Attachment to place: location and dis-location
‘Places evoke a line of thinking, resonate with particular memories, bring forth an array of emotions.’
(’Here is where I have presence’, Psychogeography and Psychotherapy: Connecting pathways (Chris Rose (ed); PCCS Books, 2019)
This session will offer a meandering journey between descriptions of places and deliberations on attachment to illustrate the formative nature of places – the inner landscapes of thoughts and feelings and external landscapes of places and the way we behave in them. We will explore the interplay between self and place against a backcloth of the Covid pandemic, in order to consider how our experience is transformed either through close familiarity or dislocation.
Karen Izod works as a consultant to organisational change and professional development. Questions of identity (who am I?) and place (where am I?) are frequent themes in her work, and she has brought her ideas on attachment to place to individuals in role transitions, organisations re-locating or merging, and in community and city planning. Karen has been consulting to individuals and organisations for more than 30 years from a background in social work and group and organisational dynamics. She now works as Course Lead for the Professional Doctorate in Consultation and the Organisation at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She also writes and performs poetry.
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Karen Izod has designed programmes with and for the Tavistock Institute and the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, as well as as bespoke courses for specific organisations. She is visiting lecturer on a number of Doctoral and Master’s Degree programmes including the MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change, Henley Business School, and MSc in Inter-professional Health and Social Care at Christchurch Canterbury.
