About this event

REGISTRATION CLOSES APRIL 1, 2020

This three-day Leadership and Creative Expression (LCE) conference is offered in the Group Relations tradition which is a unique opportunity to study the conscious and unconscious dynamics involved in how groups organize themselves and interact with each other within a larger socio-political context. This is not a passive learning event that relies upon lectures. Instead, the learning is experiential. Participants study how leadership, followership, authority, task, boundaries, and roles operate within and between the different groups that form during the three-day conference. This year, the theme of healing was added to explore the ways in which our boundaries, authority, roles and task, leadership and followership relate to our shared human experience of recent events, including the COVID-19 pandemic and social justice organizing.

By leadership, we mean how we use authority to get things done. By creative expression, we include forms of both verbal and nonverbal interpersonal expression. In this study of Leadership and Creative Expression, we invite participants to explore the unconscious dynamics operating in the system of group interactions that members and staff will create together.

Special Note: The conference is an educational endeavor and does not provide psychotherapy or sensitivity training. Although the experiential learning available can be stimulating and enriching, it can be stressful and/or emotionally demanding as well. Thus, individuals who are ill or experiencing a period of significant personal difficulty should forgo participating at this time.

This event is open to current CSUDH students and former CSUDH students (alumni) and the South Bay community at large. This event will include space for experiential learning and reflection. Registration pricing for this conference is free for CSUDH students (with a $50.00 deposit that is refundable upon verification of attendance), $100.00 for CSUDH alumni, and $250 for community members. This pricing is low with the conscious intent to increase access. We rely on this money to cover the costs of the event and make it possible; that said, if you are unable to afford this pricing but still want to attend please email Limor Vink, Director for Administration at hartconference2022@gmail.com to inquire about scholarships, including Grex's new DEI scholarship. The Grex DEI Scholarship Fund is intended to make conferences and workshops accessible for those who have been regrettably excluded from group relations learning by covering participation fees of up to $1,000. We define the intended recipients of this funding as communities facing marginalization, namely Black, Indigenous,

People of Color, LGBTQIA+, women and non-binary people, people living with disabilities, and people with low wealth and income. We especially prioritize people at the intersection of multiple marginalized identities. All scholarships will include a two-year membership to Grex.

www.csudh.edu/group-relations