Belonging to a body larger than your own

Belonging to a body larger than your own
Confirmed

Psychoanalysis In Transition 
Exploring the Vista from Couch to Collective


An international group relations conference
third in a series

Belonging to a body larger than your own:  Learning from experience, authority and role

November 6-10, 2025
Online Via Zoom

Who is it for?
Psychoanalysts, Jungian Analysts, Candidates-in-training, Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic Orientated Psychotherapists, Group-Analytic Psychotherapists and Group Analysts

The Primary Task of the Conference
Provide a structured setting for learning from here-and-now experience about the dynamics of belonging to bodies larger than your own, across groups and organizations.
 
This task makes use of the familiar metaphor of the body to describe both the whole and the parts of small and large groups and the “corporate” bodies to which we belong. 
 
The qualities to be explored will include the balance between the distinctive contributions of both leadership and membership, sources of authority and the nature of the boundaries around tasks, persons, roles, groups and wider systems.
 
The purpose of the conference is to explore how persons, groups, organizations and society shape each other. Experience of groupings and organizations provokes learning about how we are seen and used by others and about the ways we tend to construe situations quite unconsciously. This is the hidden agenda of a group relations conference, seeking to make its presence felt for observation, transformation and development. 

The Main Conference is designed for both newcomers to group relations conferencing as well as members with previous experience.

The Sub-conference is designed for members who have previous group relations conference experience and have an interest in taking roles in contributing to institutional leadership.

Their programme will be distinct, for a group of 8 members and will also overlap with the main conference at some points. 

For more details and to register -  https://www.psychoanalysisintransition.info
When
06/11/2025 - 10/11/2025
Where
ONLINE VIA ZOOM