Online Conference 5-11 July 2021
Over recent years, leaders and institutions have had to navigate a succession of shocks — pandemic, geopolitical instability, economic volatility, and the rapid emergence of artificial intelligence. Together, these forces have created a world that often feels brittle, anxious, nonlinear, and at times incomprehensible ( "BANI", Jamais Cascio, 2020).
In such a world, leaders, boards, consultants, and organisations are required to make consequential decisions under conditions in which clarity is limited and certainty is rarely available.
Under these conditions, the tension between doubt and conviction becomes unavoidable. This tension does not affect leaders alone. It reverberates through groups and organisations, shaping authority, relationships, and the capacity of institutions to remain connected to their task.
Too Much Doubt can lead to hesitation, fragmentation, and paralysis.
Too Much Conviction can lead to rigid, defensive thinking and premature certainty.
Decision-Making Capacity
What helps leaders and institutions maintain their decision-making capacity rather than collapsing into paralysis or certainty as defence.
Thoughtful Judgment
How leaders and groups move between doubt and conviction in ways that support thoughtful judgment and responsible action.
Psychoanalytic Insight
How psychoanalytic and systems-psychodynamic thinking can illuminate what happens when turbulence disrupts authority, decision-making, and organisational task.
The meeting works not only through discussion but through shared experience. Over three days, participants examine how turbulence enters the inner life of leaders and groups, how it plays out in organisational and institutional settings, and how it affects the capacity to stay on task in conditions of uncertainty.
The Self & the Group
Exploring the tension as it is lived in the self and the group.
Organisational Reality
Testing it against organisational and institutional reality.
Own Practice
Working with participants' own leadership, consulting, coaching, and scholarly roles.
The meeting is designed for those who work with authority, decision-making, and group dynamics in turbulent environments.
Leaders & Board Members
Those who hold responsibility within organisations and institutions.
Researchers & Scholars
Those who add insight by researching organisations psychoanalytically.
Consultants & Coaches
Those who accompany leaders as advisers, coaches, and consultants.
Organisational Practitioners
Those working with group dynamics and authority in turbulent environments.
Deeper Insight
Into how turbulence affects leaders, groups, and organisations.
Clearer Understanding
Of how doubt and conviction shape leadership decisions.
New Ways of Working
With anxiety, authority, and uncertainty in their own practice.
Not toward resolving the tension between doubt and conviction — but toward developing a more resolute relationship with it.
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