So I wrote yesterday about the cathartic, emotion-focussed work that I went through.  In their classic 1973 book "Encounter groups: first facts"  the authors, Lieberman, Yalom and Miles, describe their major research on the potential benefits of these kinds of groups.  One of their findings was that people who benefited most seemed both to get strongly emotionally engaged with the group and also took time to reflect and make sense of what they had experienced.  In the weekly-format groups I run in Edinburgh, I try to encourage this reviewing process by explaining its value and then asking all the group participants (including myself) to fill in a reflection sheet at the end of each weekly meeting.  I then scan the reflection sheets and email them out to all group participants so that they can read them before the next session.  Everyone gets to see everyone else's reflection on