Join us for an international face-to-face working conference based on the Tavistock experiential learning methodology. The conference will be conducted in English.
INVITATION TO ATTEND A GROUP RELATIONS CONFERENCE
GROUP RELATIONS CONFERENCE IN DUBAI
AUTHORITY AND LEADERSHIP:
October 17-20 2024
Dubai, UAE
EXPLORING BELOW THE SURFACE FROM ISOLATION TO CONNECTION
Join us for an international face-to-face 4-days working conference based on the Tavistock experiential learning methodology. The conference will be conducted in English.
October 17-20, 2024
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
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CONFERENCE
The Group Relations Conference is a learning event, offering participants the chance to explore group dynamics, leadership, authority, and organisational structures in a safe and supportive environment.
This experience fosters profound professional and personal growth, enhancing participants' understanding of their roles within groups and organisations.
This conference is ideal for individuals and groups from diverse professional backgrounds, including:
The conference aims to provide opportunities for participants to learn about, understand, and identify conscious and unconscious group processes and then apply these insights to their groups and organisations.
Aims of the Learning Event
Who Should Attend
✓ educators,
✓ therapists,
✓ researchers.
✓ leaders,
✓ managers,
✓ consultants,
Groups are integral to our lives from birth. Leadership, authority, and organizational dynamics impact us all.
Understanding these processes is crucial for mature, reflective leadership capabilities by encouraging them to:
Understanding these processes is crucial for mature, reflective leadership capabilities by encouraging them to:
Group Relations & Methodology
This learning approach requires attention to personal experience, openness to others' experiences, tolerance of uncertainty, readiness to interpret events, and the courage to communicate and act on those interpretations. It involves awareness of both conscious and unconscious behaviors and the broader social, political, and economic contexts.
Explore the group’s actions in relation to its tasks and structure.
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Form hypotheses explaining conscious and unconscious group dynamics.
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Recognize the group’s influence on their own actions and experiences.
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Act with awareness of group processes and influence the group meaningfully.
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METHODOLOGY
We use accelerated "immersive" learning, i.e. learning through experience. This conference is radically different from any other leadership development seminars and trainings.
Learning from Experience
The difference is that participants do not just receive information about some tools or methods but directly learn from experience in the here-and-now.
During the conference (4 days), staff and participants create a "temporary organisation" and explore the dynamics of what is happening here-and-now, tracking the influence that emotions and their unconscious reactions have on it. The participants will have the opportunity to understand their own emotional manifestations and become more aware of both conscious and unconscious group processes that arise.
During the conference (4 days), staff and participants create a "temporary organisation" and explore the dynamics of what is happening here-and-now, tracking the influence that emotions and their unconscious reactions have on it. The participants will have the opportunity to understand their own emotional manifestations and become more aware of both conscious and unconscious group processes that arise.
By further applying this experience to their work and daily lives, participants will be able to expand and deepen their ability to manage and lead teams, take up their authority more effectively, exercise their leadership skills, continue to explore and develop their relationships with colleagues, and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of teams and their organisation as a whole.
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Experience
The Primary Task of the conference is to study the exercise of authority in the taking up of roles through the interpersonal, inter-group and institutional relations that develop within the conference.
Conference Primary Task and Design
The conference is designed around working together in various small and large groups, with staff consulting to the process, so that participants can explore relations between themselves and the group, and their group and other groups, developing their own learning.
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Design
Participants will learn to:
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SKILLS
✓Act with awareness of group processes and influence the group meaningfully.
✓Recognize the group’s influence on their own actions and experiences.
✓ Form hypotheses explaining conscious and unconscious group dynamics.
✓ Explore the group’s actions in relation to its tasks and structure.
Each event offers learning opportunities applicable to real-life groups and the organizations participants belong to.
The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, established in 1947 in London, is a leading research and consulting organization focused on applying psychoanalytic and systems approaches to address complex social and organizational challenges.
ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS
Since 2023, Group Relations Kazakhstan has been providing group relations conferences in Kazakhstan, in partnership with the The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.
The Tavistock Institute OF Human Relations
Group Relations KAZAKHSTAN
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ABOUT
Our partners
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partners
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ORTALEX is an international network of experienced professionals headquartered in Dubai (UAE), helping executives and founders transform their organisations and lives. The networking approach allows us to bring only the experts that you need.
https://ortalex.com -
Wiak leads the corporate events industry in Dubai with its expertise in high-end hospitality and tourism solutions.
Wiak Events & Travels
Ph.D., Director General of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in London, UK.
advisor to THE CONFERENCE - Eliat Aram
She has been very fortunate to develop a capacity to understand the local context of where she works and to immerse in its vicissitudes.
Issues of leadership, authority and learning in a complex, nuanced, world are of daily concern, challenge and excitement for her.
Issues of leadership, authority and learning in a complex, nuanced, world are of daily concern, challenge and excitement for her.
Eliat Aram
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Her GR career spans almost 30 years of conferences in the UK (The Tavistock Clinic, the Grubb Institute) and abroad (India, South Africa, France, The Netherlands, Israel), across cultural and geographical boundaries.
Eliat has shaped, influenced and often directed the Tavistock Institute’s :
2007
2012
2016-2018
2013
2019
conference director at the Tavistock Institute in Leicester
Management of Tavistock Institute conferences in Lithuania
Management of Tavistock Institute conferences in Argentina
directing the AK Rice Institute’s annual residency
Tavistock Institute GRC in China
2022
GR Tavistock Institute in Russia
2023
management of conferences at the Tavistock Institute in Kazakhstan
conference direCtor
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OUR TEAM
Rachel is from the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, based in London in the United Kingdom. She is a Principal and Trustee at the Institute and her roles include curating TIHR new office; and being a Group Relations consultant and an Organisational Development & Change consultant. She has been nearly 20 years at the Institute and has been on staff in various roles at 17 Leicester conferences and other GRCs around the world. She is currently working on an introductory Online Learning course about Group Relations on the FutureLearn platform. She also practices the Alexander Technique – an indirect Zen practice for enhancing movement and being, through studying the psycho-physical - bringing the unconscious to consciousness. She has found that the Alexander Technique has many correlates with Group Relations and she uses it in her work at the Institute.
Rachel Kelly
Administrative manager
Dalia is a Project & Event Manager with vast experience in organizing leadership programs, including leadership modules of EMBA Skolkovo. Dalia holds a bachelor degree in Human Resources Management and ACSTH (ICF) certificate from International University Global Coaching (2021).
Dalia Osseily
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