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SUMMARY:Academy - Designing Fit-For-Purpose Organisations For A Different Future - 27 August 2026
DESCRIPTION:SIOPSA Academy presents... \nDesigning Fit-For-Purpose Organisations For A Different Future \nThe way organisations are designed – its Operating Model – has a profound effect not only on the organisation’ ability to execute its strategy successfully\, but also on its optimal resource deployment and utilisation\, the efficiency of its mode of working\, the conduciveness of its culture and dynamics\, consequently on its overall performance. And\, ultimately on its continued viability. An organisation can indeed compete by its design. The new world of work requires organisations to re-examine their existing designs from first principles in a zero-based way. \nThis one-day Workshop aims to capacitate participants with a high-level understanding of the what\, why\, how\, who and whereto of organisational design. The Workshop is based on the latest thinking and practices regarding OD\, and the extensive practical experience of Prof. Theo Veldsman – the workshop facilitator – gained from close on 60 OD consulting assignments over about 35 years across multiple industries\, nationally and internationally. The Workshop also makes extensive use of case studies to illustrate OD-in-action. \nAfter attending\, delegates will have gained deep insight into OD as a critical organisational discipline and key executive leadership task. They will have a well-grounded\, comprehensive and high-level understanding what the designing of a fit-for-purpose organisation entail. \nThis Workshop Benefits are... \n\nSeamlessly merge the latest theory and practice of OD;\nPresent a comprehensive\, integrated route map of OD;\nOffer real case studies to show participants how to apply OD pragmatically at work.\n\nParticipants will receive a comprehensive workshop workbook supplied to participants once they have registered for the workshop. \nWho Should Attend \n\nIndustrial and Organisational Psychologists and People Professionals who work in the Organisational Effectiveness/Development Domain with at least 3- 5 years of experience.\n\nEVENT DETAILS \n\nDATE: 27 August 2026\nTIME: 09h00 - 17h00\nCPD:  8 Clinical CEU\n\n FACILITATED BY \n\nProf. Theo Veldsman
URL:https://www.siopsa.org.za/eventlisting/academy-designing-fit-for-purpose-organisations-for-a-different-future-20-august-2026/
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SUMMARY:IGSPO - Online Group Relations Experience Entitled - Day One
DESCRIPTION:Interest Group System Psychodynamics of Organisations presents... \nThe Nature of the Unconscious in Organisational Life \nThis 1.5 days Group Relations Working Conference Experience (GRC) is an intensive\, experiential event in which participants join staff to form a temporary organisation and use its unfolding life as the primary text. The conference is grounded in systems psychodynamics and Tavistock / Group Relations traditions\, with a particular focus on authority\, role\, boundary and task\, and the way unconscious processes shape organisational behaviour. \nThe primary task of the conference is: \nTo study the exercise of authority and the taking up of leadership and other roles within a temporary organisation\, in the “here-and-now\,” with attention to conscious and unconscious dynamics. \nContent and focus\nAcross the 1.5 days\, participants will work with: \n\nThe system-as-a-whole\, and how individuals are taken up by roles as much as they “take up” roles in turbulent organisations.\nThe study of projective-introjective-projective identification defense structures when taking up leadership and exercising authority\nBasic assumption mentality (e.g. dependency\, fight/flight\, pairing) as it emerges live in groups.\nBoundary\, authority\, role and task (BART) as core lenses for thinking about behaviour in the system.\nTheir own countertransference\, fantasies and impulses as data about the organisational field.\nThe institutional and social unconscious\, accessed through associative work and the matrix.\n\nBy attending\, you can: \n\nUse the temporary organisation to study behaviour in real time – your own and others’ – rather than only talking about it in theory.\nStudying projective-introjective-projective identification defense structures when taking up leadership and exercising authority\nObserve how authority\, role\, boundary and task are worked with (and defended against) in practice.\nNotice basic assumption dynamics (dependency\, fight/flight\, pairing\, etc.) as they emerge and experience their impact on thinking and work.\nPractise using your feelings\, impulses and fantasies as data from the system\, not just as “personal reactions”.\nTake these experiential insights back into your consulting\, coaching\, OD or leadership work when working with teams\, culture and change.\n\nEVENT INFORMATION \n\nDATE: 28 & 29  August 2026\nLOCATION: Zoom Online\nCPD: 12 Clinical CEU\, 2 Ethical\n\nConference Director \n\nProf. Michelle S May\n\nProf. Michelle S. May is a professor at the department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology at the University of South Africa (UNISA). She is the manager of the Consulting Psychology Doctoral Programme (IOP\, UNISA). She is the co-ordinator of the research focus areas Systems psychodynamics and Socio–analytic Methods (IOP\, UNISA). She has supervised several students in primarily qualitative research projects to successful completion of their masters’ and doctoral degrees.She is a registered clinical psychologist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa. She has been involved in consultancy through a psychodynamic frame since 1995. She was actively part of the management and development of the Institute for the Study of Leadership and Authority (ISLA) in South Africa. Michelle received extensive training in the field of group consultation\, under which from ISLA and the Tavistock Institute (UK)\, and consulted in various programs of this nature – nationally and internationally. She has consulted to international Group Relations Conferences in Boston\, Chicago and New York (AK Rice Institute)\, Netherlands and the Leicester Conference (Tavistock Institute\, UK; 2016 and 2017). She has been part of the team who has designed and planned the Robben Island diversity experience (RIDE) and has taken up the role of director\, director of the training group and associate director from 2000 until 2014. She has also been part of the Group Relations workshops at UNISA since 2000. For the last 20 years Michelle have also contributed to the field of diversity management in South Africa as lecturer\, researcher and consultant in several organisations – her contributions have included publications in accredited journals\, book chapters\, as well as presentations at national and international conferences. She has chaired\, consulted in\, and designed many workshops in the areas of diversity management and leadership development for organisations in the public and private sector.
