61st Annual Conference

Tracking Talk:  Communication Patterns in the Phases of  Group Development

Chair:           

Claudia Byram, Ph.D., CGP, Consulting Affiliate, Friends Hospital,

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

What is the language of group flight?  Fight?  The communication pattern that identifies the Identified Patient?  That targets the Scapegoat?  SAVI (System for Analyzing Verbal Interaction) offers a map of these familiar interactions as reflected in the group’s communication process the ways we talk to one another.  We will “read” the map, use it to create the Flight and Fight phases, and then see what the effect is when we experiment with introducing different patterns of talk.

didactic-experiential-demonstration-sharing of work experiences

Course References:

1. Agazarian, Y. (1999). The phases of development in the systems-centered group. Small Group

    Research, 30(1), 82-107.

2. Agazarian, Y. (1992). Systems-centered approach to group-as-a-whole.  International Journal of

    Group Psychotherapy, 42(3). New York: Guilford Press.

3. Simon, A. & Agazarian, Y. (2000). SAVI - the system for analyzing verbal interaction, in The

    process of group psychotherapy: Systems for analyzing change. Beck, A. & Lewis, C. (Eds).

    Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.