Visualizing Connections and Disconnections: A Social Diagram of the Group

The following exercise is a helpful tool for groups that are either too stimulated by interpersonal encounters to maintain an optimal self-observational level, or too avoidant to be able to identify their interpersonal connections and disconnections. It is based on sociometry, which is the study of the valences within a group and exam-

ines the questions, ”To whom am I drawn and from whom am I moving away? Who is drawn to me and who is moving away from me? Under what circumstances do these movements take place?”