Group Relations Conferences

Eliat Aram, PhD, is the CEO of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. She is a Chartered Scientist psychologist (BPS) and a UKCP registered gestalt psychotherapist and supervisor. She is also a member of the Royal Society of Medicine in the UK and of OFEK in Israel, and is regularly on the staff of group relations conferences both nationally and internationally. Since 2007 she has directed and made innovations to the TIHR's Leicester conference, 'Authority, Role, Organisation', the Institute's annual two-week group relations experiential learning conference. Robert Baxter, MD, is a retired Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Louisville where he was Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems. He formerly served on AKRI's Board of Directors and was its President for eight years. Avi Nutkevitch, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst and organizational consultant. He is a full member of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society and teaches at the Israel Psychoanalytic Institute. He is a founding member and former Chair of OFEK, the Israel Association for the Study of Group and Organisational Processes. He is currently Co-Director and Faculty of the Program in Organisational Consultation and Development: a Psychoanalytic-Systemic Approach.

'As Group Relations has evolved into an international network of practitioners, the Belgirate Conferences have become its largest and most important hub. The sites of multiple intersections for those who plan, direct, consult, and think about conferences, they bring us together and provide invaluable help as we try to find our way into the future. Their influence and value is vastly extended by the publication of these papers.'- Kenneth Eisold, author of What You Don't Know You Know'The Global Group Relations Network looks forward eagerly to the Belgirate series, with its contributions of experience and reflection, as a fascinating container for insights we jointly create in our search for the unknown within the known. Creativity often seems like "the bridge that cannot be crossed" between tradition (legacy and what must be preserved) and succession (the going forward and the letting go). The theme is universal and speaks to those beyond the Group Relations Conference community - to those in leadership in organisations, institutions, and systems of different kinds, as well as a range of cultural and geographical contexts.'- Rosemary Viswanath, group and organisational consultant, India

• 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