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November 2019
Annual GRA members day
GRA invites you to join the GRA Annual General Meeting and Member's Day. The launch of the new GRA website will be included as part of this event. RSVP to Charlotte by the 26th October via email: administrator@grouprelations.org.au
Find out more »December 2019
Leslie Brissett Seminar – ‘Light and Shade: Working Across Cultural Boundaries’
Dr Leslie Brissett is the Director of the Group relations Programme at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and has kindly agreed to lead a seminar on ‘Working Across Cultural Boundaries’ on Thursday 5th of December at 6.30pm. The seminar topic foreshadows the theme of GRA’s 2020 conference. Leslie has directed the last four Leicester Conferences. He has also been centrally involved in many international Group Relations Conferences, including being on staff at the GRA 2018 conference – ‘Collaboration and…
Find out more »January 2020
Listening Post: ‘Australia and the World at the dawn of 2020’
Listening Posts are reflective spaces in which to take a ‘snapshot’ of society at a particular moment. They explore the idea that a small group, when studying the behaviour of the wider social system that is society, will unconsciously express some of its characteristics and that these are discernible from the themes and patterns emerging from the discussion. Listening Posts will be held concurrently in around thirty countries and their joint conclusions presented as Global Report Programme: 5:30 – 6:00…
Find out more »March 2020
Leadership and Authority in Public Sector Organisations
When: Four sessions – 6pm - 9pm, on the 25th Feb and 3rd, 10th and 17th March 2020 This facilitated reading, discussion and application group is run weekly by John Newton. It will discuss selected readings concerning the psychodynamics of public leadership and applying concepts, examples and insights to current work experience. The objectives of this group are; To think about contemporary challenges, what is expected and what is feasible, for leaders and people in positions of authority in the…
Find out more »Online Listening Post – Covid-19
We seem to be living in an unprecedented time. ‘Social’ distancing arrangements designed to flatten the curve of the coronavirus pandemic are now firmly in place. For many of us, working arrangements and social interactions are shifting online. Those of us working from home may be discovering that the boundary between home and work responsibilities needs to be managed in new ways. Others are still commuting to their workplaces to provide products and services. Meanwhile, many casual workers are suddenly…
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