Significant Events and Group Stages

by | Apr 7, 2023 | social work

 

Part I: Overall group development and the mutual aid process (Significant Events and Group Stages)
Describe how your group used components of mutual aid throughout the life of the group, from planning to termination. Provide specific examples from select group meetings to highlight your examples. Then discuss three significant events that occurred in the group sessions (i.e. a conflict, a powerful moment or transition point in the group) and what you learned from each.
Discuss the stages that took place in your group and what you learned about group stages that you can apply to future group work. How did your group change from the beginning/middle/ending stages of the group? What did you notice during the life of the group as your group moved through these stages of group development? How did the stages of your group development impact mutual aid? What do you feel were some specific turning points in your group during this exercise that moved your group from the beginning/middle/ending stages? What tools were used to evaluate your group during this process?
Part II: Individual reflection (Group Leadership and Group Membership)
1. While you were the group leader, what do you feel went well? What was your plan for leading your group, and what informed your plan? What would you do differently if you were leading the group again? As a group facilitator, what do you feel you learned about yourself during this process? What do you feel you learned about yourself from being a group member in this exercise? What were the benefits and challenges of being a group member and group leader using an online platform?
2. How did your thoughts/feelings change from the first group session to the last group session?
3. Did you feel your individual and group goals were met during this process? Why or why not?
4. What did you find most helpful and least helpful about this overall group experience?
5. Why is this learning important for you as a group social worker?
6. What was your overall experience with this group experience? What did you learn? How will this inform your practice in the future?
7. How was this model of mutual aid different from other models of group work, and what might you do differently as a result of this learning in your future practice?

 

 

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Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell. 

In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.


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God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.

Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.

To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.

 

References

Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.

Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies, 4(8), 487.

Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.

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