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Recent Group Relations Conferences

There is a lively and dynamic network of communities exploring group relations and organising group relations events all over the world.

Recent group relations conferences

organised in partnership with the Tavistock Institute

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SPLITTING IMAGE: Seeing the Other in the Self
PCCA – Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities | 27–30 August 2026 | Platres, Cyprus
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Inhabiting the Unknown: authority, leadership and learning at the edge
Online Group Relations Conference with Group Relations Australia | Pre-Conference: 22-23 August 2026 | Conference: 3-6 September 2026 | Post-Conference: 10-11 October 2026
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Exploring capacity to feel and think in role: leadership, authority, organisation
The 15th International Group Relations Conference in Lithuania | 17 August — 21 August 2026 | Vilnius, Lithuania
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Authority, Responsibility and Social Identity in Organizational Life: Connection and Disconnection
Three-Day Group Relations Conference | July 24 — 26, 2026 | Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA
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Energy, Creative Collaboration and Wellbeing Conference
A summertime Group Relations Conference in Italy, 25 June — 28 June 2026 | Il Nodo Group
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Leadership and Task: finding resilience in turbulent times
Group Relations Conference with Group Relations Kazakhstan | 28 May — 31 May 2026 | ALMATY
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Hope, Dread, and Change: exploring the intersections of authority, leadership, followership, and the...
Weekend Group Relations Conference | 17 — 19 April 2026 | at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City
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Leadership at the Edge: AI, organization, and identity in the Caribbean
8th Caribbean Group Relations Conference | Thursday 12th – Saturday 14th March, 2026 | In-person at The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
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Authority and freedom: understanding and changing the institutions in which we live
This is the 26th International Group Relations Conference in Italy | Hosted by Il Nodo Group and The Tavistock Institute | 19 – 22 February 2026
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On the Fault Line: Authority, Leadership and Values
The 38th OFEK international Group Relations Conference in the Tavistock tradition | 8 — 13 February 2026 | Pervolia, Cyprus
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Othering and hatred of diversity
3-part series of Group Relations conferences | from Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities | Online 
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Hopeful Citizenship: authority, identity, othering and belonging
Fall 2025 Group Relations Conference | Teachers College, Columbia University, NY | November 21-23, 2025
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Authority, Leadership and Organisation: Exploring the hopes and fears in building partnerships
This Group Relations Conference is hosted by The Institute for Leadership and Transformation (TILT)
and The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations | 3 – 6 November 2025
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Leadership, Engagement & Accountability @ work
Group Relations Conference with The University of Utrecht, The Netherlands | 24 — 27 September 2025
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Leadership, Authority and Role in Shaping the Living World
The 14th International Group Relations Conference in Lithuania | 22rd – 26th August 2025
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Energy, Creative Collaboration and Wellbeing Conference
A summertime Group Relations Conference in Italy, 30 May — 1 June 2025 | Il Nodo Group
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Group Relations Conference: Authority, Leadership & Vulnerability in the shadow of war
The 37th OFEK international Group Relations Conference in the Tavistock tradition | 16 — 21 February 2025 | Pervolia, Cyprus
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Group Relations Conference: Deploying Personal Authority in exercising leadership
The Fifteenth Group Relations Conference offered by Group Relations India | January 5-10, 2025 | Mumbai, India
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Group relations conference in Dubai: Authority and leadership
Exploring below the surface: from isolation to connection. The first international face-to-face Group Relations conference in Dubai, UAE. 17 — 20 October, 2024
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LEADERSHIP AUTHORITY ROLE Exploring Organizational and Personal Transformation
This Group Relations Conference will take place at The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, 17 — 19 October 2024, and...
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Partner Conference BELGIRATE VIII — a new climate for Group Relations

Emergence, traditions & innovation. An international meeting for Group Relations Conferences practitioners.

Thursday 24 — Sunday 27 October 2024 in Portugal.
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The Self-Imposed Atrocity of Climate Change: The Human Factor
Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities invites you to participate in this 2024 Experiential Conference.  2 — 6 September 2024, online
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Exploring leadership, authority and identity in times of shifting boundaries and spaces
The 13th Group Relations Conference in Lithuania will take place on 23rd — 27th August 2024, with Lithuanian Group Relations Society, Vilnius University and TIHR
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Dreams, creativity and hope in a polarised world
New Group Relations Conference in London, 22 — 24 July 2024 with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
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Leading from the screen: the visible and invisible in remote working
This is a practice-based, professional development training programme with an international staff team. From the University of Essex on 18, 19, 20, 26 July 2024
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Exploring Irrationality in self and organization
This is an experiential working conference for International Psychoanalytic Association psychoanalysts. May 24 — 27 2024 in Greece
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Ancestral meaning systems, leadership and authority
An online Group Relations Conference, 11-13 April 2024, organised by Society of Industrial and Organisational Psychology of South Africa (SIOPSA)
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ALI 2024: Paradoxes of Citizenship
A residential Group Relations Conference in Crotone, Italy, 14-17 March 2024, with Il Nodo Group
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Race Relations in a Global World: Leadership, Organizations and ____
Three-day online Group Relations Conference, 22-25 February 2024, from The New York Centre
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Power, Authority, Trust : Exploring Vulnerability and Caribbean Leadership
A three-day Group Relations Conference in Trinidad and Tobago, 19—21 October 2023
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Exploring Leadership & Authority: Working with Desires & Fears
A five-day Group Relations Conference in Lithuania, 24—28 August 2023
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Energy, Creative Collaboration & Wellbeing
Online Group Relations conference, 13—16 January 2023
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