Group Relation Singapore

Group Relations Singapore

Group Relations Singapore brings the depth and rigour of the Group Relations tradition into the Singapore and Asia-Pacific context, where leaders and organisations operate under conditions of complexity, rapid change, and sustained performance pressure.

Across the region, leadership is often exercised within strong hierarchies, high expectations, and diverse cultural and relational contexts. Group Relations Singapore creates rigorous, experiential learning spaces in which leaders and organisations can explore how authority, complexity, and organisational life are actually lived beneath the surface and in real time.

Why Group Relations Singapore

Group Relations Singapore was established to bring the depth and rigour of the Group Relations tradition into the Singapore and Asia-Pacific context, where leaders and organisations operate under conditions of complexity, rapid change, and sustained performance pressure.

Across the region, leadership is often exercised within strong hierarchies, high expectations, and diverse cultural and relational contexts. While many leadership initiatives focus on skills or individual capability, they can overlook the systemic and relational dynamics that shape how leadership and authority are actually lived in organisations.

Group Relations Singapore exists to create learning spaces where these dynamics can be explored thoughtfully, rigorously, and in real time.

Our Purpose

Our purpose is to create contained experiential learning environments in which individuals, groups, and organisations deepen their understanding of how leadership and authority are taken up, exercised, resisted, or projected within systems.

Through participation in groups and roles, participants develop greater awareness of how organisational dynamics influence behaviour, decision-making, and performance — and how they, in turn, shape those systems.

We are committed to:

Our Approach

Group Relations Singapore offers experiential learning programmes grounded in systems-psychodynamic thinking.

Learning takes place within temporary learning organisations that mirror key features of organisational life, including:

Participants are invited to study what happens as it happens — observing how individuals and groups respond to authority, manage anxiety, and organise themselves in relation to one another.

Consultants work in role to offer observations and interpretations, supporting learning through experience, reflection, and dialogue rather than instruction or advice.

While the foundations of Group Relations are global, Group Relations Singapore holds this work with careful attention to local, cultural, and organisational contexts.

This includes sensitivity to:

Adaptation is undertaken deliberately and responsibly, without diluting the core principles of the work.

Group Relations Singapore works with:

This work is not primarily focused on tools, techniques, or quick solutions. It is intended for individuals and organisations willing to engage with experience, reflection, and complexity.

We are committed to offering learning experiences that are:

Our work is designed to build leadership and organisational capability to think, reflect, and act effectively within complex systems.

Group Relations Singapore offers learning spaces for those willing to engage with complexity, reflect on experience, and explore the dynamics that shape organisational life beneath the surface.

We invite you to explore our programmes or begin a conversation.

About CEO

Our People

Sonali Bhattacharya

Founder & Principal Consultant, Group Relations Singapore

Sonali Bhattacharya is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Group Relations Singapore, where she works with leaders, teams, and organisations to explore how authority, role, and group dynamics shape organisational life—often beyond conscious awareness.

Her work is grounded in the Group Relations tradition and informed by systems-psychodynamic thinking. Drawing on training in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic perspectives, Sonali works with the underlying patterns that influence how individuals and groups think, relate, and lead within complex systems.

She supports leaders in navigating ambiguity, conflicting demands, and sustained pressure by surfacing the group and systemic dynamics that influence decision-making, relationships, and performance. Her work helps leaders think more clearly under pressure, communicate with greater impact, and take up authority in role with increased awareness and intention.

Sonali is also the co-founder of an executive search firm based in Singapore, where she leads its learning and development work.

She holds an Executive Master in Change from INSEAD and is a PCC-credentialed coach with the International Coaching Federation. Sonali serves as Consultant on the staff of Group Relations Conferences within the Tavistock tradition and was the organiser and consultant for the first Group Relations Conference in Singapore.

Dr. C H Victor Gan

Group Consultant

Physician-researcher, interfaith facilitator, and psychodynamic chaplain, Victor Gan is a general practitioner in Singapore, with peer-reviewed publications in infectious diseases and public health

His interest in systems psychodynamics has been honed through psychoanalytic training while at Yale for a masters in religion, alongside sociological and humanistic disciplines. Working in an interfaith psychodynamic healthcare chaplaincy residency in California cemented an interest in Tavistock-style group relations methodologies.

On the founding agenda committee for the A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems’ International Cohort, his focus on intercultural systems applications has led him to staff consultant roles in workshops and group relations conferences in China and Singapore.