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When personal growth groups get stuck in performative authenticity

Our men's group has been meeting for two years to work on emotional development and becoming more whole people, but lately it feels like we're just performing vulnerability rather than actually being vulnerable, and I don't know how to call that out without destroying what we've built.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The very desire to grow authentically can become a new form of self-deception when practiced within group dynamics that reward appearance over substance.

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