Anyone can lead, and in most organisations everyone does; leading teams, project, meetings...anything. Yet, because of how our minds develop, peoples relationship to leadership roles is a complex thing. As leading involves being seen and focusing attention on a mission, leaders will inevitably have to deal with the feelings of individuals as they go about their work. It’s weird though, we don’t really equip leadership with the tools they need to make sense of the experience of work, so that the group can stay on task and thrive.

This workshop topic focus on the lived experience of leading and the feelings it engenders in both leaders and those who they lead. It introduces and explores the nature of emotional containment (the act of tolerating the feels that come up in groups as they work) and emotional projection and what it can tell you about group life. All these concepts come straight from the awesome world of academic research in psychology, systems psychodynamics and management theory. Embrace the art of taking the pressure off yourself by becoming a ‘good enough’ leader - and make leading fun again.

You might be interested in this workshop topic if:

• You are fascinated by group dynamics

• You are intrigued by the emotional experience of group life

• You want to improve your leadership skills

• Other leadership training added to your anxiety because you have to remember a set of tasks

• You feel symptoms of burnout in your leadership role

• You’re finding it difficult to support people going through hard times or poor performance (or both)