ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author proposes a hypothesis about the cultural nature of the community of group relations. It suggests that a split regarding knowledge and power exists within this organisational culture. This split is attached to the fear of learning and changing and is related to stagnation of learning from experience. The split is characterised by a division between a subgroup of informal, "as if" consultants that possess all the knowledge, and another sub-group that includes those who don't know or understand the process and are mobilised into feeling and acting. The chapter explores that the split described here between the interpreters, the "knowers", and those who are "blind", paralysed and can only act and feel, is in the service of the hatred of learning by experience. In conferences like Belgirate, where no consultants are assigned, and since the community is still under basic assumption dependency, there might be a fear of not knowing and being "blind".
