Full Description
The unconscious dynamics that surface in groups when authority is exercised are of paramount importance in Group Relations Conferences; this volume addresses these considerations through research findings and speculation on the future of Group Relations both within conferences and outside of them.
This is the sixth instalment in a series of books based on Tavistock Group Relations Conferences and contains a collection of papers presented at the sixth Belgirate conference. Combining chapters on theory and practice, this volume delivers a meditation on the relationships between the physical spaces we inhabit or co-create, the psychic, inner or spiritual space and the liminal space in-between. Group Relations provides a window of understanding into why inequity and intergroup hostilities pervade the modern world alongside a method that illuminates how people consciously and unconsciously contribute to these tensions, whether personally, in groups or in organisations.
This will be an invaluable resource for practitioners, academics, and scholars of Group Relations, as well as managers and organisational members wanting to learn more about how Group Relations methods can contribute to their organisational success.
Contents
Introduction
1. Unbounded Worlds - A Challenge for Group Relations?
2. Transforming the World -Transforming Ourselves: crafting space for activism and spirituality in Group Relations work
3. The Invitation of the Unknown Known: A Collective Consciousness Conversation
4. A nomadic state of mind: In search of a place to live
5. The Place Where Psychoanalysts Live: Introducing Group Relations to Psychoanalytic Institutes
6. Polyglossia or Babel: Working across Languages, Traditions, and Identities in Group Relations Conferences
7. LFA: When Action is not the opposite of Thinking: Living in a temporary community as a space for experiential learning
8. In the Shadow of Envy: Shame in Group Relations Conferences
9. At Home At Work and Vice Versa: Exploring the dynamics of dual/special relationships in group relations conferences and organizational life
7. Yantras, Mantras and Organizational Designs: Creating, Changing and Managing the Unseen
8. Nothingness: A group phenomenon or a seventh(?) Basic Assumption Does it really matter? Does anything matter at all?
9. Immigration, Adaptation and Dynamics of Destruction: Effects on "The Place We Live"
10. Exploring Differences in The Places Where We Live
11. Post-Conference Reflections
