In her TEDx Talk “Building a Psychologically Safe Workplace,” Amy Edmondson of Harvard Business School discusses the problem of silence in the workplace, tracing it to a confluence of factors including the lack of psychological safety, pressure not to challenge the status quo, and the urgency of impression management.
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II. Blog Articles and Podcast Recordings |
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IV. Virtual Seminars on April 2, 2022* |
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The Men's Group Seminar: Paul Dolan on Success Narratives and Being “Happy Ever After”
Paul Dolan is a behavioral scientist, professor at The London School of Economics, and author of several books including Happy Ever After: Escaping the Myths of the Perfect Life. His central thesis is that long-standing socially developed narratives of success are myths that do not translate into personal happiness and fulfillment. He focuses his work on established beliefs about success in various domains of life including education, wealth, career, relationships, health, and altruism, and how we are judged by others, and by ourselves, in these domains. According to Dolan, assumptions about success are buttressed by the underlying notion of “reaching,” i.e., the need to gain and achieve more and more and by inferences concerning what it means to be an “adult” living an adult life. A critical reviewer of the scientific literature, Dolan reaches a variety of surprising, counter-intuitive conclusions about the correlation between financial success and happiness, the consequences of divorce, having children, and even infidelity. In the next virtual meeting of the Men's Group Seminar on Saturday, April 2, 2022 (10:15 to 11:30 AM), we will explore Dolan’s ideas including his perspective on “happiness delusions.” Dolan’s talks “Happy Ever After” and “How to Be Happy,” along with his article “The Money, Job, Marriage Myth: Are You Happy Yet?”, will be our central focus. In addition, we will review his interview “Design Your Happy Ever After” in which Dolan offers a newly conceived notion of happiness.
To register for this upcoming virtual seminar, please see the directions below.
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The Relationship Group Seminar: “Emotional Immaturity” Among Couples
Often manifesting as problems of communication and conflict resolution, relational limitations exist in all couples. There is a bandwidth for intimacy in which every couple resides and struggles to move beyond. This bandwidth is determined by a variety of factors including each partner’s family of origin, upbringing, psychological maturity, and interpersonal sophistication. We enter relationships with the paradoxical need for closeness together with fears, trepidations, and deficits in our capacity to be deeply connected and bonded with our partner. Psychologist and author Lindsay Gibson has directed her attention to what she calls “emotional immaturity” among partners in relationships. Each partner, she argues, features certain qualities and characteristics that may obstruct relational expression; she traces these factors to the emotional limitations of our parents to which we were exposed as children. In the next virtual meeting of the Relationship Group Seminar on Saturday, April 2, 2022 (11:45 AM to 1:00 PM), we will explore Gibson’s perspective, specifically her podcast interview “Decoding Emotional Immaturity.” Moreover, we will review how experts conceptualize emotional maturity in relationships and review the indicators of emotional maturity. In our discussion, we will consider the alternative signs of emotional immaturity in partners, specifically how psychological defenses are utilized to a fault and the relationship dynamics that unfold as emotional immaturity persists.
To register for this upcoming virtual seminar, please see the directions below.
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The Dynamic Psychotherapy Process Group
This therapy group utilizes the emerging dynamics among group members, and between the group members and facilitator, as a basis from which to examine one's characteristic ways of thinking, feeling, and relating to others. Our next virtual group session will be held on Saturday, April 2, 2022 (1:15 to 2:30 PM). The Dynamic Psychotherapy Process Group is a therapeutic experience and entry occurs only after a pre-group screening interview.
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* Registration Directions: If you would like to attend the virtual meeting of the Men's Group Seminar and/or the Relationship Group Seminar on April 2, 2022, please RSVP to me at 949-338-4388 or jt@jamestobinphd.com on or before Thursday, March 31, 2022. The fee is $25.00 and informed consent for participation in these telehealth events must be completed prior to the seminars. Please note that the Men's Group Seminar and the Relationship Group Seminar are psychoeducational in nature, not therapeutic, and do not constitute psychotherapy or counseling.
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