IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0366 GRT
Held at: Institute of Education
Title: Group Relations Training Association (GTRA)
Date(s): 1971-2001
Level of description: collection
Extent: 5 boxes
Name of creator(s): Group Relations Training Association
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Group Relations Training Association (GTRA) was a financially independent, non profit making association which was founded in 1967 by members of the Tavistock Institute for Human Relations and the Management Studies Department of Leeds University. It was a national network promoting and supporting personal and organisational growth through group learning methods, it encouraged the skilled use of group training methods in Europe and the development of further innovations in group training methods. Its main activities were the Annual Conference and the Annual Group Laboratory: a five day event where a number of training groups or 'T-groups' worked on the study of their own internal processes and interpersonal styles, with a view to personal development. The GTRA ended [Sep 1995].
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of the Group Relations Training Association (GTRA), 1971-2001, comprising GTRA publications including leaflets; fliers for special events, 1983-1990; Annual General Meeting notices and reports, 1983-1986; Calendar of Events, 1983-1986; Newsletter, 1973, 1983-1992; conference fliers, 1983-1984 and 1993-1994; Annual Training Laboratory fliers, 1983-1991; Bulletin, 1976-1988; 'Group Relations', 1989-1992 and 'The Groupvine', 1992-1995. Papers relating to conferences, mainly comprising committee minutes, planning materials and conference notes, 1971-1988. Papers relating to the Training Labs including on finance, correspondence, membership and applications, 1981-1995. Papers relating to the Executive Committee including minutes and papers on membership and publicity, 1971-1989. Papers on GTRA events including 'The gift relationship', at Beechwood College, Leeds, 1981; 'Women and men' workshop, 1981; 'Mini-Society' event at Beechwood College, Leeds, 1983; 'Mini-economy' event at Beechwood College, Leeds, 1985; 'Mini-economy II' event, 1986 (cancelled) and Berlin Summer School ('Men and women in groups'), 1987. Cassette tapes, including of an interview with Cary Cooper on T groups, 13 Mar 1986; a GRTA Workshop, 2 Sep 1983 and a rehearsal for GRTA Conference, 1985. Academic papers on training groups including PhD thesis by Nod Miller 1989, 'Personal experience, adult learning and social research: developing a sociological imagination in and beyond the T-Group' (University of Manchester) and MSc in Group Relations thesis by Guy Marsden Wareing 2001, 'Pilgrim's Process: making sense of experiential group events through narrative accounts of participants' (University of the West of England, Bristol).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Original order.
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of Reader Application Form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
A reader wishing to publish any quotation of information, including pictorial, derived from any archive material must apply in writing for prior permission from the Archivist or other appropriate person(s) as indicated by the Archivist. A limited number of photocopies may be supplied at the discretion of the Archivist.
Finding aids:
Collection level description available on-line at the Institute of Education website
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Received Nov 2006.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2008