Group-Analytic Contexts, Issue 80, June 2018
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Newsletter – Summer <strong>2018</strong> 5<br />
President's Foreword<br />
Two weekends ago, representatives of GASI had a first face-to-face<br />
meeting with our Spanish and Catalan partners in the creation of the<br />
2020 symposium, in Barcelona. These first encounters, in what will<br />
be a complex extended collaboration, are moments that imprint<br />
themselves on the whole subsequent process. And this was a good<br />
meeting, where we had our first exercise in making ourselves<br />
understood in the context of language differences, which will be at the<br />
heart of the Barcelona Symposium. Language has always been an<br />
issue in our big meetings, but in 2020 it will be at the heart of our<br />
thinking. So, now is the time for you to begin thinking about how<br />
language, in all its senses, and translation, in all its guises, enters into<br />
the groups that you work with.<br />
One important decision that we made, at our meeting, was to<br />
set the dates for the symposium. Normally, these take place in August,<br />
but our Spanish and Catalan colleagues were convinced that this<br />
would create insuperable obstacles to participation by their fellow<br />
countrymen. After discussion, we agreed that the symposium will<br />
take place between 1-5 September 2020, so put those dates in your<br />
diary.<br />
The Summer School, in Ljubljana, - Between Generations -<br />
is imminent. It’s now well-subscribed, but there are places remaining,<br />
so feel free to become a late registrant - you can find a link on the<br />
GASI website.<br />
I’ve been informed by one or two members that they<br />
experience the Management Committee, and me as part of it, as<br />
inaccessible. I hope that this is not the case, but in order to make it<br />
easy to communicate with me, I’ve created a dedicated email address,<br />
for that purpose. Please feel free to write to me,<br />
at gasipresident@gmail.com about any matter you would like me to<br />
be aware of. Of course, the office<br />
- office@groupanalyticsociety.co.uk - remains the place to write to,<br />
for most GASI matters, where Julia continues to look after our affairs<br />
with the great dedication, which we should not take for granted.<br />
David Glyn<br />
dearjee@gmail.com
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