Remote work is now an integral part of organisational life, bringing opportunities but also unique challenges. This programme is designed to help leaders, managers, consultants, and team members deepen their understanding of the visible and invisible — conscious and unconscious — dynamics at play when working through the screen, and to strengthen their capacity to navigate them with insight, creativity, and freedom.

Why this programme?

When we work remotely, much more is going on than the representations that appear on the screen. Visible tasks and exchanges are constantly influenced by less visible, often unconscious processes that shape how we communicate, collaborate, and take up roles.

• How do dynamics of isolation, competition, or envy affect our ability to stay engaged and purposeful?
• What hidden and unspoken forces influence how we negotiate authority, exercise leadership, or manage conflict?
• What happens to our sense of internal freedom — our ability to do what feels required, take up our authority, and carry out our tasks — when working through the screen?
• How do managers motivate teams, foster belonging, and sustain culture when both visible and invisible processes are at work?

Understanding both the conscious and unconscious aspects of online interaction is vital, because together they can either undermine or expand the possibilities for teams, organisations, and individuals.

What to expect

The programme is primarily experiential. You will:

• Experience the interplay of visible and invisible dynamics that shape online work — and reflect on them in real time.
• Learn to recognise how conscious and unconscious processes influence authority, competition, collaboration, and creativity.
• Explore how working online affects your sense of internal freedom — your ability to take up authority, make choices, and carry out tasks — and learn ways to strengthen it.
• Practise working with these dynamics directly, using live challenges as material for learning.
• Gain theoretical insights that help make sense of what emerges, drawn from open systems and psychoanalytic perspectives.

Participants will not only hear about these ideas but live through them, learning from the dynamics that unfold in the temporary “organisation” of the programme itself.

Format

• Three consecutive days of online experiential learning via Zoom.
• Group events, activities, and reflections designed to reveal the visible and invisible, conscious and unconscious dynamics of remote working.
• Attention to the programme as an organisation in its own right, offering direct parallels to organisational life online.
• Optional fourth day (one week later): an introduction to the theoretical framework (psychoanalytic–systemic approach), plus opportunities to practise “leading from the screen” with feedback.

Who is it for?

Leaders, managers, team members, and consultants across sectors — including entrepreneurs, HR professionals, coaches, therapists, educators, facilitators, administrators, activists, and those in legal, financial, public, mental health and non-profit fields.

No prior experience is required. Curiosity and a willingness to learn from experience are all that’s needed.

Practical details

When: Three consecutive days, followed by an optional fourth day one week later. Full timetable to be provided later.

5, 6, 7 March: 12:00–19:00 GMT (UK)

• 13:00–20:00 CET (Central Europe)
• 14:00–21:00 EET (Eastern Europe, Israel)
• 17:30–00:30 (+1) IST (India)
• 07:00–14:00 EST (USA – East Coast)
• 06:00–13:00 CST (USA – Central)
• 04:00–11:00 PST (USA – West Coast)
• 19:00–02:00 (+1) ICT (Thailand)
• 20:00–03:00 (+1) CST (China, Singapore, Taiwan)

Optional day: 13 March, 12:00-20:00 GMT/UK time)

Where: Online via Zoom. Informal networking opportunities available outside formal sessions.

Capacity: Limited places to ensure a focused and tailored experience.

Programme team

Led by Leila Djemal, with staff Avi Nutkevitch, Kalina Stamenova, Louise Edberg and Sarah Wynick.