Grex’s Education and Events Planning Committee Hosts A Gathering: How roots in Bion have become the forest that is us

Thursday, October 27, 2022, 5:30-7pm PST

via Zoom

Please join members of Grex’s Education and Events Planning Committee in a connected discussion of Vineet Gairola’s article, On Wilfred R. Bion’s Way of Being: Linking Truth, Thought, and Nostalgia.

Taking a break from the Grex Talks series to lean into gathering, committee members Sanjiwan Boparai, Dorothy Dubrule, Eric Hogensen, Vivian Gold and Jack Lampl will be holding a community conversation on how ideas raised by Gairola relate to how we come to group relations work in the here and now.

In addition to reading the article in advance of the event and bringing their own ideas for discussion, attendees will be invited to reflect upon the following questions:

• Does anything in this article about Bion’s sense of O remind you of your own experience, in group relations conferences, or in life itself, that resonates with these concepts?

• Is there a mystical element to group relations and/or a resistance to that possibility?

• Is looking for intellectual antecedents of group relations theory outside the European philosophical tradition a form of Reparations?

• What does binary thinking grant us, and what would it take to resist it?

• What might it mean to decolonize our practice of group relations?

• As a group, what truths might we be avoiding and what experiences or truths are we seeking?

Please register for this event by clicking the link below:

Zoom Registration Link

An additional pdf of the article will be sent to the email address you use to register.

For any questions regarding this event, please contact grexgrouprelationsit@gmail.com

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