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Working Mothers
7/9/20 Covid-19 and the Foggy Mind Liz Brnjak I am a working mother to a two-year old active boy. I have been struggling with a pervasive sense of fatigue and exhaustion during the current COVID lockdown. A recent conversation with one of my neighbours, who is a...
Dynamics of Racism: GRA blog
This new GRA sub-project The Dynamics of Racism and COVID19 - aims to explore racism in ourselves and society, continuing an existing GRA project, with particular reference to COVID19. The blog will be updated regularly and make reference to basic assumption...
Finding a Place to Stand: The Connection between Institutional Membership and Citizenship
The Austen Riggs Center presents a virtual Friday night guest lecture with Edward R. Shapiro, MD. Psychodynamic systems theory brings together individual dynamics with the dynamics of human systems. We are all shaped by our contexts and, when we begin to recognize our...
Two Way: Learning from each other
The Sydney Institute for Psychoanalysis invites you to join us as we bring together First Nations’ thinkers with psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in a series of six webinars in the spirit of Two Way – working together and learning from each other. When: Each...
Sparks of Action: Reflections on Minneapolis, the Movement for Black Lives, and Group Relations
This blog, by Suma Jacobs and Geralyn Williams, was first posted on Group Relations International’s blog (www.grouprelations.org) and is generously re-posted here with permission. Please click here to read more.
NIODA 2020 Virtual Symposium: Working into the Future
Bringing together the best of academic rigour, with real-world context and opportunities to build relationships and collaboration with others from around the world, this Symposium will be powerful as a unique personal and professional development opportunity. The...
Second Quilted Patchwork – A Group Relations Reflection on COVID-19
GRA and the international group relations community are responding to and finding ways of reflecting on the impact of COVID19 – on communities, institutional leadership and our sense of shared trust and dependency. A second summary of these responses internationally...
Socioanalysis Vol. 21: Call for Papers
Socioanalysis is a journal of Group Relations Australia. There is a call for papers for Volume 22, 2020. Please send papers by July 1st 2020 to: Editor in General, Dr Susan Long E: socioanalysis@grouprelations.org.au
GRA Conference: Rescheduled to 2021
The 2020 Group Relations Conference Working with Diversity: Exploring the Dynamics of Cross-cultural Relations in Groups, Organisations and Communities has been rescheduled to be held in 2021. The Covid-19 health crisis that is so severely impacting on social and...
An International Group Relations Reflection on COVID-19
GRA and the international group relations community are responding to and finding ways of reflecting on the impact of COVID19 – on communities, institutional leadership and our sense of shared trust and dependency. An initial snapshot of these responses...
