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Psychoanalytic Section of The ICP Conference 2025
Psychoanalytic Section of The ICP Conference 2025
The State (s) We’re In: Some Psychoanalytic Thoughts on Culture, Science, and Society
Date: Saturday 1st March 2025
Time: 10am – 5pm
Location: Wynn’s Hotel, 35-39 Abbey Street Lower, Dublin 1 D01 C9F8
Cost: €50 (€30 students) – Lunch Provided
Early Bird: €40 (until 20th January)
A CPD Event: 7 CPD points.
Email: apsychsection@nullgmail.com
Registration: To register please email this Registration Form to Psychoanalytic Section, a confirmation email will be sent with details of how to make payment. Please note that all payments need to be made in advance of the Psychoanalytic Section of The ICP Conference 2025 as spaces are limited. To reserve a place please return the completed form to Nicola Williams, Psychoanalytic Section Administrator.
Psychodynamics at Work First Annual Conference (March 2025)
Psychodynamics at Work First Annual Conference (March 2025)
Date: 28th & 29th March 2025
Time: 9am – 5pm (Friday) / 9am – 4:30pm (Saturday)
Location: The Grand Hotel, Grove Road, Malahide, Dublin K36 XT65
Cost: €848.70
Conference Director: Dr. Evelyn P. Gilmore
Email: evelyngilmore15@nullgmail.com
Mobile: 087 794 4048
About the Event
The conference will feature expert presentations on organisational development, leadership, and group dynamics. It will include interviews, discussions, and experiential workshops from a systems psychodynamic perspective. The full schedule will be available soon.
Keynote Speaker & Conference Director Dr. Evelyn P. Gilmore
Dr. Evelyn P. Gilmore will speak on “Creating a Holding Environment in an Organisational Setting and on Helping Leaders to Manage the Emotional Aspects of Organisational Life During Times of Change”
Special Guest Speaker & Conference Consultant
Dr. Martin Lüdemann will speak on “The Psychodynamics of Groups and How the Concept of Group-As-A-Whole Can Support Leaders in Engaging with Groups in Organisations”.
First Annual Conference
Friday and Saturday, 28th and 29th March, 2025.
Modern workplaces face complex organisational issues. The psychodynamic and systemic approach to working with organisations combines psychodynamic theory with systems thinking to improve overall organisational effectiveness. It is an innovative, deeper, and wider approach to working with individual leaders, groups, and organisations. The psychodynamic approach helps leaders, managers, coaches, consultants, psychologists, and psychotherapists to gain clarity of vision, mission, strategy, values, and goals, as well as providing an opportunity to more effectively manage the emotional aspects of organisational life.
This first annual conference of Psychodynamics at Work will be an exciting blend of experiential exercises as well as talks, discussions, and interviews with experts in the field of psychodynamic and systemic consulting. There will be an opportunity for you to bring a real-life issue or challenge that you currently have as a manager / leader in your group or organisation or a challenge that you have as a coach / consultant working with individuals, groups, and organisations.
Keynote Speaker and Conference Director: Dr. Evelyn P. Gilmore
Evelyn is a psychodynamic and systemic organisational consultant, a chartered psychologist, an accredited psychotherapist and a business and executive coach, coach trainer and coach supervisor. Evelyn has an honours degree in psychology from the University of Galway and a first-class honour master’s in work and organisational psychology from Dublin City University. She has completed a professional doctorate with the Tavistock in “Consultation and the Organisation.” She is founder and director of Psychodynamics at Work, and joint director of Coach Institute of Ireland. Evelyn has lectured to master’s students in the department of management in the University of Galway and has also been a visiting lecturer to doctorate students in the Tavistock. She has recently published an article entitled “Creating a holding environment in an organisational setting: A systems psychodynamics first person action research perspective” in the Organisational and Social Dynamics journal.
Evelyn will focus on “Creating a Holding Environment in an Organisational Setting and on helping Leaders to manage the Emotional Aspects of Organisational Life During Times of Change.”
Evelyn, drawing from her Tavistock doctorate research, will explain the psychoanalytic concept of holding. She will provide an opportunity for conference participants to understand how the emotional aspects of organisational life can create resistance and interfere with the overall effectiveness of organisational life. Most importantly, Evelyn, drawing from her own organisational consultancy experience, will further discuss how managers, leaders and consultants can understand and manage the emotional aspects of organisational life and how they can help individuals and teams to overcome those moments of anxiety, uncertainty and confusion that can interfere with the overall effectiveness in organisations.
