Earl Hopper, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Private Practice, London, England

The Large Group provides a forum for participants to discuss matters of concern to them, and to explore the meaning of their communictions from various points of view, ranging from deeply personal to contextual constraints, including those of the Conference, AGPA, the wider society and even the globe. The convenor will conclude this event with a brief summary of the ideas and the literature that guided his understanding of the processes that emerged during the sessions. The Large Group is open to participants at all levels of experience. Participants are asked to attend all three sessions.

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Summarize "Dynamic administration", including management of the setting.

2. Describe an 'open systems' perspective, which permits an appreciation of personal, group, conference, organizational and societal dynamics as seen in parallel processes, equivalence and barometric events.

3. Describe the personification of basic assumption and other group

Processes

References:

1.  Hopper, E. (2003). Traumatic Experience in the Unconscious Life of Groups: The Fourth Basic Assumption: Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification or (ba) I: A/M. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. 2.  Schneider, S. and Weinberg, H. (2003). The Large Group Re-visited: The Herd, Primal Horde, Crowds and Masses. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

3.  Shields, W. (2001). The subjective experience of the self in the large group: Two models for study. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 51 (2) 205-225; Hopper, E. and Sharpe, M. (2002) Response to Walker Shield's 'The subjective experience of the self in the large group; two models of study.'; International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 52 (3) 433-436.