Introduction

Building Community & Embracing Diversity

The Art of Compassionate Communication

Facilitation Skills: Decision Making & Conflict Resolution

Personal Empowerment & Leadership Skills

Celebrating Life:
Art & Creativity

"Organizations are not simply bodies, but dreaming bodies, physical entities moved by dreams as well as organizational structures, by emotions as well as spirits and money. The organization, together with its dreams and undercurrents, constitutes a field that is manifest in physical structures, human feelings, a particular atmosphere, and specific jobs and roles". - A.Mindell

The Group Field

Every group of people can be considered as a place where different forces originate - some are creative, others destructive; some are impulsive, others restraining. Every group is a force field where all kinds of feelings, attractions divergences arise and take form.

The group field is fed with materials brought, consciously or unconsciously, buy each of its members: interests, needs, behaviours, defence mechanisms, reality visions, values, lack of affection, frustrations, expectations, complexes, fears, certitudes, etc. The past of each individual - contained in his/her personal backpack - comes into contact and interacts with, attracting or repelling, others, and feeds the force field in ways beyond our control or conscious awareness.
On the other hand, the group field is not just the sum of personal contributions: it has its own dynamic, its own energy and life, and is able to modify and condition the individual attitudes and behaviours.

The field concept is crucial to understanding what happens in a group. From a systems perspective, you cannot explain what is going on in a particular level of complexity through properties and principles borrowed from a lower level. You cannot explain what is going on in a group or community merely by analyzing the personalities of its members, however complex they may be. If you want to explain what happens in a group and use this knowledge to grow, you have to deal with the relational system of the group as a whole, you have to pay attention to the group field and learn how to release its wisdom.

• Stages in Group Evolution
• Group Field

A group field as a set of complex and diverse interactions.

A group field can also be seen as a painting where each of us has a certain colour, with which we tint the space around. The field colour is not our colour, but the resultant of mixing all colours with different intensity.
Source: www.spacescapes.com/field