This paper has been evolving since 1992. Last update Oct 2014
Over the years folk have commented that some find DTE meetings, both
Directors Meetings and ConFest Committee of the Board Meetings very challenging
to attend.
The following material may contribute to increasing the quality of Group
Processes.
Folk in Dr Neville Yeomans’ Fraser House Big Group
Meeting explored
transforming ways using audience and crowd effects in large groups (180
people).
Neville also explored Small Group Processes.
Neville left Fraser House in 1968
to explore processes for extending Fraser House Big and Small Meeting processes
into wider society.
To approximate these Fraser House
Big and Small groups, over the years at ConFest I have been exploring group
processes for having 180 people together where 95% of the time they are experiencing things and learning from
their experience.
o How
does one engage with large groups?
o How
can one increase one’s capacity to stay present (and not off in one’s head)
attending to everything that is happening in the group and observing
differences that make a difference?
o How
can one have 95% of the time in the group experiential?
o How
does one acquire the experience of sensing the group such that one can read the
group, and sense what it wants to do next? Being guided by the moment-to-moment
changing context.
o And
how may one foster and engage with a shared group mood?
o And
foster and engage changes in group mood?
o And
changes in group energy?
o And
180 people talking generate a very large amount of noise, so how does one have
the noise settle down to explore a change of theme or action?
The processes that work have been
written up as Healing Group
Processes.
Also refer Page 265 the
Psychiatric Research Study Group in Whither Goeth the World of Human Futures – A 4 E-book
Biography of the Life Work of Dr Neville Yeomans
ConFest and the Next
250 Years