Holding Environments at Work

By William A. Kahn. 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Compassion revealed: What we know about compassion at work (and where we need to know more) (2011, background): “For instance, some scholars have shown how the temporary suspension of work-related demands may allow employees to manage debilitating anxiety (Kahn, 2001) and readjust psychologically and emotionally following a traumatic experience (Powley, 2009).”
Attachment theory at work: A review and directions for future research (2018, background): “systems may relate to the concept of holding environments at work, which are also described as salient under the conditions of stressful organizational experiences (Kahn, 2001).”
Positive Social Interactions and the Human Body at Work: Linking Organizations and Physiology (2008, background): “Researchers, for example, can examine how protective or health enhancing positive relationships can be in the context of a toxic work environment (Frost, 2003; Kahn, 2001).”
Identity Workspaces: The Case of Business Schools (2010, background): “It is in this situation that holding environments are most needed and also most difficult to create and sustain (Kahn, 2001).”
Composing The Reflected Best-Self Portrait: Building Pathways For Becoming Extraordinary In Work Organizations (2005, background): “Research on holding environments at work (Kahn, 2001) and on healing connections more generally (Miller & Stiver, 1997) affirms the role that positive connections play in supporting a person’s revision of the RBS.”
An organizational ethic of care and employee involvement in sustainability-related behaviors: A social identity perspective (2017, background): “, 2012), and studies have established links between care and compassion and organizational commitment (Lilius, Kanov, Dutton, Worline, & Maitlis, 2012), reduced work-based anxiety (Kahn, 2001), improved workplace self-esteem (McAllister & Bigley, 2002), and resilience (Waldman, Carmeli, & Halevi, 20”
Reclaiming resilience and safety: Resilience activation in the critical period of crisis (2009, background): “Holding spaces also enabled rational thought and action by focusing on work, making sense with others of what happened, and reflecting on personal experiences (Kahn, 2001).”
Games Managers Play: Play as a Form of Leadership Development (2011, background): “It has been argued that individuals need safe holding environments in the context of work organizations (Kahn, 2001), mostly when potentially disabling anxiety at work is experienced.”
When Family Supportive Supervisors Meet Employees’ Need for Caring: Implications for Work–Family Enrichment and Thriving (2018, background): “Psychological availability is important, as it manifests in a positive mental state in which individuals are fully accessible to their roles, others, and themselves (Kahn, 2001).”
Changing Faces: Professional Image Construction In Diverse Organizational Settings (2005, background): “hance the quality of a person's relationship (Dutton & Heaphy, 2003; Kahn, 2001; Miller & Stiver, 1997).”
Relationship Quality and Virtuousness (2013, background): “…member feels devastated by a failed proposal, his or her teammates may be willing to sit with him or her and provide a temporary holding environment (Kahn, 2001), knowing that this will help him or her move through his or her emotions, even if they feel urgency to regroup and start an action plan.”
Positioning oneself for leadership: feelings of vulnerability among aspirant school principals (2004, background): “These environments include the relationship spaces created by friends, colleagues and mentors in pairs or small groupings, `in which the task becomes surfacing and working through anxiety' (Kahn, 2001, p. 265).”