What is the reason we join groups? What is the benefit and what makes some groups thrive and others fail? Is the group more than a reason and can the reason change? Is it a purpose or is it the people and can it be both?
In my experience there is a feeling in a group, or energy, an actual unseen thread that flows to keep all of us connected, and that unseen thread seems to be strung by a leader and the leader’s energy is what we tag onto.
But yet the group also is like a chain and we are only as strong as our ‘weakest’ member.
If there is passive aggressive behavior toward one, it weakens the group.
It is very interesting how you can all join together for a common good, yet individual energies can undermine the original intent.
I am a member of two different groups and I can feel the energies in both.
The freedom of one leaves me being free to be me.
The obligation in the other feels heavy.
A weight to carry my weight, and not so much mine, but I feel the ‘weaker’ ones feeling unworthy for it is impossible to do what the leader wants.
Groups I believe are only as strong as the person who attends. If you make them feel less, the group is less.
If you have an unconditional welcome, allowing each person to travel at their own rate, they are allowed to be free.
In my life experiences, I have given up trying to conform others to where I am. I simply allow them to be where they are, and it isn’t where I am.
This sometimes leaves me being a group of one.
Yet better than dragging folks who are not where you are to where you are, unhappy and not willing.
It is interesting too, that we are drawn to groups with similar energies and propelled away from others.
My religious experience was very cult like and you and to be a certain way to stay in the group.
My Art group is wide open…you are free to come and free to go, you are free to create, or free to just watch, there is no agenda, except being free to be you. Well maybe one…you can’t tell another what to do.
It is more like a group that isn’t a group, just individuals arriving together, sharing common but uncommon pieces, all original works of art.
In an art group, the people and the objects are allowed to be unique, different, and individual.
A group of individuals.
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