The advantage of a group is that you get a great deal of stimulation from the other people in the group. They are there to work on themselves, just as you are, and by seeing them do it you get more of an idea as to how to do it yourself. All humanistic groups are experiential, which means that they are based on experience.
Nobody just sits back and listens, nobody just sits back and takes notes - all are participants.
To give the flavour of a typical humanistic group, see the hints given in Figure 2. A group tends to go on longer than an individual session - it may run for a two or three hour evening, or a six, eight or ten hour day, or a weekend, or five or ten days. This makes a group very intensive, because there is a continuous build-up of trust and confidence in the group as time goes on, which enables people to go deeper inside themselves and open up their most important blocks and hangups. By having someone who is there just for you, you can have much more choice over what to go into and how to go into it. An individual session may last anything from a few minutes to several hours, but the most usual practice is for it to last for one hour.