T-Group Facilitation

This book offers the core conceptual base for the practice of T-Group facilitation. Drawing from the fields of psychology, social psychology, sociology, diversity studies and Indian philosophical thoughts, this book is a great resource for enhancing the practice of T-Group facilitation, for both budding and established facilitators. It covers a wide range of theories on human development, self-awareness, interpersonal interactions, groups and change. Individual and group identities, diversity, inclusion and social hierarchies are explored in detail here. The authors offer a model of T-Group facilitation based on 50 years of experience within the Indian Society for Applied Behavioural Science (ISABS). This model is useful not only for fellow practitioners of T-Groups but also for anyone engaged in facilitating groups, organizations and communities globally. This book helps one to reflect, develop and sharpen one's competencies, values and ethics in this field. The chapters are embedded with activities, quizzes, case studies and exercises to facilitate a deeper understanding of the various elements used in the book. This book will be of interest to students, teachers and practitioners of psychology, social psychology, management studies and organizational development. It will also be useful for T-Group facilitators, facilitators of experiential groups and related fields.

Lalitha Iyer is a consultant with a special interest in institutional change facilitation in the social sector. She was Chairperson of Board of Sathi (Bangalore) and formerly Director of Bharatiya Samruddhi Financial Services Ltd., of the Basix group. She has held roles like Dean (Professional Excellence) and Dean (Programmes) in the Indian Society for Applied Behavioural Science (ISABS). Sankarasubramanyan Ramamoorthy has 35 years of professional experience in HR, Consulting, OD and Applied Behavioural Science. During his professional journey, he has had hands-on experience in organization development, people process implementation, personal growth, leadership development, executive coaching and whole system change interventions. Sankar had more than 18 years of human resources and top management-level corporate experience before he started as a consultant. He has worked in large Indian and multinational organizations across India and Barbados. Tejinder Singh Bhogal has been an Organizational Change Consultant and Trainer for Social Change organizations for 23 years. His work involves organizational change, as well as its impact on social change. Specifically, he works with change processes for organizations and communities and processes related to leadership, teams, conflicts, communication, motivation and organizational structures. Renuka Raj Singh has over 27 years of experience, over a decade in Brand management and the last 15 years in the Leadership development space. She co-founded Knowledgepros, a consulting firm that focuses on organization development through succession planning, competency assessments, leadership journeys, action learning projects and managing change processes around business and people processes. Sharad Sakorkar is an HR/L&D/OD professional with a long career having worked with top multinational/Indian businesses. He is a professional member of the ISABS. He is a T-Group facilitator with over 25 years of experience in facilitating T-Groups. He has contributed a paper to "Learning Crucible: Collective Experiences from T-group processes," an ISABS publication.

Lists of Figures Lists of Tables Lists of Contributors Foreword Preface Acknowledgements 1 Applied Behavioural Science and T-Groups Lalitha Iyer 2 Human development and learning-an overview Sankarasubramanyan Ramamoorthy 3 Self-awareness Sharad Sakorkar 4 Interpersonal processes Lalitha Iyer 5 Personal and social identity Renuka Raj Singh 6 Change processes 79 Tejinder Singh Bhogal 7 Group development Sharad Sakorkar 8 Social hierarchies and processes Tejinder Singh Bhogal 9 Systems thinking and complexity Tejinder Singh Bhogal 10 T-Groups and Indian philosophy Sankarasubramanyan Ramamoorthy 11 T-Group facilitation Renuka Raj Singh 12 An ISABS model for T-Groups Sankarasubramanyan Ramamoorthy 13 Organizing an ISABS T-Group event Sankarasubramanyan Ramamoorthy Glossary Index