Special Guest Speaker and Conference Consultant: Dr. Martin Lüdemann
Martin holds an MA in Organisational Analysis from the University of East London and is a graduate of the Psychology Diploma Programme (industrial and organizational psychology) of the University of Darmstadt, Germany. He recently finished the Professional Doctorate Program at Tavistock Consulting and the University of Essex. Martin has been working as a psychologist and supervisor for 30 years. He consults, supports, and guides groups and individuals in organizations – mostly in the business sector, but also groups in the social sector. Martin began his professional life as a consultant at Lufthansa Consulting in Cologne and co-founded Dr. Sourisseaux, Lüdemann and Partners in 1996. He was a partner in the firm of consultant business psychologists in Darmstadt for 17 years before going into business on his own in 2013. In addition, he has also completed further training courses in group dynamics, systemic consulting, large-group techniques, supervision coaching, group analysis and group relations (Tavistock Consulting and Grubb Institute).
Martin will focus on “The Psychodynamics of Groups and how The Concept of Group-as-a-Whole can Support Leaders in engaging with groups in Organisations.”
The concept of Group-as-a-Whole is a psychoanalytic concept. It is an applied branch of group dynamics research and theory. So, what is this concept of Group-as-a-whole? A Group-as-a-whole is a living organism in itself. It is as distinct as the individuals comprising it. The Group-as-a-Whole has moods, reactions, spirit, atmosphere, and climate. When individuals form a group, the resulting union becomes an entity in its own right with developmental, structural, dynamic, and relational properties that both reflect and transcend the individuals that make it up. In Martin’s talk and discussion, he will draw on his own doctorate research to illuminate the concept of group-as-a-whole. He will also draw on a consultancy case. Most importantly, Martin will show how the concept of the group-as-a-whole can be useful for today’s leaders and consultants, especially when confronted with tensions, various anxieties, unhappiness, discontent, and ineffectiveness. He will show how the understanding and use of this concept can help facilitate the developmental process at both the group and individual level to have more effective organisational outcomes.
The full programme will be available soon. Another Guest Speaker / Consultant will be involved in the Conference. Visit www.psychodynamicsatwork.ie for updates.
Dates, Times, Venue and Cost
- Friday, 28th March, 2025. 9am – 5pm
- Saturday, 29th March, 2025. 9am – 4:30pm
The Psychodynamics at Work First Annual Conference will be held in The Grand Hotel, Malahide, Dublin. The total cost of the Conference is €690.00 plus 23% VAT of €158.70. This amounts to a total of €848.70 per person.
Reservation Details
The number of participants is limited. If you are interested in reserving a place at the Psychodynamics at Work First Annual Conference, you can log onto www.psychodynamicsatwork.ie where you can reserve your place and buy your tickets. Alternatively, you can send a query through the Psychodynamics at Work website or contact the Conference Director, Dr. Evelyn P. Gilmore, on 087 – 7944048. You can also email Evelyn directly on evelyngilmore15@nullgmail.com
Supervision Group: Psychodynamic & Systemic Approach (January – November 2025)
Dr. Evelyn P. Gilmore January, 2025 to November, 2025.
Group Supervision
This group provides an opportunity for change agents, organisational consultants, group facilitators and executive coaches to be supported in their work through a small group supervision process. This supervision group will also be pertinent for managers, training and development professionals, human resource professionals, health care professionals and allied professionals who are supporting and developing others through change. The group supervision provides a space for group participants to reflect on their work with individuals, to reflect on their work with groups and/or to reflect on their internal / external organisational consultancy projects.
The group will be facilitated from a psychodynamic and systemic perspective. When working from a psychodynamic perspective, feelings and thoughts that operate below the surface are sometimes brought to the surface so that they can be better understood and worked through. In addition, coaches and consultants who operate in an organisational system or who work with clients within organisations can gain new insights into the complexity of their environments and the various systemic elements that may be impacting on them and/or their clients.
Supervisor: Dr. Evelyn P. Gilmore B.A., M.Sc., Prof. D., C. Psychol. Ps.S.I., M.I.A.H.I.P.
Evelyn is a consultant work & organisational psychologist, an accredited psychotherapist, a business and executive coach, a coach trainer and a supervisor of coaches and organisational consultants. She has an honours degree in psychology from National University of Ireland, Galway, and a first class honours masters in work and organisational psychology from Dublin City University. She has received a Tavistock Qualification in Consulting from the Tavistock in London, and has completed a Professional Doctorate in Consultation and the Organisation with the Tavistock, accredited by the University of Essex. Evelyn has worked at a senior level with world class organisations, and her current clients include individuals, groups and organisations from both the public, private and voluntary sector. In addition, she has lectured on organisational change to masters students in the department of management in the University of Galway, and has been a visiting lecturer to doctorate students in the Tavistock in London.
Dates & Times
Friday, 17th January, 2025. 9am – 12:45pm
Friday, 21st March, 2025. 9am – 12:45pm
Friday, 16th May, 2025. 9am – 12:45pm
Friday, 19th September, 2025. 9am – 12:45pm
Friday, 7th November, 2025. 9am – 12:45pm
There will be a 20 minutes coffee break mid-morning.
