As I continue my explorations of group therapy, I am struck by my experience of the healing forces and my witnessing the process of what is emerging.
A way I have conceptualized it recently is this: I see symptoms come to the surface of our awareness in the homeopathic case taking, the body, the mind and emotions produce symptoms that we discuss and listen to, in the homeopathic process. The symptoms come to a level of expression where they create a new map of themes. The bodily symptoms and mental-emotional symptom express a similar pattern, one, which we call the vital sensation level in homeopathy. When we arrive on this level of awareness of our symptoms, there is a chance to bring about healing on this level, which, in return will affect the body and mind symptoms.
In group therapy there is a similar phenomena that emerges if we pay attention to the process among group members. As people talk and participate in the group process, their essential themes come to the surface, the force of the group process and the presence of other participants encourage this emergence. Vital aspects of each person come to surface and create the "group as a whole" in which these themes can be looked at and dynamically processed by the help of the others.
My experience as the group leader - or the homeopath - is the witnessing and encouraging the emergence of the vital level description of symptoms or the essential themes in every participant. Once these levels are unveiled, the channels to healing are open. Our natural tendency towards harmony and balance picks up the rest of the work. As long as we are active participants and active listeners to our awareness, and in group to the overarching process and feedback from others, we will experience corrective, healing events and our body and mind will have the chance to regain balance and clarity.
Experiencing the honesty and openness among a small group of people can be extremely healing. The work I witnessed and called out for in homeopathy, resonates well in the interpersonal matrix of process group therapy. People bring out themes in each other, like the emerging symptoms and themes in the homeopathic process in the individual. The whole of the group resembles the holistic in homeopathy.
A way I have conceptualized it recently is this: I see symptoms come to the surface of our awareness in the homeopathic case taking, the body, the mind and emotions produce symptoms that we discuss and listen to, in the homeopathic process. The symptoms come to a level of expression where they create a new map of themes. The bodily symptoms and mental-emotional symptom express a similar pattern, one, which we call the vital sensation level in homeopathy. When we arrive on this level of awareness of our symptoms, there is a chance to bring about healing on this level, which, in return will affect the body and mind symptoms.
In group therapy there is a similar phenomena that emerges if we pay attention to the process among group members. As people talk and participate in the group process, their essential themes come to the surface, the force of the group process and the presence of other participants encourage this emergence. Vital aspects of each person come to surface and create the "group as a whole" in which these themes can be looked at and dynamically processed by the help of the others.
My experience as the group leader - or the homeopath - is the witnessing and encouraging the emergence of the vital level description of symptoms or the essential themes in every participant. Once these levels are unveiled, the channels to healing are open. Our natural tendency towards harmony and balance picks up the rest of the work. As long as we are active participants and active listeners to our awareness, and in group to the overarching process and feedback from others, we will experience corrective, healing events and our body and mind will have the chance to regain balance and clarity.
Experiencing the honesty and openness among a small group of people can be extremely healing. The work I witnessed and called out for in homeopathy, resonates well in the interpersonal matrix of process group therapy. People bring out themes in each other, like the emerging symptoms and themes in the homeopathic process in the individual. The whole of the group resembles the holistic in homeopathy.
