Group Analytic Methods Beyond the Clinical Setting—Working with Researcher–Managers

Mowles, Chris

doi:10.1177/0533316417701080

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“…In the tradition of group analysis, students on the DMan research community are invited to reflect on their own participation in the group and to note the ebb and flow of themes organizing the experience of being together, which they are then invited to link back to their lives in organizations. I reflect on the principle differences between group analytic method and the way we take the up on the programme here (Mowles, 2017). The encouragement of reflection and reflexivity is counter-cultural in todays’ business schools which are far more comfortable with instrumental and rational ways of knowing.…”

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Ralph Stacey (1942–2021)

Mowles

2022

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Ralph Stacey, economist, group analyst, Professor of Management at the University of Hertfordshire (UH) for 30 years, and much loved husband, partner, father, grandfather and colleague, died in September 2021 a few days short of his 79th birthday. His death was sudden and shocking, although for many years previously he had experienced quite chronic ill health. Physically frailer than some in their late 70s, Ralph was nonetheless intellectually robust right till the end. As an internationally renowned academic who developed pioneering ideas about the importance of the complexity sciences for understanding social life, and as someone who could speak without notes, and without PowerPoint slides for as long as required, exiting before his faculties declined had always been important to him. He was granted his wish.Ralph was a great raconteur, and used to tell stories about his past in a highly self-deprecating and amusing way. He was rarely the hero of his own narrative. One tale he told about his own therapy as part of his training as a group analyst is quite instructive to understand the man. After five years or so he considered leaving the group to bring to a temporary end his therapeutic journey as patient. In response his conductor told him that she thought he still had experience to bring: Ralph, you are not yet fully part of the group. Ralph later recounted this episode as a light bulb moment for him. Indeed, he did not feel fully part of the group, and nor did he want to be. He was quite content to be an insider and an outsider, both at the same time. This paradoxical position pervades his thinking, and his experience as a gay, white South African who lived most of his life in the UK, as a critical management scholar who worked in an orthodox Business School,

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Ralph Stacey (1942–2021)

Mowles

2022

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“…The generalized title of this article, Group Analytic Methods beyond the Clinical Setting (Mowles, 2017), belies its importance as a description of what is almost certainly the only university-based doctoral course in the UK based on group analytic principles as applied to working / managing in organizations: the Doctor of Management (DMan). The sub-title, ‘working with researcher–managers’ is more specific and gets closer to the nub of the article and the core aim of the course, as I see it: to provide an academic framework within which organizational managers coming from a wide range of business and other environments are enabled to engage in an ongoing group-analytically informed reflective process concerning their methods of engagement in the working environment.…”

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