Drawing upon years of group facilitation experience, Bufe and DeNunzio describe in detail dozens of exercises designed to foster intimacy, empathy, self-awareness, responsibility, and cooperation. To put it another way, the experiential exercises in this book are designed to help individuals discover who they are, what they want, and how to cooperate with others to achieve their goals. The authors take an unusual, eclectic approach to their subject matter, drawing from many different schools, including cognitive therapy, rational emotive behavior therapy, gestalt therapy, psychodrama, and even acting exercises. The result is a book useful to a very wide range of groups and individuals.Exercises for Individual and Group Development includes both physical and verbal exercises, light, enjoyable exercises suitable to new groups and beginners, and more intense exercises suitable to established groups. In addition to the exercises themselves, the book also covers mediation techniques and group facilitation in some detail.While Exercises for Individual and Group Development will be of great use to established therapists and group facilitators, its exercise descriptions are so clearly written and so detailed that newcomers -- both professional and nonprofessional -- will find it easy to learn and to facilitate the many exercises described in this one-of-a-kind book.