Where do words come from?

Where do words come from?

by | Aug 20, 2019 | Event

Where do words come from?
NIODA Seminar Dr Janet Duke

4 September 2019

NIODA Seminar Dr Janet Duke

Where do words come from?  My journey of transformation from the ‘perfect active obstetrician’ to the ’contemplative spiritual director’ who works from the place of the unknown, utilising the lenses of Wilfred Bion and Quaker Spirituality. 

Janet graduated from Monash University B.Med.Sci(Hons); M.B.B.S (Hons).  After the usual early postgraduate years, she trained as an obstetrician and gynaecologist at RWH in Carlton being the first woman for 25 years to do so and won the F.J.Browne medal for RACOG for her membership examinations. She then travelled to Glasgow to complete her postgraduate studies and during this time won the Gold Medal of the RCOG College.
In 1983 she returned to Melbourne as the RACOG College Research Fellow. Janet was also a Fellow in Clinical Genetics at the RCH and RWH for several years.
Her love of patient contact and obstetrics resulted in her appointment as Consultant Obstetrician at RWH in 1986 and the start of a very busy private practice.
In the late 1980’s she was very involved with the start of the Centre Against Sexual Assault at RWH and was on the Board and Honorary Consultant Gynaecologist until the late 1990s. During this time she was appointed as one of the first three Advisors re Sexual Assault to the Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne.
Her involvement with the RACOG at governance level started in the 1980s with her election to the State Committee. In 1992 she was elected to the Federal Council of the College. She was actively engaged in working for part-time training and the Women’s Careers Committee.
In 1998 with the creation of the Royal Australasian College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology she was the inaugural Honorary Secretary for two terms. During this time the college ethics committee was created. Janet also served on the AMA Ethics Committee as the College’ representative.
In 2006 whilst still working full time she started for training as a Spiritual Director at WellSpring part of what is now the University of Divinity. She completed a Grad Dip in 2008. She then undertook a MA in Spiritual Direction rewriting Winnicott’s writing on the Holding Environment from a Spiritual Director’s perspective. She has a Grad Certificate in Supervision.
In late 2013 Janet commenced a part-time PhD entitled Where do words come from? An autoethnographic study of the journey of transformation from the active “perfect” obstetrician to the contemplative Spiritual director who can work from the place of the unknown. She is using the lenses of the writings of Wilfred Bion and aspects of Quaker Spirituality to analyse her data.
Janet ceased medical practice in 2016 and plays bridge and works as a spiritual director.
Janet has a very large stepfamily having inherited nine stepchildren when she married in 1984. Her late husband David was an Anglican priest and they had 31 very happy years together. She revels in her 13 grandchildren and four great grand children.
In 2019 she was awarded on OAM for services to Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Dr Janet Duke Seminar

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Dr Janet Duke ‘Where do words come from?’

6-8 pm Wednesday 4th September 2019, for $65 at level 7, 341 Queen Street, Melbourne, Australia.  Register now!

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Dr Janet Duke Seminar

Where do words come from?

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Wednesday 4th September 2019

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6 – 8 pm

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Level 7, 341 Queen Street, Melbourne, Australia

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About NIODA

The National Institute of Organisation Dynamics Australia (NIODA) offers internationally renowned post-graduate education and research, and decades of experience consulting with Australian organisations. In 2018, their annual Symposium will explore the dynamics of interoperability and work within the emergency and trauma sectors.

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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Writing workshop

Writing workshop

by | Aug 6, 2019 | Event

Writing Workshop

This workshop aims to help participants become authors of their written pieces; to discover the role of author; to allow their imagination to flourish. And it also looks to the fundamentals of good writing and editing.

Thursday, Friday & Saturday 3-5 October

Three-day writing workshop in Fingal, Victoria

Writing Workshop with Dr Susan Long

Prof Susan Long, author of many books and peer-reviewed articles, is offering a writing
workshop for those who want to find the genuine author in themselves. Writing can take many forms: academic theses, research reports, persuasive items, business reports, journalistic pieces, novels and poems. Although having different purposes and audiences, all writing can be creative, and all messes can be cleaned up later.  This workshop aims to help participants become authors of their written pieces; to discover the role of author; to allow their imagination to flourish. And it also looks to the fundamentals of good writing and editing. 

Participants will approach questions such as:
Why do I want to publish?
Who is my audience?
How do I choose a journal or publisher?
What do reviewers and editors look for?
How can I manage time for writing?
How do I present and develop an argument?
How should I work with case study material?
How can I understand and develop my style?
There will be time for writing and gaining feedback.

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” 
– The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

‘the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
– J. K. Rowling

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9.30am Thursday 3rd October to 4.30pm Saturday 5th October 2019, for $975 plus $190 accommodation including GST in Fingal (near Cape Shank) Victoria, Australia.  Places limited .. don’t miss out!

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Writing Workshop

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Thursday 3rd October to Saturday 5th 2019

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9.30am Thursday – 4.30 pm Saturday

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In a lovely country homestead and nearby cabins Fingal, Victoria, Australia

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Writing Worshop

with Dr Susan Long
AUD$975
  • Three-day workshop
  • Morning & afternoon tea
  • Breakfast, lunch & dinner
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  • + Accommodation an additional $190 including gst

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About NIODA

The National Institute of Organisation Dynamics Australia (NIODA) offers internationally renowned post-graduate education and research, and decades of experience consulting with Australian organisations. In 2018, their annual Symposium will explore the dynamics of interoperability and work within the emergency and trauma sectors.

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.

Contact

info@nioda.org.au

Get In Touch

3 + 12 =

PO box 287, Collins Street West  Melbourne  8007  Australia
+61 414 529 867
info@nioda.org.au

About NIODA
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Academic Board of Governance
Human Research Ethics Committee
Education Committee
Executive Management Committee
Academic Programs
Research & Scholarship
Consulting
Ethics
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Insights blog
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Homepage

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