37: 'Promoting Understanding Of Society' with Olya Khaleelee

Olya Khaleelee shares her experiences and thoughts on 'OPUS, An
organisation promoting the understanding of society'.  OPUS
aims to develop a deeper understanding of conscious and
unconscious organisational and social dynamics; and to promote
reflective citizenship – using this understanding to act
authoritatively and responsibly as members of society and
organisations within society.  Olya shares some of the OPUS
early work in the prison sector and workplace settings, and the
development and importance of 'listening posts'.  Olya and
Simon discuss the worrying authoritarianism growing in society,
and how more than ever reflective citizenship is needed alongside
spaces to help citizens take up their agency and authority in
society.  Enjoy the listen! 


Olya Khaleelee is a corporate psychologist and
organisational consul­tant with a particular interest in
leadership, and organisational transi­tion and transformation.
She was director of OPUS: an Organisation for Promoting
Understanding of Society from 1980–1994, is a profes­sional
partner of the Tavistock Institute and was the first female
director of the Leicester Conference on the theme of Authority
Leadership and Organisation. She has published extensively in the
areas of leadership and system psychodynamics in organisations,
and beyond, into society