Scientists have found that it is communication – close and trusting – that makes us truly happy. The absence of such communication means loneliness, melancholy and dissatisfaction, loss of meaning. But building close relationships and trust is an art that not all of us can master. What to do? - study. It is communication and relationships with people that activate our creative and intellectual potential. You can put all the textbooks in the world into yourself and not know what to do with it. Only people can give us the impetus to build our own business and creative environment. After all, this process is always aimed at people. If a person is deprived of productive, creative, accepting communication with people, is forced to formalize himself and increasingly defend himself from people, he will never give birth to anything useful, much less brilliant. He does not realize his potential. The conclusion is simple... We must seek communication and learn intimacy and trust. Where can I do this? - in a psychotherapeutic group. Life today takes us out of close interaction with people, increasingly distancing us from each other. Real communication flows into the virtual zone, where we can remain anonymous and invisible to the interlocutor. Through anonymity and invisibility we hide our feelings. We demonstrate absent feelings. We lose a keen sense of age and social status. The issue of external attractiveness is resolved through indirect communication. A person’s ability for live communication is leveled out and does not develop. In the digital world, you can replace yourself with an avatar, draw on it, decorate it with stickers and aphorisms already invented by someone. Anonymity and invisibility allow you not to worry about all those communication problems that arise in live communication. And this is dangerous, because it does not allow you to socialize and form your personality . One of the forms of live communication and training in social interactions has been a psychotherapeutic group for more than 100 years. We are talking about small groups - 4-12 people. Participants in psychotherapeutic groups, with the assistance of a leading psychologist, are included in a unique experience of intensive communication. The main task of communication becomes overcoming obstacles in self-improvement, in overcoming problems associated with any interaction of a person with the society around him. A psychotherapeutic group is, first of all, the experience of accumulating and mastering positive, effective communications with people of different character and social status. This is a way to master communication skills, which become the foundation for building long-term fruitful relationships in real life and at any level of human communication. Group classes are a way to analyze emerging problems, gain other people’s experience in a long-term mutually helpful format, rehearse it in order to later dare to apply it in the outside world. How do you learn new experiences in communicating with people? Through open experience or hidden empathy - personal complexes, destructive attitudes, mistrust and misunderstandings of human relationships and emotions Through talking through problems and articulating new opportunities to act in society Through empathic acceptance and assimilation of the experience of group members Through natural rehearsal of new methods of communication in the circle of accepting people It is a rare person who knows how to create the ground for personal growth and transformation. Psychologists know this from countless requests from patients who sometimes, like lost children, find it difficult to even clearly formulate their request. Communication problems are too extensive. Group therapy allows you to create new connections, new forms of rapprochement, and trust, acceptance and readiness for mutual assistance by group members and the group therapist are the conditions for work and the key to a positive result. How do changes occur with a person in group work? One of The super-task that we are solving - right now and in a global perspective - is the formation of our own image in the eyes of people. What place will I allow myself to take in.