May 2024
Beginner to intermediate
516 pages
23h 26m
English
How should or can leaders help their followers deal with distressing circumstances? In this chapter we seek to deconstruct how leaders’ narratives may emerge as a form of what Winnicott termed a “holding environment” (cf., Winnicott, 1960), adopting a critical lens to problematize common assumptions about the nature of those narratives (Collinson, 2011). Winnicott, a child developmental psychologist, conceived of a holding environment as the physical, psychological, and emotional “environment” founded from the child literally being held, positing that the impact the environment ...
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