Group Reflective Essay

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I was the group facilitator during this meeting. My role as a facilitator was to help each other through mutual aid. In the interdepence/differentation stage, I participated just like the other group members because it was now a parallel process. As the facilitator, I considered the I-We-It-Globe before the session began. I assessed the needs of the group during the session by tuning into the I’s, by considering the autonomy of the group as they made statements and not questions. I tuned into the We, by considering that the group would be using mutual aid. I tuned into the It by understanding that the group has learned what the It was and now discovering our special and unique self that will help the basis for authentic and close relationships …show more content…
Everyone had also expressed how they were looking forward to the group meeting. At the beginning of the meeting we noticed the therapeutic factor of universality because we found that we all had same trouble doing the homework I had assigned last week. For instance, all of us agreed that we are sometimes too busy to do any personal care. We all seemed to be judgmental on ourselves. Another therapeutic factor the group used was altruism especially when the members wrote positive affirmations to each other on the back of everyone’s letter. We all engaged in cooperative mutual aid, give and take, to support and challenge each other’s change and …show more content…
Some people followed up with other members while others updated the group about things they had brought up last week. At this stage, everyone is allowed to direct and catalyze so everyone had the opportunity to take over if they wanted to. After everyone checked-in, I asked the group how it went for them during the process of writing the letter. We discovered that many of the members did not have time to complete the letter over the week and had just finished it before the session. We explored why many of us had a hard time finding time to do it over the