Holding the Turbulent World at Work

Hosted by Thomas Mitchell, Dr Manon de Jongh, and Dr Priscilla Netto

Moderated by Professor Susan Long

Moderated by Professor Aaron Nurick

Working with Interorganisational Group Dynamics in the Green Transition: Insights from Simulation-Based Leadership Development in the Danish Green Tripartite

Conflict Capability as a Foundation of Holding in Turbulent Environments

Containing Commercial Turbulence: The Unconscious Life of Sales Organisations and What It Reveals About Holding at Work

Building Bridges in the Boardroom: Holding Turbulence Through Psychodynamic and Systems Thinking in Board Dynamics

Living in Between: Organisational Identity in Relocated Russian Technology Companies After 2022

Working on Earthly Escape: Exploring the Systems-Psychodynamics of Spacefaring Organizations

The Earth as Holding Environment: Planetary Instability and the Crisis of Containment

Being with turbulence

Centering Sentience Centering Sentience: Restoring the Role of Felt Experience in Systems Thinking

Asymmetric Demand, the Doubling of the Double Task, and the Cost of Defending Against Anxiety

Doing Business in a Temporary State of Mind: War, Displacement and Containment in a Small Service Organization

Organisational Holding Environments: Generative Practice or Sophisticated Defence?

Between Certainty and Curiosity: Tending the Organisational Mind in Vortical Conditions

When The Desire of the Creative Class is Challenged by Defences Against Innovation

Identity Matrix: Seeing the Turbulent World Through Belonging to Large Groups

Communicative Suffocation and Defensive Organizing under Conditions of Total Digital Disruption in Iranian Organizations

Moderated by Thomas Mitchell

Babel curse or cure? - role of language in holding the turbulent world

Mourning After Unplanned Midlife Career Transitions: Identifying Ballast and Treasures in the Family Baggage

Taking “We Care” Seriously: A Socioanalytic Inquiry into Corporate Care, Psychological Safety and the Invisible Life of Organisations

Holding Turbulence from within: internal consultancy in an NHS psychiatric intensive care unit

The closing plenary offers the opportunity for all participants to reflect on, share experience of and learnings from the 2026 NIODA/ISPSO online Symposium. It will be led by the Symposium Planning Committee: Susan Long; Aaron Nurick; Thomas Mitchell; Sally Mussared and Belinda Cashel. The Symposium will be closed by Sally Mussared (NIODA CEO) and Alexandra Gerny (ISPSO President).