T-Group Facilitation

Lalitha Iyer is a consultant with a special interest in institutional change facilitation in the social sector. She was Chairperson of Board of Sathi (Bangalore) and formerly Director of Bharatiya Samruddhi Financial Services Ltd., of the Basix group. She has held roles like Dean (Professional Excellence) and Dean (Programmes) in the Indian Society for Applied Behavioural Science (ISABS). Sankarasubramanyan Ramamoorthy has 35 years of professional experience in HR, Consulting, OD and Applied Behavioural Science. During his professional journey, he has had hands-on experience in organization development, people process implementation, personal growth, leadership development, executive coaching and whole system change interventions. Sankar had more than 18 years of human resources and top management-level corporate experience before he started as a consultant. He has worked in large Indian and multinational organizations across India and Barbados. Tejinder Singh Bhogal has been an Organizational Change Consultant and Trainer for Social Change organizations for 23 years. His work involves organizational change, as well as its impact on social change. Specifically, he works with change processes for organizations and communities and processes related to leadership, teams, conflicts, communication, motivation and organizational structures. Renuka Raj Singh has over 27 years of experience, over a decade in Brand management and the last 15 years in the Leadership development space. She co-founded Knowledgepros, a consulting firm that focuses on organization development through succession planning, competency assessments, leadership journeys, action learning projects and managing change processes around business and people processes. Sharad Sakorkar is an HR/L&D/OD professional with a long career having worked with top multinational/Indian businesses. He is a professional member of the ISABS. He is a T-Group facilitator with over 25 years of experience in facilitating T-Groups. He has contributed a paper to “Learning Crucible: Collective Experiences from T-group processes,” an ISABS publication.

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Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

1 Applied Behavioural Science and T-Groups

Lalitha Iyer

2 Human development and learning—an overview

Sankarasubramanyan Ramamoorthy

3 Self-awareness

Sharad Sakorkar

4 Interpersonal processes

Lalitha Iyer

5 Personal and social identity

Renuka Raj Singh

6 Change processes 79

Tejinder Singh Bhogal

7 Group development

Sharad Sakorkar

8 Social hierarchies and processes

Tejinder Singh Bhogal

9 Systems thinking and complexity

Tejinder Singh Bhogal

10 T-Groups and Indian philosophy

Sankarasubramanyan Ramamoorthy

11 T-Group facilitation

Renuka Raj Singh

12 An ISABS model for T-Groups

Sankarasubramanyan Ramamoorthy

13 Organizing an ISABS T-Group event

Sankarasubramanyan Ramamoorthy

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