Large Groups: Why have them?

ABOUT

Many people avoid large groups as they tend to find them uncomfortable and even crazy-making. Since the nineteenth century with increasing industrialisation and population movement, we have forgotten how to gather in community-sized groups just to talk and think together about the dilemmas facing us. As well as describing the intention of the large group, Teresa will talk about how it is different from a small group as well as some of the origins of Foulkes’ and de Maré’s thinking.

Teresa von Sommaruga Howard

Teresa lives in the UK and works internationally conducting on-going large groups all over the world. She is both an architect and a group analyst, as well as a systemic family therapist and rebirther, but applying large group thinking in everyday situations is her passion. She has written extensively about her work and co-authored a book in 2010 which integrates her background as both a practising architect and group analyst, and more recently, she co-edited an anthology of experiences from the second generation after the Holocaust.