ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how a group of consultants and psychologists supported various groups and organisations to work through the painful processes of addressing the trauma and of mobilising groups to perform the necessary actions. It discusses both the acute and the follow-up phases of the process and will identify tasks, roles, and the approaches people used. The leader was in charge of the organisation in crisis but also responsible for all decisions, with powerful ramifications for the future of a whole nation. The project arose when the party secretary of the Norwegian Labour Party realised his own lack of competence in the face of such an overwhelming national crisis. Crisis psychology makes people aware of the importance of holidays and birthdays as periods of special vulnerability for those affected. The arrangement offered the possibility of exchanging experiences and reflections, similar to a peer supervision, and surfaced essential topics brought up from the participants meetings.
