NOT KNOWING AND COMING TO KNOW

METHODS OF INQUIRY INTO UNCONSCIOUS (HIDDEN) DYNAMICS

IN ORGANISATIONS

NOT KNOWING AND COMING TO KNOW

METHODS OF INQUIRY INTO UNCONSCIOUS (HIDDEN) DYNAMICS

IN ORGANISATIONS

NIODA'S 5th Annual Symposium

8, 9 & 10 September 2021

This symposium focuses on how we might learn from the transformations and the dynamics that become embedded into our personal and work lives and our organisations as brought about by the rapidly evolving contexts surrounding us. We are transforming in response. One major example indicates the changes brought by the global pandemic of COVID-19 and the ways in which we have transformed our communications and where and how we work.

We don’t know what the future will bring and however we consciously plan, some dynamics play out at hidden levels. There are many opportunities to learn as these transitions and transformations occur and become embedded in organisational cultures.  Some are occurring so rapidly that we might easily lose the chance to learn from them. How this can be done is of importance to the ways we might work in the future.

Not Knowing and Coming to Know: Symposium 2021

AUD $250 for the full live interactive online event

All sessions will be recorded and made available to symposium participants, so you can see all the sessions, no matter what your timezone!

Timetable

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Melbourne Australia

Wednesday 8 September

5.00 – 7.00 pm Opening & Keynote Dr Bob Hinshelwood
7.00 – 9.00 pm Panel & discussion

Thursday 9 September

9.00 – 11.00 am Parallel papers
11.00 – 1 pm Parallel papers
5.00 – 7.00 pm Panel & discussion
7.00 – 9.00 pm Parallel papers

Friday 10 September

9.00 – 11.00 am Parallel papers
11.00 – 1 pm Parallel papers
5.00 – 7.00 pm Parallel papers
7.00 – 9.00 pm Closing reflection

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New York USA

Wednesday 8 September

3.00 – 5.00 am Opening & Keynote Dr Bob Hinshelwood
5.00 – 7.00 am Panel & discussion
7.00 – 9.00 pm Parallel papers
9.00 – 11.00 pm Parallel papers

Thursday 9 September

3.00 – 5.00 am Panel & discussion
5.00 – 7.00 am Parallel papers
7.00 – 9.00 pm Parallel papers
9.00 – 11.00 pm Parallel papers

Friday 10 September

3.00 – 5.00 am Parallel papers
5.00 – 7.00 am Closing reflections

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London UK

Wednesday 8 September

8.00 – 10.00 am Opening & Keynote Dr Bob Hinshelwood
10.00 – 12.00 pm Panel & discussion

Thursday 9 September

12.00 – 2.00 am Parallel papers
2.00 – 4.00 am Parallel papers
8.00 – 10.00 am Panel & discussion
10.00 – 12.00 noon Parallel papers

Friday 10 September

12.00 – 2.00 am Parallel papers
2.00 – 4.00 am Parallel papers
8.00 – 10.00 am Parallel papers
10.00 – 12.00 noon Closing reflections

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Singapore

Wednesday 8 September

3.00 – 5.00 pm Opening & Keynote Dr Bob Hinshelwood
5.00 – 7.00 pm Panel & discussion

Thursday 9 September

7.00 – 9.00 am Parallel papers
9.00 – 11.00 am Parallel papers
3.00 – 5.00 pm Panel & discussion
5.00 – 7.00 pm Parallel papers

Friday 10 September

7.00 – 9.00 am Parallel papers
9.00 – 11.00 am Parallel papers
3.00 – 5.00 pm Parallel papers
5.00 – 7.00 pm Closing reflections

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Program Schedule

🔖 PRESENTATION

Keynote

📆  DATE

Wednesday 8 Sep 2021

⏰  MELBOURNE TIME

5.00 – 7.00 pm

⏰  LOCAL START TIME

time start

PROF ROBERT HINSHELWOOD

Knowing the unknown: Unconscious systems in organisations

Keynote – Knowing the unknown: Unconscious systems in organisations

Bob Hinshelwood is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He was Director of the Cassel Hospital and subsequently Professor in the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies in the University of Essex, UK. He founded the British Journal of Psychotherapy in 1984 and edited it for 10 years, and he founded the journal Psychoanalysis and History in 1995. He has written widely on Kleinian psychoanalysis and therapeutic communities as well as the application of psychoanalysis to the understanding of organisations.

