But does a spiritual mission bring additional challenges? What happens in the areas in which organisational structure and spiritual experience (or practices or beliefs) intersect or are in tension with one another? At the outset of a research project exploring this topic, this lunchtime session provides a space to explore this and related questions, including what is the lived experience of authority relations in both spiritual organisations, and secular organisations headed by overtly or covertly spiritual or religious leaders.

Recording of the talk

Dr. Dione Hills

March 2021 – We are extremely sad to announce that our dear friend and colleague Dr Dione Hills has died following a sudden and short illness. You can read the obituary we have written for her here. — I began my research career at the Department of Health and have been at the Tavistock Institute since 1986. A driving force for me over this time has been...

Dr. Leslie B. Brissett

Throughout my thirty years working in organisational and community leadership I have found myself nourished, on one hand, by the intersection of power, politics, and privilege, and on the other, by serving “the whole person”. I am preoccupied by the question: What does it mean to be a “whole person”?  I draw on all areas of scholarly and creative thought to gather insights and freely share these...