T-Group Practice & Seminar

Host: Justin Navetski

T-Group is a learning group. Your task is to learn about yourself and others through interaction. Leverage the group to learn about your impact. Try on new behaviors that you’d like to cultivate. Learn by doing. Keep your focus on what is happening now, and with those you are with.

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Container & Facilitation

We will do a warm-up exercise in breakouts (2–3 people), and then T-Group for roughly an hour in breakouts (5–12 people). Assigned facilitators hold three essential tasks:

Safety

Track individual and group nervous systems. Notice signs of overwhelm, fight/flight, or collapse, and intervene to support regulation, consent, and psychological safety. You can ask for boundary support at any time.

Structural Process

Hold the container of the practice. Keep time, clarify instructions, name transitions, and maintain the structure so participants can focus on their experience.

Practice Integrity

Hold integrity to practice intentions. Model the practice itself. Orient to purpose, name when the group drifts, teach in the moment, and reconnect to present-moment awareness and impact (they may interrupt you).

The Boundary Challenge: Facilitators stay tuned to the perceived stress tolerance in the room, but they cannot give those boundaries to you. Boundaries are an important thing for you to practice yourself. Get out of your comfort zone, stay out of your alarm zone, and find your learning zone.

Two Ways to Participate

Experiential Practice

T-Group Practice

Warm-ups, here-and-now T-Group practice, and then a cooldown

Schedule: Every other Tuesday, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM PT
(Optional 30-min continued debrief until 2:00 PM PT)

Dates:

Sept 8 (Opening), Sept 22, Oct 6, Oct 20, Nov 3, Nov 17, Dec 1

Session Flow (PT):

12:05 PM Welcome & ground rules
12:08 PM Warm-up exercise in breakouts (2–3 people)
12:15 PM Facilitated T-Group breakouts (5–12 people)
1:10 PM Debrief practice in breakouts
1:25 PM Return for closing
1:30 PM Goodbyes & optional extended debrief
2:00 PM Zoom room closes

Sensemaking & Discussion

T-Group Seminar

Sensemaking, real-world application, giving and getting help.

Schedule: Monthly on Wednesday, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT

Dates:

Sept 9, Oct 7, Nov 4, Dec 2

Session Flow (PT):

10:00 AM Welcome
10:02 AM Check-ins: Why did you come?
10:10 AM Group configurations & emergent activities
10:50 AM Initiate check-outs
11:00 AM Goodbyes

Emergent Agenda: Join anytime. Activity will be dictated by participant desires raised during check-in.

New to the Dojo?

Before your first session, we ask all new participants to review our foundation materials so you can arrive ready to practice:

📄 Read the Quicksheet 🎥 Watch the Demo

T-Group Practice Guidelines

We aspire to practice the following...	We intentionally stay away from ...
Learning about ourselves alongside others	Watching the group instead of being part of the group
Observing and revealing our inner experiences	Staying in abstraction, theory, or retrospection instead of present experience
Speaking from the "I"	Speaking for others or the group
Sharing our experiences of one another in the present moment	Avoiding direct interpersonal feedback, referring to people indirectly or outside the room
Stretching out of our comfort zone into our learning zone	Remaining in safety, familiarity, or performance
Holding and reflecting on our learning with care for one another	Sharing personal details about another individual without their explicit consent

Resources

Frameworks, models, and 1-pagers to support your practice.

1. Behavioral Effectiveness

Ways to communicate more clearly and intentionally

Nonviolent Communication (NVC)

A four step processs of how to speak up for what's important to you

Container & Facilitation

Safety

Structural Process

Practice Integrity

Two Ways to Participate

T-Group Practice

T-Group Seminar

New to the Dojo?

T-Group Practice Guidelines

Resources

1. Behavioral Effectiveness

Nonviolent Communication (NVC)

Wallen Skills

Wheel of Awareness

2. Interpersonal Navigation

Conflict Styles (Jay Hall, Thomas-Kilmann)

Interpersonal Gap

Wheel of Consent

Feelings Chart

3. Learning Process

Johari Window

Zone of Proximal Development

Four Stages of Competence

4. Group Development

Basic Assumption Theory

Element-B: Inclusion, Control, Openness

Tuckman Model

5. Leadership

Yalom’s Four Functions

6. Sensemaking

Ladder of Inference

Elephant and Rider Theory

7. Self Narrative

Family of Origin Work

Personality Inventories (Big 5, Social Styles, Enneagram, DISC, StrengthsFinder, MBTI)

8. Neurobehavior

System 1 & System 2 Thinking

Fight, Fawn, Freeze, Flight, Flop (Stress Responses)

1. Behavioral Effectiveness

Nonviolent Communication (NVC)

Wallen Skills

Wheel of Awareness

2. Interpersonal Navigation

Conflict Styles (Jay Hall, Thomas-Kilmann)

Interpersonal Gap

Wheel of Consent

Feelings Chart

3. Learning Process

Johari Window

Zone of Proximal Development

Four Stages of Competence

4. Group Development

Basic Assumption Theory

Element-B: Inclusion, Control, Openness

Tuckman Model

5. Leadership

Yalom’s Four Functions

6. Sensemaking

Ladder of Inference

Elephant and Rider Theory

7. Self Narrative

Family of Origin Work

Personality Inventories (Big 5, Social Styles, Enneagram, DISC, StrengthsFinder, MBTI)

8. Neurobehavior

System 1 & System 2 Thinking

Fight, Fawn, Freeze, Flight, Flop (Stress Responses)

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