5. Invitation to Insight Although it may be larger than most of the groups discussed in this chapter, your class is a good model of the principles described here. Answer the following questions about your class or about a group that you participate in:

a. What are the stated goals of the class or group? Does the group have any unstated, shared g oals?

b. What are your individual goals? Which of these goals are compatible with the group’s goals, and which are not compatible?

Are any of your individual goals hidden agendas?

c. What are your instructor’s or the group leader’s individual goals? Were these goals stated? If not, how did you deduce them?

How compatible are these goals with the official goals of the class or group?

d. How do the individual goals of other members affect the functioning of the group as a w hole?