Events

In ICI’s online workshop for leaders, attendees explored and learned to work with embodied unconscious and conscious dynamics in groups. The workshop was designed for those leading and working in organizations and those interested in consulting to the 2026 Exploring Difference Conference.

The Exploring Difference Conferences (EDC) have increasingly been focusing on the social consequences of colonization in embodied and relational terms. Made up of a community of people who work in social justice, the profound impact of patriarchy, white supremacy and ableism, fuelled as they are by capitalism and colonialism, constitutes an integral part of our understanding of social inequity.

Although Group Relations models clearly work with and draw attention to emotional and relational experiencing, the fact that emotions are felt in the body, as physical sensations, is largely ignored.

How can we explore and reconfigure our (un)conscious understandings of ourselves and our relationships through exploring our internalized constructions of authority and authorisation, to undo, redo and explore our thoughts and feelings in the hope that something different might emerge that moves us towards holding a curious regard for one another, resisting oppression and seeking reconciliation and reparation?