65th Annual Conference

Friday, February 22

Early Bird Open Sessions

7:15-8:15 A.M.

Session 215

A Safe Place to Be or No Place For Me?

Presenter:

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

The presenter will draw upon organizational literature, analytic theories, and personal experience in order to discuss the influence of intergenerational issues on individuals’ movement into and through organizations.  Participants will discuss the ways in which their socio-economic, cultural, and familial histories color their affective and interpersonal lives within AGPA.

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1)   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)   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. P. & Agazarian, Y. M. (2004). Systems-centered emotional intelligence: Beyond individual systems to organizational systems. Organizational Analysis, 12 (2), 147-169.

2.  Shapiro, E. R. & Carr, A. W. (1991). Lost in familiar places: Creating new connections between the individual and society. Yale University Press: New Haven, CT.

3. Bolman, L. G. & Deal, T. E. (2003). Reframing organizations: Artistry, Choice, & Leadership. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: San Francisco, CA.