Events
Connect, reflect, and learn with NIODA.
Masters Preview Session
Meet the NIODA team and find out more about our unique Masters course
Colloquium 2026
PhD candidates and Master of Leadership and Management (Organisation Dynamics) students showcase their learning across their degree
Masters Preview Session
Meet the NIODA team and find out more about our unique Masters course
Seminar: The Transforming Experience Framework (TEF)
This seminar introduces the Transforming Experience Framework (TEF), a tool designed to map experience across psychological, systemic, contextual, and spiritual domains. Taking role rather than the individual or organisational chart as its basic unit of analysis, the framework helps participants navigate workplace complexity and act more authentically within explicit and tacit constraints. Attendees will explore how the TEF applies across different role contexts while working through a real workplace dilemma. Through reflective and reflexive enquiry, participants will gain direct experience in applying critical praxis to find, make, and take up their roles effectively.
Seminar: Exploring the shifting dynamics of metaphor in organisational design conversations
This seminar explores the role of metaphor in organisational sense-making and design conversations. Drawing on his PhD research, Chris examines how metaphors liberate thinking yet can also constrain meaning and construct reality. Participants will experiment with metaphor in group scenarios to explore when a generative metaphor becomes a limit and how to know when to let it go.
Seminar: Leadership Role Biography
This Leadership Role Biography presentation is about articulating the conceptual frame of role biography and how it has been developed to work with Leadership Teams. Experience has shown that Leadership Role Biography builds deeper understanding of each team member’s work practice which then becomes the basis for leading collaboratively as a team. Seminar participants will leave with developed understanding of how to use Leadership Role Biography in their own practice.
Group Relations Conference
Save the date for NIODA's Group Relations Conference 2027. More details to follow.
NIODA/ISPSO Symposium 2026: Holding the Turbulent World at Work
Holding the Turbulent World at Work
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DEI beyond the business case: a deeper look at inclusion in practice
What happens when Diversity, Equity and Inclusion becomes something we perform rather than something we meaningfully engage with?
Seminar: Humanity Mat
This seminar introduces the Humanity Mat as a socio-analytic and systems psychodynamic method for exploring the emotional, relational, and unconscious dimensions of encountering cultural difference. Adapted for an online environment, participants will learn about the method’s foundations and experience how positioning, association, and group dialogue can give form to what may be felt before it can be thought or spoken.
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Book Launch: Simon Western
Join NIODA for the launch of Entanglements: Weaving Our Futures, as author Dr Simon Western joins Associate Professor Brigid Nossal in conversation about leadership, psychoanalysis, and what it means to live well in a Precarious-Interdependent Age.
Master's Preview Session
Meet the NIODA team and find out more about our unique Masters course
Seminar: Social Dreaming
This seminar introduces the theory behind social dreaming and offers a 'taster' of it as a socioanalytic method. Social dreaming is concerned with dreams and their meaning for social systems—conducted in a matrix rather than a group, where members present dreams, associate and connect to them, and discover new thoughts together. The session will be conducted by Professor Susan Long, who has worked with social dreaming for over 30 years.