ABSTRACT
Group Relations conferences offer opportunities to learn about group, organisational and social dynamics; the exercise of authority and power; the interplay between tradition, innovation and change; and the relationship of organisations to their social, political and economic environments.
This book, the fifth in a series of Tavistock Group Relations Conferences, contains a collection of papers presented at the fifth Belgirate conference, plus three additional papers reflecting on and making sense of several participants’ conference experiences. Taken together, these chapters study the discourse of Group Relations conferences as well as reflecting on the changing nature and shifting patterns of this discourse. In Doing the Business of Group Relations Conferences, authors reflect on the vicissitudes of meanings this expression generates.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section |2 pages
Introduction to Section I
chapter Chapter 1.2|11 pages
Fifty Ways to use (and abuse) the unconscious
chapter Chapter 1.3|13 pages
Has the world changed? Has Group Relations changed?
section |2 pages
Introduction to Section II
chapter Chapter 2.1|17 pages
Doing business together
chapter Chapter 2.2|9 pages
The Yoga Event
section |2 pages
Introduction to Section III
chapter Chapter 3.1|26 pages
Group Relations conferences
chapter Chapter 3.2|16 pages
Political, ethical and historical dilemmas in building a Group Relations institution
chapter Chapter 3.3|25 pages
Beijing Group Relations Conference 2014
chapter Chapter 3.4|22 pages
Running in-house Group Relations conferences in and with client systems
chapter Chapter 3.5|19 pages
The Tragedy of the Commons
section |2 pages
Introduction to Section IV