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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: an annual member's day, professional practice and scientific meetings, working conferences, workshops, seminars and lectures. The Association also publishes the peer reviewed journal Socioanalysis.

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GRA Members evening information - Wednesday 6 March

Our first GRA member’s evening - Wednesday 6 March at 6pm at the VAPP, 18 Erin Street, Richmond. The two aims of this evening are to describe how the new GRA governance arrangements are working and together to begin to identify and plan GRA activities for 2019.

Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Viewing Group : Exploring sociogenic defenses and their potential transformation through art

This viewing group will meet on five occasions with the same membership to watch together two purposively selected cinematic films, to explore the theme of sociogenic defences as manifested within and by the characters and the societal and organisational systems that produce them, as well as within us as the viewing audience.

Saturday, May 4, 2019

Vale Herb Hahn

Many of us in GRA knew Herb or even had the privilege to work, think and learn with him over his many years here in Australia and overseas. He was an important figure in the world of socioanalysis, systems psychodynamics, group relations and social dreaming. A thoughtful, intelligent and considerate man, Herb trained in both child and adult psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic and Institute of Psychoanalyis in London

A Podcast direct from the Tavistock Institute

Timed to coincide with the GRA Socioanalysis Special Issue on Seeking Asylum, the Tavistock held a talk by David Lawlor & Mannie Sher on their journal paper: "The use of detention as a defence against intolerable social ambivalence towards asylum-seekers".

Tavistock has made a podcast of that talk available to all GRA members.