Maybe it is a legacy from evolution that, as a loner, one often has (had) less survival chances: the exclusion from a group, the rescinding of a membership, is usually coupled with bad feelings, even when one does not even wish to belong anymore. Conversely, the offer to belong somewhere is sometimes experienced as pleasant …
One belongs to a team when one is a member of the team. This apparently trivial sentence has wide-reaching implications. • It is never the person, as a person, who is ‘part’ of the team, even though, frequently, such expectations on the side of people are often in play. They see the team as somewhat …
Teams ‘swim’ in the medium of mutual perception. One cannot escape the perception of others and one cannot not perceive others. Everything has meaning, no matter whether one speaks or not, whether one is interfering or leaving it be, no matter what facial expression one shows, with which tone of voice one speaks, what physical …
If you believe those people who knew him, Jakob L. Moreno probably had that which one could do with when working with groups: wit, ingenuity, impartiality, imperturbability, a love for people and an instinct for possibilities that are in the room. His most important contribution to the understanding of groups is that he has researched …
With his book ‘Dynamik in Gruppen’ (Dynamics in Groups), Eberhard Stahl has written one of the best summaries that can be found in the context of working with groups. Those who wish to acquire a foundation in team development and to reflect upon group processes, is in good hands with this author. We draw special …
Cornelia Edding, Karl Schattenhofer, Klaus Doppler, Klaus Antons and Oliver Koenig – who are all aided by intensive, increasingly rare, group-dynamic training, have been publishing important books on the subject of groups and teams for years. It is impressive, how they further develop the subject of group dynamics with thoroughness, wealth of knowledge, richness of …
T-group stands for training group. As far as we know this leads back to Kurt Lewin and refers to the beginning of group-dynamic research. One created special settings (amongst others K. Lewin in the USA, W. Bion and others in Tavistock, UK) in which one skilfully began to examine the dynamics of groups, particularly also …
Andre Kieserling, from a system-theoretical viewpoint, has occupied himself with the communication among attendees, and has written a book with the same title (Kommunikation unter Anwesenden). Through his reflection on the concept of perception and the linking of processes of perception with the concept of double contingency, he arrives at system-theoretical insights which come quite …
Here, Tobias Brocher is representative for a whole group of psychoanalysts (V. v. Weizsaecher, M. Balint, W Bion, S. H. Foulkes, P. Fuerstenau and others), who linked, from the late fifties of the last century, depth and social-psychological viewpoints. Out of this emerged a variety of creative works and research programmes with groups. Brocher and …
Rudi Wimmer is one of the few thinkers who builds a bridge between systems theory and the phenomenon ‘group/team’. He formulates important arguments which explain why it is important to theoretically grasp groups as independent, social systems. His oscillation between his role as group dynamics expert, team developer and organisational consultant on the one side …