The Unconscious Series

by NIODA | Aug 16, 2022 | Events, Organisation Dynamics, Past Events

The Unconscious

Online lecture/seminar series with

Professor Susan Long

The Unconscious

Online lecture/seminar series with

Professor Susan Long

This series will examine the idea of the unconscious from its beginnings in the work of Fredrik Schelling – a German philosopher of the Romantic period – through Psychoanalysis and Socioanalysis – to current views of the unconscious in neuro-psychoanalysis and eco-semiotics. The concept of the unconscious has endured through different iterations and has influenced not only clinicians and therapists, but also philosophers, scientists, artists, social scientists and authors. It has seeped into contemporary and popular language and influences the ways in which we see ourselves and each other.

In the series we will approach the many and varied conceptions of the unconscious through short lectures, recommended readings and discussions. The reading is recommended but not essential for attendance.

The sessions are led by Professor Susan Long who has studied ideas in unconscious dynamics for over 40 years.

PROFESSOR SUSAN LONG

The Unconscious Series

Research Lead NIODA, Australia

Currently, Susan supervises research students and conducts organisational research. Susan also teaches and supervises doctoral candidates at NIODA and other universities and teaches in the INSEAD Master of Coaching and Consulting program in Singapore.

As an organisational consultant in private practice Susan works with organisational change, executive coaching, board development, role analysis, team development and management training. She originally trained as a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist.

The Unconscious Series

Day(s)

Hour(s)

Minute(s)

Second(s)

The Unconscious Series with Professor Susan Long

Live interactive online

25 October, 8, 15, 22 & 29 November, 6 & 13 December 2022
and 7, 14, 21 February 2023

Including:
* All ten lecture / seminar sessions plus selected readings for AUD $1,500

6.30 – 8 pm Tuesday evenings (Melbourne time)
Please note: Melbourne begins daylight savings on 1 October 2022.
Your timezone may vary for your country, so please be aware of these shifts.

Places are limited… don’t miss out!

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When & Where

Writing Workshop with Professor Susan Long

📆 Dates

Tuesday 25 October, 8, 15, 22 & 29 November, 6 & 13 December 2022
and 7, 14, 21 February 2023

⏰ Session Times

6.30 – 8 pm 🇨🇰 Melbourne
8.30 – 10 am 🇬🇧 London
3.30 – 5 am (eek!) 🇺🇸 New York
3.30 – 5 pm 🇸🇬 Singapore

💷 For only

AUD $1,500 including ten sessions plus selected readings

👩🏻‍💻 Location

Live interactive online

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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Writing Workshop 2022

by NIODA | Aug 11, 2022 | Events, Organisation Dynamics, Past Events

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. It also looks to the fundamentals of good writing and editing.

Writing Workshop

Professor Susan Long

Thursday 13, Friday 14 and Saturday 15 October 2022

Professor 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. It also looks to the fundamentals of good writing and editing.

In the Writing workshop, 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.

PROFESSOR SUSAN LONG

Writing Workshop

Research Lead NIODA, Australia

‘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

Writing Workshop 2022

Day(s)

Hour(s)

Minute(s)

Second(s)

Writing Workshop with Professor Susan Long

9.30 am Thursday to 4.30 pm Saturday
13 – 15 October 2022
Cape Schanck, Australia.

❝

Susan’s warmth, wisdom and ability to be present and hold the space the entire time,
gave me the confidence to find and use my voice and take up my role as ‘author’!

– K. Hallinan, workshop participant

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As nerve-racking as it was, I found the opportunity to share our writing with
others and gain their feedback and insight to be a very profound experience.

Susan Long’s words about ‘claiming our authorship, loving every word on the page’
and other good tips about writing will remain with me for a long time.

– D. Amato, workshop participant

The three full days writing workshop includes:
✍︎ group workshop sessions,
✍︎ individual times with Professor Susan Long,
✍︎ social dreaming sessions,
✍︎ accommodation and meals,
✍︎ for AUD$1,750.

Places are limited… don’t miss out!

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When & Where

Writing Workshop with Professor Susan Long

📆 Dates

Thursday 13 to Saturday 15 October 2022

⏰. Session Times

9.30 am Thursday – 4.30 pm Saturday

💷 For only

AUD $1,750 three-day workshop, meals and accommodation

🏡 Location

Beautiful country Homestead in Fingal,
accommodation at luxury accommodation in Cape Schanck and Capel Sound.

