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Fundraising service needed by the Tavistock Institute

To expand our mission to help people and organisations work better together, we are looking for a fundraising partner to actively attract funds and diversify our income.

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Graduation Day 2025

Graduates of our 2024/5 professional development programmes celebrate their achievements

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Podcast: Hidden forces that drive group behaviour

Introduction to group relations and the work of TIHR from Rachel Kelly, Group Relations Consultant and OD Consultant

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What is Tavistock Institute Group Relations thinking?

Introducing the core concepts in the influential Tavistock approach

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What is Action Research?

Action research is a participatory and iterative way of conducting research in organisations and other systems

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What is a Group Relations Conference?

Experiential learning to help participants explore and understand groups, leadership and authority

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Systems Psychodynamics

At the heart of our practice, systems psychodynamics explores the unconscious motivations, fears, and conflicts that drive behaviour within organisations

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How did Social Dreaming develop?

The development of social dreaming as a practice of sharing and working with dreams within a social space

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Measures to tackle labour shortages: lessons for future policy

The 2023 Eurofound report finds that pay, working conditions and quality of life measures are important alongside investment in training plus holistic support for vulnerable groups.

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What is our approach to evaluation?

Towards a service with a moral function

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Reducing waste, costs and risk

How we achieved ISO14001 – the international environment standard.

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Podcast: "We have to stay with the trouble"

Dr Eliat Aram and Dr Simon Western discuss sustainability, the environment, urban development, and creative working around how the future is being shaped.

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Social media in emergencies: A representative study on citizens’ perception in Germany

Reuter, C., Kaufhold, M. A., Spielhofer, T., & Hahne, A. S. (2017). Social media in emergencies: A representative study on citizens’ perception in Germany. Proceedings of the ACM: Human Computer Interaction (PACM): Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 1(2), 1-19.

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Testing times: What did it take to be a War Officer in WWII?

Using materials uncovered in the Tavistock archive, join us for a series of events to recreate war period psychology recruitment methods. Test your mettle through a combination of individual and group tests, including word association, thematic apperception, and some moustaches that Henry Wellcome himself would have been jealous of.

Archive

The archive project aims to celebrate and re imagine the 75-plus years work of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations by making its archival material accessible and engaging newly with it.

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Explore our work

Featured projects from our research and consulting teams

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Featured publications and podcasts

Browse through featured books and podcasts

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Podcasts and talks

More to browse and listen to

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Publications

More published reports, articles and books

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Tavistock theoretical frameworks and methods

Our research. consulting and professional development services are grounded in a rich theoretical framework and we specialise in applying participative and creative methods

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Tavistock approaches

How we draw on our intellectual heritage and apply the latest thinking

History

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People & Partners

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Our story

We draw on our heritage to help us address today's toughest challenges

Purpose & values

What we are here for and how we apply our values

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Systems Psychodynamics

At the heart of our practice, systems psychodynamics explores the unconscious motivations, fears, and conflicts that drive behaviour within organisations

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Arts and Organisations

Creativity at our heart: the arts give expression to difficult emotions, uncertainty, power and the unspoken dynamics that shape organisations and systems.