Making better professional worlds: surviving and thriving within organisations

In this webinar Richard and Amy will explore how organisations shape us, and how we can contribute to shaping them. 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.