Holding the Turbulent World at Work
A Joint NIODA and ISPSO Symposium
24 - 27 September 2026
/24 - 27 September 2026
/24 - 27 September 2026
/24 - 27 September 2026
/24 - 27 September 2026
/24 - 27 September 2026
/24 - 27 September 2026
/24 - 27 September 2026
/24 - 27 September 2026
/24 - 27 September 2026
/Holding the Turbulent World at Work
The goal of this joint NIODA/ISPSO symposium is to deepen our collective understanding of the underlying psychological and systemic forces at work in this turbulent world, their impacts at work and on organisations and how we work with them.
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Social Dreaming Matrix
Opening Panel 1: Systemic Turbulence
Dr Simon Western & Otti Vogt
Moderated by Professor Susan Long
Opening Panel 2: Turbulent Work Today
Dr Mishel McMahon, Dr Larry Hirschhorn, & Brett MacFarlane
Moderated by Professor Aaron Nurick
Parallel Paper Session 1
Dr Manon de Jongh
Working with Interorganisational Group Dynamics in the Green Transition: Insights from Simulation-Based Leadership Development in the Danish Green Tripartite
Go to Dr Manon de JonghDr Alexander Schall
Conflict Capability as a Foundation of Holding in Turbulent Environments
Go to Dr Alexander SchallProfessor Tim Roberts-Ferguson
Containing Commercial Turbulence: The Unconscious Life of Sales Organisations and What It Reveals About Holding at Work
Go to Professor Tim Roberts-FergusonDorrit Kromann
Building Bridges in the Boardroom: Holding Turbulence Through Psychodynamic and Systems Thinking in Board Dynamics
Go to Dorrit KromannParallel Paper Session 2
Anastasia Evstigneeva
Living in Between: Organisational Identity in Relocated Russian Technology Companies After 2022
Go to Anastasia EvstigneevaDr Joram Feitsma
Working on Earthly Escape: Exploring the Systems-Psychodynamics of Spacefaring Organizations
Go to Dr Joram FeitsmaCharlotte Williams
The Earth as Holding Environment: Planetary Instability and the Crisis of Containment
Go to Charlotte WilliamsMark Argent
Being with turbulence
Go to Mark ArgentParallel Paper Session 3
Dr Michael Lindsay
Centering Sentience Centering Sentience: Restoring the Role of Felt Experience in Systems Thinking
Go to Dr Michael LindsayDr Philip Boxer
Asymmetric Demand, the Doubling of the Double Task, and the Cost of Defending Against Anxiety
Go to Dr Philip BoxerMariana Vargas
Doing Business in a Temporary State of Mind: War, Displacement and Containment in a Small Service Organization
Go to Mariana VargasDavid Hartwich
Organisational Holding Environments: Generative Practice or Sophisticated Defence?
Go to David HartwichParallel Paper Session 4
Fred Wright
Between Certainty and Curiosity: Tending the Organisational Mind in Vortical Conditions
Go to Fred WrightThea Mikkelsen
When The Desire of the Creative Class is Challenged by Defences Against Innovation
Go to Thea MikkelsenIrina Brazhnikova & Tatyana Ezhova
Identity Matrix: Seeing the Turbulent World Through Belonging to Large Groups
Go to Irina Brazhnikova & Tatyana EzhovaJavad Mohamadzade
Communicative Suffocation and Defensive Organizing under Conditions of Total Digital Disruption in Iranian Organizations
Go to Javad MohamadzadePanel 3: Holding/containing Turbulence
Dr Rica Viljoen, Dr Vuis Uj Vilikati, & Dr Tiago Mendes
Moderated by Thomas Mitchell
Parallel Paper Session 5
Dragana Vranješ, Dr Judit Gáspár, & Jim Krantz
Babel curse or cure? - role of language in holding the turbulent world
Go to Dragana Vranješ, Dr Judit Gáspár, & Jim KrantzDr Elisabeth Prchla
Mourning After Unplanned Midlife Career Transitions: Identifying Ballast and Treasures in the Family Baggage
Go to Dr Elisabeth PrchlaProfessor Andrew Sharman
Taking “We Care” Seriously: A Socioanalytic Inquiry into Corporate Care, Psychological Safety and the Invisible Life of Organisations
Go to Professor Andrew SharmanAjoy Datta
Holding Turbulence from within: internal consultancy in an NHS psychiatric intensive care unit
Go to Ajoy DattaReflections
Professor Susan Long, Professor Aaron Nurick, Thomas Mitchell & Sally Mussared
Whole of Symposium reflections