If you have any interest in leadership, organizational life, or understanding how you relate to and take up authority in groups, I encourage you to consider attending a Group Relations Conference. Many consider the flagship opportunity in the United States to be the Annual Residential Conference of the A. K. Rice Institute for the Study […]
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The Shadow of the Institution I am proud to announce that Grex and the A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems are co-sponsoring a Group Relations Conference title “The Shadow of the Institution” at UCLA on May 18 through 20, 2018. This experiential leadership training event will mark our return to the UCLA
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Grex, the West Coast Affiliate of the A. K. Rice Institute, has announced the offer of two, one-day Grex Group Relations workshops in the Los Angeles area for people who have attended a recent Group Relations Conference. These workshops are intended to deepen participants’ Group Relations thinking and to support those interested in becoming more
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Whole Systems Consulting: Advance Practice Workshop As current Vice-President of the A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems (AKRI), I am excited to also be a member of the Whole Systems Consulting program committee. In November, AKRI is holding a three-day training designed specifically for a 12 experienced organizational consultants to advance
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Leadership, Authority, & Otherness The current psychohistorical moment appears to be a shared experience of global fracturing into adversarial chaos. This Group Relations Conference provides a unique opportunity to investigate the systemic forces that impact us as individuals and members — as well as our leadership roles within numerous groups and social identities — through the
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“The object of a dialogue is not to analyze things, or to win an argument, or to exchange opinions. Rather, it is to suspend your opinions and to look at the opinions — to listen to everybody’s opinion, to suspend them, and to see what it all means. Each person is participating, is partaking of
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I’m not strange, weird, off nor crazy. My reality is just different from yours. Cheshire Cat, Alice in Wonderland (Carroll, 1865) Experiencing, Recognizing & Understanding Group Dynamics in Organizations A few remaining seats remain for the conference portion of The A.K. Rice Institute’s (AKRI) Spring training series, Through the Looking Glass: Experiencing, Recognizing and Understanding
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Public Google Calendar To assist participants, I have shared my Google calendar for the A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems (AKRI) Dialogues 2 events. Please note that I have based the calendar on event information available at this time, and that the schedule is subject to change. I have also included in this calendar, the official conference
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What An Experiential Conference in the Group Relations Tradition Where Cenacle Retreat & Conference Center, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. When April 27-29, 2015 Pre-Dialogues 2 Conference The A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems (AKRI) is holding a three-day, residential Group Relations Conference from April 27 to 29, 2015, at the Cenacle Retreat
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The A.K. Rice Institute (AKRI) Dialogues 2 Authority: Yours, Mine, Ours and Theirs: How did we get Here, and Where do we go Now? For anyone interested in group relations and/or developing and deepening their leadership strategies, registration is open for the A.K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems second group relations convention. Potential attendees include anyone working as
