COVER -- CONTENTS -- ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- FOREWORD -- Introduction -- PART I REFLECTING ON THE THEORY OF GROUP RELATIONS AND ITS RELEVANCE TO CONTEMPORARY PHENOMENA -- CHAPTER ONE The Oedipus complex, creativity, and the legacies of group relations' intellectual parents -- CHAPTER TWO Virtual teams and group relations in the WEB 2.0 era: insights from an MBA experiential distance-learning course -- CHAPTER THREE Group relations work in contexts of complexity and transition -- CHAPTER FOUR Embedding diversity in local government: experiences of establishing an ethnic advisory panel, Auckland, New Zealand -- CHAPTER FIVE The Rothschild 117 Project: dreaming in the boulevard -- PART II STUDYING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GROUP RELATIONS WORK AND ITS IMPACT IN ITS CULTURAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL SETTING -- CHAPTER SIX Exploring group relations work in China: challenges, risks, and impact -- CHAPTER SEVEN Developing a group relations institution in Lithuania -- CHAPTER EIGHT Uneasy on the boundary: reflections on the culture and effectiveness of group relations conference work in the USA, 1965-2012 -- PART III EXPLORING VARIATIONS IN THEME AND/OR DESIGN OF GROUP RELATIONS CONFERENCES -- CHAPTER NINE Energy, creative collaboration, and wellbeing -- CHAPTER TEN The experiences of co-directorship in group relations conferences -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Group relations and twelve-step recovery: mixing oil and water? -- PART IV POST-CONFERENCE REFLECTIONS -- CHAPTER TWELVE Oral envy and networks -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Intergroup process at an international level: reflections from Belgirate -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Cobblers' children or creative flux? -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN What happened to authority? A reflective dialogue -- INDEX.