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The Tavistock Institute invites you to our Professional Development Open Evening.

Followership Lessons from a Convent Community

Learning from the ‘NEETs in Action’ Erasmus+ project.

David Strudley CBE FRSA makes the case for a major expansion of children’s hospice services.

Giorgia Iacopini explores what drives policy-making, taking us beyond the assumptions of policy work that still inform the evidence-based policy movement.

In this talk, Professor Georgie Parry-Crooke explores what the right hat or hats might be for collaborative evaluation roles.

What happens in the areas in which organisational structure and spiritual experience intersect or are in tension with one another?

A lunchtime talk by Coreene Archer and David Drabble.

A talk presented by Agnès Berthoz, Laure Fraval, Kalina Stamenova and Eva Worm

Dr Rachel Gibbons facilitates a conversation to think about what is wrong with the NHS.

Dr Yossi Triest talks about bridging the gap between the ‘unconscious of the individual’ and the ‘unconscious of the group.’

Joe Cullen selects poems from his own work as the Bard of Dalston that ask questions of the here and now.

From coal mines to WeWork: learning from the Tavistock Tradition, researching the contemporary workplace — a lunchtime talk by Jack Marmorstein.

Dr Mannie Sher kicked off our 2018 lunchtime talk series with his talk ‘Experience of Being 70 and over — an overview of the group relations conference’.

Richard Allen, Principal Researcher and Consultant at the Tavistock Institute, presents research into the ‘five facets of Theory of Change’.

Michael Puett’s lunchtime talk offered an exploration of theories of human psychology and group dynamics as they arose in early China and agues that these theoretical understandings have much to offer contemporary practice.

Jessica Burlingame continues an inquiry begun during her workshop at the Tavistock Institute’s 70th anniversary Festival

Jane Roberts, author of the book Losing Political Office, brought insights from her new book as possible food for those working, consulting to governance and political systems.

The evolution of Eric Miller’s methodology

How do we harness resources to create a more cohesive system?

In this talk, Rachel Kelly traced the history of the chair through human evolution, the significance and symbolism of the chair, the chair as ‘object of desire’ and what makes a comfortable chair.

This talk looked at issues of negotiating independence and the politics of knowledge production in the case of Female Genital Cutting.

Reflections from TIHR researchers on evaluating the Adoption Support Fund 2015-2017.

— all the fun and all the challenges

What defines GPs’ primary tasks, roles, and systems?

Dr Philip Corran explores the challenges of balancing everyday life and policy when it comes to ageing, disability and social exclusion.

Dr Dione Hills asks — how can a better understanding of complexity have an impact on the way we think?

— past, present and future

Reflections on living in the time of Coronavirus.

As a result of interest in Lucian Hudson’s Lunchtime Talk on Touch, the Tavistock Community has created an opportunity to explore the phenomenon of touch further.

Lucian J. Hudson explores what it means to touch during a time of social distancing.

Exploring the impact of repeated bereavements for staff in a special school

Me and Work: experiences of consulting to organisations, sharing feelings, emotions, failures and learning from them.

Jean Neumann and Antonio Sama trace A.K. Rice’s legacy embedded and captured in articles, books and other source documents.

The dynamics of discord in remote teams

Professor Dame Clare Gerada explores the reasons why doctors find it so hard to seek help when needed.

A talk by our staff exploring how we apply Tavistock social science to our environmental work.

In this talk, Marian Timmermans combines models from Tavistock and Transactional Analysis in dealing with the unknown when working with groups.

Join the Deepening Creative Practice community in a collective space to play, explore and experiment.

The development of compassionate work and organisation design

Special session: towards a common impact evaluation methodology

Why is anthropology important when understanding organisations?

Allison Metz joined us recently to speak about the role of trust and psychological safety in the use of evidence.

David Lawlor and Mannie Sher speak on systems psychodynamics theory and its application to organisational consultancy

— a mashup of indices and qualitative analysis of reports. A talk by Professor Steven H. Cady.

Anna Sophie Hahne, Georgie Parry-Crooke and Thomas Spielhofer presented findings from the TIHR Covid-19 research study.

The Journal as Boundary Object

Being a consultant means helping the client. How open are we to when we are not?

The Tavistock Institute team talk about a project designed to help low-skilled jobseekers train for future employment.

A prehistory of the Tavistock Institute.

How we can introduce useful novelty into our thinking about management consulting?

The Tavistock Institute team reflect on what learning about resilience is emerging from the coronavirus pandemic.

Alice White’s lunchtime talk provides insight into the people, processes, challenges and opportunities behind the Civil Resettlement Units of the 1940s.

This talk explores the ways in which Harold Bridger shaped the history, memory, and identity of the Tavistock Institute between the years 1947 and c.1990

How can the Theory of Change framework be effectively employed in a wide range of social interventions?

How do we marry professionalism with individual identity?

What do meetings tell us about group dynamics and workplace culture?

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

Lunchtime talk exploring the real stories of care navigators and outlining how a socio-technical systems approach can facilitate successful organisational change.

(with apologies to the crew of the Apollo 13 moon flight...)

Working through images of older people and their role in the systems psychodynamics of organizational life.