Mayvin Director Sarah Fraser and Penny Lawrence from Women’s International Leadership Development (WILD) are organisers of the event: Feminist futures – leadership, diversity and women. An event that will address some of the trickiest issues around women in leadership and the wider agenda of diversity and feminist leadership. To complement the event, WILD is sharing information on their …
Together with the Mayvin Community, we’ve been exploring how an artful approach can create the spaces of reflection needed for more open, honest conversations about change in organisations. The focus of our most recent event was Artful Approaches to Organisational Change where we explored how an artful approach can create the spaces of reflection needed …
Dr James Traeger, Mayvin’s Director of Research and Dr Rob Warwick, Reader in Management and Organisational Learning at the University of Chichester, have been named on the HR Most Influential Thinkers list 2019. The acclaimed list of 30, compiled by HR magazine, celebrates practitioners and academics pushing the field of people management further. Dr James Traeger and Dr …
How can you sustain a good working relationship with your colleagues, with the people you lead, even when the world around you is changing catastrophically? Mayvin Director Dr James Traeger explores how a practice-based learning approach enables the levels of relational intelligence needed in order to embrace whatever context we all may find ourselves in …
This article about Making Meaning is the second in a series of three about the practical application of the Gestalt Method to organisations: Raising Awareness; Making Meaning; Encouraging and Supporting Contact. Mayvin Chairman Tony Fraser describes the distinctive Gestalt Organisational Development interventions. Moreover, these interventions bring fresh insight and recognition by getting around the typical …
Since a Tourette’s related one-liner won the funniest joke of the 2019 Edinburgh fringe, the neurological condition has received a lot of media attention. Mayvin Principal Consultant Tony Nicholls has been investigating more about Tourette’s. He writes about his reflections on one of Oliver Sacks’ stories about patients with this syndrome. In addition, Tony shares his …
Mayvin Chairman Tony Fraser introduces the first of three articles about Gestalt in Organisation Development (OD). After a brief introduction including an account of his personal experience of the power of the Gestalt method, Tony highlights the three distinctive domains of the Gestalt OD practitioner: Raising Awareness; Making meaning; Encouraging and supporting contact. This article …
Mayvin Associate Consultant, Clare Joghee, is part of our Artful Knowing research group at Mayvin. In this blog, Clare takes us on a journey to Sicily and asks how Dramatherapy techniques, with myth and stories, can be used more in Organisation Development and business to help us all to better understand the organisations we are a …