BION
seminar
with Richard Morgan-Jones
📆 6.30 – 8.30 pm Wednesday 2 April 2025 (Melbourne time)
BION seminar
Richard Morgan-Jones
This seminar will introduce some of the background of Bion’s life from being an early migrant to boarding school away from his beloved India aged 8, to his late migration aged 70 to California. In between we can track his own unique and stoical, but honest way of dealing with trauma both early in his life, through commanding tanks in the First World War, through war officers leadership selection boards and his vision of therapeutic hospitals for traumatised soldiers.
This will lead to an exploration three phases of his life’s work:
1. Group dynamics, including his reflections on health and finance
2. Elaboration of Klein’s use of projective identification and splitting in psychoanalysis
3. His focus on the “in-between” aspect of relatedness and its transcendent and truth-filled potential for transformation.
Richard Morgan-Jones
Group Relations and Organizational Consultant, Supervising and Training Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist with British Psychotherapy Foundation, Author.
Registered member of British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC). Distinguished member of International Society for Psychoanalytic Society of Organizations (ISPSO). Mentor of the AK RiceInstitute, member of the Organization for Promoting the Understanding of Society (OPUS). Visiting faculty at the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad, India and the Higher School of Economics, Moscow. Consultant and Director of GRC Program Association for Psychoanalytic Coaching and Business Consulting (Moscow Russia) 2019-present. Director of Work Force Health: Consulting and Research. Author of the Body of the Organisation and its Health and co-editor of Developments in Field Theory for Psychotherapists, Psychoanalysts and Counsellors.
Design of the seminar
Each seminar comprises a presentation followed by small group discussions and a plenary with opportunity for questions of the presenter.
The seminar is live interactive online via Zoom and the presentation may be recorded.
Readings will be emailed to participants one week prior to the seminar.
BION seminar with Richard Morgan-Jones
📆 Dates
6.30 to 8.30 pm Wednesday 2 April Melbourne 🇨🇰
3.30 am – 5.30 am New York Tuesday 1 April (eek!) 🇺🇸
8.30 am – 10.30 am Wednesday 2 April London 🇬🇧
3.30 pm – 5.30 pm Wednesday 2 April Singapore 🇸🇬
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Wednesday 2 April New Delhi 🇮🇳
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💷 For only
AUD $35
👩🏻💻 Location
Live interactive online via zoom
BION seminar with Richard Morgan-Jones
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About NIODA
The National Institute of Organisation Dynamics Australia (NIODA) offers internationally renowned post-graduate education and research in organisation dynamics, and decades of experience consulting with Australian organisations.
The study of organisation dynamics brings together socio-technical and psychoanalytic disciplines to explore the unconscious dynamics that exist in every group, team or organisation. Learning more about these theories, and reflecting on the experience of them, can support leaders and managers to unlock great potential in their organisations, tackling issues through a whole new light.
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