Paradoxes of Group Life: Understanding Conflict, Paralysis, and Movement in Group Dynamics

Paradoxes of Engaging:Disclosure, Trust, Intimacy,and Regression

The paradoxes of belonging are evoked by the combination of individual joining and group-formation processes. These processes do not occur exclusively at any one point in a group’s life, but they are more likely during its early phases. The paradoxes of engaging arise when members begin to ask how much of themselves they are willing and able to contribute to the group and how much is required of them for the group to be effective. In its most concrete form, a group works best when members know each other’s strengths and weaknesses, abilities and disabilities, and when the group’s ...