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In The Tavistock Learning Group: Exploration Outside the Traditional Frame, authors Clive Hazell and Mark Kiel attempt to expand the heuristic, theoretical, and applied dimensions of Group Relations paradigms by pairing classical Group Relations concepts with typically non-Tavistock psychology paradigms and social sciences concepts. Under the broad domain of psychologically-informed constructs, Lacanian psychoanalysis, existential philosophy, and bioenergetics are applied.Under a somewhat broader range of social science conceptualization, the capacity for abstraction is linked with anti-work in groups, the large group is re-imagined as an extension of community dynamics and dysfunction, and the role of symbol systems, symbology, and semiotics are examined in relation to sophisticated work groups. Lastly, non-Tavistock models of group development and conceptualization are re-interpreted and explained using a group-as-a-whole framework.Much work in this field has been based on one or two paradigms, notably stemming from the work of Rice (Learning for Leadership), Bion (Experiences in Groups), and Klein (Envy and Gratitude and Other Works). While these models and their extensions are indeed useful, the authors argue that it is time to introduce new paradigms to enrich the interpretive possibilities of this field and to increase its applicability to modern and postmodern contexts.
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THE TAVISTOCK LEARNING GROUP THE TAVISTOCK LEARNING GROUP Exploration Outside the Traditional Frame Clive Hazell and Mark Kiel First published in 2017 by Karnac Books Ltd 118 Finchley Road London NW3 5HT Copyright © 2017 by Clive Hazell and Mark Kiel The rights of Clive Hazell and Mark Kiel to be identified as the authors of this work have been asserted in accordance with §§ 77 and 78 of the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A C.I.P. for this book is available from the British Library ISBN-13: 978-1-78220-415-2 Typeset by V Publishing Solutions Pvt Ltd., Chennai, India Printed in Great Britain www.karnacbooks.com CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Clive Hazell vii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Mark Kiel ix ABOUT THE AUTHORS xi PREFACE CHAPTER ONE On learning groups Mark Kiel CHAPTER TWO The Hill interaction matrix: a modification and elaboration Clive Hazell CHAPTER THREE Gibb’s trust model: a modification and elaboration Mark Kiel v xiii 1 23 37 vi CONTENTS CHAPTER FOUR Existentialism and the Tavistock learning group Mark Kiel 51 CHAPTER FIVE Lacanian discourses and the learning group Clive Hazell 71 CHAPTER SIX I’ll disappear: data and the absence of data in the learning group Clive Hazell and Mark Kiel 95 CHAPTER SEVEN Anti-work and the capacity for abstraction Mark Kiel 123 CHAPTER EIGHT Trauma, the group, and remembering with the body Clive Hazell 159 CHAPTER NINE The body and the group Clive Hazell 173 CHAPTER TEN The large group, community, and therapeutic potential Clive Hazell 187 CHAPTER ELEVEN Fears and wishes on partnering and working as a team Clive Hazell and Mark Kiel 223 APPENDIX A Why Tavistock groups are well-suited to the learning task 239 CODA Notes on an uncertain future 245 REFERENCES 251 INDEX 261 ACKNOWL EDGEMENTS <