The Topic

In this webinar, Nicola invites us to explore patterns of connection in consultancy through emergence and design. Please bring along a (night time) dream to hold in mind and to explore with other participants in connection to the theme of the webinar where we will work with dreams as a guiding source of creativity for design considerations.

Nicola will give a brief overview of history and application of Social Dreaming. She will then present some past and ongoing  experiences designing and facilitating transitional learning spaces using adaptive systemic design with systems psychodynamic approaches.

Some questions we may address together are:

How do we envision, design and hold  ‘good enough’ spaces for creative organisational transformation?

How do we notice and work with social defenses playing out in different parts?

How do we balance emergent energy towards integration and development?  

How can shared dreams serve as ‘transitional space’ in transformation processes?

The Agenda

In the first half of the webinar, Nicola will make her presentation and facilitate initial responses.

In the second half, we'll move into a reflection-application session:

- 'Composting': experienced peers work the material in small groups to sprout new ideas;

- 'Weaving': attendees gather to collectively reflect and question, weaving our experiences together;

- Discuss how we will apply learnings to our personal practice in Reflection Application Pairs (RAPs).

The Speaker

Nicola Wreford-Howard is a psychologist working as organizational consultant and executive coach with a systems psychodynamic approach. With her consultancy practice innovation@work she advises clients to explore, design and align transformation initiatives. Her focus and passion is to create space to enable collaborative development for common sense and purpose.

Nicola’s background spans business psychology, business transformation, leadership, management & organisational development, psychoanalysis and sociology. She draws on experience as change management consultant for an international consultancy firm, later leading a digital transformation consultancy group for a multinational tech company and a continuous journey learning from group-, organisational- and systems-psychodynamics.

Nicola is a member of ISPSO, the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations and served two terms in Board director roles. She has been on staff of numerous Group Relations Conferences and has hosted Social Dreaming Matrices, Social Dreaming Master classes and Social Dreaming Professional Development Workshops in conferences and business schools in the US, Europe and Asia. 

Nicola is certified in numerous Organisational Development and Coaching methodologies and is a current PhD candidate with NIODA, the National Institute for Organisational Dynamics Australia.  Originally from London, Nicola has lived in Frankfurt, Geneva, New Orleans, Houston, works international and is currently based in The Hague.  

You can find Nicola on LinkedIn at: www.linkedin.com/in/nicolawrefordhoward and Social Dreaming at: www.linkedin.com/company/socialdreaming

If you purchase a ticket but can't make it in real-time, a recording will be shared with you after the webinar.