Well,

Confirmation is over and I have some observations on the cohesion of the the group.

As, I was mentioning before, the lack of consistent meetings seems to have eroded the vertical cohesion with the teachers to an all time low. It seem initially to contribute to the fracture of the group into clicks.

The organization consisted of four adults( the leaders). And six confirmands ( teens 17 year of age) Form the church and one confirmand form an other local church.

We went on retreat last week. I theorized that the unfamiliar environment would force the group of seven into a tight knit team but, they immediately broke into three smaller groups. Making it even worse there was an additional member from another church that was there making up a retreat that had missed. The new student knew some of the others and fit into one of the clicks from the start. One additional student did not show up, deeming the retreat as unimportant, opting to work as a bat-boy for the local professional baseball team.

Anyhow, the problem with the stability of the group caused the member to be bored an somewhat uninterested in the activities. They did group together against the staff of adults to crawl up on the roof to party.

The short analyses of the group performance is that there was not enough time to form trust relationships amongst the members or the adult staff. The result shows me that the stability aspect of cohesion is very real. hopefully there can be a more cohesive group an a future date that could explore the other two aspect of the cohesion equation.

Until next time. . i hope i can get writing more often.