Uncovering Sources of Workplace Stress
The third event in the "Why Do We Do What We Do? A Look into Unconscious Motivation" Spring 2025 Community Learning Series
This is a hybrid event. Participants may attend in-person at BGSP (1581 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA) or via Zoom.
All organizations, public and private, provide endless sources of stress that can lead to anxiety, depression, burnout, and sometimes violence. This event looks at how early family patterns of dealing with authority and competition unconsciously get repeated in organizations. Recognizing these hidden motivations and misplaced behaviors, in individual and group dynamics, can lead to greater satisfaction in the work environment.
Discussion Leader
Melissa Fristrom, MBA, Psya.D. received a BA in Foreign Affairs from The University of Virginia and a Master's in Business Administration from Harvard Business School. After a decade of front-line business experience, she earned a Doctor of Psychoanalysis from the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. Her dissertation research, “Self-Generated Limits to Success: A Case in Moving On,” her psychoanalytic training and extensive front line business experience enables her to identify the often-unconscious factor limiting client success. For nearly two decades, she has assisted leaders from over eighty-three countries on six continents in uncovering the unconscious patterns that block growth and change in themselves and in their organizations. Dr. Fristrom is known for harnessing “The Power of the Hidden.”
She has leadership experience in a wide range of situations, from Fortune 100 companies and not-for-profit endeavors to successful companies and cash-strapped firms. She has worked at General Mills, Hasbro, IBM, Answer and Polaroid. She has been coaching since 2001. Her business, Core Allies, provides customized Executive and Business Coaching to individuals and organizations.
OBJECTIVES
The participant will be able to:
- Discuss and delineate ways stress in organizations can lead to anxiety, depression, burnout and sometime violence.
- Discuss how early family patterns of dealing with authority and competition unconsciously get repeated in organizations.
- Discuss ways of recognizing hidden motivations and misplaced behaviors can address problems at work.
2 CE Units / Clock Hours Available
BGSP is authorized to provide CEs for: Psychologists (all levels), Social Workers, Counselors
Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. BGSP maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
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The Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis is accredited by the New England Commission on Higher Education.
Direct inquiries may be made regarding the accreditation status by NECHE to the administrative staff of the institution. Individuals may also contact: New England Commission on Higher Education, 3 Burlington Woods Drive, Ste 100, Burlington, MA 01803-4514, at (781) 425-7785 or email: info@neche.org
