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The author of this paper is an artist and the business development manager of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations; one could think of her role as that of a curator. This paper presents her reflections on attending a group relations conference for the first time, and visiting Israel - the location of the conference - also for the first time. It includes visual images that provide another access point to these two unfamiliar landscapes - the conference and the country. The visual images she brings into the paper provide a unique access point to the Group Relations landscape within its Israeli context and reflect the author's work in bridging the world of fine arts with social dynamics.
Drawing on literary, film, and artistic references, key themes of the paper are: (i) the outsider's experience and observance of being a women in Israel - women colluding with men; the female need for protection; men being disparaging of the female voice; (ii) the visual and the creative and how artistic works provide metaphor for the experiences of the conference, referencing the work of Michelangelo, especially his late drawings of the crucifixion; (iii) the emergence of story and meaning from the group experience; the told and the untold.