The Australian Institute of Socio-Analysis' Annual Group Relations Conference will be held in Lorne in Victoria in April 22-27, 2002. 

It is a fully experiential or working conference in the Tavistock and Leicester University tradition. Made up of small groups, large groups and various inter-group events, it provides a powerful learning experience that takes place through the study of the here-and-now dynamics within the various groups and the conference institution as a whole. 

Powerful learning can take place around:

        -           Experiencing, observing, and analysing group and institutional dynamics as they occur

-           Learning about ones own behaviour and how one takes up various roles and authority

-          Gaining a greater level of comfort and capacity to think in the midst of the often turbulent and bewildering dynamics that occur in groups and organizations.

-          Applying such learning to one's life and work be it with individuals, groups and organisations. 

The Lorne Conference, as it is known, is a six-day residential conference set in a beautiful old guest house on the beach at Lorne in Victoria. This will be the 15^th annual conference run by AISA and is based on the group relations conferences in the tradition of the Tavistock and Leicester University since 1957.  The theoretical underpinnings include, management theories, Bion?s work with groups, group relations, psycho-analysis and systems theory. 

This year?s theme: Individuals and Organisations in Radically Unpredictable Times: Leadership, Power & Capital engages with the impact of recent world events which has not only shaken our usual assumptions and sources of security, but has implications about the nature and meaning of leadership, the exercise of authority and the role of capital in our individual and collective lives. 

The conference would be of benefit not only to those who work with or within groups, teams and organisational or institutional settings, but anyone such as managers, consultants, change agents, trainers and developers of teams, team leaders, project managers, CEO?s and Directors, and those working at the interface of groups and wider institutional and organisational structures.