Le Grand’s Guest Room: The Inari Papers
Welcome to The Guest Rooms, a cultivated space within the House of Le Grand where voices other than Sir Phil are invited to speak. Here you will find essays, reflections, and thought pieces contributed by consultants, social dreaming hosts, transformational facilitators, and Jungian coaches who work with or alongside Inari. Each writer brings their own lens, experience, and craft, and every contribution is presented with the author’s name beneath its title.
Le Grand’s Guest Room: The Inari Papers focus particularly on the field of systems psychodynamics, an interdisciplinary approach that weaves together systems thinking and psychodynamic theory to illuminate the unseen forces that shape organisational life. It invites us to consider how roles, structures, and tasks interact with the unconscious emotional currents that run through groups, often revealing patterns of authority, resistance, power, and collective anxiety. Originating in the tradition of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, this perspective offers leaders and consultants a more textured understanding of how organisations behave and why.
This is an open chamber for ideas that provoke thought, offer insight, or extend a conversation.
Whether the texts explore organisational dynamics, social dreaming, group processes, or the subtleties of transformation, each piece is offered as part of an ongoing dialogue among practitioners.
About Inari
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Inari publishes its writings exclusively at the House of Le Grand as part of a deliberate collaboration. The intention is twofold: to offer readers of the House a window into a thoughtful and often unseen dimension of organisational life, and to provide Inari’s clients and colleagues with a fitting home in which their reflections can be read and considered.
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Inari is a Nordic consultancy devoted to understanding group dynamics and leadership through the perspectives of psychology and systems psychodynamics. Its practice encompasses Social Dreaming, organisational transformation, and reflective approaches to leadership.
Inari’s approach rests on the belief that leadership is not merely a skill but a relationship with one’s system, one’s task, and one’s internal world. Rather than offering quick solutions, Inari encourages reflection, deeper awareness, and the capacity to navigate complexity with integrity and emotional intelligence. -
Inari is known for crafting experiential environments—Social Dreaming matrices, multi-party simulations, role-based explorations, and dialogical workshops—that invite participants to slow down and think. These spaces allow people to learn from experience rather than instruction, offering a rare opportunity to observe organisations from within and to understand one’s part in the wider system.
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Because organisations are emotional as much as they are structural.
Systems psychodynamics acknowledges that beneath everyday roles and routines lie unconscious forces that shape collaboration, resistance, authority, and change. Inari engages with these deeper currents not to complicate matters, but to help people perceive what is often overlooked yet quietly influential.
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