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In this lecture I would like to talk about Bob Gosling's ideas regarding Very Small Groups (VSGs) and to make some links both to family life and to work, with particular reference to relationships with authority figures.
I first met Bob Gosling in the 1970s at the conferences run by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations held at Leicester University - these became known as the ‘Leicester Conferences’, a 2-week residential event devoted to learning by experience about authority, leadership and organisation. I had the great privilege of working with him when I was invited to join the staff of the conference as a youngish ‘sprog’ in September 1978. I realise that telling you this in 2003 - 25 years later - dates me a bit, but you need to think of me as very young and precocious at that time!
I recall that at the end of that conference I drove Bob back to his home in London in my red Datsun 240Z, an E-type Jag lookalike. Having emerged dazed from the world of the conference which has its own life