About the event
ComplexitySalon with indigenous leaders from Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, Fiji and the Solomon Islands in conjunction with the Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University, with Professor Chris Roche. Two day workshop to explore alternative ways of knowing, speaking and being together to explore asymmetric power relationships and the politics of development. The workshop reflected on the importance of understanding relationships
Speakers
Chris is Professor of Complexity and Management at the University of Hertfordshire Business School, and has directed the Doctor of Management programme (DMan) for more than 15 years. The DMan is an innovative programme combining insights from the complexity sciences and the social sciences and was the first programme of its kind. Chris occasionally works as a consultant, is an Associate Member of the Institute of Group Analysis, and has published a number of books and articles. He has taught in universities across Europe, including regularly at the Copenhagen Business School.
Sophie holds a Doctor of Management from the University of Hertfordshire, and a Master of Brain and Mind Sciences from the University of Sydney. She has practised as a psychotherapist, volunteering for many years as a social worker and counsellor at homeless shelters across the city, and has served on the NeuRA Foundation Board. Her doctoral thesis on governance in an Australian mental health NGO led to a published chapter on cross-cultural identities in practice-based research.
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La Trobe
