To explore how awareness of resources, energy and creative collaboration can support wellbeing in roles, organisations and everyday working life.

ECW welcomes curious minds from all professional backgrounds, cultures and countries. This conference is particularly valuable for:

• Leaders and professionals seeking deeper insight into role, authority and group dynamics in organisational life
• Change makers interested in sustainable approaches to organisational challenges
• Practitioners wanting to understand the unconscious forces that shape group behaviour
• Those interested in strengthening wellbeing through more conscious ways of working and relating

Whether you are new to Group Relations or a returning participant, ECW offers hands- on experiences and reflective practices, with practical insights that translate directly to your professional and personal life. Our approach to learning is dynamic and evolving – we see each conference as an opportunity to build on collective discovery. For returning participants, each experience offers new layers of understanding and fresh approaches to applying these insights in their work and lives.

1. Classic Group Relations methodology: examining task, authority, leadership and followership, and organisational dynamics through conscious and unconscious processes
2. Somatic awareness and movement: understanding group life through physical presence, perception, sound and creative expression
3. Ecological approach: exploring our relationship with nature and the interconnected systems we live and work within

Through this integrated approach, we create a temporary learning organisation where participants explore group dynamics through:

• Traditional events: plenaries, social dreaming matrix, institutional event, review and application groups
• Creative sessions: movement work, artistic expression, sensory and perceptual exploration
• Integration work: connecting individual and group experiences, as well as body and mind, with the environment

Begins: 12.30 on Thursday 25 June
Registration: from 11.00 – 12.00
Ends: 14.30 on Sunday 28 June

DIG – Deepening Integration Group
Begins: 18.00 on Wednesday 24 June
Registration: from 17.30 – 18.00
Ends: 14.30 on Sunday 28 June

Marco Valerio – Director: Scientific researcher on the body-mind connection, university lecturer and organisational consultant. Marco administered and consulted in previous online and in-person editions of ECW and has been involved in group relations conferences in Europe, Asia, and Australia. He is passionate about the relationship between embodiment and the unconscious.

Rachel Kelly – Associate Director & DIG-Director: Group Relations and Organisational Development Consultant at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, London, with extensive experience of staffing Leicester conferences and international Group Relations Conferences. Teacher of the Alexander Technique and Yoga. She is interested in exploring relatedness by studying the unconscious and conscious awareness through journeys into embodiment, sensation, perception, the imagination, mind/body/spirit and oneness.

Luca Mingarelli – Associate Director & Director ECW Method: Chairman Fondazione Rosa dei Venti no profit, Social Entrepreneur, and CEO of Democratic Therapeutic Communities for teen agers. Psychotherapist(ECP, WCP), Organization Consultant, Past President il Nodo Group, Creator and Director of the Method of innovative GRCs as ECW and LFA. Expert in traditional songs. He considers Nature as a learning environment.

Elisa Mingarelli – Administrator: People and project manager of Foundation Rosa dei Venti, she studied psychology and she is interested in the area of the Social Dreaming as a facilitator and a researcher from 20 years. She works as a consultant with nature in connection with primary elements, creativity, body and mind.

Linda ta Wierike – Administrator: The common thread in words and images and how this comes to life in people—that’s her passion! Especially how language, form, and function are attuned or not, and how this process manifests itself in the body. Linda works as an art-based coach/consultant and communications manager.

Risto Puutio – Consultant: He works as an independent organizational consultant and as a trainer in organizational dynamics at the Metanoia Institute in Finland. He is an author of several books on systemic practices in organizations. His research work focuses on interactive processes in consulting work. Risto is an enthusiastic watercolor artist with several private and group exhibitions.

Beatriz Boza – Consultant: As social beings, we thrive on relationships. My interest in the social aspects of our existence has led me to explore Group Relations as a pathway to deeper understanding. As a partner at EY, I specialize in corporate governance and family enterprise, allowing me to engage meaningfully with group dynamics.

Early Bird 1( before 5 April 2026): A €770; B €875; C: 980€
Early Bird 2 ( before 10 May 2026): A €810; B € 915; C €1020
Regular (before 17 June 2026): A €860; B €965; C € 1070

Deepening Integration Group (DIG) :
Early Bird 1( before 5 April 2026): A €895; B €1015; C: 1135€
Early Bird 2 ( before 10 May 2026): A €935; B € 1055; C €1175
Regular (before 17 June 2026): A €985; B €1105; C €1225

A – If you are a member of an ECW- endorsing organisation, live in a low-income country, or are currently experiencing financial constraints.
B – If you have a regular income, live in a high-income country, or run a small business.
C – If your employer covers the fee, or if you are able and willing to contribute more to support wider accessibility.

In line with the themes of energy, creative collaboration and wellbeing, we use a
Fair Share and Care fee structure to support accessibility, solidarity and shared responsibility. Participants are invited to choose the fee level that best reflects their fin6nci6l situ6tion, recognising that those who are able to contribute more help make participation possible for those with fewer resources.

