Long Quiz

• Grouping instructions: Group the class into 5-6 member per group, bring out any items/materials they are willing to “let go”, groups are limited to use items/materials from their group only, no borrowing/asking from other groups, preparation of items/materials is given 5 minutes, from the available items/materials, groups are tasked to make a “Human Figure”, no talking during the activity, actual activity is given 15 minutes
• Processing items/materials


  • Representation of the individual, attributes, character, attitude, behavior, strengths, weaknesses
• Human Figure


  • Represents the “totality” of the individual, flaws, failures, struggles, accomplishments, strengths, combination/composition of good/bad, ups/downs, strengths/weakness
• Gestalt Psychology


  “The WHOLE is greater than the SUM of its PARTS”
• Transformational Psychology


  Holistic approach to personal growth and development, focuses on personal development, growth, and transformation, belief in individual potential to achieve goals, improve lives, and become the best version of themselves
• Transpersonal Psychology


  Study of human nature and development based on the assumption that humans have the potential to move beyond the ego's limitations, integration of spiritual experience into understanding of human psyche, enlightenment as realization of one's spiritual values
• Aim of Transformational Psychology


  To help individuals develop necessary skills and strategies to overcome challenges, achieve goals, and live a fulfilling life
• Role of “group facilitators” advancing towards being facilitators/mentors of learning, change, and transformation
• History of Western psychology: Interaction of process elements influencing individuals, groups, and situations (Kurt Lewin, 1942)
• Ways of improving personal/professional relationships

  • Clear ways of improving personal/professional relationships
  • People skills (soft skills)
  • Self-knowledge and continuing personal development
• Process according to Kurt Lewin (1942)

  Interaction, at any given point of time of the forces or energies called process elements, manifested in overt behavior and inferred from covert behavior that actively influence the individual, the group and the situation
• Field Theory according to Lewin & Bavelas (1942)


  To be understood, one must be seen in the light of how he/she views the world (subjective reality), not merely in terms of how the world really is (objective reality). Defined as the “totality of coexisting facts that are conceived as mutually interdependent”
• Content and Process according to Pfeiffer and Jones

  • Content deals with the subject matter or the task upon which the group is working. Process is concerned with what is happening between and to group members while the group is working
• Group Process according to Pfeiffer and Jones


  • Deals with morals, feeling tone, atmosphere, influence, participation, styles of influence, leadership struggles, conflict, competition, cooperation, etc. In most interactions, very little attention is paid to the process even when it is the major cause of ineffective group action
• Social Facilitation or Social Influence

  The tendency for people to be aroused into better performance of simple tasks (or tasks at which they are experts) when under the eye of others rather than when they are alone. Complex tasks (or tasks at which they are not skilled) are often performed in an inferior manner. This effect has been shown to be strongest among those who are most concerned about the opinions of others and when the individual is being watched by someone they do not know
• Social Loafing
• Andragogy according to Malcolm S. Knowles


  • The art and science of helping adults learn. Andragogy recognizes that when young, mature, and late adults present themselves as learners they bring with them their own set of skills, knowledge, and experiences
• Experiential Learning Cycle (ELC)

  Is a “structured” learning experience. To learn deeply, we need to transition through a 4-stage process
• Jaime C. Bulatao, SJ (Fr. Bu)
• Desirable changes needed by the Filipino personality

  • Filipinos must learn to work together
  • Filipinos must learn to trust each other
  • Filipinos must learn to trust themselves
• R. Eugene Moran, SJ
• Gaston Ortigas Sr.
• Ateneo de Manil
• Focus on the affective dimension is important to Filipino groups


  Designing and implementing a program responsive to those needs
• Group discussion is a development strategy, a method strongly committed to the belief in the importance of individuals with unique contributions shaped by their own background, experience, and beliefs
• Ateneo de Manila University played a pivotal role in the spread of group process, group facilitating, adult education, and the use of the inductive/experiential learning method in the Philippines
• Roberto Assagioli was born and died


  1888-1974
• Psychosynthesis


  A therapeutic system founded by Roberto Assagioli
• Psychosynthesis


  The task of psychological integration is to become aware of, explore, and coordinate all three levels of the unconscious, and to realize the spiritual 'Transpersonal Self' at the heart of the higher unconscious
• Richard Maurice Bucke had a profound unitive mystical experience in 1882 that he later termed 'Cosmic Consciousness'
• Richard Maurice Bucke believed that cosmic consciousness represented the highest form of human evolution
• David Fontana was a British psychologist and psychical researcher
• David Fontana was a past President of the Society for Psychical Research and Founding Chair of the British Psychological Society's Transpersonal Psychology Section
• Viktor Frankl was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist
• Viktor Frankl developed a form of existential analysis called logotherapy
• Ian Gordon-Brown was a British industrial psychologist, psychotherapist, and proponent of psychosynthesis
• Ian Gordon-Brown founded the Centre for Transpersonal Psychology in London in 1973
• Stanislav Grof is a Czech psychiatrist and proponent of transpersonal psychology
• Stanislav Grof developed Holotropic Breathwork as a legal alternative capable of inducing therapeutic non-ordinary states of consciousness
• Stanislav Grof was scholar-in-residence at the Esalen Institute from 1973 to 1987