65th Annual Conference
Thursday, February
21
Afternoon Open
Sessions
2:45
P.M.-6:00 P.M.
Session
306
The
Co-Creation of Leadership: The Interface Between Psychotherapy
Groups and Large Group Political Processes
Chair:
Robert H.
Klein, Ph.D, ABPP, CGP, LFAGPA, Private Practice, Orange, Connecticut
Panelists:
Rosemary Segalla, Ph.D., CGP, Private Practice,
Washington, DC
Stanley Schneider, Ph.D., CGP, LFAGPA, Chairman, Program
for Advanced Studies in Integrative Psychotherapy, Hebrew
University, Jerusalem, Israel
Hala D. Taweel, Ph.D., M.P.A.,
President, University of the Middle East Project, Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Discussants:
Cecil Rice, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA,
Private Practice, Needham, Massachusetts
Victor L. Schermer, MA, LPC, CAC, CGP, FAGPA, Private
Practice, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Leadership, we
believe, is co-created in vivo between the leader and the group.
Both conscious and unconscious factors play important roles in the
co-construction process. Insights from psychodynamically informed
perspectives will be used with a demonstration group to examine this
process in both small and large groups, with special attention
devoted to the establishment of the relationship between leader and
group, the vicissitudes in its development, and its potential for
constructive and destructive outcomes. Implications for broader
political leadership will be explored.
Learning
Objectives:
The attendee will
be able to:
1. Participants
will develop a clearer understanding of how leadership is
co-created.
2. Participants will be able to identify the important factors that
underlie the co-creation process.
3. Participants will be able to recognize the relevance
psychodynamic insights for understanding broader political
leadership.
Course References
1. Billow, R.M.
(2003).
Relational Group Psychotherapy: From Basic Assumptions to
Passion.
London: Jessica Kingsley.
2. Klein, E. B. (1998).
The psychodynamics of leadership. Madison,
CT. The Psychosocial Press.
3. Volkan, V. (2004).
Blind trust: Large groups and their leaders in
times of crisis and
terror. Charlottesville, VA: Pitchstone Publishing. |
