Home | Videos | Group | Articles |  Journeys Plavan N. Go  | 日本語

History of Group Work Experiment  in Çıralı, Turkey

Like everything else in the world, groups exist either in the context of a top-down involutionary flow, which is destined to die, or in a bottom-up evolutionary flow. When we talk of group and the group work, we talk of the latter. It originates from the former but goes upward against the downward movement of the former with the desire to climb higher and reblend with the source.

The formation of a group in this sense is in itself a miracle because, as stated by Ivan Karamazov in the Dostoevsky's novel, there is nothing in the laws of nature that brings people together. The increasing separation between man and man is a natural consequence of the "creative" action emanating from the above. It necessarily brings people apart as it is a flow from the One to Many. A movement in the opposite direction, which brings people together, takes place only when corresponding wishes are provoked in us through a contact with something higher.

2023: Çıralı Again

Video from early 2023 to the end of 2024

Video 50 min.

2025-2026: Renewal

Video 35 min.

 

Video 36 min.

Now the group is in the process of major renewal in terms of organization, membership, focus, and practice.

The Survivors of long group processes led by me over many years may join with newcomers for the initiation of new group initiatives in Antalya, Turkey, or otherwise in India, Japan, or elsewhere.

Plavan N. Go

Online group exchanges