Group relations (GR) brings the insights of psychoanalysis to the practicalities of everyday life. After an introduction to GR as it unfolded in India, this article captures the evolution of GR practices in a psychoanalytic psychotherapy clinic in Sukrut. It then captures important Western psychoanalytic fundamentals that form the conceptual anchors of this developmental initiative across the world, that is to say, the ability to recognise group functioning and see the ways in which conscious efforts towards collaborative work can be enhanced or hampered. The author emphasises the importance of learning in the GR model, which involves a shift towards new ways of thinking, because both staff and members need to learn to lead and to follow. Finally, this article offers to enlighten readers endorsing a rigid Western model of GR to an alternative version with roots in India, drawing on the psychoanalytic differences that exist between the West and the East.