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Travel:

Possagno is 30 KM from Bassano which is the closest train station. The town is located near the airports of Treviso (Ryanair), Verona, Milano and Venice, between 1 hour and 1,5 hour by car.

From a geographical point of view, Possagno is located in the north-east of Italy in the province of Treviso in Veneto. Surrounded by mountains to the north and south, it opens in the other two directions towards the towns of Cavaso del Tomba and Paderno del Grappa. It is a small cluster of houses surrounded by greenery in which the Temple of Canova stands out, located high above the rest of the town, and the imposing complex of the Cavanis Possagno Institute. ‘Casa del Sacro Cuore’ – of the Congregation of the Schools of Charity, ISTITUTO CAVANIS – is located on the top of Col Draga, 600 m above sea level at the foot of the Monte Grappa Massif. The entire structure, recently renovated and brought up to standard, allows for a comfortable stay

ACANTO
ACANTO association for the study of group dynamics, federated COIRAG, has been operating for over twenty years in the Ligurian territory. The association, through its members, carries out an activity of continuous training, advice and research related to the functioning groups, both in the therapeutic and institutional field.

AKRI
A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems (AKRI) is the non-profit training organization for Group Relations in the USA. The educational mission of the Institute is to study how unconscious thoughts and feelings have a significant impact on our lives when we are in groups: from the family to the workplace to the nation. www.akriceinstitute.org

GRK

CASSGO
CASSGO is a vibrant, thriving, engaged group relations organization in China and U.S. exploring group relations learning in China, U.S. and across the globe. CASSGO was established in 2019 in Chicago, based on the work that Jeffrey Roth, Seth Harikins Winnie Fei, and Xiaohua Lu did in China from 2014, under the support of DGCGT, CAMH (Division of Group Counseling and Group Therapy, Chinese Association of Mental Health) under professor Fumin Fan’s direction, together with lots of colleagues from China and abroad. The purpose of CASSGO is to further the development and application of the principles of Group Relations in the Tavistock tradition through educational and consultative activities, research, and scholarship regarding the dynamics of groups, organizations, and social systems.

Escuela de Artes y de Culturas Amazónicas
Escuela de Artes y de Culturas Amazónicas is a space for reflection and concrete actions to better understand the Amazonian cultures and societies of Peru. The Association has three pillars: artistic education, research and literary dissemination. www.revistaamazonicasentidos.com

OPUS

Group Relations International
Group Relations International is a non-profit organization composed of a group of people passionate about group relations, spirituality and social justice. We believe these three are intimately related. Our mission is to create a better world together. www.grouprelations.org

Intersticia
Intersticia works in the interstice, that space where everything is as yet undetermined, anything is possible, and where creativity and imagination are paramount. Interticia provides the support and resources for a Fellowship of individuals, who share the common vision of caring for our World and all who live in it, and aspire to become Twenty First Century leaders.

Lithuanian Group Relations Society (LGRS)
Lithuanian Group Relations Society (LGRS) was established in 2017. The aim of the LGRS is to expand intensive experiential learning in groups, organizations and communities, based on the method of Group Relations learning from experience and a psychodynamic systemic approach to them. The Society also seeks to spread a culture of reflection and open dialogue in society. LGRS organizes annual Group Relations Conference, seminars, reflection events, reading groups – to study and apply Group Relations method and psychodynamic systemic approach in organizations and communities.

 

Metanoia Institute Finland
Metanoia Institute Finland is a further training center and learning community for professionals in the fields of human resource development, job supervision, consultation and management. www.metanoia.fi

 

Mind To Move
Mind to Move is an innovative startup and a university spin-off whose goal is to improve people’s quality of life through behaviour change interventions aimed at reducing risk factors for both physical and mental health. The company operates in the areas of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention of chronic noncommunicable diseases through a multidisciplinary approach and the utilization of a proprietary software application. In addition, Mind To Move carries out activities in the domain of marketing and development of innovative products and services for the healthcare sector, such as: online platforms, mobile and/or desktop apps and other web tools. Finally, they are active in the field of integrated scientific research and in the dissemination of knowledge through promoting and organizing events, such as conferences and other initiatives open to the general public. www.mindtomove.it

Ofek
Ofek – The Israeli Association for the Study of Group and Organizational Processes is a not-for-profit community interest organization founded in 1986 with the objective of studying relations in groups, organizations and society, through the experiential learning methodology of the Tavistock tradition of Group Relations. Ofek holds a yearly international group conference in English, conferences adapted to a theme or organization, Hebrew conferences and scientific meetings and activities. www.ofek-groups.org/en

The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations
The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, is a not-for-profit social science organization-for-learning, working with challenging issues for the public good: helping people and business / organizations to learn, change and innovate, especially in difficult times. How humans relate to each other and systems, how we grow, how we embrace learning and change, flicker around world history. The Institute has been radically exploring the subject since 1947 in academic, artistic, questioning ways. www.tavinstitute.org

Group Relations Australia

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