Group Relations AustraliaWelcome
Welcome to the website of Group Relations Australia.
Group Relations Australia is a not-for-profit professional association whose members seek to develop the field of group relations and systems psychodynamics. We apply its methods to working with groups, organisations and communities.
Our members work as organisation consultants and managers, academic researchers & teachers, psychoanalysts and socio-analysts amongst other roles. Through GRA, they enjoy the benefits of mutual links with international associations in the field of group relations.
We conduct a stimulating range of activities and events for members that includes: professional practice and scientific meetings, working conferences, workshops, seminars and lectures. The Association also publishes the peer-reviewed journal Socio-Analysis.
Enjoy your visit.
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EARLYBIRD EXTENDED TILL 31 MAY 2013!
Changing Relationships @ Work is an experiential learning program comprising a series of workshop events and a five day residential group relations conference. Its purpose is to explore conscious and unconscious organisational dynamics, in the here-and-now, so as to learn about accountability, authority and engagement within groups, organisations and communities.
To obtain copy of the program brochure and registration form, please contact: Jinette de Gooijer, Associate Director (Communications) jinette@innovativepractice.com
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EXPLORING: Intergroup experiences and unconscious processes is the third workshop event in the Changing Relationships @ Work 2013 experiential learning program. The full program is centred on a residential group relations conference to be held 21-25 August at Novotel Melbourne in St Kilda, supplemented by pre- and post-conference workshops at the CTM Centre, Parkville.
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A great opportunity for anyone interested in exploring the dynamics of groups. The program will run May/June 2013 at the Campion Centre in Kew. Expressions of interest can be lodged with Susan Long at susandianelong@gmail.com
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The Winnicott at Work program is designed for managers and consultants who wish to study and explore some of Winnicott’s ideas within the fluid medium of their own work experience. As such, participants are required to read and discuss selected works involving Winnicott’s ideas and to apply them, with the support of others in the program, to a work situation in which they have a responsibility for providing a ‘holding’ environment. A primary possibility for learning is to discover and practice that aspect of leadership which is about creating a setting which holds people as they struggle to face, and to work with, a complex reality.
For GRA members who are unfamiliar with Winnicott’s ideas, this is also an opportunity to investigate the ‘transitional’ emphasis in Bridger’s working conference model which was offered by GRA for the first time in 2012.
Attached is a flyer announcing a seminar and practicum, over 7 sessions, on the work of Donald Winnicott, led by John Newton.
New publications
Socio-Analysis, Volume 14, December 2012
Socio-Analysis is an international peer-reviewed journal about groups, organisations and society considered from the systems psychodynamic perspective. It publishes original articles and book reviews in the area of socio-analysis, systems psychodynamic approaches to theory and consulting, group relations methodologies and research, social dreaming and other methodologies and theoretical approaches for exploring unconscious processes in groups, organisations and society.
Volume 14 is now available.