What is a Group Relations Conference?

The Lime Neighbourhood

A response to the interim voice report

What’s different about doing a leadership and management masters at NIODA

What’s different about doing a leadership and management masters at NIODA? What’s different about doing a leadership and management masters at NIODA? What’s different about doing a leadership and management masters at NIODA?At the National Institute of Organisation Dynamics Australia (NIODA) we get to know and value each of the students who take on the […]

Address to the 2020 Graduands of the master

Address to the 2020 Graduands of the Master of Leadership and Management (Organisation Dynamics) NIODA Graduation Ceremony MS SUSAN CAMPBELL Address to the 2020 Graduands of the Master of Leadership and Management (Organisation Dynamics) For the last few weeks, as I’ve held this graduation in mind, I’ve recognised the parallel of our Melbourne experience of […]

Time – For every purpose

Time – For every purpose I have had reason recently, as perhaps many of us have had, to think about time. Tick, tock – the seconds pass. Less tick, tock nowadays; more a visual passing on the screen of a mobile electronic device. The division of time into equal parts – seconds, minutes and hours, […]

‘An unexplored continent’: What can dreams tell us about society?

ILLUSTRATION: DIONNE GAIN ‘An unexplored continent’: What can dreams tell us about society?This article: ‘An unexplored continent’: What can was originally published in the Sydney Morning Herald, June 5 2020, by Felicity Lewis: https://www.smh.com.au/national/an-unexplored-continent-what-can-dreams-tell-us-about-society-20200604-p54zcs.html Many of us have had vivid dreams during this pandemic. What are we dreaming about? What subterranean zeitgeists might they reveal? And what […]

The Authority to Profess

The authority to profess Susan Long The shorter Oxford dictionary defines a Professor as a public teacher of the highest rank in a specific faculty or branch of learning. The title designates one who is accorded the authority to profess their thoughts, understanding and sentiments to a public that should be willing to listen and […]

We are all in this together

We are all in this together – Between Basic Assumption Me and Basic Assumption Oneness ‘We are all in this together’ has become a worldwide slogan for the fight against COVID-19. The slogan attempts to unify peoples and countries by indicating that anyone can get the virus, that the virus knows no borders and that […]

Understanding Socioanalytic Methods and COVID-19

Understanding Socioanalytic Methods and COVID-19 In these difficult times of COVID-19, I think a note on socioanalytic methods might be helpful. The flood of information, as well as anxieties, is on the surface of the virus spread – some critical and helpful; keeping us connected; some not; but can we also hold onto our minds […]

Climate Change Denial and Australia’s Devastating Bush Fires

Climate Change Denial and Australia’s Devastating Bush Fires Denial is a psychological defence employed when an individual or group is challenged in what they believe and when that belief is central to their sense of self. But what is most intriguing is that denial is a state of believing A and not A at one […]

Change the company culture

Change the company cultureThoughts on the practical application of systems psychodynamic learning I have just given a speech to the graduating class of 2019 which has caused me to reflect on what I have gained from my study of psychodynamics and my association with NIODA. I have also been asked to describe what […]