👩🏻‍💻. COVID-19 Contingency

If COVID restrictions prevents this workshop from running face-to-face, this will be delivered live interactive online via zoom and participants will receive a refund of AUD$550

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Professional development subscription

by NIODA | Mar 24, 2022 | Organisation Dynamics

Professional development subscription

Individual and organisational learning

NIODA has a new offering for alumni, past consulting clients and those who value the way we work:

Professional development subscription

for individual and organisational learning

Keep your systems psychodynamic skills fresh:
think with peers, be challenged to go deeper and create fresh insights and adaptive responses

Professional development subscription at NIODA gives you dedicated hours with an experienced NIODA practitioner who is available to work with you on current work role dilemmas and organisational challenges.

Use these hours in whatever ways work for you – coaching, debriefing, or utilising some of our suite of services, including workplace observations, current state analysis or group workshops.

For alumni, the subscription supports you to continue applying what you’ve learned and take up your authority as a practitioner and organisational leader. It’s a way of keeping your systems psychodynamic lens polished – thinking with others within the boundaries of professional confidentiality.

NIODA’s subscription sessions create guaranteed reflection time and a safe container for reflecting on experience in the workplace. Both are core to systems psychodynamic practice and invaluable to growing in whatever role you are in.

Testimonials

The Professional Development Subscription experience has been great. I’ve learnt a lot through the process. The group session and the 1:1 are different, but complementary. I’d highly recommend it to people who enjoy thinking about the deeper meaning of work and who like making plans to achieve their dreams.

Sally King, NIODA Graduate 2021

I’m finding the subscription incredibly useful and great value for money. I believe that one of the biggest challenges upon graduating is bridging the “knowing-doing gap” and putting into practice what I have learnt through the Masters. The combination of the group and individual sessions has enabled me to continue to apply the theory in meaningful ways, as well as to reflect on the challenges. Further, it has allowed me to stay connected to the systems psychodynamic community who continue to inspire my thinking.

Rhianna Perkin, NIODA Graduate 2021

In addition to your dedicated subscription hours, this package also includes regular facilitated group supervision sessions so you continue to learn and reflect with peers.

Plus

* attendance at NIODA seminars for free

* discounts on NIODA events held during the subscription period

The annual professional development subscription packing includes:

15 hours of individual professional development subscription time – designed and scheduled to suit your needs – e.g. one hour sessions at regular intervals or as needed, shorter debrief or catch-up sessions
Ten group supervision sessions (monthly from the date of subscription) – maximum six participants (bring what you are working on and have the group help identify what may be happening beneath the surface)
Attend NIODA Seminars free
NIODA Symposium ½ price
25% discount on NIODA events (e.g. workshops, GRCs)
25% discount on NIODA services contracted during the subscription period

Over $8,801 value

for only $4,920* plus GST (that’s $410 per month)!

* further discounts available (see Terms and Conditions)
* prices subject to increase from 30 June 2023

The six month professional development subscription package includes:

Seven hours of individual supervision time – scheduled to suit your needs – e.g. one hour sessions at regular intervals or as needed, shorter debrief or catch-up sessions
Four group supervision sessions (monthly from April – August) – maximum six participants
Attend NIODA Seminars free of charge
NIODA Symposium for ½ price
20% discount on NIODA events (e.g. workshops, GRCs)
20% discount on NIODA Consulting services contracted during the subscription period

for only $2,940 plus GST ($490 per month)

* prices subject to increase from 30 June 2023

Consultants

Opening the space to think differently and to go on thinking in the face of turbulence;
exploring and creating possibilities

Ms Helen McKelvie

Leadership Development & Consulting Lead

Dr Brigid Nossal

Executive

Dr Wendy Harding

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Ms Jennifer Burrows

Principal Consultant

Mr Thomas Mitchell

Master's Course Lead

Terms and Conditions

NIODA Professional Development Supervision

The subscription period runs for one year/six months from the date of receipt of the first monthly or full subscription payment.

By purchasing a subscription you are committing to payment of the full fee for the agreed time. Any of the subscription activities not taken up within the subscription period are forfeited unless otherwise agreed by NIODA.

Payment on invoice from NIODA 14 day terms.

10% discount available for:

upfront payment for the full subscription fee
groups of three or more from one organisation.

Group supervision sessions are scheduled to suit full-time workers, i.e. outside of 9 am – 5 pm Mon – Fri. Timing to be arranged with subscribers.

