GROUP DYNAMIX can conduct a Personal Growth Laboratory, a unique opportunity for self-exploration in a professionally facilitated small group setting, providing enormous scope for rich learnings about oneself.
An Overview
A Personal Growth Laboratory (sometimes called Human Process or Human Interaction or Sensitivity Training Laboratory or T-Group) is an event designed for a group of 8 - 12 individuals to study themselves on the basis of their experience of participation in the group. The event covers a minimum number of hours of interaction.
The group is not provided with any predetermined agenda or schedule, except the objectives and the time schedule of the group's meetings. A professional trainer also participates in the group as a facilitator of individual and group processes. The methods of learning are experiencing, expressing, data collecting, hypothesising, reflecting, experimenting, and conceptualising. Typically, the concepts generated are not abstract, but derived from the live data of the group's life-history during the event.
Objectives
The objectives of the event are to enable the participant to :
* become more deeply and clearly aware of himself or herself and his or her patterns of behaviour;
* focus on his or her interpersonal interaction, and to act towards finding greater meaning and satisfaction from such interaction; and
* improve his or her ability to deal with conflict.
Benefits
The Personal Growth Laboratory is a training intervention associated with fundamental and long-run improvements in human personality and performance. This is because of the potency of the group's experiential learning, which is direct, insightful, and personal for the participants.
The stimulii, sharing, and feedback of work in the Laboratory lead very often to new and significant self-appraisals of attitudes, values, styles, assumptions, the quality of commitment and motivation, and the uncovering of 'blind spots' in one's orientation towards both oneself and others.
Laboratory participants carry back to their lives, work, families, and organisations, not only their own new insights into themselves, but also a greater commitment to openness, authenticity, sensitivity, and participativeness. These values improve total quality, team-work, and productivity in the organisation.
Participants
The Personal Growth Laboratory is intended for any person who is drawn to the objective. Executives, managers, professionals, businesspeople, teachers, civil servants, social workers, students, homemakers, and others can quite reasonably expect to benefit from participation.
The returns are likely to be the greatest for those for whom the quality of interaction with other people - be they customers, clients, colleagues, associates (junior, senior, or peers), employees, students, or family members - is an important element in their lives and work.
Duration
The Laboratory covers between 36 and 40 hours of group work over a period of 4, 5 or 6 days.
Facilitation
A successful Personal Growth Laboratory is the achievement of its participants ! Nonetheless, the facilitator plays a key role in such an outcome by the quality of his or her work.
The Professional Development Programmes of bodies such as the NTL Institute of Applied Behavioural Science (NTL, USA) and the Indian Society for Applied Behavioural Science (ISABS, India) have helped to produce trained and accredited group facilitators with the competence needed for this particular type of training activity, through guided programmes of extensive participation, process observation, logging, clinicing, co-facilitation, and so on.
For more information, contact us at :
GROUP DYNAMIX
1A, Lee Road,
Kolkata 700020, India
Tel: (+91 33) 2290 0018 (International)
(033) 2290 0018 (India)
Email: groupdynamix@gmail.com