URL:https://www.siopsa.org.za/eventlisting/igspo-online-group-relations-experience-entitled-28-29-august-2026/
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SUMMARY:IGSPO - Online Group Relations Experience Entitled - Day Two
DESCRIPTION:Interest Group System Psychodynamics of Organisations presents... \nThe Nature of the Unconscious in Organisational Life \nThis 1.5 days Group Relations Working Conference Experience (GRC) is an intensive\, experiential event in which participants join staff to form a temporary organisation and use its unfolding life as the primary text. The conference is grounded in systems psychodynamics and Tavistock / Group Relations traditions\, with a particular focus on authority\, role\, boundary and task\, and the way unconscious processes shape organisational behaviour. \nThe primary task of the conference is: \nTo study the exercise of authority and the taking up of leadership and other roles within a temporary organisation\, in the “here-and-now\,” with attention to conscious and unconscious dynamics. \nContent and focus\nAcross the 1.5 days\, participants will work with: \n\nThe system-as-a-whole\, and how individuals are taken up by roles as much as they “take up” roles in turbulent organisations.\nThe study of projective-introjective-projective identification defense structures when taking up leadership and exercising authority\nBasic assumption mentality (e.g. dependency\, fight/flight\, pairing) as it emerges live in groups.\nBoundary\, authority\, role and task (BART) as core lenses for thinking about behaviour in the system.\nTheir own countertransference\, fantasies and impulses as data about the organisational field.\nThe institutional and social unconscious\, accessed through associative work and the matrix.\n\nBy attending\, you can: \n\nUse the temporary organisation to study behaviour in real time – your own and others’ – rather than only talking about it in theory.\nStudying projective-introjective-projective identification defense structures when taking up leadership and exercising authority\nObserve how authority\, role\, boundary and task are worked with (and defended against) in practice.\nNotice basic assumption dynamics (dependency\, fight/flight\, pairing\, etc.) as they emerge and experience their impact on thinking and work.\nPractise using your feelings\, impulses and fantasies as data from the system\, not just as “personal reactions”.\nTake these experiential insights back into your consulting\, coaching\, OD or leadership work when working with teams\, culture and change.\n\nEVENT INFORMATION \n\nDATE: 28 & 29  August 2026\nLOCATION: Zoom Online\nCPD: 12 Clinical CEU\, 2 Ethical\n\nConference Director \n\nProf. Michelle S May\n\nProf. Michelle S. May is a professor at the department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology at the University of South Africa (UNISA). She is the manager of the Consulting Psychology Doctoral Programme (IOP\, UNISA). She is the co-ordinator of the research focus areas Systems psychodynamics and Socio–analytic Methods (IOP\, UNISA). She has supervised several students in primarily qualitative research projects to successful completion of their masters’ and doctoral degrees.She is a registered clinical psychologist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa. She has been involved in consultancy through a psychodynamic frame since 1995. She was actively part of the management and development of the Institute for the Study of Leadership and Authority (ISLA) in South Africa. Michelle received extensive training in the field of group consultation\, under which from ISLA and the Tavistock Institute (UK)\, and consulted in various programs of this nature – nationally and internationally. She has consulted to international Group Relations Conferences in Boston\, Chicago and New York (AK Rice Institute)\, Netherlands and the Leicester Conference (Tavistock Institute\, UK; 2016 and 2017). She has been part of the team who has designed and planned the Robben Island diversity experience (RIDE) and has taken up the role of director\, director of the training group and associate director from 2000 until 2014. She has also been part of the Group Relations workshops at UNISA since 2000. For the last 20 years Michelle have also contributed to the field of diversity management in South Africa as lecturer\, researcher and consultant in several organisations – her contributions have included publications in accredited journals\, book chapters\, as well as presentations at national and international conferences. She has chaired\, consulted in\, and designed many workshops in the areas of diversity management and leadership development for organisations in the public and private sector.
URL:https://www.siopsa.org.za/eventlisting/igspo-online-group-relations-experience-entitled-day-two/
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