Symposium:
The complexity of conflict and organising in the time of Covid-19

28 November 2020

This one day event, hosted by the University of Hertfordshire was an opportunity for those interested in complex responsive processes to make sense of their experience of conflict in organisations during the pandemic.

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Workshops were provided by:

• Dr Rui Grilo: Is this pandemic affecting organizational themes and patterns of relating?

• Keven Bartle: The myth of unity

• Emma Elkington: The backstage effects of working with metrics

• Dr Sara Filbee and Dr Majken Askeland: Disruptive change and the Struggle for Meaning: Drawing on the concepts of grief and trust to explore our Covid-19 experience

• Mathew Rich-Tolsma: Negotiating Social Patterns of Anxiety when Working Online

• Dr Graham Curtis: The experience of shame

• Dr Jim Palmer: How Emergent Embodied Narrative Accounts shape and are shaped by risks and conflicts of interpersonal organising in the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Dr Patricia Shaw: Facing Friendly Fire – conflict amongst peers

This event was hosted by the University of Hertfordshire.