OFEK 30th Anniversary , September 8-9 2017

1 elPmaerP That our world is at a troublesome juncture is no news. We live in times of wars, massive migration, extreme social inequalities, religious extremism, the rise of authoritarianism and terrorism - to name some of the most obvious. Many of us are closer to the heat of events, others are farther away; but we are all affected. The media brings it all to our homes in vivid colors and real-time, making it less possible to deny. Can we better understand the present moment so as, perhaps, to learn to foresee and act, and not only to mourn in hindsight?

OFEK devotes its 30th anniversary to the study of the in-depth processes that contribute to the Unstable World/s of our times.

The Group Relations approach was developed in the 1950’s by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in London as a method of learning through experience about the nature of group, organizational and social dynamics: the exercise of authority and power, the interplay between tradition, innovation and change, and the relationship of organizations to their social, political, and economic environments.

The GR approach assumes that the inner world and external reality are always interconnected in both conscious and unconscious ways, that the understanding of human behavior must include the exploration of the emotional factors operating at the individual and group level. This approach continues to evolve and develop.

OFEK (Organization; Person; Group) grew out of this line of thinking and practice. In 1985, a small group of enthusiastic professional-cum-social activists initiated and founded OFEK, envisioning the development in of an experiential learning methodology of group and organizational processes, both overt and covert, conscious and unconscious, and its dissemination for the benefit of Israeli society.

Thirty years later, OFEK is a lively and vibrant organization with dozens of members in Israel and abroad. It is a success story and a leading organization in the Group Relations international network.

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During these two days, we will work in plenaries and various groupings. Each grouping will serve the overall Primary Task: Understanding currently pressing societal issues through a Group Relations perspective

Plenaries The Opening Plenary will present the program for the two days and facilitate crossing the boundary into the event. Mira Erlich-Ginor and Daphna Bahat Review of the day: At the end of the first day and toward moving to the festivities we will have an opportunity to look at “what did we have.” Led by: Smadar Ashuach and Joab Kirsh The Closing Plenary at the end of the second day will provide an opportunity to look at the experience as a whole. Led by: Daphna Bahat and Mira Erlich-Ginor

2 Panels Panel I, Friday 9:30 It all started with some visionaries – from thought to action. With: Shmuel Erlich, Mira Erlich-Ginor, Yigal Ginat, Avi Nutkevitch, Jona Rosenfeld and Mannie Sher. Moderator: Miri Tsadok. The participants in the panel are the founders and enablers of the organization. The panel will be an opportunity to hear from the founders about critical moments in the founding of OFEK. The aim of the panel is to explore what can be learned from these moments about the DNA of the organization, and what can be learned about OFEK today and tomorrow.

Panel II, Friday 11:30 Internal agents, external agents: Multiple subversive standpoints and views on Israeli Society. With: Yael Buchbinder-Shimoni, Tali Farkash, Ziva Mekonen Degu and Nagham Naseralla. Moderators: Ronit Kark and Hagit Shachar-Paraira. The participants in this panel are activists from diverse locales, different sectors of society, and of multiple identities. They will describe their activities and efforts to destabilize and challenge the status quo from their unique places and perspectives. The aim of the panel is to better understand the complex relationships between the different sub groups in Israeli society through the dialogue with these outstanding women, who strive to de-stabilize the existing social structures. Drawing on the group relations perspective, we will examine what facilitates and what holds back these women’s ability to act and to lead change and gain influence.

Panel III, Saturday 11:30 Group Relations in Israel, OFEK in the network: A look from within and from without With: Eliat Aram, Gabi Bonwitt, Miriam Shapira, Dorothee von Tippelskirch-Eissing. Moderator: Shmuel Erlich. The aim of this panel is to review and examine OFEK’s influence and impact in promoting and fostering the Group Relations approach and application in Israel and its contribution beyond Israel. The panelists represent a cross section of people closely related to OFEK in various ways, as members, conference participants and staff, and involved in expanding and promoting GR in Israel and abroad. They will focus on their personal relatedness to OFEK, their perception and evaluation of it as a significant GR organization, its contributions and/or its flaws and deficiencies. The presentations will be followed by buzz groups and a plenary discussion with the audience.

