ABSTRACT
Training and therapy are both concerned with change; training in human relations and psychotherapy are both concerned with increasing an understanding of the motives for, and causes of, human behaviour. The introduction of the large-group event, which has no parallel in therapeutic practice as yet, may help to clarify some of the differences between training and therapy. Conference management accepts responsibility for the repertoire of opportunities that it provides and for the appropriateness of the repertoire for learning about leadership. The qualification for membership of a conference, therefore, is the holding of a job that involves, or will involve, leadership and management. The clinic and the members of its staff are responsible for treatment, and therefore for the diagnosis that leads to the kind of treatment given. They are thus responsible for selecting the members of any therapeutic groups that are conducted within the clinic.
