Small Study Group 2022

Small Study Group 2022

by | Dec 14, 2021 | Events, Organisation Dynamics, Past Events

Small Study Group Series

Seven online sessions with

Dr Wendy Harding

Small Study Group Series

Seven live interactive online sessions with

Dr Wendy Harding

 

Seven two-hour sessions

Two time options starting March 2022

NIODA is offering an exciting and valuable opportunity to explore online small group dynamics through participation in a small study group. Studying online small group dynamics provides an edge to the work we are all currently engaged in on virtual mediums. The study group method is that of the traditional Tavistock style study group method. In this, the participant group explore their own conscious and unconscious patterns of small group behaviour in the ‘here and now’ using group/system-level analysis. This design encourages in-depth ‘learning through experience’ as well as laying a theoretical foundation for understanding interpersonal group dynamics.

Through this experience, it is anticipated participants will increase their capacity to identify, analyse and manage online and onsite workgroup dynamics; to appreciate the emotional labour of work, and to enable constructive leader-follower relations.

The direct group experience is supplemented by critical discussion of selected theories and models of group dynamics.

Your learning will be supported with weekly readings.

Dr Wendy Harding will lead and manage the sessions, along with taking up the consultant role to the study group.

Small Study Group Series: Dr Wendy Harding

AUD $2,000 for seven live interactive online two-hour sessions

The study group will be fully interactive and online. The commitment is for seven, two-hour sessions. The two hours will involve one hour of a traditional Group Relations style small study group and one hour of reflection, development of working hypotheses and links to work.

There is also an option to study this as a subject of the NIODA Master of Leadership and Management (Organisation Dynamics) course which includes an additional three sessions and assignments are required. Please contact admin@nioda.org.au for details.

Starting Monday 7 March option

3 – 5 pm 🇨🇰  Melbourne
11 pm Sunday – 1 am 🇺🇸  New York
4 – 6 am (eek!) 🇬🇧 London
6 – 8 am 🇿🇦 South Africa
9.30 – 11.30 am 🇮🇳 New Delhi
12  – 3 pm 🇸🇬  Singapore

or

Starting Tuesday 8 March option

7 – 9 am 🇨🇰  Melbourne
3 pm Monday – 5 pm 🇺🇸  New York
8 pm Monday – 10 pm 🇬🇧  London
10 pm Monday – 12 am 🇿🇦 South Africa
1.30 – 3.30 am (eek!) 🇮🇳 New Delhi
4 – 6 am (eek!) 🇸🇬  Singapore

Please note, there are time zone shifts during these sessions to daylight savings and wintertime, so the session times do vary.  The time listed below is set to calculate the first start time depending on the time zone of your computer.  The first sessions will start at:

time start

or

time start

Register Here

Small Study Group 2022

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Wendy Harding, CEO NIODA

Dr Wendy Harding

Small Study Group Series

CEO & Director of Academic Programs NIODA, Australia

Wendy Harding has been actively involved in the field of organisation dynamics in Australia for 30 years. She has been an educator for 25 years, first at Swinburne University, then RMIT, and since 2014 at the National Institute of Organisation Dynamics Australia (NIODA). Wendy is currently the NIODA’s CEO and Director of Academic Programs. Wendy is also faculty in both the NIODA master’s degree and PhD.

Study group is a unique and powerful method for understanding the ways in which covert dynamics impact the way that groups and systems work towards tasks, or alternatively seek to avoid the task. Avoidance can occur as a result of the challenging experience of being in a group, the task itself and the contextual forces acting on the group, or all of the above together. Wendy has had decades of experience in introducing ideas about deeper group dynamics and their impacts on the group through the study group consultant role. It is a critical capacity of the study group consultant to co-create with the group safe enough conditions for in-depth learning to occur. Wendy brings her extensive knowledge and experience to this task. Participants of study groups are then able to translate their learning to a greater understanding of, and influence upon their own workplace group dynamics, both online and onsite. This learning is a significant professional edge for all leaders, managers and team members.

When & Where

NIODA Small Study Group Series 2022: Seven two-hour live interactive online sessions with Dr Wendy Harding

📆  Dates

Monday’s

7, 21 & 28 March
4 & 11 April
2 & 9 May

⏰. Session Times

3 – 5 pm 🇨🇰  Melbourne
11 pm Sunday – 1 am 🇺🇸  New York
4 – 6 am (eek!) 🇬🇧 London
6 – 8 am 🇿🇦 South Africa
9.30 – 11.30 am 🇮🇳 New Delhi
12  – 3 pm 🇸🇬  Singapore

Due to changes in different countries for daylight savings, summertime, wintertime there will be variations.

