Tag: Sumedhas

Working with Groups: Tandem Leadership, Splitting, and Mirroring

Preamble This becomes the seventh blog in the series of “Working with Groups”, where in the earlier six blogs, I have explored the impact of western thought on group dynamics, group therapy, and change management teams.  If you like this blog, I would love to hear your views on how I have mapped the historical […]

Working with Groups – Tracing the contours and genealogy of process work

Preamble This is the third blog of a series that I am writing on process work, encounter groups, T-groups, and L-groups, and in this blog, I seek to trace the genealogy or lineage of process work as it is experienced in Sumedhas offerings, methods, and ideologies today. This blog may excite only the oddball who […]

Working with Groups – The Second Dilemma

Preamble Deng Xiaoping once said that managing the economy was like “Crossing the river by feeling the stones” — working with individuals and groups in process work settings, resonates with this metaphor — except that there can be multiple rivers and many of the stones get increasingly unfathomable as the journey extends across days in a behavioral […]

Self Help & Actualization Movement (SHAM): Uneasy Speculations!

The Trigger A distant relative has recently decided to attend one of those “Self Help” seminars in New York, an event anchored and designed by a ‘self-help guru’ known as Tony Robbins, who is white, male, extremely rich, charismatic, successful, and appears to have many celebrities as parts of his clientele or so his website […]