Group relations work: exploring the impact and relevance within and beyond its network - Vol. 4

Table of Contents:

Part: I REFLECTING ON THE THEORY OF GROUP RELATIONS AND ITS RELEVANCE TO CONTEMPORARY PHENOMENA

Chapter: One The Oedipus complex, creativity, and the legacies of group relations' intellectual parents
Chapter: Two Virtual teams and group relations in the WEB 2.0 era: insights from an MBA experiential distance-learning course
Chapter: Three Group relations work in contexts of complexity and transition
Chapter: Four Embedding diversity in local government: experiences of establishing an ethnic advisory panel, Auckland, New Zealand
Chapter: Five The Rothschild 117 Project: dreaming in the boulevard

Part: II STUDYING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GROUP RELATIONS WORK AND ITS IMPACT IN ITS CULTURAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL SETTING

Chapter: Six Exploring group relations work in China: challenges, risks, and impact
Chapter: Seven Developing a group relations institution in Lithuania
Chapter: Eight Uneasy on the boundary: reflections on the culture and effectiveness of group relations conference work in the USA, 1965-2012

Part: III EXPLORING VARIATIONS IN THEME AND/OR DESIGN OF GROUP RELATIONS CONFERENCES

Chapter: Nine Energy, creative collaboration, and wellbeing
Chapter: Ten The experiences of co-directorship in group relations conferences
Chapter: Eleven Group relations and twelve-step recovery: mixing oil and water?

Part: IV POST-CONFERENCE REFLECTIONS

Chapter: Twelve Oral envy and networks
Chapter: Thirteen Intergroup process at an international level: reflections from
Chapter: Fourteen Cobblers' children or creative flux?
Chapter: Fifteen What happened to authority? A reflective dialogue.

Group Relations Work: Exploring its Impact and Relevance Within and Beyond its Network is composed of the presentations given at Belgirate IV, as well as some post conference reflections. The various chapters touch on the current flow of Group Relations as a discipline, as a method of work being applied and studied in Group Relations Conferences worldwide and in organizations, training programs, and in the understanding of social phenomena.

The various chapters, while describing, articulating, exploring and conceptualizing theoretical and practical issues, are also opening various questions associated with Group Relations for further thinking and exploration. As such, this book reflects a chain at a certain point in time in the continuous practice and development of Group Relations as a discipline and a method of work.

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