Making better professional worlds: Surviving and thriving within organisations; creating and maintaining healthy networks
In this webinar Richard Clarke and Amy Urry will explore how organisations shape us, and how we can contribute to shaping them.
AFSP member: £35
Non-member: £45
AFSP student member: £20
Organiser
Association for Family and Systemic Psychotherapy
Organisations influence how we speak, decide, relate, take risks, and imagine what is possible in our professional lives; organisations are often treated as fixed entities – “the organisation decided”, “the system won’t allow it” – rather than as ongoing patterns of interaction in which we are already participating.
This webinar invites participants to reflect on their lived relationships with organisations, and on how survival and thriving can be co-created within professional worlds rather than achieved individually.
Drawing on systemic, dialogical and relational perspectives, we will explore how organisational realities are made and sustained through everyday conversations, roles and forms of authority, and how these shape professional identity, agency and ethical action.
Rather than offering models or solutions, the session creates space to notice how we position ourselves within organisations, how different forms of participation become authorised or constrained, and how healthy professional networks emerge through relational practices rather than formal structures.
The aim is to support participants to make better professional worlds, not by fixing organisations, but by becoming more fluent in how we can participate with greater care, courage and reflexivity.
This webinar is suitable for all family psychotherapy/systemic practitioners at any level of training and practice, and for employees as well as those in private practice, and for practitioners from all modalities and disciplines.
Speakers
Richard Clarke is a UKCP-registered family and systemic psychotherapist, executive coach and systemic supervisor. His work sits at the intersection of therapy, organisations and professional practice, with a particular interest in how authority, identity and ethical action are co-created in complex systems.
Richard works with practitioners, leaders, and organisations across health, social care and the private sector, supporting reflective practice in contexts shaped by uncertainty, constraint and change. His current writing and research explore systemic supervision, organisational life and the relational construction of leadership, drawing on dialogical and second-order perspectives.
He is an Accredited Coaching Supervisor and is completing APECS Master Supervisor accreditation. Alongside practice, Richard writes and teaches on systemic thinking in organisational contexts, with recent publications exploring reflexivity, influence, and the limits of neutrality in professional practice.
Amy Urry has many years of experience as a UKCP-registered family and systemic psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor, working with individuals, couples, families, teams and organisations. Throughout her career she has provided input to teams, services and multi-agency networks.
Currently she is energetic in encouraging systemic practitioners to work actively in creating, sustaining and participating in healthy networks. She is a believer in the value of micro and moderate acts of collectivity, collaboration and creativity as central to systemic practice.
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