ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the basic reciprocity between personal and group development to explore how the developmental stages of a person's journey through a group and of a group's journey over time are shaped by the group's formative purposes, individual membership, the conductor and the milieu or setting. It discusses the conductor's interventive repertoire in promoting group development and dealing with impasse and resistance. The chapter presents a developing, dynamic triangle between intimacy, engagement and termination. It also talks about the group progresses from engagement to authority issues and then through intimacy issues to those affecting people's individuation, and differentiation, and with termination issues. The chapter explores the range of schemata from the clinical practice of group analysts to create a balance between personal and group development and ensure that reciprocity between the person and the group can be understood to enrich the development of both.
