agi

people.
_ company. ‘for 10 days but none of

m "You. are with a “group of. 15
You will’ be ‘in: their

-you:know why you are ‘together.
Your. gathering. is: without an
“agenda, - “There: is no leader. -
. What would YOUR reaction be?
Because you are likely from a
business firm who has paid sev-

“eral hundred dollars to. send you

a: relationship | ‘groups’ or. Mlabor- -
They all haveone ~

“an understanding of.others. :

a

one woman called the ‘Thousand- :

on this ‘course’ -you: can hardly
» get up and walk out,

What will your. next move ‘be?
Will you ‘try. and. lead: the group .
- yourself, will you become angry
or will you just sit quietly back
/ and» let....the . others. handle the 7
~' situation? :

: “This is the beginning of what ,

Tt isa: ‘chillingly
-know.

a session. ; oe :
All across: Canada. “and the
United. ‘States ‘just. ‘such groups

_.. are meeting for anything: from a>
<= week-end ‘up to two:weeks.: The’

‘people. that. ‘come: “might be total

- = Bieegers -or they might work __

.together in a large. company, they
might: ‘be husbands and. wives, or

.&@ group of: high school or: college :

_ students, «.. ‘Such gatherings. of
“people go under various names.
“They might be called ‘encoun
“ter groups’, ‘T-groups’, ‘sensi-
tivity: training groups’, ~¢human

atory ‘groups’. :
y.thing “in ‘common: they are de-:.
* signed to help people to grow in
self-understanding and thence in

-‘Phis. training. in self-aware-

ness, personel development has .

been offered for the past three

‘years bya group based on the

Saanich. Penirisula called Unica
Training Services Ltd. Group:

© training “has: been: offered. pri-."-

mariiy..to. companies who have
their. head offices. in Western _
Canada and who wish their staff
to take part in such a develop-
ment programme. -

will . be offering, - in addition to
business men’s. groups, pro-
grammes for interested women
and. week-end. programmes . for
“married couples . vat Maple Bay
Inne” . :

“Mr, Ray Woollam, 1306 Lands
End Road, is‘in charge of Unica
‘Training. He is a graduate of
the National Training Laboratory.
of the University of Maine ‘and
over the past fifteen years has.
led more than eighty encounter-
typé groups. Before coming, to
the West Coast he worked on the
Prairies as a co-ordinator in
research and training and in this
capacity worked with Mount Royal
College in Calgary and with the
University of Manitoba.

Mr: Woollam ts assisted by
Mr. Jim Ward, a resident of
Salt Spring Island, who for three
years was the publisher and édi~
tor of the Driftwood News there.
Prior to this, Mr. Ward was 4
school techer and for six years
was Provincial Executive Direc~
tor for the . Canadian Mental
Health Association.

"When I asked Mr. Woolam
exactly what he felt an encounter
group was and what went on
within the group he explained:

“Our nine day development
programme is ‘a happening’
where approximately 15 people
struggle to be honest with one
another and help one another.
What a group will talk about or
do, when it will meet or for how

long, is determined by the group.
Since the trainer refuses to as-
sume leadership for what happens

“BY PAT MANNING

= JIM (WARD AND RAY WOOLLAM,

- themselves how much they feared poo
; other. people ‘and how much they _

In the New =
Year, however, Unica Training

or how it happens, he too, can.

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“function ‘asa group “member.”
; What happens then in a group .
that has \no fixed agenda or as:

leader who will not assume con-

trol?
“Since participants are the

decision. makers in| terms of
agenda and methodology, each
group is distinct,’ commented
Mr, Woollam, ‘However, there

are ‘similarities in the kinds of |.

self-awareness and discoveries
about human relationship which
tend: to occur when - any ‘group
begins to self-evalutate.’’

Some. of the” discoveries that

are. made within’ the group are:
‘learning to Say what: you ‘really .
mean’, ‘learning to listen accur-
ately’, ‘learning. to be primarily
aware of selfover against aware-...
_ ness of environment’,
- Pants” began” to” discover: y

tried to live up to what. they

-felt- other -- people. expected - of.
them. . a

- Often the first: three or. ‘four. :
days ‘are not really a creative oe
“experience. -
- intellectual . responses. and: Ten

“People. tend to give

peat® the pr evious days observa-

tions,

“Then the masks crack,” com- .%
“People|.
begin’ to open . ip and are ‘Starte 9.
led-when.they see. the shape" of £
. the “defences they've learned to.
hide . behind ‘or. the tensions they.’

mented - Mr. “Woollam. -

didn’t” realize they had. They

‘begin to discover they: -have-been

listening to the voices of society

existence.

who assume life is happening to
us or AT us, are ‘hung. up’ on

-the expectations of other people.”

"But there is another .type of |
mentality which attempts: to work"
with the. assutnption that ‘I happen .
- Here the individual

comes to appreciate his own feel- -
He’ gains”
a sense of.his own-worth which:

to. Hfe’.
ings and experience.

frees. him to relate -in an open
way with others, He no longer
has. to maintain: face.
longer hides behind a’ mask.. He

-ean listen‘to others and ‘not: be:

‘threatened by them.’’ .-

Bach. person carries from the
group the realization that ‘Some-
thing happened’ in those days they
were together. They. know they’
have changed - they have deeply
felt new things about themselves
and others - they have a new

sense of seif --and when they..

return to their home and their
job they will be more sensitive
to themselves and those around
them. It has been twenty years
since the first hestitant steps in

‘group dynamics’~ were~ taken.”

It began. with American busi-

ness and industry who were con-
cerned to find new ways of help-.

ing people work together to
accomplish tasks.
encounter-type groups reach into

_every strata of society where

peopte feel alienated from them-
selves and others.

EDITOR’S NOTE: a Review
Staff reporter has been invited
to attend one of Mr. Woolam’s
courses in January. A series
of articlés about this 10 day
encounter group will be pub-
lished in The Review.

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