Interest Group System Psychodynamics of Organisations presents...

The Nature of the Unconscious in Organisational Life

This half‑day workshop explores how anxiety, defences, and unconscious processes shape behaviour in organisations. Building on the foundations introduced in Workshop 1- while remaining fully accessible to new participants. The content integrates the iceberg model, CIBART, systems thinking, psychodynamic theory, and emerging neuroscience.

The workshop examines how unconscious dynamics operate at personal, relational, and collective levels. Participants will deepen their understanding of how these forces influence roles, teams, and organisational systems, often in ways that remain unspoken yet profoundly impactful.

WORKSHOP BENEFITS

• Gain a richer understanding of how childhood roles, early anxieties, and defensive patterns shape adult behaviour and workplace dynamics.
• Strengthen their ability to recognise and work with unconscious processes that influence organisational life.
• Enhance their capacity to articulate and intervene in what is happening “beneath the surface of consciousness” in consulting, coaching, leadership, and OD practice.

EVENT INFORMATION

• DATE: 14 May 2026
• TIME:  13h00 - 17h00
• LOCATION: Zoom Online
• CPD: 3 Clinical CEU, 1 Ethical

WORKSHOP FACILITATORS

• Inette Taylor

Over her career she attended a vast number of professional training and accreditation courses in trauma intervention, hypnotherapy, psychological assessment techniques, psychotherapeutic interventions, couple counselling, neuropsychological assessment training, BWRT and others. She presented/co-presented on numerous occasions at psychological societies in South Africa and worked as Consultant in several Group Relations events (in-person and online since 2019). She has provided psychological services as an HPCSA accredited CPD provider in various capacities. Inette provides psychotherapy, company assessments, coaching, neurofeedback and other psychological services for companies, individual clients, work teams, and couples.

• Dr Neville Goldin

Neville is a certified Tavistock executive coach, specializing in the systems psychodynamic method of coaching. Neville’s focus in coaching is on helping leaders achieve their potential in a real and authentic way and his special interest is in assisting leaders with career shifts and transitions (moving into, up and through an organisation).

While Neville’s approach to executive coaching is eclectic and based on the needs of each client, he favours what is called the systems psychodynamic approach to coaching which essentially means working with the entire system and working below the surface. We try to understand the role the person plays in the organisation and the dynamic interplay between the individual leader or manager, his/her role and the organizational context in which they work, at both an obvious and a hidden level. The purpose is to forge new meanings and understandings and achieve greater clarity about oneself, one’s work and the organisation. This new understanding, if applied and practised, translates into more authentic interactions and greater effectiveness in one’s role, benefitting both the individual and the organisation.

• Prof. Frans Cilliers

With a long history in academia and writing, Prof. Cilliers is currently an Emeritus Professor at UNISA, where he continues to teach and mentor postgraduate students at the master's and doctoral levels. He gives lectures at other South African universities as well. The Interest Group on Systems Psychodynamics of Organisations was founded by Prof. Cilliers. In addition, he belongs to and is associated with a number of international organisations.