PDW PROPOSALS

Professional Development Workshops (PDW’s) will be offered during the first two days of the ISPSO’s Annual Meeting in Vienna, Austria. PDW’s are designed to appeal to ISPSO members, and non-members, with an interest in the psychoanalytic study of organizations, regardless of profession. The PDW’s offer:

• Knowledge, skills and/or practices in psychoanalytic, and systems-psychodynamic thinking as they apply to understanding and working with organizations
• Opportunities to think and learn about organizations in diverse ways
• Multiple approaches to psychoanalytically informed organizational work.

The PDW Committee is looking for workshop proposals that are informed by psychoanalytic thinking, but do not need to take an approach that is solely psychoanalytic. Workshop proposals do not have to be directly connected to the theme of the meeting in Vienna – “MASTERS IN ONE’S OWN HOUSE?  Omnipotence and incompleteness in organizations and leadership” – but may be related if you choose to do so. We welcome practitioners (consultants and leaders), academics (teachers and researchers), clinicians and others interested in professional development using psychoanalytic and systems-psychodynamic ideas and approaches.         

We will do our best to:

• Offer a mix of workshops on a variety of topics - some led by those with more experience, some with less and others who may be coming in from another field to make linkages to ISPSO.
• Include innovative workshops where the content, methodology or approach, has something new to say and teach – and/or where the workshop addresses a “gap” that the committee believes is worth addressing.
• Offer at least one workshop that is introductory, focusing on ideas that are central to the psychoanalytic study of organizations.

How to Submit a Workshop Proposal

All PDW’s during the 2027 Annual Meeting will be conducted in person. To submit a workshop proposal, fill out the submission form here:

Authors of workshop proposals that are accepted will be asked to complete a form for Continued Education (CE) credits for participants who choose to access them.

Please submit your workshop proposal, using the Proposal Submission Form (button above), no later than September 15, 2026. Notifications of acceptance will be made end of October 2026.

Thank you in advance to each of you who submits a proposal.
We look forward to reviewing them and to seeing you in Vienna.

The 2027 PDW Committee

Peter Boback – Chair
Dr. Celina Rodriguez Drescher
Anna Reiche