Theme and invitation

The World is changing at an unprecedented pace. As one of the leading financial hubs of South East Asia, how is Singapore responding to this transformation? The answers lie in the leadership within its business and non-governmental sectors. How do leaders take up their roles to create sustainable responses in such a volatile environment? Rapid change is disrupting relationships, expectations, and organizational systems.

How then do we create spaces to restore hope and repair our connections? What might we do to rejuvenate ourselves internally, enabling us to build strong relationships that confront reality, foster community, and reclaim our core values? By what means will we find the personal and collective leadership required for such times? And what insights might people from outside Singapore gain from exploring these questions? To what extent can we be courageous and proactive in shaping ourselves as leaders to be effective in this volatile context?

We invite you to explore these questions through experience at the “(Re)Discovering our Roles: Rituals and Renewal” Group Relations Conference in Singapore - a vibrant cultural melting pot. The group relations methodology will empower us to engage with these themes emotionally and intellectually, using them as resources for learning and growth in leadership and in followership roles.

Explore what effective leadership looks like in a time of profound change and shape you leadership capacity to adapt to rapidly evolving contexts.

Whilst participating in this event you will: 

-> Explore what effective leadership looks like in a time of profound change
-> Strengthen your capacity to take up your role with authority while staying resilient and grounded amid complexity and uncertainty
-> Enhance your suite of strategies to manage own stress and anxiety while supporting your team through change
-> Discover what unconscious defenses might block you from leading effectively
-> Uncover and confront some of the anxieties that surface when you empower others with diverse skills, styles, and approaches.

You are new to Group Relations Conferences?
Traditional conferences are based on the idea that participants will listen to and absorb the knowledge and wisdom of speakers and presenters, and that ordinary attendees have little to offer other than to learn from the invited expert presenters. In contrast, Group Relations Conferences draw out the wisdom and experience from the conference attendee group itself. This is achieved through the organisers and conference leaders setting up a highly interactive experiential set of sessions. During these sessions, attendees explore the way in which they act, interact, think, and feel - particularly in dynamic, changing, and sometimes ambiguous situations. Behaviours cannot be pre-rehearsed, and so there's a strong element of self-discovery and discovery about how social systems and organisations work through this lived experience and the conversations are an integral part of the conference structure. Group Relations Conferences are powerful, immersive, unpredictable, and often life-changing.

For more information see “About the conference", and in particular the section on the educational dimension of the event.


Please join us in Singapore from 9 am on Thursday, November 20th,
to 5:30 pm on Saturday, November 22th, 2025.

Directorate

Conference Co-Director I Consultant

Iwona Sołtysińska

Psychologist, OD Consultant (MA, Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust), psychodynamic therapist.

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Conference Co-Director I Consultant

Martin Ringer

Experienced in management, coaching, leadership and adventure therapy in both the public and non-profit sectors.

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Head of Administration I Consultant

Sonali Bhattacharya

Co-founder of INVICTUS SEARCH, an executive search firm based in Singapore.

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Iwona Sołtysińska

Iwona Sołtysińska

Conference Co-Director I Consultant

Psychologist, OD Consultant (MA, Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust), psychodynamic therapist.

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Martin Ringer

Martin Ringer

Conference Co-Director I Consultant

Experienced in management, coaching, leadership and adventure therapy in both the public and non-profit sectors.

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Sonali Bhattacharya

Sonali Bhattacharya

Head of Administration I Consultant

Co-founder of INVICTUS SEARCH, an executive search firm based in Singapore.

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Consultants will be chosen from this list

Iwona Sołtysińska

Iwona Sołtysińska

Conference Co-Director I Consultant

Psychologist, OD Consultant (MA, Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust), psychodynamic therapist.

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Martin Ringer

Martin Ringer

Conference Co-Director I Consultant

Experienced in management, coaching, leadership and adventure therapy in both the public and non-profit sectors.

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Jack Marmorstein

Jack Marmorstein

Consultant

Associate Professional Counselor, LAPC, MA, EdS

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Sonali Bhattacharya

Sonali Bhattacharya

Head of Administration I Consultant

Co-founder of INVICTUS SEARCH, an executive search firm based in Singapore.

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Chris Tanner

Chris Tanner

Conference Co-Director

Organisational consultant and senior lecturer at the University of Essex Dept of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies.

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Łukasz Baran

Łukasz Baran

Administration

Psychologist, currently oversees the comprehensive development program - the School of Trainers at Jagiellonian University Extension.

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Rafał Stożek

Rafał Stożek

Consultant

Rafał is an organizational consultant and Strategy Director at Jagiellonian University Extension.

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Iwona Sołtysińska

Iwona Sołtysińska

Conference Co-Director I Consultant

Psychologist, OD Consultant (MA, Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust), psychodynamic therapist.

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Martin Ringer

Martin Ringer

Conference Co-Director I Consultant

Experienced in management, coaching, leadership and adventure therapy in both the public and non-profit sectors.

more
Jack Marmorstein

Jack Marmorstein

Consultant

Associate Professional Counselor, LAPC, MA, EdS

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Sonali Bhattacharya

Sonali Bhattacharya

Head of Administration I Consultant

Co-founder of INVICTUS SEARCH, an executive search firm based in Singapore.

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Welcome to Singapore

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Schedule

Conference fee and registration

before 30.09.2025

EARLY BIRD

1600 SGD

3 conference days

by 30th September

Register
after 30.09.2025

REGULAR PRICE

1800 SGD

3 conference days

Register
before 30.09.2025

BURSARIES

A limited number of partial bursaries
will be available. To apply send a request to support@grouprelationssingapore.com, with a short description of the relevant background.

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