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Social Dreaming @ Work
A Master ClassFeb. 1-3, 2018
Boston, MAJoin us February 1st through 3rd for a comprehensive training in the use of Social Dreaming in organizations and groups. This program will allow you to experience the innovations offered in our dreams and the realization of their impact in groups and organizations.
Social Dreaming (SD) was discovered and developed by W. Gordon Lawrence as a means to understand our dreams in relation to the communities, groups and organizations in which we live. SD moves us from interpreting the individual’s dream to using dreams as a window into our daily systems and interactions as a development tool for learning. SD has been used successfully for over 40 years in for profit and nonprofit organizations, academics, government, disparate groups and numerous other settings around the world. Whether for strategies, ideation, negotiation, understanding conflict, communications, consultancy, collective artistic endeavors, such as film & theater productions and script writing: Social Dreaming has been instrumental in advancing our mutual understanding in the groups and organizations in which we live.
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Crossing Lines:
Finding Voice and Identity in Unfamiliar PlacesMarch 2-3, 2019
Essex, UKWith so much personal and social movement, what does it take to hold one’s place? Equally, how do we find the courage to encounter the new, instead of just defending one’s position. These are the proposed themes of the conference.
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Large Group Identity and Societal Conflict:
Bringing a Psychological Understanding to Conflict ResolutionMarch 12-13, 2019
Geneva, SwitzerlandThis Workshop will provide opportunities to apply the learning about large-group identity to members' consultation cases, and to develop a consultative stance through which to facilitate and deepen that work.
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Neither Peace nor War:
Unconscious alliances and conflicting impasse in public and private institutionsMarch 28-31, 2019
Grado, ItalyTo imagine humans at first as isolated beings, rather than embedded in a social matrix, is a rooted and still present tendency in western culture. The Group Relations Conference ALI 2019 offers the participant the opportunity to experience connections between individual, group and organization, and the boundaries of time, space and task.
The experience allows us to observe in action conscious and unconscious dynamics of competition and cooperation, the nature of authority experienced through different roles and the reciprocal influence that each of us has on others.
The focus on unconscious alliances and conflicting impasses directs the participant's attention to the dynamics that characterize the culture of public and private institutions in this particular historical phase in public and private institutions / organizations.Learn more here.
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Who's in, Who's out?
Authority and Leadership in Time of NationalismApril 12-14, 2019
Baltimore, MDThe impact of political, economic, socio-cultural, environmental, and other external influences has individuals and organizations focusing on survival. Trust is waning in those in positions of authority and responsibility in all sectors. While we can name these factors, there is a dynamic that occurs beneath the surface--one that we can’t name; the unconscious. To adapt the words of Schuyler in Hamilton: There are moments that the words don’t reach. There is a force too powerful to name. We push away the intolerable in ourselves. We push away the unconscious. Conferences in the Tavistock Tradition offer a unique opportunity for us to courageously go there and gain a greater understanding about organizational dynamics and the conscious and unconscious behavior of groups relative to authority and authority relations within systems and subsystems in organizations and communities.
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Authority, Leadership, and Standing Up:
Finding our Footing in an Off-Balance WorldApril 26-28, 2019
Brookline, MAHow do we develop and maintain the awareness and knowledge we need to understand what is going on around us without getting overwhelmed, without losing our balance? This is what the group relations conference model offers us: the opportunity to openly and intentionally study ourselves and others in real-time group settings. It is a powerful instrument that has enabled generations of people to learn in an immediate and direct way, from their own experience. Through a focus on here-and-now, group-as-a-whole experience the conference operates like a leadership intensive, offering the opportunity for insight and eventual wisdom about how leadership and effective impact happen.
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Authority, Leadership, Role and Task:
Bringing the Mind and Body to Work
May 16-19, 2019
Schaumberg, ILA Group Relations Conference, in the Tavistock tradition, that integrates “low-ropes” challenge course events.
This 4-day non-residential conference is designed to give you a unique experiential opportunity to discover how roles might shift when you involve both your mind and your body.
Led by a highly skilled and diverse staff, you’ll be able to work on how you exercise personal authority and leadership.
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Knowing and Not Knowing:
Intention and Risk in Self and SystemsJune 24-29, 2019
Mumbai, IndiaWhat is our intention where what one took as the truth
yesterday, becomes a question mark today, and may well become obsolete tomorrow? What choices do we make –
consciously or unconsciously – about what we will know and not know? What risks are we taking & avoiding? What is
their real nature?The implications of these questions on popular notions of leadership and followership, and on the quality and
effectiveness of systems and institutions we belong to, build, and nurture, are yet another area for exploration.Through its title and task, this GRC is an invitation to explore these dynamics at various levels – the individual, group
and system, recognising that these levels of awareness are interdependent and are constantly shaping and co-creating
one another.Learn more here.