📆  Dates

Tuesday’s

8, 15 & 22 March
5, 12 & 26 April
3 May

⏰. Session Times

7 – 9 am 🇨🇰  Melbourne
3 pm Monday – 5 pm 🇺🇸  New York
8 pm Monday – 10 pm 🇬🇧 London
10 pm Monday – 12 am 🇿🇦 South Africa
1.30 – 3.30 am (eek!) 🇮🇳 New Delhi
4 – 6 am (eek!) 🇸🇬  Singapore

Due to changes in different countries for daylight savings, summertime, wintertime there will be variations.

💷  For only

AUD $2,000 including; all seven two-hour sessions; study group, weekly readings, and critical discussions with limited participant numbers

There is an option to study this as a subject of the NIODA Master of Leadership and Management (Organisation Dynamics) course which includes an additional three sessions and assignments are required. Please contact admin@nioda.org.au for details.

👩🏻‍💻. Location

Live interactive online sessions via Zoom

Register Here

About NIODA

The National Institute of Organisation Dynamics Australia (NIODA) offers internationally renowned post-graduate education and research in organisation dynamics, and decades of experience consulting with Australian organisations. 

The study of organisation dynamics brings together socio-technical and psychoanalytic disciplines to explore the unconscious dynamics that exist in every group, team or organisation. Learning more about these theories, and reflecting on the experience of them, can support leaders and managers to unlock great potential in their organisations, tackling issues through a whole new light.

Contact

info@nioda.org.au

PO Box 287, Collins Street West,
Melbourne  8007  Australia
+61 (0) 414 529 867
info@nioda.org.au

About NIODA
NIODA Board of Governance
Academic Board of Governance
Human Research Ethics Committee
Education Committee
Executive Management Committee
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NIODA acknowledges the Kulin Nations, and respective Traditional Custodians of the lands we work on.
We pay our respects to Elders past and present, and recognise their enduring sovereignty which has, and continues to, care for Country.
NIODA welcomes the Uluru Statement from the Heart’s invitation to walk with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in a collective movement for a better future.

Small Study Group Series, October 2021

Small Study Group Series, October 2021

by | Sep 11, 2021 | Events, Organisation Dynamics, Past Events

Small Study Group Series

Seven online sessions with

Dr Wendy Harding

 Small Study Group Series

Seven live interactive online sessions with

Dr Wendy Harding

 

Seven two-hour sessions

Fridays and Tuesdays 15 October till 9 November 2021

(Excluding 2 November)

NIODA is offering an exciting and valuable opportunity to explore online small group dynamics through participation in a small study group. Studying online small group dynamics is likely to be new to all, with the learning providing such an edge to the work we are all currently engaged in on virtual mediums. The study group method is that of the traditional Tavistock style study group method. In this, the participant group explore their own conscious and unconscious patterns of small group behaviour in the ‘here and now’ using group/system-level analysis. This design encourages in-depth ‘learning through experience’ as well as laying a theoretical foundation for understanding interpersonal group dynamics.

Through this experience, it is anticipated participants will increase their capacity to identify, analyse and manage online and onsite workgroup dynamics; to appreciate the emotional labour of work, and to enable constructive leader-follower relations.

The direct group experience is supplemented by critical discussion of selected theories and models of group dynamics.

Your learning will be supported with weekly readings.

Dr Wendy Harding will lead and manage the sessions, along with taking up the consultant role to the study group.

Small Study Group Series: Dr Wendy Harding

AUD $2,000 for seven live interactive online two-hour sessions

The study group will be fully interactive and online. The commitment is for seven, two-hour sessions on Tuesday and Friday mornings 8 – 10 am (Melbourne time). The two hours will involve one hour of a traditional Group Relations style small study group and one hour of reflection, development of working hypotheses and links to work.

There is also an option to study this as a subject of the NIODA Master of Leadership and Management (Organisation Dynamics) course which includes an additional three sessions and assignments are required. Please contact admin@nioda.org.au for details.

8 – 10 am 🇨🇰  Melbourne
5 – 7 am 🇸🇬  Singapore
2.30 – 4.30 am (eek!) 🇮🇳 New Delhi
10 pm – 12 am 🇬🇧  London
11 pm – 1 am 🇿🇦 South Africa
5 – 7 pm 🇺🇸  New York

Please note, there are time zone shifts during these sessions to daylight savings and wintertime, so the session times do vary.  The time listed below is set to calculate the first start time depending on the time zone of your computer.  The first session will start at:

time start

Register Here

Small Study Group Series, October 2021

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Wendy Harding, CEO NIODA

Dr Wendy Harding

Small Study Group Series

CEO & Director of Academic Programs NIODA, Australia

Dr Wendy Harding is a senior practitioner in the Australian and global organisation dynamics field. Dr Harding is the current CEO and Director of Academic Programs at NIODA, having over 30 years’ experience in teaching, consulting, coaching, supervision and research. Across these years Wendy has undertaken many coaching, supervision, consultancy and action research projects in a broad span of organisational settings from large government departments to a variety of corporate and not-for-profit organisations. Organisational consulting projects have focussed on team and whole of organisation development and structural and cultural change, using a range of intervention methods. Individual coaching and supervision have been undertaken with a culturally diverse range of people working at all levels in organisations from executive level to direct service delivery.

