The Riggs Difference: Where Understanding Leads to Recovery
Presenter: Edward Shapiro, MD
This seminar will explore how institutions function as living emotional systems, shaped by unconscious dynamics, role expectations, and shared purpose. Through stories, reflection, and shared inquiry, this seminar examines how each of us experiences and contributes to institutional life—not as isolated individuals, but as members in differentiated roles, each one reflecting an aspect of an organization's mission. Dr. Shapiro suggests that our feelings and behaviors in role carry systemic meaning. Themes will include listening for “how they are right,” containing emotion as communication, linking personal experience to role, and adopting a stance of reflective leadership. The sessions are designed to be thought-provoking, practical, and relevant across disciplines.