Buzz Groups Following the panels on Friday and Saturday there will be discussion in "buzz groups" with a small number of participants. The task of these groups will be to discuss the issues raised by the panels and to link it to the overall task of understanding societal issues through the Group Relations approach. Coordinator: Moshe Bergstein. Facilitators: Shmuel Bernstein, Boaz Gesthalter, Ada Mayer, Shely Sussman, Yael Shenhav Sharoni, Sivanie Shirani, Lionel Stapley.

3 3. Experiential Events a. Organizational Event: Israel World Event (IWE) The organizational event, which is named 'Israel World Event' (IWE), will be a space where we will be able to explore one of the themes of the conference in the spirit of the learning and ways of exploration that characterizes the Group Relations approach. The primary task of the 'Israel World Event' will be to explore from the experience in the 'here and now' of the event what Israel 'represents' for the world in conscious as well as unconscious layers, and in what way this 'representation' affects Israel as a country and as a society. We will work in small groups, hold inter-group meetings and end in a plenary that will collect the work done in the small groups and continue the work of exploring the topic. Directed by: Avi Nutkevitch. Facilitators: Louisa Brunner, Saliem Khliefi, Mannie Sher, Simi Talmi and Yossi Triest. b. Social Dreaming Social Dreaming is a method developed by Gordon Lawrence in England in the early 1980s. The Social Dreaming Matrix is a space in which participants are invited to tell recent dreams, dream fragments, thoughts, feelings, sensations, memories, symbols and ideas that arise as associations to the dreams. The emphasis is on the dream and not on the dreamer. We explore rather than interpret. The matrix is a space in which we try to tap into the unconscious life of the organization we are part of, and into the hidden “underground currents” that exist in the wider social context. The Primary Task of the Social Dreaming Matrix is: To tap the social and systemic unconscious life of the event as a whole, through dreams, dream fragments and associations. The Matrix will be hosted by Yigal Ginat, Ilana Litvin and Hanna Marder. There will be two matrices.

4. Anniversary Party When British culture and humor meet the Israeli culture and humor. The “critical event” that created OFEK. The aim of the event is to celebrate, share and enjoy. Led by: Michal Granot, Judy Levy, Yael Mass Mike Tepliz , Nadav Ovadia and friends.

In Role

Event Director

Mira Erich Ginor MA, Clinical Psychologist and Training Psychoanalyst, the Israel Psychoanalytic Society; Organizational Consultant; Directs and Consults in Group Relations conferences; member, founding member and past chair of OFEK, founding and board member of PCCA; European representative, IPA Board.

4 OFEK Chairwoman

Daphna Bahat MA, Clinical Psychologist - Supervisor, Organisational Consultant; Teaches and the Psychoanalytic-Systemic Approach for groups and organisations at various institutions, including 'Touch OFEK'; Leads workshops for women's empowerment using dance; Member, OPUS; Chairwoman, OFEK.

Administrators

Iris Segal Joab Kirsch

Joab Kirsch MBA; Founder & facilitator at Space for Change consulting organizational, management and business development processes; Organizational and business consultant; Combines in his work his experience as CFO and in various management roles in companies in Israel and abroad; Graduate: the Program for organizational consultancy & development - a psychoanalytical systemic approach; Member of OFEK and the Audit committee of OFEK;

Iris Segal MSc, Behavioral & Management, MSW, Executive Organizational consultant and supervisor, Psychotherapist , Group Facilitator; Former Head of the Organizational Development Branch in the IDF; Former Board Member OFEK, Member IPPA; Member OFEK;

Panel I It all began with some visionaries

S. Erlich M. Erlich-Ginor Y. Ginat A. Nutkevitch J. Rosenfeld M. Sher M. Tsadok

Prof. Shmuel Erlich, Clinical Psychologist, Training and Supervising Analyst and Past President, Israel Psychoanalytic Society; Sigmund Freud Professor of (Emeritus) and former Director of the Freud Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; consultant to organizations; Founding Member, OFEK and PCCA.

