If there is an unchanging element in our trajectory, this is our persistence in creating spaces of communication. Continuous spaces of communication where neither language nor distance be an obstacle to dialogue, reflecting and, finally, to creating in group. This truss or framework of face to face meetings, of oral and written communication has permitted to carry out collective projects, many of which were published simultaneously in Spanish and English.

One of the most outstanding differences between face to face groups and virtual ones is the space-time aspect and its consequences in the communication and representation of the group and its members. The space, beyond the screen where we read each other, comes to be a network of connections that very often are defined as a multicoloured pencil.

 “A fantasmagoric —fantasmatic— space which each member grants the group, the internal group of everyone. The time introduced by virtuality is: an always open group, with different personal times, a kind of infinite presence… and the conflict, the spaces of latency between messages and the silences. In this “impermanence” of time we should now divide ourselves between colleagues who are in our everyday “reality” and the ones who are in our virtual “reality”, where Time takes a different dimension… but the two “realities” shape our reality in this twenty-first century. It is then that positioning oneself, to pose oneself in the tangible space is replaced by being, by occupying one’s place in the symbolic space.” (Foro de Grupo-Análisis en castellano)

 The problem is that “being” (time and space) in as much as a subjective experience, seems to dimension itself in a different way on the individual level and, consequently, the problem is finding a “being in the group” sufficiently shared.

 Perhaps, this Blog on groupanalysis could be a suitable space for this experiment of writing in a network of communication on line, interactive, multilingual and, also, face to face if we wished so and could.

 English translations are not available of texts marked with an asterisk*

New contexts and languages for communicating

• Forum  of Group Analysis. An analysis of the trajectory of this Internet dialogue list,Foro de Grupo-Análisis en Castellano, since 1997, by Mercè Martínez
• El reto de Sitges (1998): XXV SEPTG y I Virtual SYMPOSIUM. «Cambio Social y Nuevas Formas de Trabajo Grupal»: Área Temática 4: La gestación de una nueva cultura, la globalización de las comunicaciones a través de Internet: Cibergrupos. (XXV Annual and I Virtual Symposium of the Spanish Society of Group Psychotherapy and Techniques. Thematic Area 4: “The gestation of a new culture, globalization through communication in Internet: Cybergroups”. *
• El método grupal de análisis de un milenio a otro ((The group method of analysis from one millenium to the other. (Text in the Blog,  by H. Campos) *
• Testimonio personal y transmisión virtual del grupoanálisis (Text in Blog, by Mercè Martínez) *
• Construyendo puentes entre grupos (Plenary Session by GdAB presented in the IAGP-SEPTG joint Mediterraean Conference/Symposium, Barcelona 2008. Text in the last chapter of Life&Work of Juan Campos in the Blog, by Mercè Martínez) *
• INTEGRACION: ¿Cómo y para qué? Grupo de reflexión inter-técnicas e interdisciplinar, 2000 (“Integration: how and for what?”. Interdisciplinary virtual and presencial elaboration, publication and presentation at the 2000 Symposium of the SEPTG with this main subject. (Text in Blog) *
• La brecha digital, la torre de marfil y la democracia en los grupos profesionales. Juan Campos, Mercè Martínez, Jesús de Miguel y Francisco del Amo, 2006. “The digital gap, the ivory tower and democracy en professional groups” is the paper prepared by a group of colleagues who have been collaborating throughout many years and are most interested in professional communication in Internet.  (Text in Blog) *
• Quehacer grupal y nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC’s), Mercè Martínez, 2008 (Group work, new information technologies and communication). (Text in Blog)  *