Strict confidentiality applies to all information shared in the sessions (individual and group). Any concerns about the sensitivity of particular matters shared in the sessions should be raised by subscribers with their NIODA practitioner/group supervisor.

About NIODA

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Social Movements: NIODA Symposium 2022

by NIODA | Mar 3, 2022 | Events, Organisation Dynamics, Past Events

Organising Protest:

Where is our Systems Psychodynamic thinking on

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS?

Organising Protest:

Where is our Systems Psychodynamic thinking on

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS?

NIODA'S 6th Annual Symposium

7, 8 & 9 September 2022

This year the NIODA Symposium asks the question –
What can systems psychodynamics add to our understanding of social movements?

We have four keynote panels and many individual papers all addressing the dynamics of social movements. The program also has a social dreaming session and social times for networking.

Social Movements have long been part of societies world-wide. We can instance such momentous issues as indigenous land rights; female suffrage and the emancipation of slaves; as well as protests against wars or government economic measures; and more recently there are demonstrations surrounding climate change, cruelty to animals, racial discrimination and gender, even against government public health measures.

A social movement may be defined as ‘a loosely organized but sustained campaign in support of a social goal’ (Britannica). They most often involve a protest against ideas, actions and the culture of the establishment or a call to action for change. As distinct from an interest group, social movements are organized to initiate social change and involve action by the members, often in the form of protest using multiple methods. They are collective and may arise spontaneously amongst people with a common outlook, but then become sustained and organized.

This is an area of interest to systems psychodynamic and socioanalytic researchers and practitioners. Such movements are of interest in themselves, but they also may affect the people and groups in our everyday work, leisure and not-for-profit organisations.

Organising Protest:

Where is our Systems Psychodynamic thinking on

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS?

🇦🇺

Melbourne Australia

Wednesday 7 September

5.00 – 7.00 pm Opening & Panel
7.00 – 9.00 pm Panel & discussion
9.00 – 9.30 pm Social space

Thursday 8 September

8.00 – 9.00 am Social dreaming
9.00 – 11.00 am Panel & discussion
11.00 – 11.30 am Social space
5.00 – 7.00 pm Dialogue session
7.00 – 9.00 pm Parallel papers
9.00 – 9.30 am Social space

Friday 9 September

8.00 – 9.00 Social dreaming
9.00 – 11.00 am Parallel papers
11.00 – 11.30 am Social space
5.00 – 7.00 pm Parallel papers
7.00 – 9.00 pm Closing reflection
9.00 – 9.30 pm Social space

🇺🇸

New York USA

Wednesday 7 September

3.00 – 5.00 am Opening & Panel
5.00 – 7.00 am Panel & discussion
7.00 – 7.30 am Social space
6.00 – 7.00 pm Social dreaming
7.00 – 9.00 pm Panel & discussion
9.00 – 9.30 pm Social space

Thursday 8 September

3.00 – 5.00 am Dialogue session
5.00 – 7.00 am Parallel papers
7.00 – 7.30 am Social space
6.00 – 7.00 am Social dreaming
7.00 – 9.00 pm Parallel papers
9.00 – 9.30 pm Social space

Friday 9 September

3.00 – 5.00 am Parallel papers
5.00 – 7.00 am Closing reflection
7.00 – 7.30 am Social space

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London UK

Wednesday 7 September

8.00 – 10.00 am Opening & Panel
10.00 – 12.00 noon Panel & discussion
12.00 – 12.30 pm Social space
11.00 pm – 12.00 am Social dreaming

Thursday 8 September

12.00 – 2.00 am Panel & discussion
2.00 – 2.30 am Social space
8.00 – 10.00 am Dialogue session
10.00 – 12.00 noon Parallel papers
12.00 – 12.30 pm Social space
11.00 pm – 12.00 am Social dreaming

Friday 9 September

12.00 – 2.00 am Parallel papers
2.00 – 2.30 am Social space
8.00 – 10.00 am Parallel papers
10.00 – 12.00 noon Closing reflections
12.00 – 12.30 pm Social space

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Singapore

Wednesday 7 September

3.00 – 5.00 pm Opening & Panel
5.00 – 7.00 pm Panel & discussion
7.00 – 7.30 pm Social space

Thursday 8 September

6.00 – 7.00 am Social dreaming
7.00 – 9.00 am Panel & discussion
9.00 – 9.30 am Social space
3.00 – 5.00 pm Dialogue session
5.00 – 7.00 pm Parallel papers
7.00 – 7.30 pm Social space

