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Linking Field Theory and Systems
Psychodynamics to Enhance Leadership:
Exploring Our Complex Identities and
Finding Social Resonance in Turbulent Times

Developed by the Department of Psychoanalytic Education
Council for Leadership and Organizational Studies
10-Week Advanced Leadership Seminar
Every Thursday | Oct 9, 2025 – Dec 18, 2025

Virtual | Zoom
29.75 CME/CE Credits | $299
Registration will open July 2025. Stay Tuned!
Questions? Email Kate Brundage, KBrundage@APsA.org

This 10-week virtual seminar seeks to transform learners by deepening their capacity
for reflective, inclusive, and ethically grounded leadership and clinical practice in the
face of complex social and systemic challenges. The primary change is the
development of a more self-aware, socially attuned, and emotionally resilient leader and
practitioner who can stay present in the discomfort of difficult conversations, recognize
and challenge internalized and systemic forms of bias, and take thoughtful, justice-
oriented action in group, organizational, and societal contexts.

How Change Will Be Enacted
To facilitate this transformation, the seminar employs theoretical and experiential
components that include:
1. Emotionally engaged learning environments (e.g., evocative films, case
studies, role-play, storytelling) that invite learners to engage with critical concepts
through both structured content and personal experience. To embrace exposure

to the complex differences in human experiences, to sit with discomfort, to
process and remain present in emotionally charged intersubjective fields. To
reflect deeply on their own positionality and biases, and in doing so, cultivate
emotional readiness, strengthen self-reflection, and enhance empathic
engagement across complex human differences.
2. Guided reflection and critical dialogue foster mutual learning between faculty
and participants, creating a culture of learning with and from one another. This
process connects personal experience with the broader social consciousness
and cultural surround and historical frameworks—encouraging learners to
examine how internal and external forces shape identity, power, leadership, and
professional practice.
3. Analysis of individual and systemic forces contributing to trauma and othering
is paired with practical skill-building exercises—such as applying intersectional
frameworks, navigating polarization, and leading with authenticity and integrity.
Together, these approaches empower participants to respond effectively to
complex dynamics and support meaningful institutional transformation.
4. Collaborative small and large groups that invite vulnerability, insight,
openness, mutual learning, and a sense of shared responsibility, agency, and
power—helping learners move from insight to action.
5. Ongoing integration and application through opportunities for learners to
articulate strategies for implementing inclusive and transformative leadership
approaches in their own settings.
Through these methods, learners will gain knowledge, skill, and internalize new ways of
thinking, feeling, and leading—building on their emotional and social attunement and
the capacity to be agents of constructive change in their institutions and local and global
communities.
All questions regarding this course should be directed to Kate Brundage,
KBrundage@APsA.org