TRAINING
TRAINING
Sukrut is committed to train individuals who will enhance their impact on society. The initiatives began in 2010, as a response to the growing market request for exposure to the scientific and intellectual moorings of human and systems development. It also met Sukrut’s growing need for in-house psychotherapists.
Sukrut offered the first-ever “School Psychology” program to train key teachers and role-holders from client schools. A UK-based Consultant conducted this course in August 2018, drawing on practices from the UK. The central aim was to develop the capacity and skill-set of Psychologists to enable them to act as consultants to the “school-as-a-whole” system. Ultimately, this enables the Psychologist to move from a child-focused referral model (where problem ownership and responsibility are “passed” to the Psychologist by over-stretched school staff) to a consultation model, in which, at a key meeting the most concerning students are discussed by the group.
Sukrut offers training in the administration of Rorschach. This initiative was first offered in 2013, and is repeated at regular intervals. Psychodiagnostics is the technical term for what is sometimes called character reading. A “modern scientific extension of the ancient arts of physiognomy,” the field of psychodiagnostics has been said to be the “most complex branch of psychology” (Gordon Allport). Etymologically, the term “psychodiagnostics” means “to have seen through to the psyche.” As a clinical phenomenon, it is the process whereby a psychotherapist comes to “know” the character structure of an individual.
Sukrut’s annual calendar of courses and workshops address the “picture-in-the- mind” about the organization as held by individuals and groups in business entities. These refer to the mental constructs of the organization that determine decisions and actions – at the unconscious below-the-surface level: to the unattended world of feeling, imagery, language, and relationships that constitute the “implicate order” of the organization – and its particular way of being as it registers “in the mind”.
One such training intervention is the “Workshop on Organization Psychodynamics and Leadership”. Open to senior-management teams in industry, government, education, social services, the not-for-profit sector and to individuals in private practice, this workshop helps gain a better understanding of people in a working context. It also helps gain a greater capacity to diagnose the intra-group and inter-group processes that lead to ineffective and dysfunctional organizations and teams. Working creatively with teams within the current climate, with individuals with increasingly complex needs, requires thinking space.
Sukrut’s two flagship programs – the Inward Change Conference (ICC) and The India Conference (Group Relations) – integrate design interventions from psychotherapy and organization psychodynamics.
Beginning in 2003, both programs accept, to quote Rogers, ….. nurses, housewives, people in the business world, priests, ministers, teachers, youth. ie. people who are not ill and can benefit from therapy. These individuals attend the first phase of the internship in ICC. Participation beyond the first phase requires discussion of intent to pursue a career in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The India Conference (TIC) is offered every alternate year, since 2015. Drawing on the tradition of Tavistock, Group Relations events were pioneered in India by Gouranga Chattopadhyay, from 1973, influencing many generations to the significance of primary task within the contextual boundaries of time and territory, something that is an Indian struggle rooted in its civilizational ethos of sentient relatedness, which continues to be its primary task. This is a very important difference that Indians hold viz a viz the West, and is supported by empirical evidence from both surveys and academic research.
Please ask for a brochure of Sukrut’s Inward Change Conference and The India Conference to know more.