ABSTRACT
The initial idea was to jointly offer one event for the two institutions and have Group Relations Nederland provide the necessary legal and psychological container. It was thought beneficial for the students' learning climate if they were to meet with others apart from peers their own course group. With all the projections and introjections involved, the risk is that this belief of personal success or failure becomes the pivot in the succession, compromising the primary task, the end putting the institution and its aim at risk. "Beyond succession" may suggest that it is possible to define the state and process that allows the before and beyond to be decided. The paradigm underlying the concept of succession, especially in group relations institutions, seems to be informed by Freud's idea that the family group provides the basic pattern for all groups. Interestingly, sometimes different members saw the same experience as part of a creative new force and as a pull to tradition.
