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Linking Field Theory and Systems Psychodynamics to Enhance Leadership: Exploring Our Complex Identities and Finding Social Resonance in Turbulent Times
Developed by the Department of Psychoanalytic Education
Council for Leadership and Organizational Studies
10-Week Advanced Leadership Seminar
Every Thursday | Oct 9, 2025 – Dec 18, 2025
Virtual | Zoom
29.75 CME/CE Credits | $299
This 10-week virtual seminar seeks to transform learners by deepening their capacity for reflective, inclusive, and ethically grounded leadership and clinical practice in the face of complex social and systemic challenges. The primary change is the development of a more self-aware, socially attuned, and emotionally resilient leader and practitioner who can stay present in the discomfort of difficult conversations, recognize and challenge internalized and systemic forms of bias, and take thoughtful, justice-oriented action in group, organizational, and societal contexts.
How Change Will Be Enacted
To facilitate this transformation, the seminar employs theoretical and experiential components that include:
1. Emotionally engaged learning environments (e.g., evocative films, case studies, role-play, storytelling) that invite learners to engage with critical concepts through both structured content and personal experience. To embrace exposure to the complex differences in human experiences, to sit with discomfort, to process and remain present in emotionally charged intersubjective fields. To reflect deeply on their own positionality and biases, and in doing so, cultivate emotional readiness, strengthen self-reflection, and enhance empathic engagement across complex human differences.
2. Guided reflection and critical dialogue foster mutual learning between faculty and participants, creating a culture of learning with and from one another. This process connects personal experience with the broader social consciousness and cultural surround and historical frameworks—encouraging learners to examine how internal and external forces shape identity, power, leadership, and professional practice.
3. Analysis of individual and systemic forces contributing to trauma and othering is paired with practical skill-building exercises—such as applying intersectional frameworks, navigating polarization, and leading with authenticity and integrity. Together, these approaches empower participants to respond effectively to complex dynamics and support meaningful institutional transformation.
4. Collaborative small and large groups that invite vulnerability, insight, openness, mutual learning, and a sense of shared responsibility, agency, and power—helping learners move from insight to action.
5. Ongoing integration and application through opportunities for learners to articulate strategies for implementing inclusive and transformative leadership approaches in their own settings.
Through these methods, learners will gain knowledge, skill, and internalize new ways of thinking, feeling, and leading—building on their emotional and social attunement and the capacity to be agents of constructive change in their institutions and local and global communities.
Registration will open July 2025. Stay Tuned!
Questions? Email Kate Brundage, KBrundage@APsA.org