Friday 9 September

6.00 – 7.00 am Social dreaming
7.00 – 9.00 am Parallel papers
9.00 – 9.30 am Social space
3.00 – 5.00 pm Parallel papers
5.00 – 7.00 pm Closing reflections
7.00 – 7.30 pm Social space

Program Schedule

🔖 PRESENTATION

Opening & panel

📆 DATE

Wednesday 7 Sep 2022

⏰ MELBOURNE TIME

5.00 - 7.00 pm

⏰ LOCAL START TIME

time start

MS DEB MARTINDALE

MS SALLY MUSSARED

DR KENWYN SMITH

MR SETH THOMASSON

Learning to listen: the challenge of the Uluru statement from the heart

During COVID lockdown late in 2020, Deb Martindale, Sally Mussared, Kenwyn Smith and Seth Thomasson were motivated by the Uluru Statement from the Heart to respond to the government’s interim report. This led to the consideration that perhaps our role as ‘white fellas’ in the Yoorrook (Victorian Truth Telling Commission) was to actively listen. Regular reflection sessions have led to us being moved by what we have heard in the public hearings from Victorian First People Elders whose experiences illustrate many of the key impacts of colonisation still felt today, including Jack Charles, Uncle Johnny Lovett, Aunty Fay Carter, Aunty Alma Thorpe, Uncle Larry Walsh and Isobel Paipadjerook Morphy-Walsh, Uncle Kevin Coombs and Uncle Colin Walker. The impacts of our listening are developing, and we encourage you to listen to the Uluru Statement from the Heart to consider your role in this social movement.

Panelists

🔖 PRESENTATION

Panel

📆 DATE

Wednesday 7 Sep 2022

⏰ MELBOURNE TIME

7.00 - 9.00 pm

⏰ LOCAL START TIME

time start

KAT HAMILTON

ESTHER SALOMON

DR SIMON WESTERN

Learning with Activists

Kat Hamilton – Force of Nature, Esther Salomon – Animal Think Tank and Simon Western – Eco-leadership Institute, share what brought them into activism, the purpose of their organisation and social movement, and the effects of their activism.

Panelists

🔖 PRESENTATION

Panel

📆 DATE

Thursday 8 Sep 2022

⏰ MELBOURNE TIME

9.00 - 11.00 am

⏰ LOCAL START TIME

time start

LYDIA ALPIZAR

DAVID LUNA

ANITA PRASAD

BARBARA WILLIAMS

When social movement organizing meets systems psychodynamics

Lydia Aplizar – Mexican feminist human rights activist, mak wemuk (Davíd Luna) – Indigenous (of the Coahuiltecan peoples) and Latinx (Chicanx), Anita Prasad – grassroots community development and social justice leader and organizer, and Barbara Williams – psychoanalytically oriented organizational consulting practice focusing on leadership development, shared leadership and governance come together to explore when social movement organizing meets systems psychodynamics.

Panelists

🔖 PRESENTATION

Dialogue session

📆 DATE

Thursday 8 Sep 2022

⏰ MELBOURNE TIME

5.00 - 7.00 pm

⏰ LOCAL START TIME

time start

AARTI KAPOOR

EMMA OLIVIER

JENNY SMITH

Employees and Organisational Perspectives on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG): The dynamics of making progress toward socially-impactful business.

Creating businesses that make positive contributions to their social and environmental
context is a significant area of focus and investment in developed economies. A dialogue event opening a conversation about the dynamics of making progress on Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) issues in the corporate context. The dialogue will offer participants the opportunity to engage in conversation with corporate leaders, Aarti Kapoor, Emma Oliver and Jenny Smith. The discussion aims to unearth the desires, opportunities, tensions and organisational dynamics that appear for executives and employees around ESG in the workplace.

Learn More

🔖 PRESENTATION

Paper (parallel)

📆 DATE

Thursday 8 Sep 2022

⏰ MELBOURNE TIME

7.00 - 9.00 pm

⏰ LOCAL START TIME

time start

GILLES AMADO

The Anti-Vax Movement: A gateway to amalgams?

Learn More

MARK ARGENT

“Organising protest”, in the light of Lacan’s perverse discourses

Learn More

MARGO LOCKART

“Why He Orders the Steak. An exploration of gender differences within the animal rights movement.”

