ABSTRACT
In the following we list the recommendations for future action that were made by participants and staff members in the last plenary session, in the group conductors’ follow-up meeting of 27 February 1988, and in reply to question 3 on the evaluation form (appendix VI). An attempt is made here to put all the suggestions in distinct categories and place them in some logical order. The sequence does not necessarily reflect the importance or the feasibility of any particular suggestion.
Write up this workshop.
Repeat this workshop.
The most frequently suggested modification concerned its length: 2 days, a weekend, or even a week. Other suggestions were: to hold it in other parts of London, in the North, abroad; to address the existential, spiritual dimensions, fundamental questions about birth, love, death; not to have speakers, but to use the entire time for experiential groups; to start it with 142a discussion on homosexuality; to add a large group session; to make more observations on the group process.
Establish ongoing support groups for the carers at GAS/IGA, elsewhere in London and the UK.
Establish an HIV/AIDS-related large group.
Start supervision groups for carers, counsellors of HIV/ARC/AIDS patients.
Organize short training courses in group analysis for carers, counsellors, group conductors who work with HIV/ARC/AIDS patients.
Explore similarities and differences between group analysis and other group approaches with those who are doing group work in the AIDS field.
GAS/IGA should act as a clearing house for information on group-analytic resources available for HIV/AIDS.
Use IGA-trained group analysts as consultants and group conductors in HIV/AIDS-related programmes.
Use GAS/IGA’s existing programmes (e.g., January Workshop, Work Discussion Groups, Introductory Group Experience with co-conductors, GAS large group section).
