GRCs aim to experience and examine conscious and unconscious processes of group dynamics as they happen, in the exercise of role, authority and leadership. GRCs involve the study of group and organisational processes. They are informed by psychoanalytic and systemic thinking and thus designed as an experiential workshop offering no lectures or seminars but a variety of group configurations with specific tasks. These foster the exploration by participants of the ways in which the emotional life of a group impacts its members’ capacity for learning from experience towards thoughtful, imaginative and efficient action. Psychoanalytic thinking may assist to understand the origin of binary oppositions enabling the peeling back of the layers of rigid thinking used as a defence against the anxieties that uncertainty may elicit. Consideration of issues on a continuum may then be enabled, dualities and paradox held in mind and complexity of thought and emotionality explored. Issues such as task, authority, accountability and leadership are open to consideration, as are the meanings, limitations and creative potential of taking up leadership and /or followership roles in a variety of settings. Insights can be usefully applied both to the field of work and to the social world supporting members in their professional and personal development.
Dr. Liz Greenway has substantial experience of working on Group Relations Conferences.
Dr. Liz Greenway was staff consultant and staff lead of Review and Applications Groups on Spring Group Relations Conference Tavistock Clinic, London March 2024
Dr. Liz Greenway was staff consultant Spring Group Relations Conference Tavistock Clinic, London March 2023
Dr. Liz Greenway was staff consultant on Group Relations Conference Birkbeck University, London April 2023
Dr. Liz Greenway was staff consultant and staff lead of Small Study Groups on Group Relations Conference Birkbeck University, London April 2022
Dr. Liz Greenway was staff co-consultant to the Event Planning & Review Process on Masters course Consulting and Leading in Organisations D10, Tavistock Clinic, London December 2018
Dr. Liz Greenway trained on IGO Three-Day Workshop, Advanced Training in Small Group Processes July 2018
Dr. Liz Greenway was staff consultant on Group Relations Conference Birkbeck University, London April 2016
Dr. Liz Greenway was staff consultant on Group Relations Conference Identity, Culture and Class Tavistock Clinic London in collaboration with Manhattan College, New York, July 2015
Dr. Liz Greenway was staff consultant on Spring Group Relations Conference Tavistock Clinic, London, April 2015
Dr. Liz Greenway was staff consultant on Three-day residential Group Relations Conference at University of Essex, Feb 2015
Dr. Liz Greenway was staff consultant on Group Relations Conference Birkbeck University, London September 2014 London
Dr. Liz Greenway was staff consultant on Group Relations Conference Birkbeck University, London, 2013
Dr. Liz Greenway was associate consultant at Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex Group Relations Conference 2013
Dr. Liz Greenway was associate consultant on Group Relations Conference at the Tavistock Clinic, January 2012