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ted in members' lack of confidence... (Asch, 1956). I disagree with Verny (1974) who proposes that members make ''...most progress by being only in group'' (Verny, 1974 p.221) as members immediate thoughts and feelings were often taken out of group (Corey, 1987) and discussed individually and this led to the group discussing the Johari window (Yalom, 1996). The group catharsis (Yalom, 1996) enabled a healing effect that resonated with my own person-centred philosophy and sustained the interpersonal dynamics of future group meetings.

Prior to the group adjourning, members' confidence and feeling of 'groupness' (Fisher, 1974 p.21) were noticeably absent with members not being helped to ''...re-experience or assimilate important events of a meeting...'' (Yalom, 1996 p.441). This became a depressed period (Mullan & Rosenbaum, 1978) with similarities to the group therapy outcome of ''...group alliance and group cohesion...'' (Budman, Soldz, Demby, Feldstein, Springer & Davis, 1989). During this time It seemed that the group's mental health (Low, 1968) self-esteem, interpersonal relationships, cohesiveness (Yalom, 1996) and 'groupthink' (Janis, 1983) had diminished. Janis (1983 p.13) suggests 'groupthink' as: ''...a deterioration of mental efficiency...which results from in-group pressure'' and one member then became withdrawn (Levine, 1979) and said she felt isolated and socially-excluded by the ''...chaos and confusion of the group'' (Kreeger, 1975 p.25).

All members of the group were contracted to attend personal one-to-one therapy sessions and this provided emotional support after finding ''...their group was an unpleasant, turned off, destructive experience in which they learned very little'' (Lieberman, Yalom & Miles, 1973 p.80). The members met twelve times in total and no fixed termination date ''was announced at the outset...'' (Corey & Corey 1987 p.87) therefore members did not have a clear idea of time limits. The group met in a member's house for eight informal sessions sitting on cushions on the floor (Yalom, 1996) and four other times in the more formal seating area inside the university library with tensions running high (Klopf, 1974). During the first session members were milling around (Rogers, 1971) and most had ''[s]ome overt fears...about groups and participation...'' (Levine, 1979 p.47) with one member requesting to know ''...who is the leader?'' (Rogers as cited by Bugental, 1971 p.264). Member Juulz became the 'group thermostat' (Levine, 1979) acting-act with the emotionally laden material of meetings. The last session lasted for four hours, with a chance for the group mourning or adjourning session (Tuckman & Jensen, 1977).

I have learnt that ''...the basic form of any group is...a collection of people...together for a period of time in a given place'' (Douglas, 2001 p.10) and it would seem that the meeting environment (Levine, 1979) plays an important part in the life of the group as ''...the lack of a consistent meeting place'' (Rose, 2008 p.35) became more problematic and everyone agreed that the message was that group members were not valued.

The eight group members joined voluntarily, agreeing to attend all twelve contracted group sessions (McCullough & Ely, 1968). The group followed a humanistic approach which I felt was the right one for me as Rogers' (1967) core values are rooted in my embodied-self (Laing, 1990). The group hope