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“If I Want to Feel My Feelings, I’ll See a Bloody Shrink”: Learning From the Shadow Side of Experiential Learning
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Date Issued
2018-12-05
Date Available
2019-05-27T10:04:58Z
Abstract
This article discusses the value of learning from a psychodynamic approach to experiential learning. This approach is used to help students experience and understand the emotional and relational complexity of leading and managing within organizations. From this perspective, experiential learning means engaging with emotions and with embedded relations of power, to unsettle expectations of how organizations work. Here, we consider the professor’s role, which is to help students work with and through the emotional dynamics generated in work relationships, even when those dynamics are difficult to bear and the overriding impulse is to avoid or defend against them. In this way, students are being supported to better understand how organizations are emotional places, not how individuals within organizations can “manage” emotion.
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
Sage
Journal
Journal of Management Education
Volume
43
Issue
2
Start Page
174
End Page
184
Copyright (Published Version)
2018 the Authors
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1052-5629
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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If I want to feel my feelings JME Final .pdf
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