Paul Barber: Group as Teacher

To motivate and develop personnel while fostering a co-operative team spirit presents a major challenge for business communities of the 21st Century (Waitley 1995; RSA 1995; Barber 2002). To this end this paper sets out to examine the gains and challenges of using a Gestalt informed peer-learning community within a commerciallybased master’s to nurture co-operation and personal development. On ancient maps in locations where danger was thought to exist the traveller was warned ‘there be dragons’. This account raises awareness to the organisational dragons that await Gestalt inspired change agents…