🔖 PRESENTATION

Opening Panel

📆  DATE

Wednesday 8 Sep 2021

⏰  MELBOURNE TIME

7.00 - 9.00 pm

⏰  LOCAL START TIME

time start

MS TERRI MARSDEN

DR MISHEL McMAHON

PASTOR RAY MINNIECON

Panel – Yarning around the fire: The Australian First Nations traditional

method for not knowing and coming to know

Ray Minniecon, Mishel McMahon, and Terri Marsden, are Indigenous Australians who are leaders in the sectors of finance and banking, Aussie Rules Football, Maternal and Child Health, and community ministry.

Their stories (yarns) can only be understood and appreciated in the context of the Australian Indigenous ways of knowing. The presenters are the windows into being, of time, place, animate and inanimate, dreamtime, songlines and moieties. They will offer an experience of learning through yarning. The method of seeking to understand, not to reply, as a respectful mode for learning. Seeking to Be curious, be present, and to re-imagine.

Join us as we “walk backwards into the future”.

Panelists

🔖 PRESENTATION

Paper (parallel)

📆  DATE

Thursday 9 Sep 2021

⏰  MELBOURNE TIME

9.00 - 11.00 am

⏰  LOCAL START TIME

time start

MS JENNIFER BURROWS

MS HELEN McKELVIE
MR THOMAS MITCHELL

Responsive change to intentional transformation: Exploring NIODA’s transition to an online environment

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DR ELLEN PITTMAN

The Hive Model for High-Performing Hospitals: Lessons from the complexity sciences

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DR BARRY RUBIN

Pivotal Development Events in the Lives of Emotionally Mature Leaders: A Psychodynamic Perspective

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MR FRED WRIGHT

Knowing and coming to not know. Reflections on the dynamics operating in organisations responding to crises

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🔖 PRESENTATION

Paper (parallel)

📆  DATE

Thursday 9 Sep 2021

⏰  MELBOURNE TIME

11.00 am - 1.00 pm

⏰  LOCAL START TIME

time start

DR NUALA DENT

DR ANITA TAN

Organisational stuckness: Exploring the paradoxes of change

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MS VARTIKA JAINI

Unconscious dynamics and their influence on our methods of inquiry: Case of the non profit sector

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PROF SUSAN LONG

The fundamental methods in psychoanalytic and socioanalytic research: free association, the case study and transference.

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MS JACKIE ZOMBOLAS

Surviving authenticity in groups and systems: an experiential learning process.

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🔖 PRESENTATION

Panel

📆  DATE

Thursday 9 Sep 2021

⏰  MELBOURNE TIME

5.00 - 7.00 pm

⏰  LOCAL START TIME

time start

MR SIMON D'ORSOGNA

DR FRANCA FUBINI

DR JOSEPHINE INKPIN

Straddling the Fence: exploring the boundary between knowing and not knowing, wanting to know and defenses against coming to know.

It can be painful to stay in the knowing and it takes energy to stay in the not knowing. This panel will explore the experience of translating from one state of knowing/not knowing to another from the perspective of the three panelists: Social Dreaming, moving between different ways of becoming including transgender, and Family Systems work. Join us to explore how we might look at the world together through creating a broader sensemaking field as we pay attention to the other on the edge of our knowing. This panel is an invitation to think together through using new frames that provoke new questions.