5 Mira Erlich-Ginor (see above)

Prof. Yigal Ginat, MD. worked for 30 years in the Mental health area, more than half the time as the director of Mental Health Centers. Devotes his time to rehabilitation of mentally disabled in the community. Awarded Yakir Yerushaleim. Directs a three-year psychotherapy course in Ben-Gurion University. Founder of Ofek, past chair and member.

Avi Nutkevitch Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist and Training Psychoanalyst, Israel Psychoanalytic Society; Organizational Consultant; Lecturer and Supervisor, The Israeli Psychoanalytic Institute, The Relational track of The School in Psychotherapy at Tel-Aviv University; Co- Director The program in Organizational Consultation and Development: A Psychoanalytic- Systemic Approach; Founding Member and Past Chairman, OFEK Prof. Jona Rosenfeld is one of Israel's pioneering social workers. Born in Germany, in 1933 he emigrated with his family to Palestine. Jona Rosenfeld is professor emeritus and former Dean of Social Work and Social Welfare. He is the founder of the Unit for Learning from Success and Ongoing Learning in the Human Services at the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute, Jerusalem Israel. He is the first recipient of Israel Prize for Social Work (1998). Founder, first chair and member of OFEK.

Mannie Sher, BA, AAPSW, TQAP, FBAP, PhD Director, Group Relations Program & Principal Researcher and Consultant, The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, London; Trustee, Gordon Lawrence Foundation for the Promotion of Social Dreaming; Member, OFEK, Israel; Former Board member, ISPSO. Miri Tsadok , MA; Clinical Psychologist, Supervisor and Organizational Consultant in private practice, Jerusalem; Faculty, Program in Organizational Consultation and Development: a Psychoanalytic-Systemic Approach; Member and Past Board Member, OFEK.

Panel: Internal agents, external agents

Y. Buchbinder-Shimoni Ziva Mekonen Degu Tali Farkash Nagham Naseralla Ronit Kark H. Shachar

Yael Buchbinder-Shimoni, is a member of Studio of Her Own, a women's artist activist group. She is involved in different fields of Torah study and education, teaches in Pelech Hight School and Midreshet Lindenbaum in Jerusalem. She studied in Migdal Oz’s advanced program in their Bet Midrash for Women; Is a member of the rabbinic organization "Bet Hillel – Attentive Spiritual Leadership" and head of its Meshivat Nefesh project, that aims to provide women and girls with an attentive female ear and responder to tailor a response to their questions on the internet.

Tali Farkash, is a journalist at Ynet, feminist activist and a group facilitator of ultra-orthodox women at “Van Leer” Institute. She is a member of the "No Voice, No Vote!" campaign that called the Ultra-Orthodox parties to include women in their members in the last elections. She is a graduate student at the Gender Program at Bar-Ilan University.

6 Ziva Mekonen Degu, is the Executive Director of the Association of Ethiopian Jews Advocacy NGO to advance equal opportunity for Ethiopian Jews. She is a social activist that promotes the rights of the Ethiopian community and fights agains racism.

Nagham Naseralla, is a Political and Social activist for an egalitarian and fair society. She is the first woman Candidate for municipal elections in Qalanswa. Nagham has an extensive experience in community activities and motivating demonstrations such as: demonstrating against landfills, house demolitions and more. Graduate of the Gender Program at Bar-Ilan University.

Prof. Ronit Kark, PhD, Organizational Psychologist; Professor of Leadership, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University. Founder of the graduate program: ‘Gender in the field: Linking feminist theory and social action’ and affiliated scholar, Center for Gender in Organizations, Simmons, Boston. Leadership and Organizational Consultant, current and prior board member Abraham Fund, Studio of her Own, Women in the Picture and OFEK; Israel

Hagit Shachar-Paraira (MSW) Organizational and Group Consultant; The collaborative laboratory for social innovation-CoLab; Teaches at the Program of Organizational Consultation & Development: A Psychoanalytic-Systemic Approach and The Program for OD consultation at Oranim College; PhD student for Gender Studies, Bar Ilan University; Member of OFEK.

