Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The ‘Armidale’ Residential Workshops: Concept and Beginnings.- PART I. ‘As it Happened’: The Process Documented.- Chapter 2. Finding our Difficult Way: Group X’s Transcribed Beginning.- Chapter 3. Mid-Journey Advance and the Late Stages of Group X.- Chapter 4. Tracing the More Relaxed Journey of Group Y, and Glimpses of Further Groups.- Chapter 5. Session-by-Session Participant Ratings of Process and Effects.- PART II. Outcome Reports and Estimations.- Chapter 6. After-the-Workshop Reflections by Letter-Report.- Chapter 7. Workshop Outcomes from Formal Six-Month Follow-Up Data.- Chapter 8. Ten Years Later: Long-Term Follow-Up via Study of Life Events.- Chapter 9. Armidale Remembered and Participant After-Journeys: Interview Perspectives.- PART III. Theory and Wider Application. Chapter 10. A Theoretical Understanding of Intensive Experiential Learning Groups.- Chapter 11. Armidale and Beyond: A Path of Events and Thought.

About the Author

Godfrey Barrett-Lennard is Adjunct Professor in the School of Psychology and Exercise Science and in the School of Health Professions at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia. His research and writing has largely focused on relationships in therapy, groups and life systems, including family and community. This writing includes five previous single-authored books.