Family Dynamics at Work: A workshop series for Consultants and Coaches

Family Dynamics at Work: A workshop series for Consultants and Coaches

Zoom Online

Dates: 6 October, 27 October, 17 November and 8 December 2026

Time: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm (London) UK

Our families are our first organisations: the roles we are given and the roles we take shape who we are, and inform how we respond and engage with the environment we are in. Our family experience – its joys, challenges, and difficulties – affects how we take up our roles and how family dynamics can be re-enacted in the workplace.

Developing awareness and understanding of the early experience projected in a work context can help to shift disruptive dynamics and allow people to be more themselves, without feeling trapped in repeating family patterns.

The workshop series’s approach and theoretical framework are based on Francesca Cardona’s book: Family at Work- How our family dynamics shape our working roles- to be published by Routledge in 2026.

Each workshop focuses on a specific theme: Family in the mind, Siblings, Family businesses & Succession

Who is it for?

This workshop series is for coaches and organisational consultants interested in exploring the impact of family dynamics on their clients’ work role and identifying ways to help them to develop an awareness of what is at play. Participants are expected to bring examples from their own practice related to the different themes.

Workshop 1: Family in the mind

We inevitably project unconscious family dynamics onto the workplace. Without realising it, we can experience our boss as a father/mother figure or repeat sibling dynamics with our peers. These dynamics might be easily shaken off or they could be hard to disentangle and make our relationships at work challenging.

Workshop 2: Siblings

This workshop focuses on the challenges and complexities of working with peers, where the pleasure of sharing and collaborating with ‘work siblings’ is mixed with feelings of rivalry and competition. It explores how our early experiences with siblings colour and influence our engagement with our work peers

Workshop 3: Family Businesses

This workshop explores the tensions and interplay between the two systems: the family system and the business system, and how different family businesses deal with its complexities and challenges.

Workshop 4: Succession

This workshop focuses on the dynamics of succession in different organisations and family businesses – how the old and new generations deal with the process of endings and new beginnings.