ABSTRACT
This chapter starts with a more comprehensive look at Group Relations Conferences (GRCs) administration. It briefly reviews the process of planning the administration workshop and then describes how the workshop was conducted and what one learned that may be useful in future workshops. The chapter addresses the workshop experience from the perspective of one who attended and also discusses how she used the workshop experience in subsequent GRCs where she served as the administrator. Participant discussion during the Administration Mashup workshop laid the foundation for learning around boundary management and boundary flexibility. One workshop participant had conceptualized the task of the Assistant Director for Administration as “holding the body of the conference” while that of the Director as holding the conference in the mind. According to a brainstorm exercise during the workshop, one quality that the administrator wants in a director is “respect for the administrator’s limits and space.”.
