WINNICOTT

seminar

with Dr Lita Crociani-Windland

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📆 5.00 – 7.00 pm Wednesday 7 May 2025 (Melbourne time)

WINNICOTT seminar

Dr Lita Crociani-Windland

What is life about? Thirdness: from play to cultural life

The question of what is life about is key to Winnicott’s ideas of play, creativity and cultural life. Transitional space as a concept underlies such aspects. Transitional spaces and creativity are not aimed at production yet are productive in often unexpected ways in bringing innovations. The idea of thirdness is part of this framework and can help bring about change without eliciting resistance. We will explore these concepts to arrive at how they might also apply to organisational settings.

Dr Lita Crociani-Windland

Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Psycho-Social Studies theme leader, School of Social Science, University of the West of England

Lita Crociani-Windland is senior lecturer in Sociology and leader of Psycho-Social Studies at the University of the West of England. She is executive committee and founding member of the Association for Psychosocial Studies, British Psychoanalytic Council scholar, Faculty member of NIODA (National Institute for Organisational Dynamics Australia) and Centre for Social Dreaming director. She recently stepped back from co-chairing the Association for Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society having been in post and directed its annual conference at Rutgers University NJ since 2016. She is Associate editor, peer reviewer for several applied psychosocial journals, and national/international funders. Her research interests concern affective dynamics in the light of psychoanalytic theory and continental philosophy, Group Relations tradition and experiential learning. She has been active in the development and deployment of psychosocial methodologies (chapters in Vol 1&2 Researching Beneath the Surface) and is very experienced in psychosocial visual methods such as Visual Matrix (Manley and Roy,2017) and Social Dreaming (Lawrence, 1998; Manley, 2018).

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.

WINNICOTT seminar with Dr Lita Crociani-Windland

📆  Dates

5.00 to 7.00 pm Wednesday 7 May Melbourne 🇨🇰
3.00 am – 5.00 am New York Tuesday 6 May (eek!) 🇺🇸
8.00 am – 10.00 am Wednesday 7 May London 🇬🇧
3.00 pm – 5.00 pm Wednesday 7 May Singapore 🇸🇬
12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Wednesday 7 May New Delhi 🇮🇳

⏰ Timezones

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💷  For only

AUD $35

👩🏻‍💻 Location

Live interactive online via zoom

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WINNICOTT seminar with Dr Lita Crociani-Windland