Moving and being moved between clinical and organisational consulting using a psychoanalytic lens.

In this presentation I will follow Eric Miller’s approach to open systems dynamics in exploring the intake, transformational and export processes of both clinical and consulting engagements. In doing this, I want to explore both active movement in innovating interventions as well as the receptive and reflective dimensions of being moved by sensation and emotion as a professional resource.

By describing and enquiring into a range of personal and professional experiences across a career, I want to explore links between three dimensions: a) bodily experience, b) group and organisational dynamics, c) societal context. These three dimensions have been the focus of the trilogy matrix framework for practice and research that I have been working with to explore the many dimensions of the known and unknown fields we work with. In this way I seek the nature of the task of coming to know aspects of what will always remain in part out-of-reach and out-of-sight.
Theoretical reference will be made to links between Bion’s “Experiences in Groups” and his later thinking and also to developments in psychoanalytic theory and practice using Field Theory. I will also borrow from Anzieu’s application of the analysis of skin phenomena and of Trevarthen and Guerra’s observations on rhythm in parent-child observation.

There will be a presentation and a discussion.

Richard Morgan-Jones is a Group Relations and Organizational Consultant, Supervising Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist with British Psychotherapy Foundation. Registered member of British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC). Distinguished member of International Society for Psychoanalytic Society of Organizations (ISPSO). Mentor of the AK Rice Institute, member of the Organization for Promoting the Understanding of Society (OPUS). Visiting faculty at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow. Consultant and Director of GRC Program Association for Psychoanalytic Coaching and Business Consulting (Moscow Russia) 2019-2025. Director of online Group Relations Conference for “Psychoanalysis in Transition: Belonging to a Body Larger than your Own” November 2025. Director of Work Force Health: Consulting and Research. Author of “The Body of the Organisation and its Health” (Routledge, 2010/2018) and co-editor of “Developments in Field Theory for Psychotherapists, Psychoanalysts and Counsellors” (Routledge, 2024).