Programme On Zoom and Cost
The group supervision will be held on zoom. The total cost of the Group Supervision for the year is €1,400 plus VAT of 23% per person. This amounts to a total of €1,722 per person.
The supervision fee can be paid in two instalments. The first instalment / booking deposit of €861 (€700 plus €161 VAT) will be paid on acceptance of the place in the supervision group. The balance of €861 (€700 plus €161 VAT) is payable on or before the 16th May, 2025.
Reservation Details
The numbers are limited to six participants in the group. If you are interested in reserving a place in the supervision group, please contact Evelyn P. Gilmore. Telephone Evelyn on 087 794 4048. Alternatively, you can contact Evelyn by email on evelyngilmore15@nullgmail.com
ICLO-NLS Introductory Seminar – Diagnosis and Beyond
ICLO-NLS Introductory Seminar – Diagnosis and Beyond
Date: 22 January & 26 February & 26 March 2025
Time: 7pm – 9pm
Location: Carmelite Community Centre, 56 Aungier Street, Dublin 2 D02 T258
Medium: Online & In-Person
Cost: From €17.07
Email: register@nulliclo-nls.org
Contact: info@nulliclo-nls.org
Book via ICLO Society of the NLS
About the Event
A series of three seminars by Linda Clarke, Joanne Conway, Caroline Heanue, Rik Loose, Raphael Montague, Alan Rowan. Come join us at the ICLO-NLS Introductory Seminar where we’ll delve into the world of diagnosis and beyond in a lively and interactive setting.
- Venue: Online by Zoom & in person at the Carmelite Centre, Aungier Street, D2
- Fees: All 3 seminars €50 (students €30) / each seminar €20 (students €15)
- Refund Policy: Refunds up to 1 day before event
- Register Here
Listening to the Call of the Self in the Ecological Crisis (December 5 2024)
Listening to the Call of the Self in the Ecological Crisis
Date: Thursday December 5 2024
Time: 7:30pm – 9pm
Location: Online
Cost: €22.42 / Students: €17.07
Email: isja.events@nullgmail.com
Irish Society of Jungian Analysts in conjunction with the Irish Analytical Psychology Association (IAPA) presents live on Zoom Thursday, 5th December 2024: 19:30 – 21:00 (Irish time).
Listening To The Call Of The Self In The Ecological Crisis: A Psychecological Approach
Listening to the call of the self is nowadays summoned not only by an inner, personal soul need, but by the very outer ecological crisis. Remarkably indeed, the ecological ‘sufficiency’ response required by the outer crisis, mirrors many elements of traditional spiritual practices and even religious vows. The ecological crisis is a psychic crisis for it reveals a deficient worldview, a loss of rootedness in the larger dimension. Both crises call for the revivifying of our mystical relationship to earth and soul. The symbolic analysis of ecological (and societal) issues, taken as symptoms, reveals in word images the unlived soul life of our time. These images can help develop a more deeply grounded perspective for this doubly needed turnaround. Light pollution will serve us as example, with the twofold question: where would it be meaningful to bring light into darkness, and where to treasure the creative power of darkness.
Brigitte Egger Jungian Analyst
Brigitte Egger is a Jungian training and supervising analyst (ISAP, Zurich), as well as an ecologist (Dr.sc.nat.ETH). Her research explores the psychic and symbolic dimensions of ecological issues. She works at introducing this healing perspective into practical environment protection, thus building up the field of psychecology. She shares this engagement with her husband Luca Vetterli, a committed environmentalist. She further likes to work out the biological roots of psychic phenomena, is interested in creativity at large and in creative ways to communicate depth psychological insights. And she loves Dante.
About the Event
- Book: Visit Eventbrite for further information & booking details; booking is via Eventbrite
- Registration: Registration closes on Wednesday, 4th December @ 18:00
- Admission: €22.42 / Students: €17.07
- Event Link Availability: This event will be recorded, and the link will be available for two weeks for the personal viewing of registered participants only.
- General Enquiries: Please contact Nola at events@nullgmail.com
What’s the Situationship? (ICLO – NLS) November 30 2024
Subjectivity & Love in the Era of Contemporary Capitalism
Date: Saturday November 30 2024
Time: 11am – 2pm
Location: Carmelite Community Centre, 56 Aungier Street, Dublin 2 D02 T258
Cost: Free
Email: register@nulliclo-nls.org
Contact: info@nulliclo-nls.org
Book via ICLO Society of the NLS
What’s the Situationship?
Subjectivity and Love in the Era of Contemporary Capitalism
Introduction
This event is designed for people who may be interested in, but not particularly familiar with, Lacanian Psychoanalysis. It seeks to explore and open discussion on issues that are of contemporary relevance. It forms part of a series of events hosted by ICLO-NLS under the title “A Lacanian Space” that welcomes people who may be new to ICLO-NLS and to the various seminars and other events it organises as part of its annual academic programme.
