Programme
Friday, 26.3.2004
15.00
Welcome and Introduction
15.30
Leadership based upon European
Cultural roots
Dr. Heiner Müller-Merbach, Univ.Prof. Lehrstuhl
Betriebsinformatik and Operations Research
Kaiserslautern University, Germany
17.30
Leadership styles in their socio-cultural
contexts
Ross A. Lazar, B.A., M.A., Psychoanalyst and
Consultant, MundO, München, Germany
20.00
Dinner and informal get-together
Saturday, 27.3.2004
09.00
13.00
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Buffet
Developments and changes in organizations require the
best possible use of existing resources on the structural
as well as the personal level. This is also true of the
growing demands placed on managers by the
introduction of new structures and tasks, by new
strategies and by the necessity for global intercultural
cooperation. Structural and individual "irrationalities"
hinder the process of change. The reasons behind this
are often not known or easily recognised. Indeed they are
often unconscious. Yet such unconscious processes tend
to have an enormous effect just because they evade
conscious control and controllability. This applies
wherever they occur, whether at the individual, at the
team or at the organizational level. Attention to the
conflicts attending such dynamics, the less than optimal
solutions to problems thereby reached, and above all the
ability to cope better with them are all vital concerns of
psycho-dynamic organizational consulting and make up
the content of the EPOC programme. For a better
understanding and more effective cooperation within
teams and organizations, EPOC supports the application
of psychodynamic, groupanalytic and sociodynamic
concepts and methods (see for instance the works of
Bion, Menzies Lyth, Kets de Vries and others). Modern
management and organizational concepts, granting only
limited significance to the „human factor“ (emotions and
fantasies), are thus supplemented and extended.
14.00
American (US) and Latin (French)
leadership styles – a comparison
Dr. André Laurent, Prof. em. INSEAD,
Fontainebleau/Paris, France
16.00
Leadership development and executive
coaching in an international context
Dr. Roger Lehman, Psychoanalyst, Consultant,
Adjunct Clinical Professor of Management,
INSEAD, Executive Director, INSEAD Global
Leadership Center, Fontainebleau/Paris, France
18.00
Feedback and conclusion
Work format for all : Lectures, Small groups, plena
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19.00
EPOC Network meeting
EPOC´s perspectives: EPOC goes ISPSO ?!
11.00
Rose Redding Mersky, Redwood Executive
Consulting Inc., Port Chester, New York, ISPSO
(Director Professional Development)
Dr.Burkard Sievers, Professor, Bergische
Universität Wuppertal, Germany, ISPSO
(President elect)
Dr. Bernhard Janta, Bad Berleburg
Dr. Michael Wolf, Frankfurt,
(EPOC Organizational Board)
European companies and pressure group
activism – Cultural patterns of conflict
21.00
National culture and leadership profiles in
Europe and its regions - Results from the
„GLOBE Study“
Dr. Michael Axel, Dipl. Psych., Dipl. Kfm., MBA, ,
Institut für Soziologie and Ostasiatisches Seminar,
The Free University of Berlin, Germany
Götz Erhardt, M.A., MBA, Manager Marketing
Communications, Accenture, Kronberg, Germany
Dinner and informal get-together
EPOC: Idea and Objectives
 EPOC:
Conception
EPOC, the European Programme in Organizational
Consultancy, stands for a concept and training
programme that was developed in 1995 with the support
of renowned theorists and practitioners in the field of
psychodynamic organizational consulting and which grew
out of the ISPSO (The International Society for the
Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations). EPOC´s
objective is to further develop and pass on those
concepts of organizational consultation based on
psychodynamic considerations which have been
developed and practised mainly in the USA and Great
Britain in continental Europe. Members of three
institutions who work in this tradition, have co-initiated
EPOC: The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry,
Psychoanalysis and Psychology, New York and the
Tavistock Clinic and Institute at the University of East
London, London, England. Their experience has shown
that a psychodynamic view of unconscious processes in
