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Show Intermountain Group Development Labs Undertake Annual Training Program at CSU Doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs farmers, scientists, teachers, priests. All of these vocations, and many more, are represenU'1 by the more than 100 persons from 21 states and two foreign countries attending the Intermountain Group Development Develop-ment Laboratories at College of Southern Utah. The participants will undergo two weeks of intensive in-tensive study in three laboratories laborator-ies being conducted on Human Relations, Community Development, Develop-ment, and Higher Education. After a general orientation, trainees are assigned to T-Clroup core training units. In these small groups a searching study is made of each individual's own immediate behavior and its consequences. con-sequences. In the process of providing pro-viding essential leadership and membership functions, each participant par-ticipant learns how his own feelings, feel-ings, motives and strategies are seen by others. Insight is gained in understanding how groups operate, how decisions are made, and how groups collaborate in organizations. Other training methods me-thods are used which include skill -practice sessions, theory sessions, and consultation with staff. Each student is a leader in his own field. Most participants are sponsored by the organization or agency for whom they work. The goals of the laboratories are to assist the trainees in solving solv-ing complex problems connected with their fields of endeavor.' i The program seeks to provide personal growth, group development, develop-ment, and organizational improvement im-provement for each group and individual. The first laboratory in human relations was conducted by the I National Training Laboratories I in 1947 in Bethel, Maine. The activity ac-tivity has now grown to a year- round program of training, con-'sulfation, con-'sulfation, and research which culminates in a series of laboratories labora-tories held throughout the summer sum-mer in Bethel, Cedar City, and Lake Arrowhead, Calif. These i laboratories now include several in human relations, several for management, one for communi- ty leaders, one for school admin- istrators, and one for key executives exec-utives in industry. Newest of the programs is the one related to j exploration and experimentation in the improvement of higher education. Dr. Edward Moe, Director of the Bureau of Community Development Devel-opment at University of Utah, is I dean of the laboratories. Dr. Mc-Ray Mc-Ray Cloward, chairman of the CSU Division of Continuing Education Edu-cation and Special Programs, is administrator. |