1. Guided Group Interaction (GGI) Module 2 Dallas Region

2. Process Points Review • Norms • Leadership • Sub-groups • Nonverbals • Communication Flow • Hidden Agenda • Leader Style • Trust Level

3. Fishbowl Activity

4. Behaviors What are the behaviors that you have to deal with on your center?

5. 1 Delinquency • Delinquency: • A social fact • Not a psychiatric syndrome • Divorce and Poverty • Urban and Rural

6. What and Why of GGI • Guided Group Interaction: • Not T-Group • Facilitator vs. Leader • Not a Panacea • Only one Tool • Science vs. Art

7. What and Why of GGI GGI is a form of group process that uses peer group pressure to change behavior.

8. 1 1 • Group Process • Ongoing • Ever-changing • Process points What and Why of GGI • Peer Group Pressure • How powerful is peer group pressure? • Go against your own values system • Behavior • The here and now behavior of the group

9. 1 1 Abraham Maslow Maslow’s Heirarchy of Needs

10. 1 1 Residential Development Director Clinical Business Education Residential

11. 1 1 Howard Polsky • Polsky’s Diamond • A hierarchy of negative social groups

12. Delinquent Group Diamond

13. Diamond Work • Your goal in reading the Diamond is to collapse or destroy the Diamond. • In order to destroy the Diamond, the big crowd and leader must be attacked. • The more negative your culture, the truer the Diamond.

14. Diamond Work • The more negative your normative culture, the harder it will be to destroy the Diamond. • Some staff support the Diamond and are not aware that they are doing so.

15. Diamond Work • Doing the Diamond allows you to be proactive, not reactive. • Low-status students will gravitate toward staff for protection. • High-status students will often avoid staff.

16. Role Play

17. Non-negotiables • Non-negotiables • Definition • Why needed • How they are created • How they are established • How they can develop

18. Non-negotiables • Not up for Negotiation: • Mandatory Attendance • Veto-power of the Group Leader • No Disrespect • Stay in Your Seats • We Are About “Help”

19. GGI Leader’s Authority • Definition • What you can and can’t do – know your power • How to get authority and power • Examples of what you already have available

20. GGI Leader’s Authority • Rewarding or sanctioning • Model “tailor-made” sanctions that will help the group members with their particular problems • Group members can recommend a sanction or accountabilities for behaviors with leader’s approval

21. GGI Leader’s Authority • Accountability should be just • Avoid supporting the Diamond by always confronting and concentrating on the small crowd and letting the big crowd off easy • Veto-power

22. Acceptable and Non-acceptable Issues • Definition • What is GGI supposed to address? • Where should some issues be addressed? • Who determines issues to be discussed?

23. Acceptable and Non-Acceptable Issues • The behavior of the students in the group • Any interaction between group members that has been a problem or the group leader “reads” as an issue • Absent Without Leave (AWOLs) • Missed TABE, OPT or GED testing • Review of the Group’s Non-negotiable norms

24. Acceptable and Non-acceptable Issues • Dorm issues such as failure to do details, etc. • Any issues brought up to Team Members by center staff or Student Leaders • Dress Code violations – ensure students are in dress code during group • Students’ rating on the Force Field • Any violation of the center’s norms

25. Guided Group Interaction (GGI) Module 2 Dallas Region