ABSTRACT
This chapter provides therapeutic principles for working systematically in groups with the content of people's stories in their narrative, drama and interaction. Discourse describes the communication of thought by speech, the exchange between someone speaking, someone listening, and something listened to, the relationship between narrator, listener and story. Work with a group's narrative and dramatic content, often regarded as the hallmark of the group-analytic approach, has a modest literature, despite its importance, with some exceptions. The conductor needs to promote narrative and narrative encounter so people can find their own voices, gain confidence in self-expression and then discover their positions in relation to one another as their stories interact and intersect. The conductor needs to listen to the voice of the symbol and educate the group's members in how they too can hear it. Differentiation between the dimensions of structure, process and content is notional.
