Deciding for surviving: ideas and models of group relations conference traditions

This chapter discusses the specific innovations that the Learning from Action (LfA) approach has introduced into the practice and traditions of Groups Relations Conferences (GRCs). They have developed many theorical and practical modifications that have come from the extensive experience of the conferences. These developments of GRC over the decades (particularly in the last twenty years) can be understood, and mapped, on historical, geographical, and methodological dimensions. Although this chapter will not complete such a task, it will contribute to mapping this the origins and development of the “mother” of all GRCs, the Leicester Conference, against which the innovation represented by LfA will be compared.