Your choice to participate in a group healing process or workshop depends on your needs and preferences, as well as the issue you want to work on and the options you have around you.
Here I want to give you the possibility to visualize the advantages of some different ways to heal the inner self in group processes or workshops. I hope this will help you gain a sense of whether a workshop or group process would be useful for you.
Let’s look at key advantages:
- Normalization of the experience: Your experience becomes a mirror for other people to see. You tell your story and many people identify with it. This helps everyone in the group and helps you too. It really brings relief to know that you are not alone in your inner struggles and that other people have experienced something similar. It provides a sense of normality and acceptance.
- Social support: People in the group support each other by listening to each other. This helps to reduce feelings of isolation and loneliness and increases a sense of belonging.
- Bonding: Strong emotional connections are established with others in the group in a short time and with a quality that is not easily achieved in everyday life.
- Learning opportunity: It is an opportunity to learn new skills and strategies for dealing with specific problems. Individuals and the therapist can provide techniques, strategies and coping skills.
- Cost reduction: Group therapies can be a cheaper option compared to individual therapy.
- Diverse feedback: People in the group can provide different perspectives and views on the same situation. This can provide a more complete and diverse perspective and understanding.
Knowing these advantages and being clear about the issue to be addressed and what the objectives of the workshop or group process are, you can decide if it meets your needs. Both individual and group therapy can be effective and valuable for your mental health.
And knowing the great advantages of group processes from my own life experience, I share with you:
“May you always have options to participate in group processes, they will leave you with great learnings and valuable progress towards your own inner healing!”