ALI 2025 – AUTHORITY LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION
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ALI 2025 – AUTHORITY LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION
25th International Group Relations Conference in Italy
25-28 SEPTEMBER 2025
Istituto Emiliani | Fognano district, Brisighella | Ravenna, Italy
SUBJECTIVITY AND ROLE-TAKING IN THE AGE OF CHAOS
Authoritarian temptations, crisis of democracies and active citizenship
The Conference is a temporary organization designed to explore and promote learning through the direct experience of conscious and unconscious processes as they emerge in the “here-and-now” of group dynamics. The intention is to generate new ways of thinking and learning and to reappraise our knowledge and values; we have the opportunity to experience ourselves in multiple and diverse roles. Assistance is provided to achieve real and sustainable change in interpreting the way we interpret the different roles in our organizations and lives, with a particular focus on roles calling for an exercise of authority and leadership.
LIMITED NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS
INFO AND REGISTRATION
Administrators: Stefano Rambelli (+ 39 3471323483), Rosanna Rulli (+39 3208629651)
ali@ilnodogroup.it
Early bird until July 30, 2025
A / B Group: 1000 € + 22% Iva =1220 €
T Group : 1500 € + 22% Iva =1830 €
Early bird until July 30, 2025 for Node Members and sponsoring organization members:
A / B Group: 900 € + 22% Iva =1110,20 €
T Group: 1350 € + 22% iva =1647 €
Ticket standard:
A / B Group: 1278,69 € + iva 22% = 1560 €
T group 1900 € + iva al 22% = 2318 €
For Node Members and sponsoring organization members:
A / B Group 1170 € + iva 22% = 1427,4 €
T Group 1710 € + iva al 22% = 2086,2 €
T Group max 12 tickets available.
Group relations conferences organized in Europe, North America and South America as well as Listening Posts on everyday life and conscious citizenship have long signaled the approach of an epochal systemic crisis. We are facing a phase of great turbulence – cultural, economic, political and social – that characterizes practically every aspect of the era in which we live.
In Italy, the journal Limes titles many of its recent issues alluding to this widespread perception of crisis, war and unpredictable turning points – in fact, the magazine’s latest February issue is L’ordine del Chaos. Elsewhere, scholars such as Jared Diamond, Branko Milanovic, Hartmut Rosa and many others have published important essays on these same issues entitled Upheaval. Turning Points for Nations in Crisis, Capitalism versus Capitalism, Acceleration and Alienation. For a critical theory of time in late modernity.
In the psychoanalytic field, in addition to the three large group emotional constellations described by Bion in the 1950s (fight/flight, dependence, pairing) there have long been observations on phenomena studied at the interface between individual subjects and group processes. After the detection of the manifestations of oneness (the propensity to melt in the group) so frequent in the 1970s, the social effects of neo-liberalism and turbo-capitalism led to the emergence first of phenomena of meness (the reluctance to get involved in group dynamics and the narcissist epidemic afflicting the West) and later to widespread processes of primitive group reorganization: tribal regressions, silos, fantasies of exclusion/belonging, massification and confusing aggregation.
The choice of the IL NODO group and the Directorate of ALI 2025 is to explore the paradoxical and necessary connection between the new processes of subjection and alienation on the one hand, and on the other, those that make possible re-subjectivation, the construction of one’s own authority and the assumption of social and institutional responsibilities.
ALI 2025’s proposal is to experience the Age of Chaos in a relational system specifically set up to understand what hinders – or what, on the contrary, can foster – the acquisition of awareness of one’s own role in group dynamics and the construction of a lucid and determined personal subjectivity that enhances the will for social initiative.
The method employed for action-research on these issues is that of the systemic-psychodynamic tradition of group relations conferences – a working perspective that after almost seventy years (the first Leicester conference was in 1957) has not ceased to be effective.
Opened by the general plenaries and concluded by the review and application groups, ALI 2025 will be structured as a succession of small and large group sessions, social dreaming processes, intergroup dynamics and a long and challenging organizational event.
The dates are as specified under the title (25-28 September 2025) and the host institution is located in the village of Brisighella, in the province of Ravenna.
We cordially invite you to come and work with us.
Director Giovanni Foresti
Vicedirector Francesco Noseda
THE PRIMARY TASK
To learn from the experience of the conference about the conscious and unconscious aspects of authority and leadership, enabling participants to explore and understand the process that moves from the recognition of subjugation to the possibility of becoming a subject – actively engaging with personal choices and collective decision- making.
WHO IS THIS CONFERENCE FOR?
Participation in the Conference is valuable for those working in business contexts and services, whether public or private, who are interested in understanding, managing, and improving organizational and group dynamics while enhancing their effectiveness in
addressing them.
METHODOLOGY STRUCTURE
The approach adopted for the action research on these themes is rooted in the systemic – psychodynamic tradition of group relations conferences – a methodology that, after nearly seventy years (dating back to the first Leicester conference in 1957), remains highly effective. The design of the Conference and the activities offered to participants facilitate experiential learning. This refers to an educational process based on the direct experience of group and organizational dynamics, fostering self-reflective capacities and encouraging a spirit of inquiry. Participants, together with the staff, will critically explore various experiences and behaviors, as well as their own approaches to assuming and interpreting leadership and followership roles. Commencing with general plenary sessions and concluding with review and application groups, ALI 2025 will feature a progression of small and large group sessions, social dreaming processes, inter-group dynamics, and an extended, intensive organizational event. This form of learning is not intended to be therapeutic and may, at times, prove stressful. Therefore, individuals currently facing significant personal challenges are advised to consider postponing their participation to a future edition.
