Therapeutic Zeal is a mis-alignment between the therapist’s desire for progress the client’s need for process. An urge for movement when things feel stuck or when other uncomfortable feelings occur. The impulse is to do something now, the what to do part is unclear.

Whatever the reason for the group, whatever it is that brings the members together, when the facilitator focuses on inviting everyone to express their thoughts and feelings and demonstrates a sensitivity to everyone’s experience in the here and now, the group will follow.