Abstract
This article describes a process by which organizations and their units may experience trauma, which is revealed through dysfunctional patterns of individual, group, inter-group, and organizational behavior. I illustrate this process in the context of an action research project with a hospital’s surgical unit whose presenting symptoms involved the inability of staff members to work together effectively. The article concludes with a discussion of principles of movement that enable group and organization members to create patterns that get them unstuck in how they work and function.