Panelists

🔖 PRESENTATION

Paper (parallel)

📆  DATE

Thursday 9 Sep 2021

⏰  MELBOURNE TIME

7.00 - 9.00 pm

⏰  LOCAL START TIME

time start

MISS SARA CARDER

DR LAURA COOK

Teams Interrupted: Finding connection and meaning in child and family social work teams during the COVID-19 pandemic

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MR ROSS EMERSON

When Leaders are Vilified: A phenomenological analysis of the inner transitional experience of leaders who are vilified

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DR HELOISE HALIDAY

Uncovering the lived experience of hospital administrators during the COVID-19 pandemic. Insights from a focus-group-based qualitative research project.

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MR ELCO SCHWARTZ

Leadership Unbound: Female leadership effectiveness in modern China against the backdrop of collective traumas & emerging opportunities

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🔖 PRESENTATION

Paper (parallel)

📆  DATE

Friday 10 Sep 2021

⏰  MELBOURNE TIME

9.00 - 11.00 am

⏰  LOCAL START TIME

time start

DR JO CHAFFER

What matters in Method (-ology): movement and critical messiness

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DR JOSEPH DUGGAN

Unconscious Becoming and Its Undesired Impact

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MS JOAN LURIE

Lifting the Veil: Discovering Organisational Systems

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DR BRIGID NOSSAL

The Use of Drawing as an Agent of Transformation: a case presentation

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Paper (parallel)

📆  DATE

Friday 10 Sep 2021

⏰  MELBOURNE TIME

11.00 am - 1.00 pm

⏰  LOCAL START TIME

time start

DR CLARE HARDING

On the outsides of horses and the insides of men: can equine experiential learning fast-track self-awareness, and help us become better leaders and co-workers?

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MS KRISTINA KARLSSON

Storm tossed but not submerged: developing individual and collective knowing through group holding environments in organisations during crises and beyond

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MS SUNITHA LAL

Finding our Moorings during Uncertain Times

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🔖 PRESENTATION

Paper (parallel)

📆  DATE

Friday 10 Sep 2021

⏰  MELBOURNE TIME

5.00 - 7.00 pm

⏰  LOCAL START TIME

time start

MR MARK ARGENT

Knowing, not knowing, and virtual technology: an “organisation on the screen”?

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MS SONJA BLIGNAUT

DR MARIETJIE VOSLOO

Towards fostering a Sense of Belonging in the Post-Pandemic Workplace

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MR MANAB BOSE

Want To Know What Lies Below-the-Surface! Really?

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MRS EKATERIA SHAPOVALOVA

Tolerating the incompleteness of knowledge: experience of professional transition in coaches and consultants

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PROF SUSAN LONG

🔖 PRESENTATION

Panel

📆  DATE

Friday 10 Sep 2021

⏰  MELBOURNE TIME

7.00 – 9.00 pm

⏰  LOCAL START TIME

time start

MS JENNIFER BURROWS

MS JOHN GIBNEY

MS FIONA MARTIN

DR CATH McKINNEY

MR THOMAS MITCHELL

MS SALLY MUSSARED

Reflections on the Symposium Not Knowing and Coming to Know

Reflective practice in action with each member of the Symposium Planning Committee raises the highlight of the symposium for them, then small group discussions to discuss highlights of the symposium and what was gained from the papers and presentations attended. Followed by a large group open discussion.

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When & Where

NIODA Symposium 2021: Not Knowing and Coming to Know: Methods of inquiry into unconscious (hidden) dynamics in organisations

📆  DateS

Wednesday 8 – Friday 10 September 2021

⏰. Session Times

5 pm, 7 pm, 9 am & 11 am 🇨🇰  Melbourne
8 am, 10 am, 12 am & 2 am 🇬🇧  London
3 am, 5 am, 7 pm & 9 pm 🇺🇸  New York
3 pm, 5 pm, 7 am & 9 am 🇸🇬  Singapore

💷  For only

AUD $250 including; panel discussions, keynote, parallel paper
presentations & access to the recordings of all sessions

👩🏻‍💻. Location

Live interactive online sessions via Zoom

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Last year the 2020 Symposium was:

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

The proceedings and papers from this event can be read by clicking the link below

2020 Papers

2020 Proceedings

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.