64th Annual Conference

Thursday, March 8

Early Bird Open Sessions

7:15-8:15 A.M.

Session 206

You Can Never Go Home Again, You Will Never Stop Trying: The Promise of Joining a Professional Organization

Chair:

Karin Hodges, M.S., Doctoral Candidate, Antioch New England Graduate School, Department of Clinical Psychology, Keene, New Hampshire

Presenters:        

Theodore Ellenhorn, Ph.D., Antioch University/New England Graduate School, Department of Clinical Psychology, Keene, New Hampshire

Dagmar Kaufmann, M.A., Doctoral Candidate, University of Rochester, Department of Clinical and Social Psychology, Rochester, NY

Presenters will draw from personal experience, organizational literature, and group analytic theory in order to discuss the influence of intergenerational issues in individuals’ movements into and through organizations. Participants will have an opportunity to reflect upon the ways in which their socio-economic and cultural histories color their experiences within AGPA.

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Recognize ways that the force of their parents and grandparents’ life stories have left an impression on their developing (personal and) professional self.
2. Gain awareness of feelings within their family and culture that translate into their feelings within organizations.
3. Cite those roles that they played in their family that have carried over into their roles within organizations.
4. Describe social and cultural factors that have helped or hindered their ability to join or continue to join with the profession of group psychotherapy.
 

Course References:

1. Gantt, S. & Agazarian, Y. (2004). Systems-centered Emotional Intelligence: Beyond individual systems to organizational systems. Organizational Analysis, 12 (2), 147-169.
2. Shapiro, E. & Carr, A. (1991). Lost in Familiar Places: Creating new connections between the individual and society. New Haven, CT:  Yale University Press.
3. Bolman, L.& Deal, T. (2003). Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, & Leadership. San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.