Wendy’s coaching/supervision/consulting philosophy is based in strong beliefs in the capacity of people to be able to make change that supports their work. The role of a coach/supervisor/consultant is then to provide opportunity for shared reflection and consideration of the experience of undertaking the work in the organisation. In coaching and supervising deep reflection enables unblocking of obstructions to think, learn and action differently about the work. In organisational consulting what is enabled is the capacity to influence structure, culture and strategic processes, to thus add value to the organisation. Wendy’s practice involves the introduction of theory, method and technologies in support of these considerations, however, at its core is always about reflection and dialogue; about people working constructively together.

When & Where

NIODA Small Study Group Series 2021: Seven two-hour live interactive online sessions with Dr Wendy Harding

📆  Dates

Friday 15 October – Tuesday 5 November 2021

⏰. Session Times

8 – 10 am 🇨🇰  Melbourne
5 – 7 am 🇸🇬  Singapore
2.30 – 4.30 am (eek!) 🇮🇳 New Delhi
10 pm – 12 am 🇬🇧  London
11 pm – 1 am 🇿🇦 South Africa
5 – 7 pm 🇺🇸  New York

Due to changes in different countries for daylight savings, summertime, wintertime there will be variations. 

💷  For only

AUD $2,000 including; all seven two-hour sessions; study group, weekly readings, and critical discussions with limited participant numbers

There is an option to study this as a subject of the NIODA Master of Leadership and Management (Organisation Dynamics) course which includes an additional three sessions and assignments are required. Please contact admin@nioda.org.au for details.

👩🏻‍💻. Location

Live interactive online sessions via Zoom

Register Here

About NIODA

The National Institute of Organisation Dynamics Australia (NIODA) offers internationally renowned post-graduate education and research in organisation dynamics, and decades of experience consulting with Australian organisations. 

The study of organisation dynamics brings together socio-technical and psychoanalytic disciplines to explore the unconscious dynamics that exist in every group, team or organisation. Learning more about these theories, and reflecting on the experience of them, can support leaders and managers to unlock great potential in their organisations, tackling issues through a whole new light.

Contact

info@nioda.org.au

PO Box 287, Collins Street West,
Melbourne  8007  Australia
+61 (0) 414 529 867
info@nioda.org.au

About NIODA
NIODA Board of Governance
Academic Board of Governance
Human Research Ethics Committee
Education Committee
Executive Management Committee
Reconciliation Action Plan

 

Academic Programs
Research & Scholarship
Consulting
Ethics
Policies
Library Access
Events
Insights blog
Student Access
Alumni
Staff
Donate
Homepage

NIODA acknowledges the Kulin Nations, and respective Traditional Custodians of the lands we work on.
We pay our respects to Elders past and present, and recognise their enduring sovereignty which has, and continues to, care for Country.
NIODA welcomes the Uluru Statement from the Heart’s invitation to walk with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in a collective movement for a better future.

Talking about Coaching

Talking about Coaching

by | Jul 26, 2021 | Events, Organisation Dynamics, Past Events

Talking about Coaching

Working one-on-one with clients using a systems psychodynamic lens

Dr Brigid Nossal, Ms Helen McKelvie & Mr Thomas Mitchell

Talking about Coaching

Working one-on-one with clients using a systems psychodynamic lens

Dr Brigid Nossal, Ms Helen McKelvie & Mr Thomas Mitchell
& a case study with Ms Laurette Chang-Leng

Was the Organisational Role Analysis (ORA) subjects one of your favourites in your studies? Do you use the ORA framework in your practice? Are you interested in coaching or being coached?

This special NIODA Alumni event focuses on the practice of coaching using ORA, the Transforming Experience Framework (TEF), and Analytic Network Coaching (ANC).

A moderated panel of speakers will give an overview of each of the three frameworks, and have a conversation about in-practice application. This will be followed by a case study presentation with a coach and client who used a combination of the frameworks to work together on a career transition dilemma.

Small groups and plenary discussions will allow participants to think together about the presented material and applications of the frameworks in their own work.

 

Talking about Coaching

AUD $35 for this live interactive online two-hour session
in which we invite you to bring a friend for FREE!

