ABSTRACT
For a number of communities, however, it was decided the attempt would be made to secure a number of delegates and if possible to develop in the workshop teams who would keep up their team relationship after the workshop. Several elements of what became the T-group were woven into the Connecticut experiment from the beginning: the training would take place in the form of a workshop. In Connecticut there were three working groups - a skilled facilitator led each group, the participants were taught communication, conflict management, and other applicable skills. Planned “re-education” of the “social construction of reality” took place through brief lectures on social science theory, interaction with and influence by the faculty, interaction with the other workshop participants, and immersion in the democratic principles of the process, Behavioral observation was a carefully crafted part of the process and teams were included so as to leverage group dynamics in sustaining the learning after the workshop.