Learn More

PETROS ORATIS

Taming the Beast: Exploring the lateral dynamics between the social movement and its opposition side and the need to shift from polarization to co-existence.

Learn More

🔖 PRESENTATION

Paper (parallel)

📆 DATE

Friday 9 Sep 2022

⏰ MELBOURNE TIME

9.00 - 11.00 am

⏰ LOCAL START TIME

time start

KAREN LOON

Anxious Nation – How historical anxieties shape Asian-Australians today

Learn More

HARLEY MCDONALD-ECKERSALL

Redefining Uncertainty - what the cultural and creative movements can teach us about social movement organising

Learn More

ANNA TURLEY & BARBARA WILLIAMS

Building Social Justice Movements: What’s organizational role got to do with it?

Learn More

🔖 PRESENTATION

Paper (parallel)

📆 DATE

Friday 9 Sep 2022

⏰ MELBOURNE TIME

5.00 - 7.00 pm

⏰ LOCAL START TIME

time start

DR JO-ANNE CARLYLE & BARBARA WILLIAMS

Problematising our orthodoxies

Learn More

GREG COOK, ALLAN SHAFER & JENNY SMITH

The Dynamics of the 'Seeking Asylum Project'

Learn More

DR NEO PULE

Student leaders’ unrest: A call to action for social justice through social dream drawing

Learn More

The fundamental methods in psychoanalytic and socioanalytic research

PROF SUSAN LONG

🔖 PRESENTATION

Reflections

📆 DATE

Friday 9 Sep 2022

⏰ MELBOURNE TIME

7.00 - 9.00 pm

⏰ LOCAL START TIME

time start

MS JENNIFER BURROWS

MR JOHN GIBNEY

MS FIONA MARTIN

DR CATH McKINNEY

MR THOMAS MITCHELL

MS SALLY MUSSARED

Reflections on the Symposium – Social Movements

Reflective practice in action with each member of the Symposium Planning Committee presenting their highlight of the symposium. Small group discussions to explore your highlights of the symposium and what was gained from the papers and presentations attended. Followed by a large group open discussion.

Contributors

Social Movements: NIODA Symposium 2022

Day(s)

Hour(s)

Minute(s)

Second(s)

When & Where

NIODA Symposium 2022: Organising Protest: Where is our Systems Psychodynamic thinking on SOCIAL MOVEMENTS?

📆 Dates

Wednesday 7 – Friday 9 September 2022

⏰. Session Times

5 pm, 7 pm, 8 am & 9 am 🇨🇰 Melbourne
8 am, 10 am, 11pm & 12 am 🇬🇧 London
3 am, 5 am, 6 pm & 7 pm 🇺🇸 New York
3 pm, 5 pm, 6 am & 7 am 🇸🇬 Singapore

💷 For only

AUD $290 including; panel discussions, parallel paper
presentations, open reflection sessions, social dreaming sessions, social spaces & session recordings

👩🏻‍💻. Location

Live interactive online sessions via Zoom

Symposium archive

Opening the space to think differently and to go on thinking in the face of turbulence;
exploring and creating possibilities

Not Knowing and Coming to Know: Methods of inquiry into unconscious (hidden) dynamics in organisations

8-10 September 2021

NIODA's fifth annual symposium

live interactive online

2021 program

2021 proceedings

Working into the Future: Building individual and organisational culture beyond 2020

9-11 September 2020

NIODA's fourth annual symposium

live interactive online

2020 program

2020 proceedings

Building Healthy and Ethical Organisational Culture

12-13 September 2019

NIODA's third annual symposium

Parkville, Melbourne

2019 program

Leading and Managing in the Emergency and Trauma Sectors

14-15 September 2018

NIODA's second annual symposium

Mount Macedon, Victoria

2018 program

2018 proceedings

Getting the policies we deserve

September 2017

NIODA's first annual symposium

Melbourne

2017 proceedings

About NIODA

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The psycho-dynamics of human animal connections

by NIODA | Feb 8, 2022 | Events, Organisation Dynamics, Past Events

The psycho-dynamics of human animal connections

Eight-week live interactive online course

Prof Susan Long & Margo Lockhart

The psycho-dynamics of human animal connections

Eight-week live interactive online course with

Professor Susan Long & Margo Lockhart

Starting 5 October 2022

This course is open to participants interested in how the psychodynamics of human animal connections might aid you in your professional and private lives. It is designed as a pilot course at a postgraduate level although there are no pre-requisite studies required. It will be conducted live interactive online via zoom.

