Key Points
- My Authority, My Role & My Organizational System
- Contact with My Organizational Realities
- Strategizing to Address My Organizational Dynamics & Make Things Happen
- Thinking with Other Leaders
This experiential learning opportunity builds on your skill to stand back from a problem, see multiple perspectives and strategize.
Develop more insight into:
- How unconscious processes impact your leadership and impede impact
- Underlying organizational anxietiesand defenses that block impact
Method
This group will work together to:
- Provide a framework
- Support and challenge and work strategically with defenses against anxieties
There will be opportunities to present in depth organizational dilemmas that will include:
Puzzles, stuck places, dilemmas
Your identities/identifications and how these compound or enhance your leadership challenges and possibilities
Your role in the system
Observations and analysis of how decisions are made; how meetings are conducted; other relevant organizational data
Working with unconscious collective impediments
Previous Experience for this Program
Participants will have:
- Some familiarity with psychoanalytic and or systems psychodynamic thinking about organizations
- Will have attended at least one group relations conference
Cost: Sliding scale $500 individual – $1,200 CAD for large organizations for 9 two hour sessions via Zoom
Dates: Monthly meetings between Oct. 5, 2023 to May 30, 2024
Contact Tanya Lewis: tlewis@bureaukensington.com | 647 355 7569
Faculty
Dr. Tanya Lewis, Course Director and Instructor was a senior leader in several large Canadian universities and has worked with and consulted to community organizations and groups. She is the Director of Coaching at Bureau Kensington, the Secretary of the Board of the Boston Centre for Social Dynamics and the Coordinator of Toronto Insight for Community Impact (ici-ici.ca).
Dr. Barbara Williams, Instructor and Consultant is the Director of Bureau Kensington. She works with not for-profit and social justice organizations from a psychoanalytic and feminist perspective. She has taught leadership at many universities across Canada and consults with countless leaders in Toronto and internationally.
Other guests will be invited to think with the group.Bureau Kensington, Inc. is a boutique consulting firm based in Toronto,
Canada offering organizational consulting, leadership, and management
consulting services from a psychodynamic perspective.