Panel III GR in Israel OFEK in GR A view from within, from without Israel in GR

Shmuel Erlich Eliat Aram Gabi Bonwitt Miriam Shapira D. von Tippelskirch-Eissing.

Shmuel Erlich (see above) ELiat Aram, PhD. CEO of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in London, UK. Issues of leadership and authority in a complex, often unknowable world are of daily concern, challenge and excitement for me. Member, OFEK Israel.

Gabi Bonwitt, M.A., Training Psychoanalyst, Past Chairman, Scientific Committee, board of directors, the Israeli Psychoanalytic Society; Past Board Member and Director of Group Relations conferences, OFEK; "Testimonies" a documentary film, post trauma and soldiers (1994), Main Interviewer .

Dr. Dorothee C. von Tippelskirch-Eissing, Dr. phil., Dipl. Psych., has studied theology, Jewish studies and psychology. She is working as a psychoanalyst in private practice in Berlin (Germany), she is a training analyst, supervisor and lecturer. She has been the Chairperson of the Karl-Abraham-Institute, Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute (BPI) and a Board member of the German Psychoanalytic Association (DPV). She is a Member of the International

7 Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). Since 2015 she is the Chairperson of Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities (PCCA).

Miriam Shapira, MA, clinical psychology; Counseling psychologist to individuals and families, private practice in Karney Shomron; special interest in situations of trauma and grief; Head of MAHUT Israel, center for coping and resilience with threat and trauma, in a systemic and community level; Member, founder and first chairperson of BESOD SIACH, to promote dialogue among conflict groups in Israel; Staff member in Group Relations Conferences in Israel and abroad; member, OFEK.

Buzz Groups

S. Bernstein B. Gesthalter A. Mayer S. Sussman Y. Sharoni S. Shirani L. Stapley. M. Bergstein

Moshe Bergstein, PhD (Social work), MSc (Chemistry and Life Sciences);Psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, Ramat Hasharon; Teaches in various post-graduate psychotherapy programs and in the Israel Psychoanalytic Institute; Member, Israel Psychoanalytic Society, Jerusalem; Member, OFEK Shmuel Bernstein, supervising-clinical psychologist, analytical psychologist ISAP, IAAP. Member Ofek.

Boaz Gesthalter, MA, Senior Clinical Psychologist and Supervisor; Private Practice, Tel-Aviv; Management Member and Head of the Psychodiagniostic Unit in Triest-Sarig clinic; Management Member, OFEK; Israel.

Ada Mayer, MA. Individual and group therapist. Organizational consultant. Amcha; Board of B'Sod Siach; Member, Institute of Group Analysis. Member, OFEK. Dr Lionel Stapley is Professor of Organisation Coaching at Birkbeck University of London. He is also Director of IGO Consultancy Services Ltd, through which, in UK and overseas, he provides: Individual Services, Psychodynamic and Executive Coaching; Group Services, Directing Group Relations, and Directing Advanced Training in Small Group Processes; Organisation Services, Consulting to whole group projects, Mergers, Culture Transitions. He is a Member and Fellow of OPUS; and a Member of ISPSO.

Yael Shenhav Sharoni; MA, Clinical Psychologist and Supervisor, Psychoanalyst and Consultant to Organizations; Member of Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis ; Member and Past Board Member, OFEK Sivanie Shiran, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, Jungian Psychoanalyst, Lecturer and Organizational Consultant, Faculty member at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzeliya; Member, OFEK. Shely Sussman , MA, Organizational Psychologist ; Director of Learning & Development, Board Member at JDC-TEVET; PhD student, Program for Psychoanalysis & Hermeneutics, Bar Ilan University; Graduate, Program of Organizational Consultation & Development: Psychoanalytic-Systemic Approach; Member, OFEK.

