Sunday, October 27, 2019 at 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
6001 Christie Avenue
Emeryville, CA
T-Groups is an intensive affective learning laboratory
that experientially catapults participant awareness and growth. The
"T" in T-Group stands for "Training". T-Group is an
experimental group dynamics laboratory that emerged from National Training Labs
in the 1940s and since has enabled leaders in government, military, as well as
high profile executives to rapidly experience leadership development in a
unique environment where all participants are invited to explore presence,
examine impact, and disclose feedback while experimenting with new behaviours.
Participants often benefit from a greater degree of diversity and the
expression of differences for greater learning and growth. Much of the richness
of T-Groups occurs when the unexpected emerges, such as awareness of a
patterned behaviour that was once a blindspot, or unforeseen conflict that
leads to a growth opportunity. The outcome of a T-Group is unexpected. The
ability for dynamics such as forming, storming, norming, and performing to be
fluid, fluctuate, and develop organically is also a function of T-Groups.
T-Groups emphasize inquiry about the nature of the different levels of
communication. The patterns of presence and feedback in T-Groups point to how
people show up in a number of contexts and situations that arise, which often
leads to provoking a more profound level of awareness among the participants
individually and collectively. The impact of a T-Group is immediate and can
lead to long-lasting learning inquiries that for many have lasted months and up
to years after a T-Group laboratory experience.
Nylie Ataraxia brings a 21st century version of T-Group
that is called "Somatic T-Group" that takes T-Group to a new level.
Somatic T-Group includes the sensate experience of the body as well as
permitting dynamic gestures and movement (versus sitting and talking) in
gradually increasing capacities which invite and challenge participants to
experience themselves and others newly in space and in contact with one another
while remaining present with one's experience and the various levels of impact
on indvidual, interpersonal, and group levels.
Highlights from past Somatic T-Group labs:
-Participants observed habitual conflict patterns emerge
and role-played new behaviors in a variety of situations
-Participants gained insights into themselves, their
behaviors, and their impact upon groups and individuals
-Participants achieved at different times to different
degrees independent, interpersonal, and group "flow states"
-Participants, in their own bodies, challenged the norms
about how to be and inhabit one's body in space, in a classroom, and in a group
with others
-Participants explored various alternative methods of
communication beyond language through touch, eye contact, movement, stillness,
and empathy
-Participants bravely stepped outside their comfort zones
and stretched themselves to take risks and show up with new behaviors that
allowed deeper connection, authenticity, and the ability to show up powerfully
-Participants explored beyond groupthink, what it was to
be both sovereign individuals and in connection with a group
-Participants engaged in a lot of laughter, cuddling,
play, conscious physical contact, improvisational conflict, and exploring both
the edges of one another's embodiment of boundaries and responsibility
-Participants explored dominance, submission, power,
while challenging and supporting one another
What’s to come in future Somatic T-Groups:
-Continued exploration of conflict modes, states and
behaviors
-Continued practice with use of sensate/somatic
languaging tools to describe present-moment experiences
-Exploration of the physiology of triggers, distress
states, and distress management
-Somatic patterns of codependency and self-responsibility
-Power and submission dynamics in body language
Join us at our next Somatic T-Groups to uncover the
profound, activate your awareness, and expand into new capacities that call
forth your greatest leadership as well as your most empowered and authentic
self.
Cost: $100 - $150
