“If I Want to Feel My Feelings, I’ll See a Bloody Shrink”: Learning From the Shadow Side of Experiential Learning

Clancy, AnnetteAnnetteClancyVince, RussRussVince2019-05-272019-05-272018 the A2018-12-05Journal of Management Education1052-5629http://hdl.handle.net/10197/10666This 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.enClancy, A., & Vince, R. (2018). “If I Want to Feel My Feelings, I’ll See a Bloody Shrink”: Learning From the Shadow Side of Experiential Learning. Journal of Management Education. pp. 174-184. Copyright © 2018 the Authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/1052562918817931Experiential learningPsychodynamic experiential learningEmotionAnxietyBusiness school teaching“If I Want to Feel My Feelings, I’ll See a Bloody Shrink”: Learning From the Shadow Side of Experiential LearningJournal Article43217418410.1177/10525629188179312019-01-03https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/