The systems psychodynamics of
Decolonising Minds, Workplaces & Curricula
for a better future
🔖 PRESENTATION
Panel
📆 DATE
Wednesday 20 Nov 2024
⏰ MELBOURNE TIME
7.30 - 9.30 pm
⏰ LOCAL START TIME
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Jennie McShannon
Freelance Consultant, Tutor and Lecturer, Tavistock master's
Jennie is an organisational consultant, executive coach and facilitator working with complex organisations and systems across public, private and charity sectors, locally and internationally. She is particularly interested in surfacing and working with what holds systems and paradigms in place, thwarting espoused change. This has informed her work on decolonisation, diversity and inclusion across organisations, services and programmes. From Ireland but living for many years in England, she seeks to understand the dynamics of difference and of power structures in the mind.
Until recently Jennie was a senior consultant at Tavistock Consulting. Now freelance, she is a tutor and lecturer on Tavistock’s Masters in Consulting and Leading: Systemic and Psychodynamic Approaches and a director of their Executive Coaching Programme. She is a member of the Point People, a group of women researchers, activists and designers whose focus is social change, equity and regeneration.
⏰ DURATION
120 minutes
Dr Rebecca Nestor
Co-chair, Climate Psychology Alliance
Dr Rebecca Nestor is a researcher, lecturer, organisational consultant, and facilitator, now focusing exclusively on offering support for those facing the climate crisis at work and in the community. Rebecca’s work includes training and supervising facilitators of Climate Cafés, workshops on talking with friends and family about climate change, and talks and consultancy support for organisations where climate is part of the work. She is a visiting lecturer on the Tavistock Centre’s systems-psychodynamic professional doctorate on organisational consultancy and leadership, where she did her own training as an organisational consultant; she is also an adjunct supervisor at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. Her doctorate at the Tavistock/University of Essex (completed 2022) investigated the dynamics in organisations communicating climate change. She is a long-standing board member of the Climate Psychology Alliance, and with Kate Adams she is its co-chair from June 2024.
Dr Kay Trainor
Coach and Consultant in environment related organisations
Dr Kay Trainor recently left her role as Director of the Tavistock and Portman Clinic’s Masters in Leading and Consulting: Psychodynamic and Systemic Approaches
(D10) in order to focus more on climate activism and her therapy practice. She still works as a coach and consultant, particularly supporting those working in
environmental and related organisations. She has co facilitated climate cafes. Regarding activism, she is currently connecting with Tree protection groups around the UK to organise awareness-raising walks from trees under threat and to screen The Happy Man Tree documentary (Katy McGahan, 90 mins 12a), a film made about a community’s attempts to save a much loved tree in North London. Since leaving her role at the Tavistock she has co founded a ‘Deep Adaptation’ group who meet to discuss the implications of, amongst others, Jem Bendell’s thesis in his book ‘Breaking Together – A Freedom Loving Response to Collapse’. She works as a therapist and is particularly interested in working with the lasting impact of trauma using Janina Fisher’s Parts-based approach (TIST), and EMDR – together with her psychodynamic therapy training and background. She is interested in the wisdom and healing properties of plant medicine/psychedelics and in facilitating collective sense-making groups for participants – much like social dreaming matrices. She is a Board member of the Climate Psychology Alliance.
What we love is part of the problem.
Capitalism, our addiction to fossil fuels, and sacred activism
This session is moderated by Dr Brigid Nossal.
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Session schedule
5 MINS
Introduction by the moderator
50 MINS
Panel presentation – Jennie McShannon, Dr Rebecca Nestor, Dr Kay Trainor
25 MINS
Small group discussions
40 MINS
Plenary
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Next session
The following is the next session at the symposium
🔖 PRESENTATION
Social dreaming
📆 DATE
Thursday 21 Nov 2024
⏰ MELBOURNE TIME
8.00 - 9.00 am
⏰ LOCAL START TIME
time start
KRISTINA KARLSSON
THOMAS MITCHELL
Social dreaming
Social Dreaming is sharing dreams, and associations to those dreams, with fellow participants in order to make connections, amplify themes, think systemically and generate new thoughts. The idea is that shared dreams are reflective of something alive in the context / culture of the day but that may not be in conscious awareness. The practice of social dreaming offers participants an opportunity to explore thoughts, experiences, and society in ways they may not have encountered previously.
A series of three social dreaming matrices will contribute to the symposium goal of deepening our collective understanding of the underlying psychological and systemic forces at play in the project of decolonisation. The final matrix is the morning after the symposium’s closing sessions, offering participants an opportunity to dream and reflect on the overall symposium experience.
We look forward to dreaming, associating, and reflecting with you.