ABSTRACT
It is well-known that how we are in groups often resembles how we were in our original family group. If the original family group was feared, a sense of dread can be transferred into being in groups throughout life. For other people, the dullness and lack of any real connection in the original family group (nothing much happened) makes them love being in impassioned groups who laugh a lot. So, the objective of this exercise is to highlight the common roles the participant tends to adopt when in groups and, if he wants, to explore how this is replicating, in some way, feelings or coping mechanisms developed to deal with the original group (his family). If participants find by doing the exercise that they tend to play limiting or unhealthy roles in groups (for example if participants are usually on the outside of a group or the one who can’t get their voice heard), they could be encouraged to discuss ways of changing how they are in groups in order to get a different response.
