Gods, Heroes and Groups: Relational Dynamics through Mythic Archetypes

About Aodhán MoranBrant Elwood

Brant Elwood has a MA in Social-Organisational Psychology from Columbia University and is a therapeutic consultant. He has held leadership positions within several therapeutic treatment organizations. During the pandemic he directed a non-profit that utilised myth and archetypal theory to conduct rites of passage work with young men in the southeast US. Brant draws from the mythopoetic lineage of Robert Bly Robert Johnson and others in an attempt to establish a novel style of thinking about groups in communities and organisations. He first attended a Tavistock-style group relations conference in 2015. Aodhán Moran has one foot in psychology and the other in technology. Starting his career in tech and e-commerce Aodhán worked various roles in start-ups and scale-ups across Galway San Francisco and Toronto before pursuing a career in clinical psychology. Aodhán is a certified executive coach through Dr Simon Westerns Ecoleadership Institute. His practice is grounded in the analytic-network systems psychodynamic lens which he uses to coach young entrepreneurs toward self-awareness in their work. As a student of group relations since 2019 Aodhán has attended multiple group relations- style conferences in member trainee consultant and staff roles including The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations Leicester Conference. Aodhán draws on Carl Jung Joseph Campbell Jonathan Pageau René Girard Simon Western and others in his explorations of individual and group dynamics. Aodhán is particularly interested in the intersection of psychology mythology and religion and how these areas can inform our understanding of individual and group behaviour.