This three-day group relations conference offers a unique opportunity to study the conscious and unconscious dynamics involved in how groups organize themselves and interact with each other. This conference is not a passive learning event that relies upon lectures. Instead, the learning is experiential. Participants study how leadership, followership, authority, task, boundaries, and roles operate in the different group experiences they enter during the conference. The conference will weave art and other non-verbal forms of expression into the conference events to illuminate unconscious dynamics operating in the system of group interactions that members and staff will create together.
Directorate
Conference Director
Laura K. Dorsey-Elson, PhD – Associate Professor of Strategic Communication, Morgan State University | Chair, University Council, Morgan State University | President, Elson Consulting Group, LLC | Member, AK Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems
Associate Director for Conference Administration
Tara L. Victor, PhD, ABPP/CN – Associate Professor, California State University, Dominguez Hills Department of Psychology | Associate Clinical Professor, UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences | Neuropsychologist, Private Practice | Board Member, Grex | Associate & Consultant Candidate-in-Training, AK Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems.
Associate Director for Creative Expression
Jim Keville, MFA – Associate Professor, California State University, Dominguez Hills Department of Art & Design | Member, Grex