ABSTRACT
Chapters 9 and 10 address the leadership skills necessary to navigate each of the stages in the group development arc detailed in chapter 5. Chapter 9 focuses on the leadership skills during the descent into the confrontation stage, and chapter 10 addresses those skills needed during the ascent. Example and transcripts in these chapters come from my work with graduate student training groups. These groups met between 10 and 15 sessions. Each of the student leaders had a supervisor (or I was their supervisor). The groups were oriented toward personal growth and did not have specific topics. Primarily, the groups followed a psychodynamic model, so terms like transference and countertransference, as well as latent and manifest content, are used.
