邀请函

Invitation

上下分裂是我近来最深切的感受。

A deep and troubling sense of fragmentation—a vertical splitting of experience—has come to define the spirit of our time.

我们看到，孩子们拒绝上学、选择躺平、甚至自伤。他们相信：学习不好就是坏孩子，考不上好大学就找不到好工作，一辈子就完了。而父母则说：只要你学习好，其他一切我们都包了，甚至喂饭、穿衣。

We see it in children who withdraw from school, who “lie flat,” or who turn against themselves in despair—convinced that a single measure of academic performance determines whether they are a “good” or “failed” human being, and thus seals their fate in university, work, and life. We see it in parents who, in quiet desperation, are willing to do everything for their children—feed them, clothe them, carry them—so long as they succeed academically.

我们也看到，从“必须恋爱结婚”到“不恋爱、不结婚、不生娃”，从改革开放的经济腾飞到如今的经济转型……

We see it in the tension between social expectation and refusal: between the imperative to date, marry, and build a family, and the growing movement to step outside these very bonds. We see it in the arc from the economic vitality of the Reform and Opening-Up era to the uncertainties of today’s transition.

尤其是后疫情时代，AI铺天盖地的袭来，气候变迁引发的天灾人祸，世界战火四起，硝烟弥漫……分裂意味着极端、非黑即白、四分五裂、无法整合、失去弹性。我们感到生存的环境越来越不安、越来越困惑、越来越恐惧。我们该如何理解这一切，又该何去何从？

And we feel it even more sharply in the post-pandemic world—amid the rapid rise of AI, the escalating crises of climate change, and the intensifying conflicts unfolding across the globe. Fragmentation reveals itself as extremity: a hardening into “black-and-white” thinking, an erosion of our capacity to hold complexity, a breakdown in our ability to integrate what is different, uncertain, or in tension. It is experienced as a loss of resilience—an inner and outer world that feels increasingly unsafe, disorienting, and saturated with fear. How are we to understand this reality? Where can we turn? And what might it mean to remain human within it?

在个体、家庭、社区、机构、社会乃至整个世界都充满不确定的今天，IGRC2026线上、中英双语、国际团体关系会议，愿成为一个临时的学习机构。在工作人员共同营造的相对安全的环境中，我们邀请你通过体验式学习，参与会议的各类活动，去经历、去觉察、去反思、去领悟、去碰撞。我们试图理解意识与无意识的动力，探索在一个分裂的世界中，如何站在系统的高度上，从国际视角出发，整合多元文化，建立起自己的根脉，获得真正的自由。

Amid this landscape of uncertainty—across individuals, families, communities, institutions, and societies—the 2026 IGRC International Group Relations Conference (held online, in both Chinese and English) offers a temporary learning institution. Here, within a carefully held and relatively safe environment created by the conference staff, participants are invited into an experiential process of learning. Through participation in the conference’s events, one engages not only in thinking, but in experiencing, observing, reflecting, and making meaning together. This is an opportunity to deepen awareness of both conscious and unconscious dynamics; to explore, from an international and systemic perspective, how we might hold difference without collapse, integrate across cultures without erasure, and take root in ways that allow for genuine freedom—even in a fragmented world.

问苍茫大地，谁主沉浮？

And so, we ask—of this vast and uncertain world: Who, ultimately, holds the reins of destiny?

来吧，加入我们，一起探索！

Come join us in this exploration.

会议主任：王旭梅 医学博士

Conference Director: Xumei Wang MD, PhD