An aspiration for founding GRI was the idea of “living GR”.
Group Relations Conferences and shorter workshops are a valuable space to encounter the GR framework via largely experiential methodologies. The relevance and richness of the GR framework comes alive and is sustained in its everyday application. This helps people “see” the systems they are in, make and take roles in them, and exercise leadership in ways that influence and shape the well-being of groups, systems and society.
Towards this aim, GRI offers a range of public programmes and learning spaces to further the practice and theory of group relations. Those in leadership roles in a wide range of systems, consultants to organisation development processes, those involved in enhancing the capacity of individuals and systems have benefitted from this lens and have contributed to its continued application and development. Many of our offerings invite the exploration of contemporary social realities and challenges via the lens of group relations, with the idea that by doing so one may take up roles in multiple systems more effectively and possibly even reclaiming some roles we have distanced ourselves from.
GRI is committed to making our offerings accessible to a wide section of Indian society, having different representations and interests, as we believe that the participation of diverse people in spaces, where one learns from direct experience, is a powerful way to learn about unconscious dynamics in self, groups and systems. These features of diversity and accessibility are very central to what defines GRI and is the reason for our offerings being spaces that enable powerful insights and learning for all.
To further its aim and task, GRI also networks with like-minded professional bodies and organisations such as the National Institute of Personnel Management, and INSEAD, where we offer customised workshops focused on leadership for senior executives using the group relations framework.
To know more, you can write to programmes@grouprelationsindia.org