Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: improving group dynamics?

[Elaine (itchyink]

There is this entire vocabulary that goes along with cohousing. It's rather
daunting. I find myself in constant fear of making a 'communication' mistake
since moving into cohousing. Haven't read all the books i guess.
Elaine
> I would definitely avoid the phrase "group thinking" when you are looking
> for ways to improve decision making, since "groupthink" is a term in
> psychology for a particular type of group decision-making -- one that is an
> especial danger to consensus-based groups.  On the other hand, I would say
> that learning to recognize groupthink is a very good idea.

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