Offered on Friday and Saturday, presentations in this conference track are intended for those with an interest in how affect script psychology is utilized in helping troubled organizations, in expediting organizational change, in developing emotionally competent leaders, and in understanding corporate fraud.
Please scroll down for more details about the 4 presentations (six hours total) offered in this track as well as a summary of the biographical information of each presenter.
DAVID MOORE
Affect and Imagery for conscious adaptation: Combining dramatisation and social sciences in participatory organisational change programs.
Date of Presentation: Friday October 15th
at 3:45 pm
Length of Presentation : 2 hour
Presentation Description: Organizations need to evolve to survive. But organizational evolution is complex. There is tension between striving for efficiency with new systems, and being constrained by outmoded but familiar systems.There is likewise tension between making quick decisions for the sake of efficiency, and consulting widely to ensure effective decisions. This presentation concerns a methodology that assists with change in organizations. Called "realplay", it has been developed over many years as part of a broader program to assist adaptive change. In essence, it combines detailed research with dramatization and improvisation to assist a group of colleagues (and then other groups) to align affect and imagery with consciousness. RealPlay helps colleagues reach a shared understanding of where they are now, and where they need to be, so they then can commit to effective action.
A Brief Bio of the Presenter: David Moore consults as a facilitator, writer, designer & academic. David has taught in politics, history, law and peace & conflict studies at Melbourne, Charles Sturt, La Trobe and QueenslandUniversities. In the early 1990s, he coordinated CharlesSturtUniversity’s Justice Studies program and was involved in international reforms using the Conferencing process in justice and education systems. David subsequently worked in Queensland’s Office of the Premier and Cabinet before co-founding Transformative Justice Australia (TJA). From 1996 – 2002, he trained Group Conference facilitators in Australia, North America and Europe, and provided facilitation and training services to Australian organizations across corporate, government, and community sectors. This work inspired David Williamson’s critically acclaimed Jack Manning Trilogy of plays: Face to Face, A Conversation, and Charitable Intent (1999 - 2001). (In 2010, Director Michael Rymer made Face to Face into a feature movie.)
In recent years, David has worked with colleagues to improve the ways individuals and organizations learn constructive communication. Much of this work is done as Principal Consultant with Primed Change Consulting. For more information about this innovative work, visit their website at http://www.primed.net.au/
MARGARET THORSBORNE
Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat:
how a restorative justice approach can be
used to resolve issues in a toxic workplace.
Date of Presentation: Saturday October 16th at 10:15 am
Length of Presentation : 1 hour
Presentation Description: This presentation will explore how a restorative approach and process (based on the principles of Restorative Justice) achieved positive outcomes for a team in a workplace which was on the verge of almost total collapse. Margaret will explain the process used, how people need to be prepared for such a process, the actual process itself and the follow up with staff.
A Brief Bio of the Presenter: Margaret Thorsborne, (B.Sc.,Dip Ed, Grad Dip Couns.) is a restorative justice consultant, working in the business sector to bring resolution to a variety of relationship problems in workplaces. Her background is in education and counseling, trauma response and conflict resolution. She is also involved in training for and the implementation of the restorative philosophy in schools and school systems in Australia, New Zealand, UK and USA.
To learn more about Marg Thorsborne’s philosophy for transforming conflict within organizations, visit her website at: http://www.thorsborne.com.au/index.html
JOHN FONTANA
Coaching as an Emotional Process:
Affect Script Psychology as a Tool for Developing Emotionally Competent Leaders.
Date of Presentation: Saturday October 16th at 11:30 am
Length of Presentation : 1 hour
Presentation Description: Leaders in all aspects of life become competent as they make good judgments in ordinary situations and in crisis. A building block for emotionally competent leaders is understanding how emotions and affects impact decision making.An awareness of affects as the building blocks of emotional intelligence is vital to appreciating both one's intrapersonal and interpersonal worlds. As leaders develop they encounter gaps to their self awareness and their social awareness that impede their development and effectiveness.An essential skill for coaches is their ability to see patterns; and affects often point the way for discerning coaches. A leader's success and development is a function of their ability to receive and process feedback. For the coach an understanding of affects, particularly shame and the "shame compass" and ensuing scripts, are critical for building an effective workingrelationship and overcoming interpersonal problems.Establishing an effective coaching relationship is about reading affects and using one's own affect (moving from the inside out) as a dynamic tool in the motivation and change process. This seminar will explore affect and script psychology as a tool to help coaches see and listen more effectively to the needs of clients and to unpack interpersonal realities around tension and conflict to more effectively manage relationships.
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Brief Bio of the Presenter:
John J. Fontana III, M.B.A., M.R.E. is President of Fontana Leadership
Development, Inc. an organizational and leadership development firm that
provides consultation, facilitation and coaching services to improve the
effectiveness
of leaders in managing individual development and organizational change.
DAVEN MORRISON
Madoff, Grey Markets, Regulatory Capture and Affect Script Psychology - a synthesis of ideas on corporate fraud from the worlds of law enforcement, economics and psychiatry.
Date of Presentation: Saturday October 16th
at 1:45 pm
Length of Presentation : 2 hour
Presentation Description: The economic crisis of the last 18 to 36 months has had an enormous impact that is for many catastrophic and was so extensive that virtually every one in the US was impacted and many around the world were as well. What happened? Those who follow economists as they seek to answer this question, in particular as they turn their attention inward (studying what went wrong in their own field) know that they do not have an answer other than the models failed. Daven Morrison and two colleagues chose to focus on fraud in the senior executive offices and in particular what more could explain the actions of those who commit fraud beyond the tired excuse of “greed”. Daven has leveraged the affect model for emotion for over ten years to make sense of behavior in the workplace as well as to help executives lead in a more humane way. His addition to the understanding of fraud will be explored in this presentation with case reviews and active encouragement of dialogue.
A Brief Bio of the Presenter: Dr. Morrison is a board certified psychiatrist. He graduated from NorthwesternUniversity in 1988 with a degree in Spanish literature, and in 1992 from the University of Illinois College of Medicine. His psychiatric residency was completed at University Hospitals of Case Western in Cleveland in 1996. He was a Chief Resident his final year. He is an active Board member of the Tomkins Institute: Applied Studies in Motivation, Emotion, and Cognition. He is also the program director and an Officer of the Academy of Organizational and Occupational Psychiatry and he is on the Committee for Work and Organizations of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. He has been a regular presenter and researcher for the Institute for Fraud Prevention. Daven is an advisor to senior management with a focus on the interpersonal. His primary roles include leading individual consultations for executives, facilitating seminars, and developing new products. Management education programs he has developed include Making Performance Management Discussions Work for You, which is designed to help managers and their direct reports develop a sense of mastery around tough discussions on performance. This course has been adapted for internal training and education programs at Abbott, Accenture, Food Lion, Kraft and Motorola.
DAVID MOORE
JOHN FONTANA
DAVEN MORRISON
