This presentation offers an overview of group memory phenomena. Through research into group memory, learning and knowledge practices in team meetings this phenomena emerged in the form of spontaneous ‘looking back acts’. These phenomena were the catalyst to investigating group memory in depth and how it served the need to deal with uncertainty, provide confirmation and a sense of structure.
The sense of structure group memory phenomena will be discussed in relation to the Transactional Analysis concepts of structure hunger both from the aspects of spontaneous emergence and meaningful application. Albeit confined to the context of team meetings for the purposes of this PhD research, group memory consciousness and practices are transferrable to any group wishing to develop autonomy and resilience.
