By Rob Fitzpatrick, presented at the Social Workplace conference London 2016 (at WeWork Moorgate).

1. Applying psychoanalytic insights to
the social workplace
Rob Fitzpatrick
10 June 2016

5. Research title
‘Holding the vanishing organisation: Can
agile work environments facilitate emotional
containment?’

6. Application
• A method for ‘listening to’ personal and collective,
conscious and unconscious narratives of occupying agile
environments
• A deeper understanding of the complex interrelationship
between an organisation’s working environment and its
culture
• Complementing existing empirical approaches to
workplace design and the review of facilities
• Developing understanding of the nature and experience
of individual and organisational wellbeing in the
workplace

8. Email: rob@confluence-partnerships.co.uk
Twitter: @topoanalysis
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