mary frances
personal and organisational development

Leamington Spa


UK




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Mary Frances

MA, Dip Psych, Dip PCP, MCIPD, Cert. Couns.
 

A constructivist approach to - 
  • organisational change, 
  • staff management and leadership development, 
  • relationships at work, 
  • personal & professional change and transition.
This work includes corporate consultancy, learning groups, design and delivery of training programmes, individual and team coaching, counselling support, group facilitation, and research projects
 
Regular open access courses in London:
  • ‘pcp and organisations – a psychology for working life’ 
  • ‘constructivist consulting & facilitation’ 
  • ‘psychology for managers and team leaders’ 
  • ‘change and the power of stories’

Professional interests
  • Psychology of working relationships 
  • Conversational change process 
  • New approaches to leadership 
  • Working with story and myth 
  • Creative co-consulting and action learning

Qualifications
  • MA in Personal & Organisational Development 
  • Diploma in Psychology 
  • Diploma in Personal Construct Psychology specialising in Counselling & Groupwork in Organisations 
  • Counselling Certificates (psychodynamic & humanistic)

Memberships and positions
  • Director of PCP Association UK 
  • Chartered member of Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development
  • Editorial Board for international journal Personal Construct Theory & Practice 
  • Visiting Tutor to Schools of Constructivist Psychology in Belgrade, Serbia & Padua, Italy 
  • Founder member of European Constructivist Therapy Network

Papers and publications
  • Organizational Change and Personal Mythology
    Personnel Review, Vol 24 No4, 1995
  • A Personal Construct Approach to Change in Teams
    Training and Management Development Methods, Vol 9 Issue 5, 1995
  • Decision Making and Organisational Change
    Paper to XII International Congress on Personal Construct Psychology, Seattle 1997
  • Culture and Change in Organisations
    in Fisher, J and Savage, D, (eds), Beyond Experimentation into Meaning, EPCA, 1999
  • Power, Partnership and Learning
    Paper to
    XIII International Congress on Personal Construct Psychology, Berlin 1999
  • Conflict in Groups – A PCP Approach
    in Chiari G. and Nuzzo, M.L. (eds), Psychological Constructivism and the Social World, Francoangeli/EPCA 2003
  • The Preference Axis – complexity and ambiguity in personal construing Personal Construct Theory and Practice, Vol 1 no 3, 2004
  • Stand at the back and pretend – the experience of learning to sing
    In Scheer, J. W. and Sewell, K. W. (eds) Creative Construing - Personal Constructions in the Arts, Psychosozial-Verlag, 2006




For details and dates
of courses:    

mary.frances@virgin.net
 
 
  Open access courses in PCP and narrative work  
    • ‘PCP in Organisations’ in association with the PCP Association (PCPA)
    • ‘Consulting and Facilitating in Organisations – a constructivist approach’
    • ‘Change and the power of stories’




 
Last update: 9-2-2008
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