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Process Groups

The aim of Process groups is to:

  • Articulate the unarticulate
  • Making the invisible visible
  • Owning the disowned and Enacting the withheld.

Essential prerequisite to enable this is for the group to form into a group. The ‘strangerhood’ and anonymity in the group to be lowered. It is about private conversations in a public setting. Because private conversations in private settings has a pull to enabling the behavior, the nature of intimacy changes in a group and people see identification with one another. Groups increase that sense of identification. Its prime goal is to enhance effectiveness and remove dysfunctionality in any given space and one of the ways of doing this is by allowing the dysfunctionality to take centre stage. All identities are continuous and connected, nothing is stand alone, although the social setting subscribes to the idea of identity that is unique and separate. The three legs of the tripod are:

  • Self-reflexivity: The prime ingredient is provided by man’s inherent need to be self-reflexive, i.e. raise questions about the nature of oneself and the other, relationships, behaviours, limitations and struggles.
  • Groups: Process Work’s most distinguishing feature is its use of groups as the elemental unit of study. However, since the group and its members study themselves a whole universe of dynamics and experience is generated wherein the classical divide of subject and object is dissolved.
  • Commitment to action for learning: Process Work has a firm commitment to action. It recognises, acknowledges, invites and examines action. Without action Process Work is sterile. Generating knowledge or insights is not enough, these must lead to action, not as in compliance but as in creating new engagements with self and the other.

Enquiry is its main purpose and self-reflexivity, both individual and collective its prime value.

  • You learn about yourself, your propensities and proclivities through self and through group reflection and feedback.
  • Learn how to use group settings to build resilience and reduce the impact of negative experiences and trauma, if any.
  • Learn and understand identity processes both at individual and
  • Collective levels and its implications in our lives, our personal and work systems, our community and in our larger context.
  • Question and reexamine one’s existing framework of beliefs, values, opinions and ways of engaging with self, systems and the larger context.
  • Learn about meaning making, role taking and choice making processes and apply it to individual, systemic and collective context.
  • Learn and work with our nature of commitment and actionorientation and make new choices to act.
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