Working at the Tavistock Institute (from 2003) has profoundly changed my life, and I want to share with others the tools that have benefitted me — systems psychodynamics oriented organisational consultancy — that provide ways of thinking that help navigate the whole of life, in all its complexity.  This is the beauty of a learning organisation — people are fascinating. I’m particularly interested in the psychophysical —...

Growing up in South Africa under Apartheid, made me aware of the deep suffering caused by totalitarian regimes. My research consultancy and publishing career, therefore, has been a lifelong mission to improve the lives, the working conditions and the well-being of people as individuals, in their social and work organisations and in their communities where they express their social, political or faith selves.  At the Tavistock Institute...

I am a Principal Researcher and Consultant and I co-lead an extensive EU research and evaluation portfolio of work at the Tavistock Institute Germany and its parent organisation, the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. My approach to evaluation has been heavily informed by my work at the Tavistock Institute in the late 1990s and 2000s. Consequently, I have been applying participatory, mixed-method approaches to evaluation which...

Asking questions is one of the first things we do when we enter the world and, as we all discover early in life, many questions don’t have easy answers. While we might laugh and groan when a toddler raises yet another ‘why?’, I feel lucky that my work as a researcher at the Tavistock Institute means I get to ask that question every day! The questions I’ve...

In my varied life at the Tavistock Institute, I combine my interest in people, their internal lives, and how they relate to each other; with my creative work with voice, performance, and music. Alongside my work here, I am currently training on the MSc in Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Practice at the Metanoia Institute. Prior to working at the Institute, I trained and worked as a freelance opera...