Group Relations and Other Meditations: Psychoanalytic Explorations on the Uncertainties of Experiential Learning

ISBN-13: 9781032051178 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 206 str.

Carlos Sapochnik

Opis

This book examines the Tavistock tradition of using group relations conferences as temporary training organisations for groups and institutions, and how those can inform and enrich the theory and practice of experiential learning more generally.

Spis treści

Foreword by Karen Izod  Introduction: why group relations conferences?  1. Group relations as ritual (from seduction to translation)  2. Group, relations, unrepresented  3. Group relations conferences: what do staff want?  4. Group relations, innovation, and the production of nostalgia  5. Group relations, paradox, and performative poetics   6. Group relations, power, and the discourse of learning  7. Corruption: oedipal configuration as social mechanism  8. Martial arts: enactment of aggression or integrative space?  9. The myth of creativity at work  10. Drawing below the surface: eliciting tacit knowledge in social science research