this is a reply to your mail about the group. Later I'll reply to the mail about yourself.
Actually the first meeting with the group didn't work so fine. No problem: we have only to see what we can do to make it work really.
The main problem is about the translation. A group therapy session is not a normal conversation. Even less it is an exchange of information. It is an exchange of emotions, feelings, that can bring us to the depth of one's problems or experiences. So, we need to have a real contact, almost as if we were in the same room. This is possible only when the translation is very good. The translator must be very fast and must translate all the words that are pronunciated by the mebers of the group: all the words, not only their general meaning. We need to feel the emotional sense of all our words, their nuances.
An important rule of group therapy is that the people who are not directly interested in what is said by anyone don't leave the room. If they do so, they can't be involved in the interaction of all the group, and even after many session no real group behavior could develop.
I am very sad for the people who left the group. I think that it is important to try to make them change their mind. I think so for two reasons: 1) I feel a responsibility for them as they trusted in the chance that the group offered them. They didn't find what they were looking for (because of the difficulties above), but they can find it in a next future; 2) In fact, their reaction is already a product of our therapy work. They shall find a great profit in sharing it with the group and the therapist (me). The solution to problems doesn't follow an usual path, a path that people could foresee. If it were so, they could find the solution of their problems by themselves, and, actually, they don't succeed in doing so. So, they have to realize that the solution of their problems comes from experiences that they can't imagine.
Anyway, next time we'll have a supervision work, that is easier in the actual condition.作者: 爱无言 时间: 2011-5-11 13:13:36