Group Relations
Network West of England - Vision
Group Relations
Network West of England - GReNWE - is
an international network of members who share a common interest in the
world of group relations in all its dimensions and who want to learn and
develop by creating space and opportunities to work, think, dialogue and
elaborate on themes, ideas and projects. Examples of areas of special
interest to GReNWE members are 'Rethinking Group Relations', 'Living with
Difference', 'Gender, Sex and Power', 'Politics and Emotions', all of
which are featured in the GReNWE on-line magazine, GReNWorld, available on
the Members Section pages This commitment emerges from the belief that
what goes on within and between groups, both conscious and
unconscious, is crucial to the development of organisations and society.
Therefore the life within groups, among and between groups is worth
studying and learning about.
How is this Vision put into Practice?
Whilst Group Relations forms the foundation of this
interpretive work, there is also an intention to make links and inform our
thinking from broader frameworks of ideas and philosophies, including the
fields of sociology, psychoanalysis and psychology, and theories of
organisation and politics. GReNWE
provides a containing space where complex issues in groups, organisations
and society can be investigated and interpreted and understood more fully.
GReNWE also provides a creative
space, place and time for opportunities to emerge for the development of
insights and understanding through experimentation and experiential
learning, so that members are empowered to present ideas, projects,
thoughts and proposals in a supportive atmosphere of creative dialogue.
GReNWE is a not-for-profit company and was set up in 2001
by former students and staff on the MSc in Group Relations and Society at the
University of the West of England. Its creation is the fruit of a desire
to pursue, develop, and apply the learning that emerged during the MSc, along
four main axes:
More broadly,
GReNWE
aims to promote public learning about group processes and the impact of the
unconscious on cultural, political and social life and to raise awareness about
the emotional life of groups and its impact on their environmental systems, from
family to Society. In doing so, GReNWE aspires to broaden the scope of
exploration within the Group Relations tradition by engaging in a discovery of
the physical and spiritual dimensions of role-taking within systems; it wishes
to work in new directions, to experiment, but above all to provide its members
with opportunities to learn from their experience of taking up different roles
within GReNWE, and through its activities.