Wednesday 25 August 2021

6 – 8 pm 🇨🇰 Melbourne
4 – 6 pm 🇸🇬 Singapore
9 – 11 am 🇬🇧 London
4 – 6 am (eeek!) 🇺🇸 New York

The time listed below is set to calculate the start time depending on the time zone
of your computer.  The session will start at:

time start

Register Here

Talking about Coaching

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The Use of Drawing as an Agent of Transformation: a case presentation

Dr Brigid Nossal

Deputy CEO & Director of Consulting

Brigid has worked as a coach with executives and managers for over 25 years. Her expertise is in Organisational Role Analysis and, more recently, Analytic-Network Coaching. Her approach is to work with clients to create a confidential exploratory space for examining and reflecting upon work roles, organisations, and the systems that they are part of. By supporting clients to adopt an analytical and systems focus, it is possible to get to the heart of personal and organisational challenges and how these impact both the individual and the system they are working in. Bringing two enquiring minds to the work teases out hidden assumptions and delivers new insights that support constructive decision-making. The ORA fosters this reflective method and a capability for questioning and challenging habitual ways of thinking that endures long after the coaching has ended.
Brigid has worked with a broad range of organisations, mostly in the public and not-for-profit sectors. Her passion is to provide opportunities for leaders to develop the skills and experience to reflect deeply upon the kinds of organisations, systems and societies that we are all engaged in co-creating.

Ms Helen McKelvie

Ms Helen McKelvie

Master’s Course Coordinator

Helen has had over 25 years of working in organisations to inform her approach to helping others gain insights into how they take up roles and how to achieve greater alignment with individual, team and organisational purpose. Her own roles as internal planning consultant, policy and project manager, and lawyer in workplaces in both the public and private sectors have provided her with first-hand experience of the complexity and challenges of organisational life.
In her coaching practice Helen is passionate about nurturing each client’s leadership potential in whatever role they are in, or are aspiring to. Her areas of particular interest include: working with the challenges and benefits of cultural diversity; supporting new career directions, ‘What’s next?’; and understanding how to achieve ‘successful succession’.
Helen creates a safe, reflective space for respectful communication and connection, opening up possibility for deep learning and growth.
Helen is an alumnus and now teaches in the Master’s program at the National Institute of Organisation Dynamics Australia (NIODA). She also has a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne. In addition to her academic qualifications Helen is an accredited practitioner of PRISM Brain Mapping, an online, neuroscience-based behaviour mapping instrument, and is a registered A-N Coach, Certified to use the Analytic-Network Coaching System and Certified to coach and debrief the Wild Leadership Questionnaire. Helen also has training and experience in workplace mediation, and yoga teaching qualifications. She is a member of Group Relations Australia.

Mr Thomas Mitchell

Mr Thomas Mitchell

Academic Teaching Staff Member

Over the last several years Thomas has enhanced his extensive professional experience by learning from, and working with, leaders across the executive coaching, group dynamics, and systems psychodynamics fields. A graduate of the NIODA Master of Leadership and Management – Organisation Dynamics, Thomas combines a deep understanding of working in large organisations with a passion for supporting others as they work toward achieving their goals and gaining deeper awareness of their actions and drivers. Highly skilled in creating a safe environment to support participants explore their roles, Thomas manages the balance between empathy and candour allowing participants to feel secure whilst having their assumptions challenged.

When & Where

Talking about Coaching: Working one-on-one with clients using a systems psychodynamic lens

📆  Date

Wednesday 25 August 2021

⏰. Session Times

6 – 8 pm 🇨🇰 Melbourne
9 – 11 am 🇬🇧 London
4 – 6 pm 🇸🇬 Singapore
4 – 6 am (eek!) 🇺🇸 New York

💷  For only

AUD $35 two-hour session (& bring a friend for FREE)
including presentations, small group and plenary discussions

👩🏻‍💻. Location

Live interactive online session via Zoom

Register Here

About NIODA

The National Institute of Organisation Dynamics Australia (NIODA) offers internationally renowned post-graduate education and research in organisation dynamics, and decades of experience consulting with Australian organisations. 

The study of organisation dynamics brings together socio-technical and psychoanalytic disciplines to explore the unconscious dynamics that exist in every group, team or organisation. Learning more about these theories, and reflecting on the experience of them, can support leaders and managers to unlock great potential in their organisations, tackling issues through a whole new light.

Contact

info@nioda.org.au

Get In Touch

PO box 287, Collins Street West,
Melbourne  8007  Australia
+61 414 529 867
info@nioda.org.au

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Small Study Group Series, October 2021

Small Study Group Series 2021

by | Jul 21, 2021 | Events, Organisation Dynamics, Past Events

Small Study Group Series

Eight online sessions with 

Dr Wendy Harding

 Small Study Group Series

Eight live interactive online sessions with

Dr Wendy Harding

 

Eight two-hour sessions 3 – 5 pm

Monday 2 August till 4 October 2021 (Excluding 30 August, 27 September)

NIODA is offering alumni and friends of NIODA an exciting and valuable opportunity to explore online small group dynamics through participation in a small study group. Studying online small group dynamics  is likely to be new to all, with the learning providing such an edge to the work we are all currently engaged in on virtual mediums. The study group method is that of the traditional Tavistock style study group method. In this, the participant group explore their own conscious and unconscious patterns of small group behaviour in the ‘here and now’ using group/system-level analysis. This design encourages in-depth ‘learning through experience’ as well as laying a theoretical foundation for understanding interpersonal group dynamics.