Theme
Contemporary capitalism, underpinned by its neoliberal ideology, is in many ways different to so-called classical capitalism which essentially divided the owners of production from the exploited workers whose labour provided profit. For example, capital today is not only globalised but is financialised, meaning it deals in credit via financial markets whereby almost every subject and/or country can acquire debt, which is repayable with interest. In this context it is interesting to ask certain questions, such as, what is the “mental infrastructure” of capitalism today? How are we socialised into it and what are its psychological costs? How do we unconsciously shape and support it?
Through a series of short talks, with plenty of time for discussion, we will explore how psychoanalysis can aid us in thinking about such issues, about subjectivity, love, and ideals in an era transformed and dominated by the hegemonic symbolic system of capitalism that today touches every aspect of our lives.
For example, and in his seminar on ethics (1959-60), Lacan famously stated that the modern superego no longer prohibits or inhibits, but rather says “Enjoy!”, a command that is very visible today, as subjects get caught up in what can be termed a “tyranny of self-optimisation” correlated with epidemic like proportions of depression/anxiety in western culture. The “always-on”, “24-7” digitalised and consumptive nature of contemporary capitalism is clearly a significant feature here.
In 2003, Zygmunt Bauman published Liquid Love: On the Fragility of Human Bonds, a work which explored how commodification impacts on and weakens human bonds, particularly in the sphere of sex, eroticism and love. Today traditional love relations are changing, with more people choosing polyamory, forms of open relationship, or indeed an avoidance of relationships. For Lacan, love covers a void, which he called the “non-sexual rapport” and so we can ask how the “risk of love” manifests itself today, how it is engaged with, noting that for young people a new signifier has emerged to describe one feature of this changing landscape – “situationship”.
Finally, we will explore how psychoanalysis, a clinic that operates under transference, functions. For example, by asking the question of what can be expected from entering the psychoanalytic experience, one which is quite different to the dominant psycho-educational therapies that are so prevalent today.
Sixth UUAP & EAP Joint Online Symposium (15 November 2024)
The Role of Women in The Time of War
Date: Friday 15/11/2024
Time: 09:30 – 16:00 CET
Location: Online
Cost: Free
Registration closes Wednesday 13 November 2024, 19:00 CET
The Symposiums are CPD events, and the certificates are evidence of attendance. Certificates of attendance of 6 hours of professional development will be sent to all Symposium participants along with video recordings and lecture slides.
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Launching Cartels Event (ICLO-NLS) 12 October 2024
Love & Its Vicissitudes – Launching Cartels
Date: Saturday October 12 2024
Time: 10am – 1pm
Location: Carmelite Community Centre, 56 Aungier Street, Dublin 2 D02 T258 & Online
Cost: Free
Email: register@nulliclo-nls.org
Book via ICLO Society of the NLS
Love & Its Vicissitudes – Launching Cartels
A morning to launch Cartel work in our community through a flash-cartel-in-action in tune with the forthcoming NLS Congress. With Mercedes Sanchez Granel, Miles Link and Ros Mc Carthy with Tom Ryan and Alan Rowan (ICLO delegates for Cartels).
About This Event
Saturday 12th October from 10am to 1pm
In person at the Carmelite Centre & online via Zoom
All welcome – No fee
Email: register@nulliclo-nls.org
Unloving: A Version of the Inexistence of the Sexual Relation?
Unloving: A Version of the Inexistence of the Sexual Relation?
A seminar by Fabian Fajnwaks
Date: Saturday October 19 2024
Time: 10:30am – 1pm
Location: Carmelite Community Centre, 56 Aungier Street, Dublin 2 D02 T258
Cost: €20 – €50
Refund Policy
Refunds up to 1 day before event.
About This Event
A seminar by Fabian Fajnwaks
UNLOVING: A VERSION OF THE INEXISTENCE OF THE SEXUAL RELATION?
This seminar will focus on the term “unlove,” as developed by sociologist Eva Illouz in her most recent book entitled “The End of Love”, as a close reference to the current versions of the “inexistence of the sexual rapport,” and how it impacts on love and sexual encounters in our present times.
Fabian Fajnwaks is a psychoanalyst in Paris, member of the Ecole de la cause freudienne (ECF), the Escuela de la Orientacion lacaniana (EOL) and the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP). He was Analyst of the School (A.S.) during the period 2016-19. Fabian is senior lecturer at the Department of Psychoanalysis of the University of Paris VIII and the author of numerous publications, including the books Subversion lacanienne des théories du genre (2015) and Despatologizar o sujeito trans e outros ensaios lacanianos (2023).
Venue: Carmelite Centre, Aungier St., Dublin 2
Fee: €30 / Students €20
Bundle available for both Seminars: €50 / Students €30
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