teams, organzations and their leadership can become an
“added value“ of productivity in businesses and in
administrative institutions. Mathias Lohmer´s book
Psychodynamische Organisationsberatung. Konflikte und
Potentiale in Veränderungsprozessen (Stuttgart 2000
Klett-Cotta) presents a good compendium of the EPOC
approach in German. Parts of EPOC'S last two seminars
have also been published by Michael Wolf (Hg.): Frauen
und Männer in Organisationen und Leitungsfunktionen.
Unbewußte Prozesse und die Dynamik von Macht und
Geschlecht (Frankfurt 2001 Brandes & Apsel).
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EPOC: Europe
The process of European integration is on-going and
continues to get more and more complex as time goes
on. The implementation of the Euro, the European
constitutional convention and the expansion eastward are
the crucial steps at the moment. Through increased
integration
and
increased
diversity,
occurring
simultaneously, the sense of a European identity, both
internally within the EU and vis à vis the rest of the world
is growing. The conflicts with the USA and within Europe
about the third Gulf war and the question of Turkey's
integration into the EU accentuate the question of one
European identity vis à vis the diverse cultural identities
within Europe. These manifest themselves through typical
styles and forms of language, in religious differences,
urban development and town planning, in architecture,
art, fashion, cuisine and – last but not least – in the way
work is organised and in the kind of leadership which
prevails. Regional differences abound in Europe. Studies
of different cultural and leadership styles show particular
regional clusters, for instance: Nordic/Skandinavian,
Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Latin, Roman, East- and South
European. This seminar will attempt to deal with these
differences, focusing mainly on the subject of leadership
styles.
EPOC:
Advisory Board
The Advisory Board consists of organizational
consultants and social scientists, all of whom are either
members of or closely affiliated to the ISPSO (The
International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of
Organizations, www.ispso.org) and who have rendered
outstanding service to the foundation of EPOC: Dr. Erik
van de Loo, Den Haag, The Netherlands; Prof. Dr.
Manfred Kets de Vries, Paris, France; Gerhard Lenz ,
Munich, Germany; Dr. Gilles Amado, Jouy-En-Josas,
France; Prof. Dr. Larry Gould, New York, USA; Dr. Larry
Hirshhorn, Philadelphia, USA; Prof. Dr. Laurent Lapierre,
Montreal, Canada; Dr. Roger Lehman, Frankfurt,
Germany; Prof. Dr. Harry Levinson, Boston, USA; Jon
Stokes, London, England
EPOC:
Organizational Board
EPOC'S Organizational Board, which is responsible for
the realization and further development of EPOC consists
of: Dr. Bernhard Janta, Bad Berleburg; Dr. Erik van de
Loo, Den Haag, The Netherlands; Dr. Roger Lehman,
Frankfurt; Dr. Mathias Lohmer, Munich; Bernd Neuzner,
Düsseldorf; Wim de Roos, Den Haag, The Netherlands
and Dr. Michael Wolf, Frankfurt.
Participants
This EPOC-Seminar is suitable for:

General Managers

Personnel Managers and Organizational
consultants

Psychotherapists, Psychoanalysts and Supervisors
Fees
The participation fee is € 390.- incl. beverages and
snacks during the breaks and a buffet lunch on Saturday.
Hotel information is available on request or from
www.frankfurt.de either for Frankfurt-Westend or
Frankfurt-Bockenheim or call 0049-69-21230808.
Further information
Dr. Bernhard Janta Tel. 0049-2751-448412
Dr. Michael Wolf Tel. 0049-69-532885
EPOC
EUROPEAN PSYCHODYNAMIC
ORGANIZATIONAL CONSULTING
Contact address in Germany:
Schenkendorfstr. 9
D-60431 Frankfurt
0049-69-82378199
eMail: epoc@gmx.ch
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THE ORGANIZATION IN THE
MIND:
EUROPEAN IDENTITY
AND
EUROPEAN
LEADERSHIP STYLES
26. / 27. March 2004
Sigmund-Freud-Institut
Myliusstr. 20
D-60323 Frankfurt/ Main
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languages of the seminar will be both English and
German with the possibility of translations from one to the
other.
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Myliusstr. 20
D- 60323 Frankfurt / Main
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