Through this experience, it is anticipated participants will increase their capacity to identify, analyse and manage online and onsite workgroup dynamics; to appreciate the emotional labour of work, and to enable constructive leader-follower relations.

The direct group experience is supplemented by critical discussion of selected theories and models of group dynamics.

Your learning will be supported with weekly readings.

Dr Wendy Harding will lead and manage the sessions, along with taking up the consultant role to the study group.

Small Study Group Series: Dr Wendy Harding

AUD $2,000 for eight live interactive online two-hour sessions

The study group will be fully interactive and online. The commitment is for eight, two-hour sessions on Monday evenings 3 – 5 pm (Melbourne time). The two hours will involve one hour of a traditional Group Relations style small study group and one hour of reflection, development of working hypotheses and links to work.

3 – 5 pm 🇨🇰  Melbourne
1 – 3 pm 🇸🇬  Singapore
6 – 8 am 🇬🇧  London
1 – 3 am (eek!) 🇺🇸  New York

Please note, there are time zone shifts during these sessions to daylight savings and wintertime, so the session times do vary.  The time listed below is set to calculate the first start time depending on the time zone of your computer.  The first session will start at:

time start

Register Here

Small Study Group Series 2021

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Wendy Harding, CEO NIODA

Dr Wendy Harding

Small Study Group Series

CEO & Director of Academic Programs NIODA, Australia

Dr Wendy Harding is a senior practitioner in the Australian and global organisation dynamics field. Dr Harding is the current CEO and Director of Academic Programs at NIODA, having over 30 years’ experience in teaching, consulting, coaching, supervision and research. Across these years Wendy has undertaken many coaching, supervision, consultancy and action research projects in a broad span of organisational settings from large government departments to a variety of corporate and not-for-profit organisations. Organisational consulting projects have focussed on team and whole of organisation development and structural and cultural change, using a range of intervention methods. Individual coaching and supervision have been undertaken with a culturally diverse range of people working at all levels in organisations from executive level to direct service delivery.

Wendy’s coaching/supervision/consulting philosophy is based in strong beliefs in the capacity of people to be able to make change that supports their work. The role of a coach/supervisor/consultant is then to provide opportunity for shared reflection and consideration of the experience of undertaking the work in the organisation. In coaching and supervising deep reflection enables unblocking of obstructions to think, learn and action differently about the work. In organisational consulting what is enabled is the capacity to influence structure, culture and strategic processes, to thus add value to the organisation. Wendy’s practice involves the introduction of theory, method and technologies in support of these considerations, however, at its core is always about reflection and dialogue; about people working constructively together.

When & Where

NIODA Small Study Group Series 2020: Eight two-hour live interactive online sessions with Dr Wendy Harding

📆  Dates

Monday 2 August – 4 October 2021

⏰. Session Times

3 – 5 pm 🇨🇰  Melbourne
1 – 3 pm 🇸🇬  Singapore
6 – 8 am 🇬🇧  London
1 – 3 am (eek!) 🇺🇸  New York

Please note there is a mid-session break on Monday 30 August
and no session on Monday 27 September

Due to changes in different countries for daylight savings, summertime, wintertime there will be variations.  At the beginning of October, Melbourne changes to daylight savings time, so there is a variation of one hour for other time zones. 

💷  For only

AUD $2,000 including; all eight two-hour session; study group, weekly readings, and critical discussions with limited participant numbers

👩🏻‍💻. Location

Live interactive online sessions via Zoom

Register Here

About NIODA

The National Institute of Organisation Dynamics Australia (NIODA) offers internationally renowned post-graduate education and research in organisation dynamics, and decades of experience consulting with Australian organisations. 

The study of organisation dynamics brings together socio-technical and psychoanalytic disciplines to explore the unconscious dynamics that exist in every group, team or organisation. Learning more about these theories, and reflecting on the experience of them, can support leaders and managers to unlock great potential in their organisations, tackling issues through a whole new light.

Contact

info@nioda.org.au

Get In Touch

PO box 287, Collins Street West,
Melbourne  8007  Australia
+61 414 529 867
info@nioda.org.au

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Paradoxes over pancakes Smith and Berg

Paradoxes over pancakes Smith and Berg

by | Jul 21, 2021 | Events, Organisation Dynamics, Past Events

Paradoxes over pancakes

Kenwyn Smith and David Berg

Paradoxes over pancakes

50 years since

David Berg and Kenwyn Smith met

It has been 50 years since David Berg and Kenwyn Smith met as graduate students at Yale University! We are thrilled they are to share some reflections on their seminal text Paradoxes of Group Life, how it was ahead of its time when first published (1987), the impact it had on them and you and your work and organisation, what have/haven’t changed since then, and what is of most significance for them today.

