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The Boston Center of The A.K. Rice Institute (CSGSS) announces it's
1997 Residential Conference on Group Relations:
 
     Authority, Leadership and Partnership in Organizations
 
          January 15th - 19th, 1997
          Mount Marie Conference Center, Holyoke, MA
          Director, Evelyn D. Cleavely,
                   Associate staff member, Tavistock Institute of
                   Marital Studies
 
An experiential conference in the Tavistock tradition designed to
enable members to extend their awareness of group and organizational
processes and of their participation in them.  The method is learning
through experience and reflection.  The design of the conference is
based on the assumption that by examining and interpreting
experiences within the conference institution, members will be enable
to enlarge their understanding of their own institutions and their
roles in them.
 
The design allows members to explore among other things:
 
     The impact of unconscious fantasy and dynamics on work groups
 
     The significance of visible and invisible boundaries and how
     they are managed
 
     The difference between the stated task of a group and the task
     it actually appears to be pursuing
 
     Discrepancies between official roles and those individuals are
     called upon to play
 
     Discrepancies between formal and informal authority
 
 
The conference is designed for members from diverse occupations:
professionals, business women and men, community leaders,
organizational consultants, program directors, administrators,
managers students and paraprofessionals. Individuals from business,
education, mental health, law government, social services and religion
have attended conferences in the past.
 
The primary task is to provide opportunities to study the exercise of
leadership, authority and partnership in the context of
interpersonal, intergroup and institutional relations within the
conference.
 
For further information and an application please contact:
 
 
    CSGSS
    c/o Tim Mize
    34 Chester Road
    Belmont, MA 02178
 
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