The Large Group Experience: Affiliation in a Learning Community.

This article is designed to orient prospective members of a large group convened for educational purposes. The authors frame the experience as one of affiliation within a learning community, emphasizing relational processes to facilitate group-as-a-whole understanding, civic mindedness, and systemic change. They provide an historical overview of large group work, a description of basic learning goals and relevant concepts from social psychology, and an elaboration of their relational team model of consultancy.