Paradoxes over pancakes

AUD $35 for this live interactive online two-hour session

Friday 13 August 7.30 – 9.30 am 🇨🇰 Melbourne
Thursday 12 August 5.30 – 7.30 pm 🇺🇸 New York
Thursday 12 August 10.30 pm – 12.30 am 🇬🇧 London
Friday 13 August 5.30 – 7.30 am 🇸🇬 Singapore

Please note this is in Melbourne, Australia time.  The time listed below is set to calculate the first start time depending on the time zone of your computer.  The first session will start at:

time start

Register Here

Paradoxes over pancakes Smith and Berg

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Paradoxes of Group Life Smith Berg

Kenwyn Smith & David Berg

Paradoxes of Group Life

We would like to thank David Berg and Kenwyn Smith for this generous contribution in support of NIODA.

When & Where

Paradoxes over pancakes with Smith and Berg

📆  Date

Thursday 12 / Friday 13 August 2021

⏰. Session Times

Friday 13 August 7.30 – 9.30 am 🇨🇰 Melbourne
Thursday 12 August 5.30 – 7.30 pm 🇺🇸 New York
Thursday 12 August 10.30 pm – 12.30 am 🇬🇧 London
Friday 13 August 5.30 – 7.30 am 🇸🇬 Singapore

💷  For only

AUD $35 two-hour seminar including
the presentation, small group and plenary discussions

👩🏻‍💻. Location

Live interactive online session via Zoom

Register Here

About NIODA

The National Institute of Organisation Dynamics Australia (NIODA) offers internationally renowned post-graduate education and research in organisation dynamics, and decades of experience consulting with Australian organisations. 

The study of organisation dynamics brings together socio-technical and psychoanalytic disciplines to explore the unconscious dynamics that exist in every group, team or organisation. Learning more about these theories, and reflecting on the experience of them, can support leaders and managers to unlock great potential in their organisations, tackling issues through a whole new light.

Contact

info@nioda.org.au

Get In Touch

PO box 287, Collins Street West,
Melbourne  8007  Australia
+61 414 529 867
info@nioda.org.au

This Get In Touch form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

About NIODA
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Academic Board of Governance
Human Research Ethics Committee
Education Committee
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Group Relations Conference 2021

Group Relations Conference 2021

by | May 7, 2021 | Events, Past Events

Welcome
Approach
DESIGN
STAFF
Register
Contact

Complexity, Creativity and Community in a Networked World

NIODA Group Relations Online Working Conference

 

Live, interactive and online
3, 8, 9, 10 & 12 November 2021

This group relations conference invites us to discover our creative capacity in an online working environment.  It also seeks to understand a particular challenge of remote or hybrid work; to find and create online places, where we can connect with others to build a sense of community within and alongside our work organisations.

 

We live in a complex, uncertain and rapidly changing world which requires each of us to think creatively and innovatively about how to adapt to changing conditions. The pandemic provides ample evidence of this capacity: such as when working arrangements pivoted from school and office to home; the resurgence of local communities that provided support during social distancing; and the emergence of virtual orchestras and choirs.

For many of us, the impact of the pandemic has both opened and closed our world. By this we mean that the restrictions in place to minimise the spread of the pandemic have meant that many have moved to working from home, and simultaneously many events that were previously held ‘in the room’ have shifted online. In other words, we can undertake work, attend events and connect with others, both local and global, without leaving home. This ever-present connectivity invites an exploration of separation and togetherness; how it influences the way in which individuals engage with others; and, how communities form, develop and interact under such conditions. If the paradox of being and not-being together can be held in a good-enough way, the online or hybrid work environment may become a crucible for creativity.

The theme of the conference, Complexity, Creativity and Community in a Networked World, seeks to explore these challenges of hybrid and remote working. We invite you to join us in creating places within this conference to experience and make sense of group and social dynamics in a networked world.

Infinte stretches

Indigo shifts to lighter blue
Then darker hues emerge.
The Milky Way stretches southeast to northwest
As evening brings the world to rest
And in my place, I feel most blessed
Beneath the Southern Cross

And how I wish that all on earth 
Might feel a place of peace and worth
Amidst the pain that life can bring
To find a place where souls can sing.

Susan Long

APPROACH

Learning from experience

A group relations conference is not like conventional conferences, in that there are no keynote speakers, paper or poster presentations. The conference is conceived of as a temporary organisation, where members can learn from experience about how authority is taken up and experienced, and how leadership is exercised as they undertake activities related to the purpose and primary task of the conference.

You will not be ‘given’ concepts such as complexity, creativity and community, instead you will be invited to experience and make sense of these concepts in real time: emotionally, motivationally and cognitively.

