ABSTRACT
The conference is about leadership, and this involves the interpersonal and intergroup relations between members, between members and staff, and between 'management' as represented by the director and secretary and both members and staff. In the conferences, formal channels that are blocked to the extent that informal channels have to be used, and organizational weaknesses that have to be overcome by gifted individuals, are precisely what should be examined. The majority of members who come to the conferences are well experienced, if not in setting up joint consultative procedures, at least in working with them. In the conferences members inevitably attempt to deal with their hostility to authority by trying to separate their consultants from management. The conference programme is the best that the staff can devise in the light of their experience of conferences of this kind. The conferences are designed to provide a continuous check on reality.
