Being in/ Being with

Updated 21. 12. 2024
The enrollments for the Feb-May group are closed now. If something like this interests you, please email me so I can be in touch for the offering mid year 2025

Members of a cohesive group feel warmth and comfort in the group and a sense of belongingness; they value the group and feel in turn that they are valued, accepted, and supported by other members. ~ Irvin D. Yalom.

In the controversial set of changes invited by #NDIS for the creative arts, one suggestion has been to gather individuals to constitute a group to support the efficiency model of capitalist thinking. 

Leading groups is a specialist skill from years of training and supervision focussed exclusively on group processes. To say something about myself here, I have trained for over a decade in T groups, unstructured settings with no agenda formed and shaped by the group members. Here, we invite group members to stay in the absence of structure offered by authority, wrestling for our need to be visible and seen and finding ways to express conflict. I followed my T group experience with another decade of psychodrama training in a group context, where I learnt how to be of service to another, support, and describe - embody/enact roles and share my relatedness for cohesion and connection. 

I have since realised that often, folx who are running groups were actually workshops or places where people came together - very different from the group process. A group leader is aware of not forcing or creating a structure that lessens the impact and avoiding discomfort; instead, they facilitate learning how to take risks and be validated in the presence of another—a true testament to working with all the relational adversities that make us curl up and be wary. 

If you are interested for the two places that remain and have not experienced my work, please book a time. If you are interested in this offering in an online version, please email me.