However, while the personal growth group model does facilitate learnings about oneself in relation to others, and about the necessity of transcending the self-boundaries in order to enter into and maintain interpersonal relationships, the leader still maintains a central role throughout the group process, and the members tend to come away from these experiences with the belief that it is sufficient to express oneself and be responsible for oneself in order to create a better personal life, or family, or work team, or community. This belief is not only naive but dysfunctional, since it neglects the reality of the social environment in which we are all embedded. Given the persistent dilemmas and difficulties which we all face in becoming conscious human beings in this lifetime, and living as we do within the context of a new world order that is struggling to be born, it no longer seems sufficient to free the individual to become more differentiated and individuated without bringing in the polarities of being related and committed to that which transcends the self. Waiter Kempler (1974, pp. 64-65), a Gestalt family therapist, has written eloquently on this point: