Inherited Systems,
Emerging Selves
Exploring Leadership, Authority & Voice in Organisations
An experiential leadership programme in the Tavistock tradition designed to help leaders navigate complexity, strengthen decision making, and improve team dynamics.
The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations
A temporary learning organisation where leadership, authority, role, and group dynamics can be studied as they emerge in the here-and-now.
Study leadership as it unfolds in real time
The conference is designed as a temporary learning organisation in which staff and members come together to study leadership, authority, and group dynamics as they unfold in real time.
In every organisation, inherited patterns shape how we take up roles, exercise authority, and respond to uncertainty. These patterns — formed through personal experience, organisational history, and broader cultural contexts — are often not immediately visible, yet they have a powerful influence on how work gets done.
Throughout the conference, participants take up a variety of roles within different types of groups, each with a defined task and boundary. The primary method of learning is experiential rather than lecture-based.
Primary Task
To study the dynamics of leadership, authority and voice within the temporary organisation as they emerge in the here-and-now, and to examine how inherited systems influence these dynamics.
Learning by engaging with what is happening now
No traditional classroom format
The conference does not follow a traditional training format. There are no lectures, case studies, or prescribed solutions.
Structured around group events
The programme is organised around a series of group events, each designed to explore different dimensions of organisational life.
Supported reflection
Participants work directly with emerging experience while staff consultants help surface and make sense of the underlying dynamics.
Designed for leaders, founders, and professionals working in complexity
- Senior leaders and managers navigating complexity, authority, and change
- Entrepreneurs and founders shaping organisational culture
- Human resource and organisational development professionals enhancing their impact
- Consultants, coaches, and facilitators working with teams and systems
- Public sector and non-profit professionals engaging diverse stakeholders
Whether you are leading a team, influencing without formal authority, or working across boundaries, this conference offers a unique opportunity to strengthen how you take up leadership in practice.
No prior experience of a Group Relations Conference is required. What matters is a willingness to engage, reflect, and learn from experience.
Practical insight for individual, team, and organisational leadership
Individual Leadership
- Greater clarity in how you take up authority and influence
- Improved decision-making under pressure and uncertainty
- Increased self-awareness of how your behaviour impacts others
- Ability to navigate ambiguity with greater confidence
Teams & Collaboration
- Deeper understanding of team dynamics under pressure
- Ability to work more effectively with conflict and difference
- Insight into how collaboration succeeds or breaks down
- Practical ways to intervene in real-time team dynamics
Organisational Insight
- Understanding of underlying factors that influence decisions and outcomes
- Greater clarity around roles, boundaries, and accountability
- Insight into why change and transformation efforts stall
- Ability to lead more effectively within complex systems
Impact
Through immersive experiential learning, participants strengthen their leadership presence, develop systemic awareness, and build the capacity to lead more effectively in complex organisational contexts.
How participants describe the experience
Leadership and Consultancy with Deep International Experience
Eliat Aram, Ph.D.
CEO of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in London, UK. Her Group Relations career spans almost 30 years of conferences focused on leadership, authority, and learning in complex settings.
She has shaped and often directed the Tavistock Institute’s flagship Leicester conference since 2007 and has directed conferences in Lithuania, Argentina, China, Russia, and Kazakhstan.
Sonali Bhattacharya
ICF-PCC-certified Leadership and Systems Coach, Founder and Chairperson of Group Relations Singapore. She helps leaders uncover unconscious patterns shaping behaviour, decision-making, and effectiveness.
Her work integrates individual, group, and organisational dynamics to support more conscious and effective leadership.
Dr. Victor Gan
Singapore-based family medicine practitioner and facilitator with research experience in public health and infectious diseases, and extensive experience in interfaith group encounters and sociological research.
He has participated in group relations conferences internationally and served as a consultant, including at INSEAD 2026 GRC.
Consultants will be taken from the following pool
Dr. Winnie Fei, PhD
Academic leader affiliated with Tavistock Institute China and a Singapore-based specialist in group counselling and therapy. She is a certified Tavistock consultant and a certified group supervisor and group therapist.
With over 10,000 hours of group counselling experience and more than 1,000 hours in group relations conferences, she brings deep expertise in leadership, authority, and group dynamics.
Ming-Hui Daniel Hsu, Ph.D.
Licensed psychologist in New York and Taiwan, founder and chairperson of Group Relations Taiwan, and director of Dayin Counseling Services in Taipei.
He has served as a consultant in Group Relations Conferences in New York, London, Tel Aviv, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
Milda Autukaite
Organizational psychologist, principal consultant in Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, and teacher and supervisor at Vilnius University.
She works with leaders and organisations across Europe in group relations and leadership development.
Everything you need to know
Catapult by CapitaLand, Rochester Commons
1 Rochester Park, #02-06
Singapore 139212
(Near Buona Vista MRT)
24th – 27th September 2026
Non-Residential
9 AM – 6.30 PM daily
Non-Residential (Accommodation is not provided)
Lunch and 2 coffee breaks with refreshments are provided each day
Applications are now open. Because the conference is designed as an immersive learning environment, places are limited and early registration is recommended.
Organisations may sponsor participants as part of leadership development initiatives. Invoices can be issued upon request.
Closing date of application: 31st August 2026
Pricing
- Standard Fee: SGD 2,400
- Early Bird Rate (until 30 June 2026): SGD 2,100
- Group Rate (3+ participants, until 30 June 2026): SGD 1,900 per participant
- Group Rate (3+ participants, after 30 June 2026): SGD 2,100 per participant
Cancellation Terms
- Cancellations received by 20th August 2026, 18:00 Singapore Time are 100% refundable
- Cancellations received by 31st August 2026, 18:00 Singapore Time are 50% refundable
- No refund will be given on cancellations received after 31st August 2026
For enquiries and corporate sponsorship arrangements, please contact:
support@grouprelationssingapore.com
Relevant for organisations developing leaders who can:
- Navigate complexity
- Work across boundaries
- Engage with uncertainty
- Lead with greater awareness and impact
