A conversation with GROUP authors Keith Fadelici, LCSW, CGP & John Lutz, Ph.D
Free ZOOM event
Hosted by the GROUP Journal Committee
Focusing on their article in GROUP (Volume 49, Number 4, Winter 2025):
Taking Off Our Shoes: Radical Empathy as an Intentional Strategy in Group Therapy
Article Abstract:
Empathy is essential to the successful practice of group therapy and is part of an intentional process involving concrete strategies such as suspension of judgment, responsiveness, receptivity, vulnerability, attentive listening, and openness to other perspectives. In contrast to the traditional medical model employing objectivity and a detached rational assessment, it entails entering the world of the other, nonjudgmental acceptance, and an authentic presentation of identity. These characteristics allow for the transformative practice of radical empathy in the psychotherapeutic group process. Radical empathy employs emotion, intellect, and imagination in a holistic process of engagement that allows the group leader to assess group connections as they form and cultivate real and lasting change in the group leader and clients alike.
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