Great Lakes Symposium

Leader as Member: Using T-Group to Develop Referent Leadership Skills for a Changing World

Leadership in organizations has gone through a transformation from hierarchical leadership to more personal forms of leadership. Key to managing from a referent position is knowing oneself and one's emotions, navigating others' emotions, connecting across difference, and giving and receiving feedback effectively. From this perspective, leading means being more personally known to others than is typical in work settings. This workshop will present key concepts and techniques from the Interpersonal Dynamics course taught to MBA students at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. There will be an experiential segment of the workshop where the model can be practiced and power of leader as member will be demonstrated.

Learning Objectives

The participant will be able to:
1. Identify group approaches relevant to business vs. psychotherapy
2. Compare interpersonal dynamics with intrapersonal dynamics
3. Experience exercises that aid interpersonal dynamics for business and organizational leadership.

This event offers participants an opportunity to learn through their own experience in a group. This type of work is experiential and may feel emotionally intense at times, which can be both exciting and thought-provoking.

Sunday, August 21, 2022

9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Central Time

Virtual Event Via Zoom

6 CEUs available upon completion of the workshop

Meet Our Presenters

Christine Carpenter, PsyD, CGP

Christine Carpenter is a clinical psychologist, in private practice for over 20 years. She earned both her Master's and Doctoral degrees from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology and holds Level II certifications in both EMDR and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.

Relational dynamics is the foundation of Dr. Carpenter's therapeutic approach, making group psychotherapy an ideal resource for her clients. She has run many interpersonal process groups and has developed a short-term group workshop specifically focused on dating.

For the last 12 years, Christine has been an active member of the Great Lakes Group Psychotherapy Society where she has participated and led many Training Groups, in addition to being a long-term member of a private training group for therapists. She currently serves as Chair of the Marketing Committee and is President-Elect.

Dr. Carpenter has been teaching Interpersonal Dynamics at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business since 2019.

Darryl Pure, PhD, ABPP, FAGPA, CGP

Darryl Pure is a clinical psychologist with 38 years of experience facilitating groups in many different settings, both clinically and in Training Group formats. He serves on the faculty of the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University where he coordinates group training in the department of psychiatry.

For 32 years, Darryl has led 3-6 groups per week in his clinical practice in addition to running T-Groups for the American Group Psychotherapy Association. He has also supervised and consulted to T-Group leaders at AGPA and led T-Groups in many locations nationally and internationally including Northern Ireland and Israel.

Dr. Pure is a Fellow of AGPA, a Certified Group Psychotherapist of the International Board for the Certification of Group Psychotherapy, and a Fellow of the American Board of Group Psychotherapy, where he has served as the National Examination Chair and is currently President-Elect.

Dr. Pure has been teaching Interpersonal Dynamics at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business since 2019.

Hope to see you there!