Learning opportunities might include an exploration of questions such as:
How do we locate ourselves in online places?
How might we connect with others to build a sense of community within and alongside our work organisations?
How might creative practices (whether through words, images, or music) enable new ways of thinking?
How do creative practices sit alongside habitual practices?

The conference is for all those interested in understanding more about group and organisational dynamics, particularly in relation to the theme of the conference*. This includes managers, organisational consultants, researchers, scholars, board members, workers, professionals, students and interested others.

Participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from NIODA following the conference.

* We advise applicants who are undergoing significant personal stress to postpone attendance, as Group Relations Conferences can, at times, be an intensive emotional experience.

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DESIGN

Conference purpose and primary task

The purpose of the conference is to provide an opportunity to study the ways in which we find and create a sense of community in an online environment.

Conference staff and members will work on the primary task of the conference, which is to provide opportunities to discover creative potential as we study the emergence of community in this temporary organisation.

Conference Concepts

The conference is underpinned by group relations theory which focuses our attention on leadership, authority, task, and the regulation of organisational boundaries, as well as a complexity perspective which directs our attention to self-organising processes and networks of social, emotional, psychological, and political relationships. These two conceptual bases will enable us to explore how we take up roles and experience communities at work in this temporary organisation, and to experiment with ways of enabling creativity to emerge and flourish.

Primary task. As well as the conference primary task, each event in the conference will have a primary task. This enables an exploration of how tasks are taken up across the temporary organisation.

Role. Instead of focusing solely on a person, in group relations the focus is on a person-in-their-role. Role is where a person, the organisation, its purpose, and its context come together to create an experience that is unique to a person in their role. This enables an inquiry into the formal or informal role a person is taking up at a particular time.

Authority. In an organisation, authority is the right to make decisions which are binding on others. Authority can come from above (formal authority), from below or around (endorsed authority) and from within (personal authority).

Place. In this online conference, we consider the online meeting room as a place in potentiality, in that it will become a place on the arrival of people who have experiences and create meaning there.

Group dynamics. The study of conscious and unconscious group dynamics is enabled through an iterative cycle of acting, observing and reflecting on how people take up roles in groups and organisations.

Complexity. Complexity describes the behaviour of a system or environment that comprises many parts which interact with each in multiple ways. Complex environments require adaptive capacity to moderate and respond to competing and fast-changing demands on an organisation.

Creativity. Creativity is the way in which seemingly disparate, chaotic elements accumulate around a selected fact, giving new meaning to both the chaotic elements and the fact selected.

Community. Communities emerge as self-organising members who are ‘distinct-from’ each other and reach a coherence of unity in being ‘together-with’ each other. We can think of members of communities as citizens with equal rights, who interact and affect each other in a reciprocal way.

Conference Events

The conference comprises a series of events which are designed to enable an exploration of the conference primary task, to discover creative potential as we study the emergence of community in this temporary organisation.

Events include:

Plenary discussions – for the conference as-a-whole as well as for specific events

Study groups – experiential ‘here and now’ events to enable the study of conscious and unconscious group dynamics

Review Groups – reflective ‘there and then’ events for members to reflect on their experience of taking up roles in the conference

Social Dreaming – the practice of sharing, associating to and linking dreams in a matrix in order to identify organisational trends and social dynamics through the associative unconscious.

Community Event – offers members an experience of self-organising, to develop our understanding of how communities form, develop and are sustained; and, to study the relatedness of community to other forms of organisation in an online setting.

Application Groups – for members to consider how they might apply their learning as they transition out of the conference and back to their workplaces and community lives.

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STAFF

Conference Directorate

Dr Nuala Dent
Conference Director: Nuala Dent PhD

Nuala is a consultant, academic and artist, with a keen interest in the integration of art-based and systems psychodynamic approaches. She has worked in the field of leadership and management for over 15 years, supporting individuals and organisations to achieve their developmental goals. Her PhD research into the experience of a hybrid team, working at the intersection of face-to-face and online, places Nuala at the forefront of thinking about the opportunities and challenges for COVID-normal workplaces. Nuala works independently and is an Associate Faculty with NIODA. She has been on the staff of multiple group relations conferences and is a member of GRA and ISPSO.

Prof Susan Long
Associate Conference Director: Susan Long PhD

Susan Long is a Melbourne based organisational consultant and executive coach. She has consulted to organisational change in the health and justice sectors and coached senior executives across many sectors. She also works as a supervisor and coach for organisational development professionals in Australia and Singapore. Susan has published ten books and many articles in books and scholarly journals, is the General Editor of the journal Socioanalysis and Associate Editor with Organisational and Social Dynamics. She has over 35 years of experience with Group Relations, was the inaugural President of GRA, and a past president of ISPSO.