Course Content

This course explores the spaces that animals occupy in human social and cultural worlds and the interactions humans have with them. Central to the subject is an exploration of the notion of sentience, who or what we see as sentient, and what significance this has in human group, organisational and social behaviours. Participants explore their own connections and relationships with animals.

The course involves four main areas: how societies ‘construct’ animals through literature, film, art, and cultural ceremonies; the ecological significance of human animal connectedness; how humans use animals through economies such as farming, domestication, laboratory use of animals and the consumption of animals and related phenomena such as the concept of the ‘meat paradox’; and finally attitudes to animals, where participants explore human-pet relationships and the concept of anthropomorphism.

Participants are invited to examine their own interactions with animals through methods such as the use of drawing and a field trip to an organisation which is associated with animals. This might be a pet store, an animal welfare group, a farm, a zoo; or involvement in a program involving animals, such as a horse whispering program.

Participants also explore various attitudes to animals within a small group and observe the dynamics that occur throughout this exploration.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this course participants would be expected to attain
knowledge about and insight into:

The definition of ‘animal’ and our own ‘animality’;
Animals as symbols in human systems- in literature the arts, folk lore, cults and ceremonial ceremonies;
The emerging discipline of ‘Anthrozoology’, the study of the interactions between humans and other animals;
The co-evolution of humans and animals;
The ways animals are used, consumed, thought about, and ‘not thought about’ in our personal and work systems;
The concept of ‘carnism’ as defined by Melanie Joy (2010).

and skills in:

Identification and management of unconscious processes related to animals in everyday life;
Identifying and working with paradox;
Intercultural and institutionalised understanding of various attitudes and treatment of animals and collaboration on these issues;
Understanding social defences and one’s own individual defences against unpleasant truths;
Drawing, writing and verbally articulating one’s own attitudes and actions with relation to animals.

References (for interest)

Bastian, B., Loughnan, S., Haslam, N., & Radke, H. R. M. (2012). Don’t mind meat? The denial of mind to animals used for human consumption. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38,
247–256.

DeMello, M. (2012). Animals and society. An introduction to human–animal studies. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

Herzog, H. (2010) Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat. Why it’s so Hard to Think Straight about Animals. USA. Harper Collins.

Hutchins,G. and Storm, L. (2019) Regenerative Leadership. The DNA of life affirming 21 st century organisations. Wordzworth.

Joy, M. (2010). Why we Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows. San Francisco: Conari Press

Long, S. (2015) Turning a Blind Eye to Climate Change, in Organisational & Social Dynamics 15(2) Melbourne, pp. 248–262

Lovelock, J. (2009). The Vanishing Face of Gai. A Final Warning. London: Penguin Books.

Mann, C. (2018). Vystopia. The anguish of being vegan in a non-vegan world. Sydney: Communicate31

Oppenlander, R. (2012). Comfortably Unaware: What we choose to eat is killing us and our planet. New York: Beaufort Books.

Ricard, M. (2016). A Plea for the Animals: The Moral, Philosophical and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion. Colorado: Shambhala Publications, Inc.

Rust, M. J. (2020) Towards an Ecopsychotherapy. London, Confer Books.

Safron Foer, J. (2009). Eating Animals. London: Penguin Books.

Scharmer, C.O. (2016) Theory U, Leading from the Future as It Emerges, United States: Random House, Edition 2

Singer, P. (1975). Animal liberation (1 st ed). New York: Harper Collins.

Smith, K. (2019) The Abundance-Scarcity Paradox. USA: Outskirts Press.

Stacey, R. (2010) Complexity and Organizational Reality: Uncertainty and the Need to Rethink Management after the Collapse of Investment Capitalism. UK, Routledge; 2nd edition.

Steiner, J. (1999) Turning a Blind Eye. The Cover Up for Oedipus, in Bell, D. (editor) Psychoanalysis and Culture. A Kleinian Perspective. Gerard Duckworth & Co. Ltd. London., pp 86 – 102

Wheatley, M. (2006). Leadership and the New Science. Discovering Order in a Chaotic World. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.

Western, S. (2019). Leadership: A Critical Text. United Kingdom. Footprint Books

The psycho-dynamics of human animal connections: Prof Susan Long & Margo Lockhart

AUD $2,400 for eight live interactive online two-and-half-hour sessions

Early-bird special price AUD $2,100 before 31 August

This is fully interactive and online. The commitment is for eight, two-hour-and-half hour sessions. A certificate of completion will be given to participants who complete the course.

