Reply #5: Sounds like you need to work on the group process, not its outcomes, but HOW, exactly, you will work [View All]

[patrice]

together, so everyone has a sense that s/he has input into who/what the group becomes.

Defining your process(es), requires an objective process facilitator who is experienced in managing those discussions. You need someone whom everyone can accept and who doesn't project his/her own, or anyone else's, goals or agendas onto the group. You need a facilitator who knows how to get you to work on HOW you're going to be a group. If you happen to know any Quakers, they often know a great deal about group work.

But, most importantly . . .

NGU.