ABSTRACT
Years ago the professor for my group counseling courses suggested what seemed like the perfect interactive experience for my daily 11 o’clock stress unit hospital group. Group members were given a list of 10 individuals, five males and five females, with a brief description of each. The group then had to agree on five people to take to a new planet to start a new civilization. Most of the group participants at this particular hospital were factory workers and the male clients were a tad chauvinistic to say the least. It didn’t take a specialist in group work to see that all the female members were literally sitting quietly outside the circle and were not participating in the group exercise. It was painfully obvious even to the untrained eye.
