ABSTRACT
Group psychotherapy is about building connections between people and building bridges between their self-awareness and those aspects of themselves, which have been disavowed. Group psychotherapy helps the patient do this in a number of ways including providing an arena for interpersonal exploration, a focus on interpersonal interactions, and most importantly a focus or mindfulness on what the patient is experiencing in the moment both with himself or herself and in relation to the other group members. Ormont (1992) writes that the primary task in making our group function effectively is to use any technique which evokes meaningful talk between group members and to develop emotional connections where they did not exist before. He calls this process bridging, and for it to occur the members must use mindfulness.