Ellie Robinson
Director of Administration: Ellie Robinson BA

Ellie Robinson is a Western Australian based marketing professional, with a background in service and NFP marketing. In her current role, as Marketing and Administration Coordinator at NIODA, is responsible for student communications and NIODA’s key marketing strategies. She has a special interest in building connections with unique people across the globe through travel.

CONSULTANTS

Consultants to the events in the conference will be drawn from the Executive Directorate and a team of consultants that includes the following people:

Cath McKinney
Cath McKinney PhD

Cath worked as a prison Chaplain with Women for the past four years, and has recently taken up a role with the University of Divinity coordinating and co-teaching the graduate awards in professional supervision. She did her PhD work in the area of disappointment and the lived experience of lack, and lives in Daylesford with her family and a host of other sentient beings. She loves the earth, growing food and enjoys the capacity we have to see and be seen, hear and be heard and love and be loved.

Kim Krantz
James Krantz PhD

James Krantz is an organizational consultant and researcher from New York, where he is Managing Principal of Worklab, a consulting firm focusing on strategy implementation and leadership development.  His principal interests are with the impact of emerging trends on the exercise of leadership and authority; the social and technical dimensions of new forms of work organization; and the unconscious background to work and organizational life. Currently, Jim serves as Honorary Professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow; Chair, Editorial Committee of the Journal of Organisational and Social Dynamics; and Faculty, Dynamics of Consulting at the Wharton School.

Kim Krantz
Prof Michael D Fischer PhD (London) MIGA FRAI FHEA PCC

Michael Fischer is a Professor of Organisational Culture and Leadership, an applied anthropologist, group analyst, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and executive coach. He works extensively with senior leadership teams on relational and emotional dimensions of culture change in knowledge-intensive organisations. Michael holds a PhD in psychoanalytic anthropology from Imperial College London, and has held professorial positions at the University of Oxford, King’s College London, and the University of Melbourne. Before his business school career, he was NHS clinical director and lead consultant psychotherapist at major teaching hospitals in Manchester, Liverpool and London. He has a specialist interest in the transformational dynamics of highly effective workplace cultures.

Ms Sunitha Lal's paper Weaving culture - One strand at a time
Sunitha Lal MLM

Sunitha Lal is the CHRO at Ather Energy and has more than twenty-five years’ of experience in the space of organisational development and people practices. She actively engages with and contributes to forums and platforms that focus on building Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Mindful Leadership, and Organisational Behaviour. She has participated in GR conferences and workshops as a member and staff since 2015 and is an Associate Member of Group Relations India. She is a strong proponent of the oral tradition of storytelling and is the author of the book ‘Dotting the Blemish and Other Stories’, a collection of short stories about women’s lives embedded in patriarchy.

Thomas Mitchell
Thomas Mitchell BA, MA(HPS), MLM(OD)

Over the last several years Thomas has enhanced his extensive professional experience by learning from, and working with, leaders across the executive coaching, group dynamics, and systems psychodynamics fields. A graduate of the NIODA Master of Leadership and Management – Organisation Dynamics, Thomas combines a deep understanding of working in large organisations with a passion for supporting others as they work toward achieving their goals and gaining deeper awareness of their actions and drivers. Highly skilled in creating a safe environment to support participants explore their roles, Thomas manages the balance between empathy and candour allowing participants to feel secure whilst having their assumptions challenged.

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Dates

Introductory Session: Familiarisation with the technology
Wednesday 3 November 2021

3 – 5 pm Melbourne 🇨🇰
4 – 6 am London 🇬🇧
12 – 2 pm Singapore 🇸🇬
12 – 2 am New York 🇺🇸
9:30 – 11:30 am New Delhi 🇮🇳 

Live Interactive online Conference:
Monday 8 – Wednesday 10 November 2021 and Friday 12 November

10 am – 4 pm Melbourne 🇨🇰
11 pm – 5 am London 🇬🇧
7 am –  1 pm Singapore 🇸🇬
7 pm –  1 am New York 🇺🇸
4:30 – 10:30 am New Delhi 🇮🇳

Fees

Full fee AUD$1,500
NIODA Alumni/AODA Members and
Group Relations Australia Members AUD$1,200
Two or more people from the same organisation AUD$1,200

Bursaries

Please contact Ellie Robinson, Director of Administration for
information about partial bursaries for those unable to meet the full amount.
GRC@nioda.org.au

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations before 6 September 2021 receive 100% refund (less $100 booking fee). Cancellation before 4 October 2021 receive 50% refund. There is no refund available after 4 October 2021.

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NIODA is a not-for-profit association whose primary purpose is delivering education for those specifically interested in understanding, applying and developing systems psychodynamic approaches to the improvement of work organisations. NIODA Academic offers a three-year, part-time Master of Leadership and Management (Organisation Dynamics) course, seminars and workshops. NIODA Consulting offers system psychodynamic-oriented consultancy to organisations, and NIODA Research conducts organisational research and an annual symposium.

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