GRA 2025 Kick-off: Connect & Collaborate

Join us at Group Relations Australia’s opening social event to kick-off 2025 with Special Guest, Professor Emeritus and PhD Co-Le Susan Long

Join us at Group Relations Australia’s opening social event to kick-off 2025.

It’s being held both in-person, at the VAPP in Melbourne, and online to give space for our community to come together wherever you are. Get the latest on GRA’s 2025 activities, then mingle with friends and colleagues, new and old.

This complimentary gathering promises vibrant discussions and meaningful connections. Don’t miss this chance to enrich our community.

Special guest Professor Emeritus and PhD Co-Lead NIODA Susan Long discussing her book:

Evolution of the Unconscious – persons, groups, nature and spirit

Publisher: Routledge

Susan will talk about the social unconscious based on the chapter of that name in the book

Abstract:

The idea of a social unconscious with a social ‘mind’ appears at first as counter-intuitive, mainly because our way of thinking puts individual persons as central and individual minds as a given. But the perspective of the individual mind as the centre of thinking has to change just as the Copernican revolution changed thinking about the universe. While Freud showed how unconscious thoughts could overthrow the conscious so-called rational ego, so Bion, Foulkes and those that follow argue for the centrality of an unconscious field of associative and connective thinking. This social and associative unconscious becomes embedded in the very fabric of our institutions (family, the law, education, industry) and is thus passed from generation to generation. Our freedom as a species is integrally linked to our understanding and experience of this unconscious.

If you intend to attend via Zoom, please register for an online ticket.

Please register for an in-person ticket if you intend to attend in person at the VAPP in Melbourne.

Cost:
Members: Free
Non-Members: Free

Register now

Photo by MAURO FOSSATI