Shared Leadership – at the Intersection of Art and Psychodynamic Organizational Psychology

What happens when leadership itself becomes a site of violation – when group dynamics reproduce control, conformity, or silence rather than creativity and care? In line with the conference theme, this workshop explores how leadership practices can both sustain and disrupt patterns of violation within and by the group. Drawing on psychodynamic organizational psychology and aesthetic practice, we examine how artistic competencies – such as improvisation, embodied listening, and symbolic expression – can support leaders in navigating complex, ambivalent, and emotionally charged group processes.

In a time when it is no longer enough to manage the known, leaders must develop the capacity to create the not-yet-imagined – without retreating into control reflexes or managerial defenses. Through experiential and sensuous methods, participants are invited to challenge conventional notions of control, creativity, and authority, and to explore new relational and reflective capacities that must be lived rather than merely understood.