Continuing Professional Development

Study the unconscious life of groups from the inside.

This conference is an experiential and accelerated learning event which is suitable for anyone who works in groups or complex organisations, whether in intense business, therapeutic or social work settings, or emergency services, armed forces or HMPs.  

The conference itself becomes a temporary organisational system in which individual, group and organisational dynamics can be explored live as they happen within a series of different group contexts each with its own set task. 

This years conference had a theme of Rupture, Repetition and Repair In Group and Organisational Life .  Prior to the conference we will send you a conference booklet which you can use to contemplate the theme and how this resonates for you in different ways, for example, professionally, academically and personally. Alongside the conference staff team who bring their expertise in psychoanalytic and systemic practice, we explore the conference as it emerges from our group dynamics.   

While we are a temporary organisation, the conference is not a closed system since we all bring with us into the setting our familial and societal experiences of this period. While the conference is an opportunity for individual and group learning it is also a chance to research and better understand our responses and relations to the period in which we live, or which lives in us. 

It provides insight into additional needs such as autism and understanding of the particular impact of such needs on children's experience of the world and their impact on those caring for them.