8 Experiential Event (IWE)

A. Nutkevitch L. Brunner S. Khliefi Mannie Sher Simi Talmi Yossi Triest.

Avi Nutkevitch (see above)

Louisa Diana Brunner, PhD, Leadership Development Consultant, Career and Executive Coach, Family Business Advisor, Independent Researcher; Selection Bocconi School of Management, Milano- Italy; Family Firm Institute Mentor; Treasurer PCCA; Honorary Member Il Nodo Group; Member: APS, FFI, ISPSO, OFEK, OPUS.

Saliem Khaliefi, B.A, social worker, organizational consultant, group therapist. Prison services, OFEK member.

Simi Talmi ,M.S.W., Psychoanalyst, Group Facilitator & Organizational Consultant; Co-director The program in organizational consultation & development: A psychoanalytic – systemic approach lecturer, The School of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Haifa university; Member, Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis; Member, OFEK.

Mannie Sher (see above)

Dr. Joseph Triest, PhD; Clinical Psychologist, Training Analyst (IPS); Organizational Consultant. Lecturer at Tel Aviv University; Member of OFEK; Co-Director and Faculty Member in the Program in Organizational Consultation and Development (P.O.C.D). Founder and Co-owner of the Triest-Sarig Clinic. .

Review of the Day

S.Ashuach Joab Kirsch

Ashuach Smadar, M.A. Clinical psychologist, supervisor. Psychoanalyst and Group Analyst. Member of Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Member of the Israeli Institute of Group Analysis, and member of OFEK. Private clinic in Tel Mond, Israel. Teaches at the IIGA and Tel-Aviv University. Joab Kirsch (see above)

9 Social Dreaming

ilana Litvin Hanna Marder Yigal Ginat

Yigal Ginat, (see above)

Ilana Litvin, MA (English Literature) MA (Clinical Psychology), Psychoanalytically Oriented Psychotherapist and Organizational Consultant. Since 1996, involved in Group Relations work, taking up different roles in national and international GR Conferences, in Israel and abroad. Member and past chairperson of OFEK; Member, OPUS; member, ISPSO.

Hanna Marder , BSc (Physics), MBA, Financial and Business Consultant ; Group Facilitator; Member and Past Board Member, OFEK

The 30th Anniversary Party

Michal Granot Judy Levy Yael Mass Mike Tepliz Yael Sharoni Nadav Ovadia and friends

Michal Granot, PhD, University of Haifa. Pain researcher, the Laboratory of Clinical Neurophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel, Group consultant, Candidate in the Israeli group of group analyses, OFEK member.

Judith Levy, Ph.D., Senior Teacher (retired), Dept. of English, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Organizational Consultant and Executive Coach; former Chair and member of

Yael Mass, B.A.,Organizational consultant, Coaching to managers and teams, has a lot of experience in managing social communities, graduate of POCD, member, OFEK.

Mike Tepliz, PhD. Educational Psychologist, Director of Educational Psychology Service, Upper Galilee, Head of Program for Dynamic Psychotherapy studies, Zefat college, Board member OFEK.

Yael Shenhav Sharoni (see above)

Steering Committee: Daphna Bahat, Eliat Aram, David Armstrong, Ronit Kark, Joseph Triest Advisory Committee: Joe Djemal, Leila Djemal, Dov Hadari, Oren Kaplan, Gilad Ovadia, Yael Sharoni

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September 8-9

Friday, 8.9.17 Saturday, 9.9.17

9:00-9:30 Registration

Opening 9:45- 11:00 9:30-11:00 Why am I here? Social Dreaming Panel I It all started with some visionaries

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break

11:30- 12:45 Panel II Panel III Internal agents, external GR in Israel OFEK in GR agents A view from within, from without

21:45-23:31 Buzz groups following the Buzz groups following the Panel Panel

23:31-23:31 Lunch Lunch

23:31-20:11 IWE (Israel World Event) IWE begins in Plenary 20:11-20:31 Coffee Break Coffee Break

16:30-18:00 IWE IWE Ending Plenary

18:10-18:40 Review of the day Closing Plenary

21:15 Gala Dinner followed by 30th Party

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