Starting Wednesday 5 October

6 – 8.30 pm 🇨🇰 Melbourne
3 – 5.30 am (eek!) 🇺🇸 New York
7 – 9.30 am 🇬🇧 London
9 – 11.30 am 🇿🇦 South Africa
12.30 – 3 pm 🇮🇳 New Delhi
3 – 5.30 pm 🇸🇬 Singapore

Please note, there are time zone shifts during these sessions to daylight savings and wintertime, so the session times do vary.

The time listed below is set to calculate the first start time depending on the time zone of your computer. The first session will start at:

time start

The psycho-dynamics of human animal connections

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Susan Long, Director of Research & Scholarship NIODA

Professor Susan Long

Psycho-dynamics of human-animal connections

Susan Long is a Melbourne based organisational consultant and executive coach. Previously, Professor of Creative and Sustainable Organisation at RMIT University, she is now a Professor and Director of Research at the National Institute for Organisation Dynamics Australia (NIODA) and a coach and consultant in private practice. She is an associate of the University of Melbourne Executive Programs and teaches at INSEAD in Singapore and the University of Divinity in Melbourne where she is involved in a coaching program.

Susan has consulted to organisational change in the health and justice sectors and coached senior executives across many sectors. She has worked with executives from many different nationalities and from diverse industries, having taught or consulted in the UK, the USA, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, Russia, Israel, Thailand and Singapore. Susan also works as a supervisor and coach for organisational development professionals in Australia and Singapore. She has over 35 years of experience with Group Relations, having been on staff or directed many conferences.

Susan has been in a leadership position in many professional organisations and
has published ten books and many articles in books and scholarly journals, is General Editor of the journal Socioanalysis and an Associate Editor with Organisational and Social Dynamics. She is a member of the Advisory Board for Mental Health at Work with Comcare and a past member of the Board of the Judicial College of Victoria (2011-2016). Susan is a distinguished member of ISPSO.

Margo Lockhart

Psycho-dynamics of human-animal connections

Margo Lockhart is a highly regarded facilitator, designer and coach with a deserved reputation for developing trust and rapport in the working environment. She regularly facilitates management and leadership programs, as well as courses in Emotional Intelligence, Team Dynamics and Influencing Skills. With an academic background in education, counselling and organisational dynamics, Margo brings a disciplined and reflective focus to her work.

Margo’s academic focus combines her extensive experience in leadership development and group dynamics with her love of animals and her interest in sustainability. Her doctorate work is in the ‘social politics of meat’, an exploration of what is talked about, and not talked about, concerning the animals we raise and consume. She has a particular interest in the ‘meat paradox’- the fact that we can both love and eat animals, and the cognitive dissonance and dissociation this entails. She is also an experienced board director, having spent 10 years on the boards of various environmental groups.

When & Where

NIODA Pyscho-dynamics of human animal connections: Eight week live interactive online course with Professor Susan Long & Margo Lockhart

📆 Dates

Wednesdays 5 October – 23 November 2022

⏰. Session Times

Due to changes in different countries for daylight savings, summertime, wintertime there will be variations.

💷 For only

AUD $2,400 including; all eight two-hour-and-half hour sessions; weekly readings, and critical discussions with limited participant numbers

Early-bird special price AUD $2,100 until 31 August

👩🏻‍💻. Location

Live interactive online sessions via Zoom

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Small Study Group 2022

by NIODA | Dec 14, 2021 | Events, Organisation Dynamics, Past Events

Small Study Group Series

Seven online sessions with

Dr Wendy Harding

Small Study Group Series

Seven live interactive online sessions with

Dr Wendy Harding

Seven two-hour sessions

Two time options starting March 2022

NIODA is offering an exciting and valuable opportunity to explore online small group dynamics through participation in a small study group. Studying online small group dynamics provides an edge to the work we are all currently engaged in on virtual mediums. The study group method is that of the traditional Tavistock style study group method. In this, the participant group explore their own conscious and unconscious patterns of small group behaviour in the ‘here and now’ using group/system-level analysis. This design encourages in-depth ‘learning through experience’ as well as laying a theoretical foundation for understanding interpersonal group dynamics.

Through this experience, it is anticipated participants will increase their capacity to identify, analyse and manage online and onsite workgroup dynamics; to appreciate the emotional labour of work, and to enable constructive leader-follower relations.

