Attention, Cooperation, Purpose - An Approach to Working in Groups Using Insights from Wilfred Bion French RobertPaperback
Attention, Cooperation, Purpose - An Approach to Working in Groups Using Insights from Wilfred Bion French RobertPaperback This book describes an approach based on attention that can help individuals…
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Attention, Cooperation, Purpose - An Approach to Working in Groups Using Insights from Wilfred Bion French RobertPaperback
This book describes an approach based on attention that can help individuals and groups to cooperate more effectively. Every group has a purpose or purposes - or, as Bion put it, "every group, however casual, meets to 'do' something." The approach described here shows how individual group members' use of attention - both broad or "evenly suspended" and focused - can promote a better understanding of purpose, making it possible for them to do what they have met to do. It presents the first book-length reassessment of Wilfred Bion's ideas on groups.
The approach builds on the authors' experience of using Bion's insights into group dynamics over twenty-five years This work of attention enables group members to maintain a clear sense of their purpose and also to recognise how easily they can become distracted, losing focus and dispersing their energies into activities that are off task.