ABSTRACT
Dealing with any human working system starts from the premise that relationships of intimacy among its members can be both a favourable factor and a difficulty in achieving the task. This chapter examines the processes in relationships of intimacy, fake intimacy, and working intimacy is, without doubt, among the themes which must be considered by any institution. Even the Belgirate experience, with experienced participants, can include a phantasy of intimacy. In family business organisations, intimacy can be fundamentally confused, particularly in processes of succession. The excess of interpersonal intimacy, throughout the family history, is so strongly consolidated that the creation of working intimacy can be difficult. Group relations (GR) conferences offer conditions in which, in an existential and intense way, areas of working intimacy are created, completed, and transformed. Learning the mechanisms of GR—for example, the drive to make contributions and have influence—is a meaningful experience.
