The unconscious dynamics that surface in groups when authority is exercised are of paramount importance in Group Relations Conferences; this volume addresses these considerations through research findings and speculation on the future of Group Relations both within conferences and outside of them.
This is the sixth instalment in a series of books based on Tavistock Group Relations Conferences and contains a collection of papers presented at the sixth Belgirate conference. Combining chapters on theory and practice, this volume delivers a meditation on the relationships between the physical spaces we inhabit or co-create, the psychic, inner or spiritual space and the liminal space in-between. Group Relations provides a window of understanding into why inequity and intergroup hostilities pervade the modern world alongside a method that illuminates how people consciously and unconsciously contribute to these tensions, whether personally, in groups or in organisations.
This will be an invaluable resource for practitioners, academics, and scholars of Group Relations, as well as managers and organisational members wanting to learn more about how Group Relations methods can contribute to their organisational success.
Author(s): Coreene Archer, Rachel Kelly, Gordon Strauss, Joseph Triest
Series: The Group Relations Conferences Series
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 224
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Endorsements
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
About the Editors and Contributors
Belgirate Conference: A Memory
Foreword
Introduction
SECTION 1: The Psychoanalytic – Systemic Approach
1. Unbounded Worlds: A Challenge for Group Relations?
2. The Place Where Psychoanalysts Live: Introducing Group Relations to Psychoanalytic Institutes
3. Nothingness a Group Phenomenon or a Seventh Basic Assumption: Does It Really Matter? Does Anything Matter at All?
SECTION 2: Social, Political and Spiritual Issues in Group Relations
4. Unbounded Worlds: A Challenge for Group Relations
5. A Call to Consciousness on the Unknown Known of Dominance: Basic Assumption Authority and Basic Assumption Identity Behavior in Group Relations Conferences
6. A Nomadic State of Mind: In Search for a Place to Live
7. Co-Constructing a Society That Promotes Life: An Exploration of the Unconscious Dynamics in Radicalisation Processes
8. In the Shadow of Envy: Shame in Group Relations Conferences
SECTION 3: Issues of Practice and Methodology in Group Relations
9. Polyglossia or Babel? An Exploration of Authority, Innovation, and Identity in Group Relations Conferences
10. Exploring Difference: A Group Relations Adaptation
11. At Home at Work and Vice Versa: Exploring the Dynamics of Dual/Special Relationships in Group Relations Conferences and Organisational Life
12. LFA as a Learning Community: Experiencing Living and Learning in the Conference Space and Territory
SECTION 4: Post-Meeting Reflections
13. “The Father Is a Little Bit Crazy and the Mother Doesn’t Serve Enough Nourishing Food”: Political Correctness in Group Relations
14. A Home for the Soul: Reflections on Belgirate VI
Index
