Experiential Learn Organisation Applications of the Tavistock

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EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
IN ORGANIZATIONS

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
IN ORGANIZATIONS
Applications of the
Tavistock Group Relations Approach

CONTRIBUTIONS IN HONOUR OF
Eric J. Miller
Edited by
Laurence J. Gould
Lionel F. Stapley
Mark Stein
KARNAC
KARNAC
LONDON NEWYORK

For Eric, whose seminal contributions
to the development of experiential learning,
through the theory and practice of Group Relations Conferences,
have been our inspiration

CONTENTS
EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ix
ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS xiii
Introduction
Lionel F. Stapley 1
1 “The ‘Leicester’ model” revisited
Eric J. Miller 11
2 Theories of experiential learning
and the unconscious
Mark Stein 19
3 Fraternal disciplines:
group relations training and systems
psychodynamic organizational consultation
Laurence J. Gould 37
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4 Diversity and authority conferences
as a social defence
Debra A. Noumair 63
5 Working in retreats:
learning from the group relations tradition
Larry Hirschhorn and Thomas N. Gilmore 85
6 Building an institution
for experiential learning
Susan Long 101
7 Experiencing, understanding, and dealing
with intergroup and institutional conflict
Ross A. Lazar 137
REFERENCES 173
INDEX 185
EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Editors
LAURENCE J. GOULD, PhD, is a former Professor and Director, the
Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, the City University of New
York; Director of the Socio-Analytic Training Program, the Institute
for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR); founding Co-
Director, the Program in Organizational Development and Consul-
tation, and Research Fellow, the Sigmund Freud Center, Hebrew
University; a founding member of the International Society for the
Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations; and the recipient of the
American Psychological Association’s Levinson Award, for out-
standing contributions to the theory and practice of organizational
consultation. He is in the private practice of psychoanalysis and
organizational consultation in New York City. His recent publica-
tions include The Systems Psychodynamics of Organizations (with
Lionel Stapley and Mark Stein), and he is the Co-Editor of Organi-
zational and Social Dynamics, An International Journal for the Integra-
tion of Psychoanalytic, Systemic and Group Relations Perspectives.
LIONEL F. STAPLEY, MSc, PhD, is an organizational consultant and
the Director of OPUS (Organization for Promoting Understanding
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