Tracy’s approach to teaching is experiential, aiming to engage students on an emotional, as well as intellectual level. She makes use of short and longer experiential exercises, as well as discussion in both small and large groups.

“Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882

Academic Courses

Managing Organizations, University of Massachusetts, College of Management Course, Fall 2008, 2009
Applied Group Dynamics, Lesley College, Fall 2007.
Authority and Leadership in Professional Life, Boston College Law School, consulted to class taught by Associate Clinical Professor Evangeline Sarda. Spring, 2005, and Fall 2005.
Leadership Skills for Social Work Practice, Simmons College School of Social Work, Fall 2003, Fall 2004.
Authority, Identity and Role in the Criminal Justice System, Advanced Prosecution Clinic Seminar, Boston College Law School, Spring 2003 and Spring 2004 (with Evangeline Sarda)
Authority, Identity and the Psychodynamics of Legal Systems, Independent Study Course, Boston College Law School, Spring, 2002 (with Evangeline Sarda)

International

Leadership and Dialogue in Conditions of Uncertainty, Besod Siach Dialogue Conference, Kibbutz Ein Tsurim, Israel, 2/5-2/7/02 (Director, Ruth Duek)
The Dynamics of Work Groups in Organizations (and managing one’s role within them). Workshop, Northern Ireland Group Psychotherapy Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland. 8/10/00, Northeast Society for Group Psychotherapy, 6/16/01
Experiential Group. Group Leader for Day Long Experiential Group, Northern Ireland Group Psychotherapy Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland. 8/14/99, 8/11/00

Workshops

Transforming Conflict: A Group Relations Perspective, Professional Development Workshop, Conflict Studies: The New Generation of Ideas, Conference for Graduate Students Studying Conflict, University of Massachusetts, Boston. 10/28/04
The US and the World at the Dawn of 2004, Listening Post for OPUS UK (Organization for Promoting the Understanding of Society), in Boston, MA. 1/12/04, 1/11/05, 1/7/07, 1/11/09
Managing Group Dynamics in Your Organization, Presentation, The ESC 7th Annual Nonprofit Management Conference. 11/21/02
Effective Workplace Communication, Workshop, Technical Development Corporation, Boston, MA.
Managing Group Dynamics, Workshop, Technical Development Corporation, Boston, MA.
Women in Leadership, Workshop, Brandeis University, Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, International Business Women’s Group, 11/27/01
Inside and Outside: Dialogue and Healing in the Psycho-Social Context. Workshop, Northeast Society for Group Psychotherapy, Wellesley, MA, 6/17/01. (with Jarlath F. Benson, M. Soc. Sc., M. Med. Sc., N. Ireland)
How to Work with Difficult People. Consultation, Boston Public Health Commission, Child and Adolescent Unit, Boston, MA. 12/10/00
Current Dynamics in American Society. Workshop, Center for the Study of Groups and Social Systems and Center for Reflective Community Practice, MIT. Conveners: Olya Khaleelee, Miranda Feuchtwang of OPUS, UK and along with Ceasar McDowell and Travis Tatum. 9/23-9/24/00
Boundaries, Bonding, and Belligerence: An Experiential Exercise to Explore Group Behavior Across and Within Its Own Borders. Presentation, Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, Las Cruces, NM. 6/11/99
Managing Conflict in the Organization. Presentation, Social Work Grand Rounds, Massachusetts General Hospital. 12/11/97
Conflict & Cooperation in Mental Health Organizations: An Experiential Simulation. Workshop, American Group Psychotherapy Association, Annual Institute and Conference. (with Jerrold M. Post, MD, CGP) 2/21/97
Let’s Get Irrational. Unitarian Universalist Association District Wide Conference on Group Dynamics (for youth). 12/96
Gender and Competition in Group Psychotherapy. Workshop, American Group Psychotherapy Association, Annual Institute and Conference. 2/17/95
Inside Women’s Groups. Workshop, American Group Psychotherapy Association, Annual Institute and Conference. (with Helene Satz, PsyD, and Virginia Reiber, PhD) 6/19/93
General Psychodynamic Group. Institute leader, Northeast Society for Group Psychotherapy, Annual Institute and Conference. 6/19/92
Treatment of Incest Survivors. Panel presentation, Harvard Medical School Conference on Time Effective Treatment in Mental Health: Strategies for the 90’s and Beyond. (With Laurie Brandt, PsyD, Sandra Gill, RN, MS, CS, Bette Kisner, RN, MS, CS, and Beverlee Sclar, RN, MS) 3/20/92
When We Fail. Colloquium, Boston Institute for Psychotherapy, Inc. (with Gerald Adler, MD, and Margaret Frank, LICSW) 4/6/91