— Empowering minds, fostering connections
IAGP thrives and evolves through the active participation of its members. Membership applications are welcome from individuals and organizations.
The following IAGP regional congresses provide excellent opportunities of knowledge exchange and professional networking.
IAGP designs and develops educational projects, both in-person and online, targeted to specific groups of beneficiaries, coherently with their needs.
Here you will find our calendar of events from IAGP and affiliate organisations. We look forward to seeing you at these events!
News from The International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes, IAGP.
A special interest group led by committee members, consultants and volunteer experts.
“Group is where the human story unfolds.”
Welcome to the International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes (IAGP), a global community where professionals from every discipline come together to explore, heal, and transform through groups.
Dear colleagues, friends, and visitors, It is a great honour to welcome you to IAGP, a place where ideas, cultures, and generations meet.
As I begin my term as President, I want to express heartfelt gratitude to those leaders who came before me: we stand on strong foundations of more than 50 years of dedication and resilience. Now, it is our turn to build upon them, together.
My presidency is not about me, it is about us: an organization where leadership is shared, wisdom is collective, and diversity is not a slogan, but a lived reality. Together, we will shift the baricentre of IAGP, geographically, culturally, generationally. From a traditionally Western, often white lens, toward a more plural, global, and interconnected organization.
🌐 A Global, Plural, and Connected IAGP
At IAGP, we believe that group processes transcend boundaries.
Whether you work in clinics, companies, classrooms, private practices, organizations, educational institutions or communities: if you work with groups, you belong here. We need your questions, your languages, your cultures, and your creativity. Diversity is not our decoration; it is a mission. IAGP is where different disciplines and cultures come together to think, feel, and act, together.
🧭 Our Six Guiding Pillars
1️⃣ Expand Membership
We grow not only in size but in scope. Group work connects people across professions, contexts, and continents. We wide-open the doors of IAGP: to the young, the underrepresented, the interdisciplinary. We welcome group analysts, ethnògraphers, neuroscientists, psychodramatists, educators, political scientists, doctors, human rights practitioners.
2️⃣ Build International Networks
Beyond online meetings, we create regional and thematic hubs: real spaces for collaboration, research, and exchange. Beyond borders and titles, we promote real partnerships, shared projects, and cross-continental collaborations that connect practitioners across disciplines and geographies.
3️⃣ Create a Global Knowledge Platform
An open-access, member-driven library of tools, cases, and insights: a living repository of what works in group practice worldwide. A space where tools, methods, and hard-earned wisdom, especially the kind that “worked when nothing else did”, can be shared freely. A living library of group work, shaped by voices from the favelas to the fjords, from village clinics to university halls.
4️⃣ Promote Cultural Competency and Ethical Stance
True internationalism begins with respect. We amplify underrepresented voices and ensure that our work reflects the world’s diversity, ethically and inclusively. We challenge bias, broaden horizons, and stop assuming “international” means “a bunch of white folks speaking English with different accents”. Diversity is not a buzzword, it’s a backbone.
5️⃣ Foster Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Group work must break silos. We connect psychotherapists, educators, artists, social scientists, and activists, because innovation thrives in dialogue. IAGP will be their meeting ground. Let’s get psychoanalysts dancing with educators, social dreamers sparring with policy-makers, and group therapists partnering with climate activists.
6️⃣ Strengthen Governance and Transparency
We are refining our governance so that passion is supported by structure, accountability, and shared trust. Passionate people deserve procedures that work with them, but also clear boundaries that protect our purpose, and shared accountability that builds trust and aligns us with our values. Governance is not just a technical tool; it’s the architecture of our collective responsibility.
💬 Our Next Chapter
The new IAGP Board reflects our global mission, composed of professionals from diverse continents, generations, and theoretical orientations.
Together, we are working to make IAGP a vibrant platform for learning, dialogue, and innovation, rooted in our tradition yet open to transformation: making that tradition breathable, something we can dance with.
🌱 Join Our Global Community
Whether you are a long-time member or visiting for the first time, you are warmly invited to take part in this journey. Share your experience, bring your creativity, and help us make IAGP a living community of care, dialogue, and discovery. Become an active member in this very dynamic network of groups’ professionals!
With gratitude and enthusiasm,
Roberta Mineo President, IAGP
Individual members have free access to all the IAGP material, including:
Membership is open to trained group psychotherapists, consultants and group leaders who are sponsored by a professional who is familiar with their work with groups. Special membership fees are available for retired professionals and students. Student memberships are welcome from students enrolled in institutional training programs or university studies in group psychotherapy or group processes.
The community of IAGP is arranged into six special interest sections in family therapy, group analytic group work, psychodrama, organizational consultancy and transcultural issues. In latest section to be added was the young professionals section and was established by the board in early September 2013. Members may belong to multiple sections at once.
The aim of the Couple and Family Therapy Section is to offer to professionals who are working with families and couples throughout the world a containing forum to communicate by exchanging experience, sharing expertise and expressing reflections on clinical, theoretical, social as well as cultural issues of family therapy and family dynamics. The Couple and Family Therapy Section runs an online discussion list. For more information email:
The Analytic Group Section (formerly Group Analysis) aims to facilitate the exchange of information and viewpoints between group analysts and others interested in furthering the practice of group analysis throughout the world. The Analytic Group Section runs an online discussion list. For more information email:
The Organizational Consultancy Section aims to help develop and promote organizational consultancy, and to provide a supportive environment for those working in the field. The Organizational Consultancy Section runs an online discussion list. For more information please email:
Our aim is to serve as an international professional-scientific forum dedicated to the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the advancement of psychodrama, and to organize workshops and presentations at IAGP congresses. We encourage new ideas and the development of new lines of communication. Our aim is to build intercultural bridges. For more information email:
We values and supports young professionals and calls them to become part of IAGP, to share about their research and case studies in our discussion list and to participate and present their works in the regional and international conferences. The section collaborates with other sections and creates projects, webinars, workshops and fundraising events. For more information please email:
The IAGP’s Transcultural Section provides a forum for discussion of transcultural issues arising within the work of the IAGP, and within the professional lives of its members. The Transcultural Section runs an online discussion list. For more information please email:
Affiliate members have access to an international assembly of affiliates. The benefits of membership include:
Membership is open to organizations with group modalities, consultants, and group leadership who are sponsored by a professional who is familiar with their work with groups. Discounts apply for those organizations from countries categorized by the World Bank.
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