The Leicester Conference in 2027

The 14-day experiential learning event for reflection, leading & following, within a global cohort. 1 — 14 August 2027.

Organisations

Unconscious

Group relations

Location

Maidenhead, London, UK

Key people

Dr. Eliat Aram

Milda Autukaitė

Application for The Leicester Conference 2027

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All applicants — please provide a short (no longer than 200 words) statement in support of your application to the Leicester Conference.

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After this part of the form is submitted successfully, you will be taken to a payment page to complete your application, this requires a £750 deposit fee. Please note, this payment may take a while to authorise due to the amount, and you may be asked for additional authorisation.

Later, we will be in contact after we have reviewed your application to request payment of the final balance.

Upcoming dates

The Leicester Conference 2027

Sun 1 — Sat 14 August 2027

Past Dates

Leicester Conference 2025

Fri 1 — Thu 14 August 2025
Leicester Conference 2024

Sun 11 — Sat 24 August 2024
Leicester Conference 2023

Sat 29 July
— Fri 11 August 2023

The Leicester Conference has taken place every year since 1957 and is the flagship of all the other Group Relations conferences and institutions around the world.

For those who are deeply invested in understanding their relationship to leadership and authority in complex, uncertain contexts, it is the home of learning by experience.

This is a two-week unique opportunity to explore eternally relevant questions about Life at Work.

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What are the questions we ask at Leicester?

What kinds of authority and leadership are needed in contemporary organisations?

How do you exercise authority and leadership when organisational structures and relationships are subject to continuous change?

Who is the Leicester Conference for?

Designed for learning from — and through — experience, the Leicester Conference is for those who wish to discover how to:

to manage themselves more effectively in their roles;
to understand and work with below-the-surface dynamics in groups and organisations;
to develop vital leadership and management skills in thinking - in moments when it seems impossible to think.

About the Conference

The Leicester Conference explained in less than two minutes: with Rachel Kelly, Group Relations Consultant at the Tavistock Institute

What happens at the Leicester Conference?

A temporary organisation is created, in which all members and staff co-create the culture and practices of the organisation as it unfolds. We look at everything that happens within the organisation and surface what meanings are embedded within the behaviours as they happen.

The Groups are formed, and events are consulted to by the staff. The conference is designed to surface our assumptions and myths about organisational and social life. As the conference is fully residential, we have the experience of immersing totally into the life of the organisation, eating sleeping and working together consistently for 14 days. There is nothing quite like it.

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The fortnight that changed everything

My Leicester experiences

Congratulations on the 80th anniversary of the Leicester Conference! What an extraordinary milestone.

For a conference to endure across eight decades, through profound social, organizational, and psychic shifts, is truly remarkable. This longevity speaks not only to the strength of the tradition, but to its continued relevance and vitality.

My own two Leicester experiences were, on the surface, similar in structure and design. Yet, as the inner and outer contexts are never the same, the experiences themselves were profoundly different.

Each conference opened new dimensions of inner life, relational life, and engagement with the world. Leicester offered a disciplined and generative holding environment in which previously unthought material could emerge, be metabolized, and worked with in depth.

I remain a great admirer and advocate of Leicester and of your work: the two-week immersion, the international reach, the residential intensity, the generative turbulence, and the disciplined tradition that enables individuals and groups to encounter themselves, and one another, in new ways. There is truly nothing else like it.

Mette Charis Buchman, MA, Org.Psy.M., PhD Candidate

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