A Spiritually Informed Approach for the Group Leader

All four of my groups are long-term, open-ended psychodynamic groups (Rutan & Stone, 2001) with a strong emphasis on the “herean-now” interpersonal dimension (Yalom & Leszcz, 2005). All are heterogeneous in gender and age. I view these groups from three theoretical vantage points and base my interventions on them: (1) group as object (using whole-group interventions); (2) group as setting (applying individually focused interventions); and (3) group as agent (using process-oriented group interventions) (Kauff, 1979).