forum international de l’innovation sociale

international forum for social innovation

foro internacional para la innovación social

The International Forum for Social Innovation (IFSI) has given itself the task of facilitating social innovation and thus of contributing to the institutional transformation of organisations:…

…public or private companies, public administration, associations, teaching or educational institutions, whether religious or secular…

IFSI continues the Group Relations tradition founded, amongst others, by W.R. Bion, Isabelle Menzies, A.K. Rice and P. Turquet and inspired by Open Systems and Psychoanalytic theories. IFSI adds to this the societal dimension and the approach known as Institutional Transformation (IT), that is the fruit of its work with economic, political and social milieus.

Since 1978, IFSI has organized in France an annual international working conference on the theme of Authority, Leadership and Transformation. In 2005, it became the TransformaCtion^® conference. Over many years, IFSI has also been developing and conducting conferences in many different countries, in partnership with universities and other organisations, on similar and complementary themes.

Since 2001, it has been running, in partnership with the Business School, University of Glamorgan (UK), and then with the Business School of the University of Hull (UK), a training programme for managers and consultants: Leading Consultation (M. Phil, Ph.D.).

In January 2004, IFSI developed a new international annual conference on the theme of Femininity, Leadership, Authority and Masculinity: the F.L.A.M. conference.

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