Group Dynamics

[poliphilo]

 The Thursday Meeting is transforming. We set it up as a half hour Meeting for Worship followed by coffee and socialising and a shared lunch but recently the numbers who come for worship has grown and the number who stay to lunch has dwindled- so now, on the principle of giving the people what they want, we're cancelling the lunch and winding proceedings up late morning. Since it was generally Ailz and I who provided and prepared the food I can't say I'm sorry. I suppose as the Meeting grows, so the need to hang tight lessens. We're no longer carrying on like besties-and no longer feel the need to do so. The bigger the group becomes the less intimacy there'll be between its members. You can't be besties with ten people. And if you carry on being besties with only some of the ten you've allowed a clique to form....