現今社會婦女的角色日益多元化，但家庭主婦在某個程度上，仍扮演了一個為家庭、為孩子犧牲、奉獻的角色。在終身學習及人力資源再開發等概念越顯重要的今日，家庭主婦有走出家庭、投入團體再學習的趨勢，而故事媽媽團體則提供了家庭主婦一個持續參與社會的管道。為了解家庭主婦參與團體的情形，本研究針對花蓮故事媽媽團進行探討，並以個別訪談及焦點團體訪談等方式，了解家庭主婦參與團體之心路歷程。結果發現，家庭主婦投入團體的考量和她們家庭主婦的角色有關，但投入團體後，因為自我成長的感受及友情的支持，讓她們願意繼續投入。研究建議，婦女成長團體的設計應考慮其家庭的特別需求，而為了讓更多人理解與體諒，家庭主婦的心路歷程的研究應該受到重視。

The role of female in the current society is becoming important, while housewives in a certain degree maintain the role to sacrifice for their family and children. While lifelong learning becomes a popular concept in Taiwan, more housewives step out off the families and attend the learning society. Story-telling mother groups provide a path for housewives to attend the society and to be empowered consistently. However, since attendants may join to and leave from the groups easily, the effectiveness of groups to help female’s empowerment might be over-predicted. In order to understand the process and the needed adjustment of housewives attending groups, this study focus on some housewives who had attended Hualien’s story-telling group with a particular reference in the process that those housewives have had experienced in their participant process. Through the individual and the focus group interviews, this study would explore the perception and experience of housewives in the process of attending the group.