ABSTRACT
When Avi Nutkevitch and Mannie Sher got together after the first conference at Belgirate ended, in November 2003, they felt that the conference was successful in providing a space full of potential for emerging ideas and advancing the theory of Group Relations Conferences and their applications. It was then that they began the conversation around offering a second conference of this nature, perhaps three years later, to provide a space for the emerging international Group Relations network to continue working on relevant tasks. In group relations language one might talk about various boundaries: of primary task, of time, of territory, of membership, of structure and design, of ways of taking up roles, and so on. As was true for the first Belgirate conference, Belgirate II was designed for people who had held staff roles in Group Relations conferences. This was an important aspect of the conference's identity, and it created a boundary that had to be managed.
