Doing the Business of Group Relations Conferences: Exploring the Discourse

ISBN-13: 9780367001520 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str.

Eliat Aram; Coreen Archer; Rachel Kelly

Opis

Taken together, these chapters study the discourse of Group Relations conferences as well as reflecting on the changing nature and shifting patterns of this discourse. In Doing the Business of Group Relations Conferences, authors reflect on the vicissitudes of meanings this expression generates.

Spis treści

Foreword;  Introduction;  Section I: Exploring the Discourse of Psychoanalysis in Group Relations;  1.1 ‘Complacency: The Defence of the privileged’, Julian Lousada;  1.2 ‘Fifty Ways to Use (and Abuse) the Unconscious: An Invitation to a (Sincere and Thorough) Discussion about Certain Defences Employed in the Group Relations Community’, Daphna Bahat;  1.3 ‘Has the World Changed? Has Group Relations Changed? Considerations of the Group Relations Movement in a Postmodern World’, Bernard Gertler;  Section II: Exploring the Discourse of Organisation (B-A-R-T) in Group Relations;  2.1 ‘Doing Business Together: Lateral and Vertical Relations in the Institutional Partnering for a Group Relations Conference’, Jinette De Gooijer; 2.2 ‘The Yoga Event: an important here-and-now event in the Group Relations Conference bouquet’, Rachel Kelly and Zahid Hoosein Gangee;  2.3 ‘Administration: Where the Business of Group Relations Begins and Ends’, Gordon Strauss, Neil Neidhardt and Victoria T.Y. Moore;  2.4 ‘A Conference in the Shadow of War - A Sealed Room or a Safe Area?’, Miri Tsadock and Saliem Khaliefi;  Section III: Exploring the Discourse of Business in Group Relations;  3.1 ‘Group Relations Conferences: can enterprises with passion become businesses?’, Louisa Diana Brunner;  3.2 ‘Political, Ethical and Historical Dilemmas in Building a Group Relations Institution’, Eduardo Acuna and Matias Sanfuentes;  3.3 ‘Beijing Group Relations Conference 2014: Cross-cultural Learning and Implications for the Future’, Seth Harkins, Huang Xaiochang, Suma Jacob, Dannielle Kennedy, Victoria Te You Moore, John Robertson, Jeffrey D. Roth and Jeanne M.S.T. Woon;  3.4 ‘Running in-house Group Relations Conferences in and with Client Systems Characteristics, Opportunities and Risks’, Barbara Langler Özdemir and Huseyin Özdemir;  3.5 ‘The Tragedy of the Commons: what might it tell us about systemic issues in the World of Group Relations?’, Ugo Merlone and John Wilkes;  Section IV: Post conference Reflections;  4.1 ‘Morning Reflections, Dreams and Associations at the Belgirate Conference 2015’, Anuradha Prasad and Mannie Sher;  4.2 'Dissing this course, or the curse of discourse? Reflection chapter for book from Belgirate V', Rune Rønning and Evangeline Sarda;  4.3 'It Takes a Village to Raise a Director’, Jeffrey D. Roth