66th Annual Conference

Saturday, February 21

Morning Workshops

9:00 - 11:30 A.M.

Workshop 82

Creating Resilient Organizations: A Jungian Perspective

Chairs:                

Stephanie Fariss, JD, LCSW, CGP, Faculty, C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Catharine J. Jones, LCSW, Faculty, C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago, Evanston, Illinois

Sonia Sukanick, M.S.W., LCSW, Private Practice, Chicago, Illinois

An organization’s resiliency depends on its ability to impose order or create meaning during periods of instability. Drawing on history, research, and Analytical Psychology, this workshop will identify ways of working with structure and meaning to create resiliency and engage participants in an experiential exercise using the Jungian concept of typology.

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Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe the characteristics of resilient organizations and examples of ways in which a group can work with structure and meaning to create resiliency.

2. Name concepts from Analytical Psychology that can be useful in creating and maintaining the resiliency of an organization.

3. Identify one’s typology and the strengths and limitations associated with that particular typology when working with others to build community.

Course References:

1. Berens, L.V., et al (2002). Quick Guide to the 16 Personality Types in Organizations: Understanding Personality Difference in the Workplace. Huntington Beach, CA: Telos Publications.

2. Coutu, D.L. (2002). “How Resilience Works.” In HBR On Point: A Collection of Articles on Organizational Resilience, Product no. 1695. Cambridge: Harvard Business School Publishing.

3. McCullough, D. (2001). John Adams. New York, Simon & Schuster.

4. Stein, M. (1996). Practicing Wholeness. New York: Chiron.

5. Weick, K.E. (1993). “The collapse of sensemaking in organizations: The Mann Gulch disaster.” Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 38, pp. 628-652.