Staff focus
Gwen Hanrahan
Course lead for Consulting and leading in organisations: psychodynamic and systemic approaches (D10/ED10)
“My background was strategy development in cross-cultural contexts. This work sparked my interest in the unconscious dynamics of groups and in organisational life. Time and again, to simply draw on linear rational thinking seemed to fall short. It didn’t always explain the group behaviours I was witnessing, and that I too was caught in, particularly when facing novel or difficult situations. Something was getting in the way, operating unconsciously, I might now say. When I attended my first group relations conference, and delved into psychoanalysis, I knew I had found a life raft. We can know we are in the grip of something – but not know at all what it is. A psychodynamic systemic frame helps me make sense of my experiences in role so as to collaborate, lead or consult more effectively in the work itself.”
Master’s 
