Scenario: Sarita, the union leader, thanks the community members for participating in the union organizing meeting and suggests the opening exercise. Sarita suggests an activity that requires group members to say their names and their history with union organizing. Sarita indicates that she will also participate in the activity after each member has shared. During the share outs, Sarita reflects and paraphrases what each group members says. She uses open questions to get more information, but she speaks very succinctly. When a group member seems to be struggling, Sarita guesses what they are trying to say (with good accuracy), and links others by pointing out similarities.

Question: In an essay please:

• Explain what stage of group development represented here and what characteristics you see that tell you this is the correct stage;
• Describe what facilitation strategies the group leader, Sarita, is using and why they might be effective in this stage
• Describe anything do might do in addition to or differently than Sarita and explain.
• Hint: Consider the development of norms, roles, and group cohesion for an open-membership group.