SCHEDULE
The Conference will begin at 11:00 a.m. on 25 September 2025 and conclude at 5:30 p.m. on 28 September. Reception and registration of participants will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 11:20 a.m. on 25 September. Participants are expected to attend the entire Conference program, which is residential, as living together is an integral part of the learning experience.
REGISTRATION AND FEES
Early bird until July 30, 2025
A / B Group: 1220 €
T Group : 1830 €
Early bird until July 30, 2025 for Node Members and sponsoring organization members:
A / B Group: 1110,20 €
T Group: 1647 €
Ticket standard:
A / B Group: 1278,69 € + iva 22% = 1560 €
T group 1900 € + iva al 22% = 2318 €
Il Nodo Members and sponsoring organization members:
A / B Group 1170 € + iva 22% = 1427,4 €
T group 1710 € + iva al 22% = 2086,2 €
T Group max 12 tickets available.
CME accreditation : 39 credits
Cancellation of event registration will incur the following penalties.
For details or questions please contact the Directors at email:
ali@ilnodogroup.it
STAFF
Director: Giovanni Foresti
Vice-Director: Francesco Noseda
Senior-Advisor: Kenneth Eisold
Administrator: Stefano Rambelli
Administrator: Rosanna Rulli
Traing Group Director: Antonio Samà
Ali 2025 consultants will be chosen from:
Daphna Bahat
Silke van Beekum
Claudio Cassardo
Giorgia Micene
Irina Ponomarchuk
Antonio Sama
Rossana Schiavo
Marco Valerio
How to reach the site
By car: Take the A14 motorway and exit at Faenza.
Follow signs to Brisighella and then to the Fagnano area: Istituto Emiliani, Via
Emiliani 54. By train: Trains depart hourly from Bologna to Faenza. Bologna Airport
is connected to Bologna Centrale railway station by bus or high-speed train. Upon
request, a transfer service will be available from Faenza station. Other nearby airports
include Milan, Venice, and Forlì.
For information and registration
Amministrators ALI 2025:
Rosanna Rulli +39320 8629651 ;
Stefano Rambelli +393471323483
Email : ali@ilnodogroup.it
PARTNERS
Akri (A.K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems) – For over 50 years, AKRI has helped individuals and organizations in the U.S.A. understand the complexity, beauty, power, and importance of groups. Its mission is to support and promote the study of group relations through educational initiatives. Utilizing a model originating at the Tavistock Institute in London, AKRI facilitates learning through experiential Group Relations Conferences that help participants identify often hidden, unexplored, and unconscious aspects of groups and organizations. It also provides certification programs to train professional consultants in this field. The ALI 2025 Group Relations Conference is approved by AKRI as consistent with its educational standards for training in group relations within the Tavistock tradition
IPA (International Psychoanalytical Association) – The world’s leading accrediting and regulatory body for the psychoanalytic profession, comprising around 70 constituent organizations and 12,000 members. Founded in 1910 by Sigmund Freud at the suggestion of Sándor Ferenczi, with Carl Gustav Jung as its first president and Otto Rank as its first secretary. The IPA’s mission is to ensure the vitality and advancement of psychoanalysis for the benefit of patients in psychoanalytic treatment. Its objectives include fostering new psychoanalytic groups, stimulating scientific dialogue, promoting research, and improving training procedures.
OFEK – Organization, Person, Group – An association for the study of group and organizational processes (a public non-profit organization), founded in Israel in 1986. OFEK develops and applies psychoanalytic and open systems theories in the Tavistock tradition of group relations. Since its founding, OFEK has held annual international group relations conferences in association with the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, London. It also organizes biannual Hebrew-language conferences, thematic conferences, customized conferences and workshops for organizations, scientific meetings, professional development courses (Touch OFEK courses and seminars), and other activities for its members and the wider public.
SIPRe (Italian Society of Relational Psychoanalysis) – Founded in 1976, SIPRe has been active in research and in the ongoing development of psychoanalysis, working to create an open theoretical and clinical model responsive to evolving knowledge and social change. Over the years, the SIPRe model has been applied to various fields of clinical practice, including group work. SIPRe emphasizes developing a general theory of the human being focused on subjectivity and relationships, maintaining rigorous coherence between theory, method, and technique, and addressing contemporary social needs. Since 2000, SIPRe has been officially recognized as a training institute in Psychotherapy with a Relational Psychoanalysis orientation, offering training for psychotherapy candidates in Milan, Rome, and Parma.
Solco Ravenna – A social cooperative consortium promoting human development and social integration by managing personal services and employment opportunities for vulnerable populations.
The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations – A non-profit organization applying social science to contemporary issues and challenges. Formally established as a charity in 1947, its research and study activities began after World War I alongside those of the Tavistock Clinic. www.tavinstitute.org
