ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the types of data that the Tavistock consultant may use, examining situations that may lead to overwhelming floods of data and deserts of absence of data. It suggests that ways of coping with data floods and droughts. A thread running through this will be the openness to data that comes from ideas beyond the traditional frame. With regard to S data, symbolic data, there has been considerable emphasis on words. The body structure, gestures, and positioning offers a form of language, another code, as it were, and thus, another data stream for the consultant to consider. Intuitive data such as these are different from “free association” since free association can be somewhat directed by one’s will. The group averaged twenty-two members, usually about fifteen female and seven male and was conducted along Tavistock lines with three consultants, two male and one female. One wonders how a Tavistock consultant would have interpreted this moving event.
