79: Reinventing Ourselves with Susan Kahn

This conversation goes deep into an unplanned examination of the
troubles of the world and arises from these to explore the
changing workplace and how we reinvent ourselves.

Susan is a Jew who lives in London, and she describes her
experience with both the rise of anti-Semitism and the sadness at
what is happening in Gaza, as well as her deep desire for justice
and peace for Israeli, Jewish, and Palestinian people. She
recently returned from visiting Israel and then Poland for the
March of the Living 2024 to remember the Holocaust. Simon and
Susan share how even talking about these issues seems dangerous
and yet so necessary as the world becomes more
divided. 

The podcast returns to the theme of reinventing ourselves and the
changing nature of the workplace. Susan shares a tale from her
book reflecting on the need for a much more holistic
understanding of the world and ourselves within it.

We can easily see ourselves and others in partial ways, which
doesn’t allow the full expression of our shared humanity. Simon
reads a beautiful passage at the end of Susan’s book, called On
Transience, drawing on Freud's 1916 essay. 

This conversation is rich and touches on our deep humanity.
Enjoy!
 
Bio 

Susan Kahn is a business psychologist, a speaker, and an
academic. She is a chartered psychologist, coaching psychologist,
and supervisor with the British Psychological Society and a
Fellow of the Association of Business Psychologists. She works as
an executive coach, consultant, mediator, and observer of working
life. 

She has a particular interest in the behaviour of people at work
and below-surface dynamics in organisations. She studied
organisational consultancy using psychoanalytic methods at
Tavistock and did her PhD at Birkbeck, University of London,
where she teaches coaching psychology and established the Masters
in Coaching Psychology. She also works as a group relations
consultant. She uses psychoanalytic observation as a research
method and has written about the psychoanalysis of endings and
resilience. She is a board member of
This Can Happen: empowering workplace mental health, ISPSO and
OPUS.

Her latest book is called Reinvent Yourself: Psychological
Insights That Will Transform Your Work Life. Purchase it here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reinvent-Yourself-Psychological-Insights-Transform/dp/1398613312


Get in touch: www.drskahn.com