Reflective Essay: Anti-Alcohol Addiction Group Dynamics & Leadership

This essay is a reflective account of attending an Anti-Alcohol Addiction Group, detailing the group's style, meeting logistics, attendee count, and utilized resources like alcohol screening tools, journals, and educational sessions. It observes the leader's facilitation style, emphasizing the need for people-oriented leadership, consistent support, and effective communication. The reflection highlights the importance of strong leadership, skill development sessions, and cooperative team members as effective aspects of the group. Areas for improvement include engaging introverted members more actively. The author reflects on the need for flexibility and understanding group dynamics to facilitate better communication in future group settings. The essay concludes with a bibliography of resources on facilitation and leadership.

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Group Name: Anti-Alcohol Addiction Group for all Ages
Meeting Time and Location: 3 days a week at 5.30 pm; Location: Community Hall
Style of the Group: Laissez faire leadership style group
Number of attendees: 25
Artifacts or resources utilized:
Alcohol Screening is used for each and every individual to assess the extent of their own alcohol
consumption and its effects on daily life. The revelation is of tremendous usage for the addicts to
overcome their addiction.
Magazine and Articles , the club circulates journals and magazines written by its past members
and their own experience of alcohol addiction, the phrases of overcoming it and a list of
medicines that can help the members in the process.
Education and Brief Sessions are common to induce the members in living a healthy life
without the daily, frequent and heavy consumption of alcohol.
Special Support Services for people who are suffering from psychological conditions like
hallucinations and restlessness and therefore in dire need of experts’ guidance for the prevention
of alcohol abuse and leading a proper social life.
Leader’s Style:
The leader should be people oriented in order to influence his/her members who look up
to their leaders. The person should be able to maintain a consistent approach which would
provide the patients with a supportive environment where they will eel secured to come out of

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their shells and address the issues. As a facilitator the person should be able to create for an all
inclusive environment with effective listening skills, empathy and the apt usage of humor to
make the meeting sessions more effective.
The most effective aspects
1. The mentor with strong leadership qualities
2. Skill development sessions
3. Co-operating team members with highest degree of communication amongst themselves
Areas of Improvement:
The group can be more focused on introverted and self engrossed individuals and
prompting them to take part in group activities for faster recovery.
Reflections:
As a facilitator I would need to address the insecurities of members participating and
understand the group dynamic in order to facilitate better communication. Flexibility is another
key aspect.

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