Virtual Forum: Standards, Structures, and Institutions
By Matthew Lyons, Curator
TK Intro paragraph on upcoming residency and virtual forum
Virtual forum: Standards, Structures, and Institutions: Reimagining Authority, Value and ______ in a World of Difference
Saturday, June 5, 9:00am–5:45pm EDT
Registration Required: click here to reserve
Standards, Structures, and Institutions: Reimagining Authority, Value and ______ in a World of Difference is a one-day event on June 5, 2021 designed to facilitate participants in exploring societal experiences that both subjugate and free us, using a group relations methodology. Members are invited to work with and confront the standards, structures, and institutions, both visible and invisible, literal and unconscious, that define our world while forming a temporary learning organization with staff. Staff have been assembled with a focus on diversity and intersectionality. The event is an opportunity to reimagine the authorities and values that inform the psychological and physical boundaries that place limits on how we relate to one another.
Through group relations, members and staff are invited to explore in depth the intersection between standards, structures and institutions in a world of difference. In addition, they will examine connections to leadership, followership, and authority to better understand individual and collective behavior in groups and how we take up our role, in complex and powerful systems.
This event is based on the Tavistock Model of Group Relations, which was developed in London, England, in the 1950s. In 1965, Margaret Rioch and A. Kenneth Rice, for whom the A.K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems (AKRI) was named, imported the model to the United States. This time-honored method offers a dynamic lens for exploring conscious and unconscious behavior within groups, organizations, and social systems. More specifically, group relations thinking offers insight into our experiences of group life across the different contexts that make up our daily lives, such as at home, the workplace, and within the many institutions that make up society at large.
To register to attend this virtual forum, click here.