When you’re part of a group that thinks together – long term or short term – you are unlikely to spend all of your time together. You might be together from nine to five, but it’s unlikely you’ll be focused on working as a group for all that time. You might be in the same room but working on separate tasks. Other groups come together for just for an hour a week or a month.
So there will be time apart, and perhaps lots of it. Up to a point this is a good thing. Obviously it helps you avoid getting on each other’s wick, plus it gives you all time to assimilate after your group thinking sessions. Sometimes ideas, problems, issues, thoughts will come to you after a group session because you have a bit of space to think alone. ...