groups on this blog. For example, five posts on …
Opening up group, eighth session
22nd October 2010
We had the final meeting of this eight session "Opening up" group last night. I wrote last week about the seventh session. This last meeting ran a day later than usual because of a clash with a family birthday. Yesterday evening I wasn't feeling as buoyant as I usually do. …
Opening up group, seventh session
14th October 2010
So this was the seventh - and penultimate - meeting of this "Opening up" group. I wrote about the sixth session last week. Sadly, because of family crises, a couple of people hadn't been able to get to this evening's meeting. In fact, of the five of us at this …