Identity, Theory, and Practice in Group Relations

Coreene Archer is a principal consultant and executive coach at the Tavistock Institute, UK. Coreene’s interests lie in the study of leadership and identity. Her work has expanded group relations ideas to include work with emergent and young leaders. Coreene teaches on several programmes at the Institute and externally.Gordon Strauss is a former board member and treasurer of the the A. K. Rice Institute (AKRI) and former director of the AKRI National Conference. He represented the AKRI on the Belgirate Management and Administrative Team from 2014-2024. He is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Louisville, USA.Moshe Bergstein is a training psychoanalyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society. He teaches and supervises at the Psychoanalytic Institute and in various psychoanalytic psychotherapy programmes. He studies and publishes on the work of W. R. Bion, and the interface between psychoanalysis and the arts.Ellen L. Short was Professor at Long Island University, author, and consultant, who was an active member of the A. K. Rice Institute and the New York Center for the Study of Groups, Organizations and Social Systems. She died in May of 2024.

• About the Contributors Foreword by Mannie Sher Introduction Part I: International PerspectivesIntroduction to Part 1Chapter 1. For now we see through a glass, darkly…“: What PCCA means for the global Group Relations Community – and how Group Relations is in the heart of PCCA’s workDorothee Von Tippelskirch-Eissing Chapter 2. Group Relations in China: Portraits (selfies) of cross-cultural Study of Organizational Development 2014 – 2021 Seth Harkins, Nick Bartlett, Yu-Kuang Kevin Hsu, Ming-Hui Daniel HsuSeth Harkins, EdD, Nicholas Bartlett, PhD, Yu-Kuang Kevin Hsu, PhD, Xiaohua Lu, PhD, Jeffrey Roth, MD, Xumei Wang, MD, PhDChapter 3. The Italian positionClaudio Cassardo, Maria Pia Conte, Luca Mingarelli, Antonio Sama, Franca Fubini, Rossella Torretta, Louisa Diana Brunner, Chiara Ghetti, Elio Vera, Francesco Noseda, Pietro Catania, Manuela MartelliPart II: Locating Directorship and Leadership Introduction to Part 2Chapter 4. Too black to lead: When authority trumps race?Mary Fullerton, Urban HudlinChapter 5. The director’s experience of postponing a conference Louisa Diana BrunnerChapter 6. Sibling relations as an extension to Group Relations selfieSmadar Ashuach and Simi TalmiSection III: Post-conference ReflectionsIntroduction to Part 3Chapter 7. Behind the curtain of Belgirate VII: Reflections from the Tech Team Elyce Cole, Matthew GieveChapter 8. Our digital footprint: Reflections on presence and absence Sivanie ShiranChapter 9. Accepted and un-acceptedRobert C Hsiung, Joseph E Wise, and Jeffrey D RothChapter 10. Spotlighting corruption through the Group Relations lens - A selfieShmuel Erlich, Yael Shenhav Sharoni, Mira Erlich-Ginor, and Joseph (Yossi) TriestIndex