Bridging power over to empower: creating spaces for identity, culture and class in group and organisational life
About this conference
Join us in creating a three-day non-residential Group Relations Conference (GRC). This experiential learning institution, designed to explore the ways in which groups, inter-groups and organisations authorise and mobilise individuals to take up roles within their member institutions, in the context of diversity.
This GRC will provide an opportunity to explore together our inner and outer worlds, through collaboration, co-creation, authority and leadership. Central to this learning experience will be experiential learning. This is not based on lectures, or didactic teaching, but through emotional learning. Here the emphasis is on the examination of one’s immediate experience.
The overall aim of this international conference is to extend understanding of our own involvement and responsibility for the forces at work in groups and organisations. The primary task is to study organisational behaviour as it happens in the context of our multiple identities including our different backgrounds, ethnicity and social class.
This GRC is for anyone who is interested in the current state of groups, organisations and society.If you are interested in the unconscious and conscious processes, power, group dynamics, and our individual and collective contributions to them, as they occur in the here now of the temporary conference organisation do sign up.
Please direct any queries to the conference administrator: GRC@tavi-port.nhs.uk
Conference Director: Maxine Dennis
Associate Director: Paula Christian Kliger
What’s on
This conference is designed as a temporary, organisational system for experiential learning – allowing participants to learn through the immediate experience of engaging in, and reflecting on, the events of the conference.
This conference is an opportunity to:
- Learn more about how group and organisational dynamics are influenced by different perspectives of ethnicity, culture & social class.
- Help members to engage with and exercise their authority and leadership.
- Explore how different perspectives impact authority and authorisation of roles in groups and organisations.
- Increase your ability to recognise and manage hidden agendas stereotypes and unspoken assumptions about differences.
- Become more aware of the inherent dilemmas in collaboration and competition within and among groups.
Enhance your skills in managing yourself and others in work roles, where ethnocentricity and racialised bias stand at the boundaries between you.
Conference venue, dates and timings:
The conference will take place in person at: The Tavistock Centre, 120 Belsize Lane, London, NW3 5BA. To maximise the conference learning for yourself and other attendees, we ask all members to commit to attending the whole of all three days:
- Monday 21 July: 9am to 6.30pm
- Tuesday 22 July: 9am to 6.30pm
- Wednesday 23 July 9am to 6.30pm
Please note: the deadline for applications for this conference will be Monday 14 July 2025, or when all places are filled.
Conference Fees:
- External membership: £553
- Internal membership: £447