The direct group experience is supplemented by critical discussion of selected theories and models of group dynamics.

Your learning will be supported with weekly readings.

Dr Wendy Harding will lead and manage the sessions, along with taking up the consultant role to the study group.

Small Study Group Series: Dr Wendy Harding

AUD $2,000 for seven live interactive online two-hour sessions

The study group will be fully interactive and online. The commitment is for seven, two-hour sessions. The two hours will involve one hour of a traditional Group Relations style small study group and one hour of reflection, development of working hypotheses and links to work.

There is also an option to study this as a subject of the NIODA Master of Leadership and Management (Organisation Dynamics) course which includes an additional three sessions and assignments are required. Please contact admin@nioda.org.au for details.

Starting Monday 7 March option

3 – 5 pm 🇨🇰 Melbourne
11 pm Sunday – 1 am 🇺🇸 New York
4 – 6 am (eek!) 🇬🇧 London
6 – 8 am 🇿🇦 South Africa
9.30 – 11.30 am 🇮🇳 New Delhi
12 – 3 pm 🇸🇬 Singapore

Starting Tuesday 8 March option

7 – 9 am 🇨🇰 Melbourne
3 pm Monday – 5 pm 🇺🇸 New York
8 pm Monday – 10 pm 🇬🇧 London
10 pm Monday – 12 am 🇿🇦 South Africa
1.30 – 3.30 am (eek!) 🇮🇳 New Delhi
4 – 6 am (eek!) 🇸🇬 Singapore

Please note, there are time zone shifts during these sessions to daylight savings and wintertime, so the session times do vary. The time listed below is set to calculate the first start time depending on the time zone of your computer. The first sessions will start at:

time start

Small Study Group 2022

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Dr Wendy Harding

Small Study Group Series

CEO & Director of Academic Programs NIODA, Australia

Wendy Harding has been actively involved in the field of organisation dynamics in Australia for 30 years. She has been an educator for 25 years, first at Swinburne University, then RMIT, and since 2014 at the National Institute of Organisation Dynamics Australia (NIODA). Wendy is currently the NIODA’s CEO and Director of Academic Programs. Wendy is also faculty in both the NIODA master’s degree and PhD.

Study group is a unique and powerful method for understanding the ways in which covert dynamics impact the way that groups and systems work towards tasks, or alternatively seek to avoid the task. Avoidance can occur as a result of the challenging experience of being in a group, the task itself and the contextual forces acting on the group, or all of the above together. Wendy has had decades of experience in introducing ideas about deeper group dynamics and their impacts on the group through the study group consultant role. It is a critical capacity of the study group consultant to co-create with the group safe enough conditions for in-depth learning to occur. Wendy brings her extensive knowledge and experience to this task. Participants of study groups are then able to translate their learning to a greater understanding of, and influence upon their own workplace group dynamics, both online and onsite. This learning is a significant professional edge for all leaders, managers and team members.

When & Where

NIODA Small Study Group Series 2022: Seven two-hour live interactive online sessions with Dr Wendy Harding

📆 Dates

Monday’s

7, 21 & 28 March
4 & 11 April
2 & 9 May

⏰. Session Times

Due to changes in different countries for daylight savings, summertime, wintertime there will be variations.

📆 Dates

Tuesday’s

8, 15 & 22 March
5, 12 & 26 April
3 May

⏰. Session Times

Due to changes in different countries for daylight savings, summertime, wintertime there will be variations.

💷 For only

AUD $2,000 including; all seven two-hour sessions; study group, weekly readings, and critical discussions with limited participant numbers

There is an option to study this as a subject of the NIODA Master of Leadership and Management (Organisation Dynamics) course which includes an additional three sessions and assignments are required. Please contact admin@nioda.org.au for details.

👩🏻‍💻. Location

Live interactive online sessions via Zoom

About NIODA

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Organising Protest:

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NIODA'S 6th Annual Symposium

This year the NIODA Symposium asks the question – What can systems psychodynamics add to our understanding of social movements?

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Where is our Systems Psychodynamic thinking on

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Keep your systems psychodynamic skills fresh:
think with peers, be challenged to go deeper and create fresh insights and adaptive responses

Opening the space to think differently and to go on thinking in the face of turbulence;
exploring and creating possibilities

This year the NIODA Symposium asks the question –
What can systems psychodynamics add to our understanding of social movements?