Group Relations Conferences

Preface and Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Exploring Personal, Institutional, and Cultural Journeys in Group Relations Conferences -- “Climbing fast up the ladder?!” The lived experience of directing -- Experiential learning: the Indian experience from the proto-historic period to the present -- Administration and creativity in the Leicester conferences: dancing on the drudge -- Journeys of Conferences: Grappling with Tradition, Succession, and Application -- Germans, Jews, Israelis, Palestinians, and Others today: thoughts on the “Nazareth” conferences -- Robben Island as a container for diversity dynamics: the directors’ experience -- Beyond the family psychic template -- Learning Through Experience: Wrestling with Creativity and Innovation in Succession and Application -- Learning from experience and the experience of learning in an academic setting -- Leadership: a song of mentoring and power -- Beyond succession: learning from experience of being the board of Group Relations Nederland -- Leadership and innovation in management and consultancy -- Post-Conference Reflections -- A church with no followers: a split of knowledge and power in the group relations community -- Intimacy and detachment: working relationships in a temporary institution -- Belgirate as the crossroads: discovering the essence of the work elsewhere -- Manliness in the era of female leadership -- The chains of tradition: escaping, endorsing, or exploring? -- How envy, fear of envy, and manipulation of envy can paralyse healthy competition and healthy succession -- Some reflections on the experience of Belgirate III: tradition, creativity, and succession in the global network from a lateral perspective -- Boundaries, connectedness, and networks: reflections from Belgirate III -- Remnants, Quakers, and group relations