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Nearly all of the participants from Workshop 1 and many from Workshop 2 responded to an invitation to write back to the organiser-leaders in the weeks after resuming their lives and work at home, giving feedback on their workshop experience and its aftermath. They were now looking back from a familiar reality to a clearly unusual or exceptional one that left considerable impact. Their own accounts, individual in scope and valence, provide unique information presented in this chapter in somewhat distilled form. This carefully preserves, via quotation and summary, each person’s voice and “take” on their experience and its meaning. Thirty-six summaries are included in the chapter, giving greater attention to the returns from two or three people for whom the experience was most problematic at the time. The chapter conclusion summarises essential themes. Mention is made of an interesting exercise linked to this chapter in Appendix 2.
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As seen in transcripts for the first days of Group X (Chap. 2), Ralph repeatedly expressed concern that the workshop announcements had not indicated that a group therapy-type process was expected. In a later letter (Barrett-Lennard, 1963 – personal communication), I acknowledged that our advance communication to applicants was not ideal, and explained the situation to him: “There were two problems that did make this more difficult than it would be again. Firstly, to hold the workshop at all it was necessary to gain sponsorship of the heads of the Psychology and Adult Education departments. We needed to produce a statement that the sponsors would accept and support – that would go out under (their) names to a great many people, e.g., other department heads in universities and elsewhere …. The general conception was no easy matter to communicate …and I rewrote the announcement several times to get a form we all were comfortable with …. The second problem was that we really did not know just how members would use the experience … Even when the workshop actually started, I honestly did not anticipate the depth of involvement and personal impact that occurred in our group.”
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Barrett-Lennard, G.T. (2017). After-the-Workshop Reflections by Letter Report. In: Experiential Learning for Professional Helpers. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47919-4_6
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