The Topic

This webinar offers a reflective exploration of soul connection not as an ideal state, but as a relational process shaped by anxiety, power, and emotional strain. Drawing on lived experience from leadership contexts and organisational work, it considers why moments of real connection can feel risky, why openness sometimes collapses into withdrawal or over-exposure, and how unspoken emotional dynamics shape what becomes possible between people at work. Rather than offering techniques or solutions, the session invites shared inquiry into what helps soul connection to endure in complex systems, and what undermines it when the work becomes difficult.

The Agenda

In the first half of the webinar, Caroline will make her presentation and facilitate initial responses.

In the second half, we'll move into a reflection-application session:

- 'Composting': experienced peers work the material in small groups to sprout new ideas;

- 'Weaving': attendees gather to collectively reflect and question, weaving our experiences together;

- Discuss how we will apply learnings to our personal practice and living in a plenary.

The Speaker

Caro Bainbridge is Emeritus Professor of Psychoanalysis and Culture and a former editor of Free Associations and of the film section at the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She co-edits a book series on psychoanalysis and popular culture for Routledge. She's a Fellow of the RSA, a Founding Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council, Research Associate at the Freud Museum, London, and a member of ISPSO and Opus. Caro has recently co-founded the MiNDings consultancy (www.mindings.org), where she works in the organizational processes and leadership space. She is also a member of the Eco Leadership Institute, and she practices as an executive and personal coach. Outside work, she makes the most of living close to Another Place, an art installation on a beach that evokes edges and possibilities in equal measure.

If you purchase a ticket but can't make it in real-time, a recording will be shared with you after the webinar.