Groups can offer something that individual work alone cannot: the experience of being part of a living relational community.
Within a group we encounter ourselves in relationship—with our longing to belong, our ways of protecting ourselves, the places where we become visible or disappear, and our capacities for connection, difference and participation. What emerges can be witnessed and worked with as it happens, creating possibilities for new relational experience.
Groups can also provide something more fundamental: resourcing, belonging and a place to be held while we find our way. At different moments we may draw strength from the community around us; at others, we may discover more clearly what we ourselves have to offer.
This understanding runs through the different forms of group work I facilitate.