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.

• Lists of Figures Lists of Tables Lists of Contributors Foreword PrefaceAcknowledgements 1 Applied Behavioural Science and T-Groups Lalitha Iyer2 Human development and learning—an overview Sankarasubramanyan Ramamoorthy3 Self-awareness Sharad Sakorkar4 Interpersonal processes Lalitha Iyer5 Personal and social identity Renuka Raj Singh6 Change processes 79Tejinder Singh Bhogal7 Group development Sharad Sakorkar8 Social hierarchies and processes Tejinder Singh Bhogal9 Systems thinking and complexityTejinder Singh Bhogal10 T-Groups and Indian philosophy Sankarasubramanyan Ramamoorthy11 T-Group facilitation Renuka Raj Singh12 An ISABS model for T-Groups Sankarasubramanyan Ramamoorthy13 Organizing an ISABS T-Group event Sankarasubramanyan RamamoorthyGlossary Index