Learning in the moment is difficult. This difficulty occurs because many of the opportunities for learning in counselling and therapy groups are missed as group leaders do not notice enough of what is occurring in the group.
The first challenge of group leadership is to notice the significance of what is or what is not said in a group. This session explores how a person learns in the moment, they have the opportunity to immediately act differently.
There is a real freedom, perhaps the only real freedom, in just that one moment; the moment you are fully awake and alive to a possibility. Your attention is fully caught up in the task at hand, then there may be none left over to pay attention to the overall direction, to guide and monitor progress, to recognise opportunities to do other than react in habitual ways.
This segment was filmed at the 2009 Institute of Group Leaders Conference (Moments of change in group work), Sydney, Australia.
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