FULL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Day 1 – FRIDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2018

08.00-09.00 – Social Dreaming (Convenor: Tim Dartington)
08.45-09.15 – Registration and coffee
09.15-09.30 – Welcome and notices
09.30-11.00 – Keynote “Sex, Power and Money: the case of women and pornography”: Prof. Feona Attwood, Professor of Cultural Studies, Communication and Media, Middlesex University
11.00-11.20 – Coffee
11.20-12.45 – Parallel Presentations 1

  • Bureaucracy, the desire for security and the illusion of freedom – Ulrike Beland
  • Deserted children in a rich age of uncertainty –Maria Grazia Siri
  • Climate Change: an upcoming humanitarian crisis – Otto Huizinga
  • Sex, Power and Money at a Crossroads in India – Manab Bose
  • Ennui meets optimism: juggling identity in the age of uncertainty – James Walker

12.45-14.00 – Lunch
14.00-15.25 – Parallel Presentations 2

  • Enlarging the field of Group Relations Conferences, an ecological use of energy, eros and money – Maria Pia Conte
  • Sex, power and money – via regia to the unconscious of the group – Shmuel Bernstein
  • Your Money or Your Life: en-gendering leadership – Philip Boxer
  • Greed, Hatred and Delusion in Organisational Life – Tim Dartington
  • The swinging pendulum – exploring the changing nature of leadership in the financial services and its implications for consultancy – Ajit Menon & Vega Roberts

15.25-15.45 – Tea break
15.45-16.45 – Discussion Groups
16.45-17.00 – Comfort Break
17.00-18.30 – Keynote Gina Miller
18.30-19.30 – Drinks Reception

Day 2 – SATURDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2018

08.00-09.00 – Social Dreaming (Convenor: Tim Dartington)
08.45-09.15 – Registration and coffee
09.15-09.30 – Welcome and notices
09.30-11.00 – Keynote “But the Pain Remains: Toward the ‘Freeing’ of those who were once property”: Dr Gail Lewis, Birkbeck College Dept. of Psychosocial Studies, University of London
11.00-11.20 – Coffee
11.20-12.20 – Discussion Groups
12.20-13.55 – Lunch
13.55-15.20 – Parallel Presentations 3

  • Re-reading the Oedipus story from a gay perspective – Mark Argent
  • Political risks of recovering and discovering meanings in the collective memory of a religious psychotic organization – Prof. Eduardo Acuña
  • Dilemmas and Conflicts of Various Professional Roles within a Human Service Agency – Matias Sanfuentes
  • The Dark Triad in Threat Focused Systems: What can be done to enhance psychological safety and wellbeing at work – Dr Amra Rao
  • Willful Feminists- challenges of consultancy in a patriarchal society – Jan Baker & Jo-anne Carlyle

15.20-15.40 – Tea break
15.40-17.05 – Parallel Presentations 4

  • The survival and sustainability of money as a currency of exchange and the psycho-social dynamics of alternative currencies for the future – Richard Morgan-Jones
  • Reparation: The creative potential of mourning – Dr. Bob Townley & Prof. Mark Stein
  • Political Correctness: the dark side in matters of Sex, Power and Money – Elisabeth Henderson
  • Serbian Reflective-Citizens & Otpor – Power with(out) Money – Marina Mojovic
  • Group Relations, innovation, and the production of nostalgia – Carlos Sapochnik

17.05-17.15 – Comfort break
17.15-18.15 – Closing Plenary
18.15 – Conference closes