Lift as you Climb presents: Saying yes, saying no - Setting boundaries

A presentation of ideas around boundaries and defences. Bringing together material from psychology and psychoanalysis Dr. Kahn will address how to create opportunities and take risks as well as the way in which we can protect ourselves. Participants will be able to reflect on their own boundaries and defence mechanisms and to take a deep dive into the way their established patterns of behaviour may be challenged to serve them better.

• Defence mechanisms (or self-protection)
• Containment
• Saying yes or saying no
• Vulnerability at work
• Individual take aways

Susan Kahn is a business psychologist, a speaker and an academic. She is a chartered psychologist, coaching psychologist & supervisor with the British Psychological Society and a Fellow of the Association of Business Psychologists. She works as an executive coach, consultant, mediator, and observer of working life. She is particularly interested in people's behaviour at work and under-the-surface dynamics in organisations. She studied organisational consultancy using psychoanalytic methods at the Tavistock and did her PhD at Birkbeck, University of London where she teaches coaching psychology and established the Masters in Coaching Psychology, she also works as a group relations consultant. She uses psychoanalytic observation as a research method and has written about the psychoanalysis of endings (Death & the City) and resilience (Bounce Back). She is also a board member of This Can Happen: empowering workplace mental health, ISPSO and OPUS. Her latest book, Reinvent Yourself: psychological insights that will transform your work life, was published in February 2024.

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