ABSTRACT
An account of the first full-scale experiment in the laboratory method of training in group relations in the United Kingdom was given by my colleagues E. L. Trist and C. Sofer (1959). They described the conference, organized by the University of Leicester and the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, held in September 1957. Since that first conference, seven more have been organized jointly by the Institute and the University of Leicester, other conferences and courses have been run by the Institute alone, and still others by the Institute in collaboration with other bodies. I was a member of the staff of the first conference and of three out of four of those held between 1959 and 1961. I have been the director of the last three run jointly with the University of Leicester, of one conference run by the Institute, and of two shorter experimental conferences run in collaboration with Christian Teamwork.
