Inherited systems, emerging selves: exploring leadership and voice in organisations

A Message from the Conference Director

Dear Prospective Participant

Our experience of work and leadership is shaped by what we inherit; from early encounters with authority to patterns formed within families, cultures, and institutions. These influences shape how we take up roles, how we speak, how we follow, and how we lead.

Yet they do not determine us. We are not bound to repeat what we have inherited. With awareness, we can develop new capacities to respond to the complexity and uncertainty of today’s organisational life.

In many workplaces, leadership challenges are not only structural or strategic, they are also relational and systemic. They emerge in how we engage with authority, difference, conflict, and change. This calls for a deeper examination of how past experiences shape present responses, and how we might approach situations with greater openness perhaps even, as Wilfred Bion suggests, “without memory or desire.”

Group Relations Conferences offer a distinctive opportunity to explore these dynamics through lived experience. Working within a temporary learning organisation, participants engage directly with issues of role, authority, boundaries, and task as they unfold in real time without the constraints of existing hierarchies.

This experiential approach enables learning that is both immediate and applicable. Participants begin to recognise patterns that influence decision-making, collaboration, and leadership effectiveness within themselves, their teams, and their organisations.

Set in Singapore, a meeting point of cultures, perspectives, and rapid transformation, the conference provides a rich context for engaging with intercultural and organisational complexity.

While much in our external environment remains uncertain, we can develop our capacity to use ourselves more consciously in role: to listen, to think, and to find our voice within the systems we are part of.

We invite you to join us in this shared exploration, both experiential and reflective, within the learning space of this temporary organisation.

Dr. Eliat Aram

Conference Director together with Conference Staff

Conference venue

Catapult, Rochester Commons 1 Rochester Park, #02-06 Singapore 13921

Register your interest

Register your interest at www.grouprelationssingapore.com support@grouprelationssingapore.com