[Students entering in 2016-17] Year One Fall Term Nature of Psychological Inquiry I [Digital-Mediation] Theory: Individual (Legacy Leadership) (Org) [Digital-Mediation] or Advanced Psychotherapy I (Clinical) [Digital-Mediation or Individual Tutorial] Winter Term Assessment: Individual (Legacy Leadership) (Org) [Digital-Mediation] or Advanced Psychotherapy II (Clinical) [Digital-Mediation or Individual…
Fundamental Question What are the paradoxes, whip lashing contradictions and dizzying changes of which our world is made, and how might an appreciative perspective assist in responding to the challenges of this postmodern condition? Many 21st Century societies today are faced with three challenging conditions….
While Donaldson-Pressman and Pressman are focusing on the family system, they do have a few things to say initially about the narcissistic personality. I will use some of my own language to describe three different categories of individual narcissism – building on the descriptions offered…
Functional organizations are not places of the body and mind. They are places of spirit and soul. There is no such thing as a “secular” organization—for all contemporary models of organizational life are deeply embedded to the framework of ancient religious practices and have been…
Fundamental Question How do we lead, consult and coach within highly challenging settings that require the use of new strategies as well as the return to the old strategies and images of both premodern and modern societies? In a previous entry on this blog I…
Fundamental Question How do we lead, consult and coach with in widely differing settings in which organizational culture varies and organizational structures and processes vary so widely? In my previous essays on this blog I described the fundamental nature of societies that might best be…
Premodern Societies are economically based in the extraction or cultivation of natural resources: agriculture, mining, forestry, fishing, ranching and related activities. It is also founded in craftsmanship—these crafts ranging from the production of tools to the creation of artistic works. While some premodern societies are…
Fundamental Question: How do we lead, consult and coach in such widely differing social systems that now exist in our 21 Century world? We now live in a world that supports three different types of social structure. One of these social structures has been present…
The modern society is a byproduct of Western industrialization. As machine were being invented and built that enabled mass production, there was an increasing need for centralization of both capital (for the machines were very expensive) and a work force (to run the machines). Extended…
The new social structures into which the more privileged people of the world are moving offers a remarkable mixture (hybrid/pastiche/mosaic) of the premodern, modern and postmodern. New communities are being formed that in some ways resemble the premodern villages of olden times—yet these new communities…
