Group-Analytic Contexts, Issue 80, June 2018
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Newsletter – Summer <strong>2018</strong> 53<br />
Critical aspects<br />
1. The composition of the core group within the LOC was exclusively<br />
made up of members of the BIG executive board. It should be<br />
noted for future LOC work, that the whole institute supports the<br />
organisation of a such big event. The ambivalences and fears in<br />
the Institute could never been really completely dissolved. The<br />
problem was that in the executive board group this<br />
ambivalence internally could not be dissolved completely. With this,<br />
the Scientific Committee Chairs would also receive better support for<br />
their working group.<br />
2. The committees (SC and MSC) should start their work as soon as<br />
possible. An example: The discussion about the title of the future<br />
symposium started already in autumn 2013. The temporary title which<br />
contained the idea of the "migration of people, Völkerwanderung"<br />
aroused a lot of fears, feelings not yet integrated in connection with<br />
the German history of National Socialism. At the time, no acceptable<br />
group had yet arisen to function as a container for this discussion.<br />
Only with the establishment of Gerda Winter as the<br />
international representative of GASi as one the chairs of the<br />
symposium, together with myself, as the national chair and<br />
simultaneously the international Chair, as the couple of MSC chairs,<br />
did a frame become possible which integrated the discussions around<br />
the title. This was an essential contribution so that the three<br />
institutions could grow together. Pieter described this process very<br />
beautifully in his welcoming speech at the symposium.<br />
It can be said in conclusion that the LOC made a large<br />
contribution to establishing a boundary in relation to the professional<br />
conference organisation, the local members and to the three other<br />
committees. It also should be emphasised that the two internet fora<br />
have made a large contribution to creating a good working atmosphere<br />
during the Symposium. It has been a great experience that a large<br />
group of almost 700 participants worked so well from the very<br />
beginning.<br />
Dr. Kurt Husemann<br />
hu.psy@t-online.de
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