Resources: Healthy Groups

Compassionate communication can include pausing to imagine how the words you speak might be received by and affect those who hear them.  This aims to increase empathy and compassion for…

Any kind of societal transition may involve individuals learning to interact with, connect with, and be in relationship with people who are different from them.  Such a transition will benefit…

You can maintain effectiveness, creativity, and satisfaction by actively seeking and getting support.  This can be an important ingredient in enhancing individual wellbeing, and catalysing personal development.  Groups can also…

Cultivating compassion for challenging behaviour may include things which at first seem difficult, like conversations or conflicts which may feel uncomfortable. Navigating discomfort is often part of any kind of transition,…

Cultivating a loving and compassionate heart is a common and important challenge for most people. A personal transformation, or a transition in group culture, may involve learning how to express…

It can be challenging to resolve suppressed, repressed, or stuck emotions.  Increasing awareness can be a good first step. You can either accept an emotion or resist it.  Resistance often…

Emotions can be confusing and difficult to identify.  What if you don't know what emotions you feel?  You either can't identify them, or you're uncertain whether you feel them at…

Uncomfortable emotions can arise for many reasons, like a growing awareness of the destruction of nature or the suffering of humans. During any kind of transition , many people may…

It can be completely reasonable to feel emotions like sadness, anger, or depression in response to historical oppression, or social injustice, or marginalisation, or climate change.   Rather than dismissing emotions,…

You can embed awareness of diversity and social justice in everything you do.  How might you begin to address domination in your group?  How might more celebration of diversity enable…

A template for getting clear with your group or project team about 👉 orientation: how your project(s) can contribute to deep, wide-spread, and lasting impact 🎯 objectives: what you intend…

Most groups tend to develop in very similar ways by going through stages of forming, storming, norming, and then potentially performing. All of these stages have possibilities and challenges. It…