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The Large Group Experience: Affiliation in a Learning Community

ABSTRACT This article is designed to orient prospective members of a large group convened for educational purposes. The authors frame the experience as one of affiliation within a learning community, emphasizing relational processes to facilitate group-as-a-whole understanding, civic mindedness, and systemic change. They provide an historical overview of large group work, a description of basic learning goals and relevant concepts from social psychology, and an elaboration of their relational team model of consultancy. A summary of the large group convened at the Annual Meeting of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, AGPA Connect 2018, includes in-session material and integrative commentary. Reflective questions are offered to help readers consider the relevance of large group learning to their professional development as group therapists.