66th
Annual Conference
Saturday, February 21
Afternoon
Workshops
1:30
- 4:00 P.M.
Workshop
93
This
Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land: Fostering One’s Sense of
Belonging in the Organizational Group
Chairs:
Karin
Hodges, M.S., Doctoral Candidate, Antioch University, New
England, Keene, New Hampshire
Donald
Wexler M.D., LFAGPA, Associate Professor, Boston
University School of Medicine, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Organizational
literature and psychoanalytic theories will guide this workshop in
which participants will reflect upon the ways in which their
socio-economic, cultural, familial, and professional histories color
their transferences towards AGPA. The workshop will include a
presentation, discussion, and group-process aimed at uncovering
affects within organizational life.
sharing of work
experiences-demonstration-experiential-didactic
Learning
Objectives:
The attendee will be able to:
1. Explain ways in
which an organization can be a place where one can feel "held,"
where they can experience affirmation, and where creativity and
growth can take place.
2. Describe the
processes by which organizational life can cause people to feel
vulnerable, isolated, enraged, or ashamed.
3. Cite factors
that have helped or hindered their ability to join or continue to
join with the profession of group psychotherapy.
4. Identify how to
engage in self-care within organizational life.
Course References:
1. Bolman, L.&
Deal, T. (2003). Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, &
Leadership. San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
2. Buckley, P.
(1986). Essential Papers on Object Relations. New York: New York
University Press.
3. Gavin, B.
(2003). Out of Chaos: Progression and Regression in the Workplace.
Psychodynamic Practice, 9(1), 43-60.
4. Nitsun, M.
(1996). The Anti-group: destructive forces in the group and their
creative potential. New York: Routledge.
5. Shapiro, E. &
Carr, A. (1991). Lost in Familiar Places: Creating new connections
between the individual and society. New Haven, CT: Yale University
Press. |
