The Leicester Conference

This annual residential conference, which has been running since 1957, is designed for those who are looking to develop their leadership and managerial capacity to effect change in work groups and organisations and to improve their ability to work with complex and challenging issues.

Each conference is a temporary organisation consisting of a series of events which are designed to enable the exploration of different work experiences and behaviour. So, there are no presenters as such; instead the conference staff offer working hypotheses based on their experiences and understanding of what is happening in the ‘here and now’ in the various events.

The conference provides unique and exciting opportunities for you to learn through experience about group, organisational and social dynamics and the exercise of authority and power.

There is now wide recognition that group and systems psychodynamics play an important part in the success or failure of work projects and organisational change. Likewise, the understanding and management of feelings, tensions and other dynamics in group situations are essential to effective leadership.

The next Leicester conference invites you to find out about the different boundaries with which we engage in our daily professional encounters, including the boundary relationship between mind and body, yourself and your colleagues, colleagues and the environment, the creative potential within these relationships and your capacity to transform organisational life into a meaningful experience of citizenship in this world.

Date of next conference: 18 April - 1 May 2009

The Leicester Conference 2009 AUTHORITY, ROLE AND ORGANISATION

The brochure for 2008 is downloadable on the right.  If you would like to receive a brochure for 2009, please contact Rachel Kelly.

If you have any questions or would like further information about the conference please contact Rachel Kelly, Conference Administrator

e: r.kelly@tavinstitute.org
t: +44 (0)20 7457 3927       

The Leicester Conference 2009 is held in Beaumont Hall in the Botanic Gardens of the University of Leicester.

The conference will consist of 3 sub-conferences: Emerging: for those new to group relations conferences Furthering: for those with some experience of group relations methodology Advancing Praxis: for experienced organisational change agents

Dates of future conferences: 2010: 11 April - 24 April