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.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Coreene Archer, Rachel Kelly, Gordon Strauss and Joseph Triest
Foreword
Susan Long
Section 1: The Psychoanalytic – Systemic Approach
1. Unbounded Worlds – A Challenge for Group Relations?
Shmuel Erlich
2. The Place Where Psychoanalysts Live: Introducing Group Relations to Psychoanalytic Institutes
John Lundgren
3. Nothingness: A group phenomenon or a Seventh Basic Assumption. Does it really matter? Does anything matter at all?
Daphna Bahat
Section 2: Social, Political and Spiritual Issues in Group Relations
4. Transforming the world, Transforming Ourselves: the place for activism and spirituality in group relations
Rosemary Viswanath
5. A Call to Consciousness on the Unknown Known of Dominance: Basic Assumption Authority and Basic Assumption Identity Behavior in Group Relations Conferences
Zachary Green and René Molenkamp
6. A Nomadic State of Mind: In search for a place to live
Coreene Archer
7. Co-Constructing a Society that Promotes Life: An Exploration of the Unconscious Dynamics in Radicalisation Processes
Joan Roma, Sandra Carrau, David Sierra and Jaume Benavent
8. In the Shadow of Envy: Shame in Group Relations Conferences
Ellen L Short, PhD and Janice K Wagner, LICSW
Section 3: Issues of Practice and Methodology in Group Relations
9. Polyglossia or Babel? An Exploration of Authority, Innovation, and Identity in Group Relations Conferences
Diane Forbes Berthoud, Patricia Kummel, Janice Wagner, Schmuel Erlich, and Jack Marmorstein
10. Exploring Difference – A Group Relations Adaptation
Fabio D’Apice, John Wilkes and Barbara Williams
11. At Home at Work and Vice Versa: Exploring the Dynamics of Dual/Special Relationships in Group Relations Conferences and Organisational Life
Katherine M Zwick and Seth B Harkins
12. LFA as a Learning Community: Experiencing Living and Learning in the Conference Space and Territory
Luca Mingarelli, Giada Boldetti, Simona Masnata & Gilad Ovadia
Section 4: Post-Meeting Reflections
13. "The father is a little bit crazy and the mother doesn't serve enough nourishing food": Political Correctness in Group Relations
Yermi Harel
14. A Home for the Soul: Reflections on Belgirate VI
Sivanie Shiran
