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Inspired by ideas in The Handmaid’s Tale, this talk will focus on resistance networks in systems where it feels too radical to openly offer any countercultural narrative | Wednesday October 22nd, 1pm to 2:30pm | online 

Ambivalence, projection and the place of AI in Systems Psychodynamics

How the double jeopardy of race and gender affects Black women leaders | Weds July 23 1pm 2.30pm | Online and in-person (central London)

Bridging theory and practice in action research, with Hanne Finnestrand, Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Dr David Drabble (Tavistock Institute) and Dr Kirsten Jenkins (University of Edinburgh). This talk considered the new Just Transition framework and how it will aid the redesign of socio-economic systems in the face of climate change

This Lunchtime Talk is with Dr Majken Askeland, senior consultant at AFF, the largest leadership development environment in Norway and Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Lunchtime Talk with Dr Peter Shepherd, independent consultant: How the researcher’s identity in situ is shaped and reshaped by expectations and projections | Wednesday 19 March 2025, 1pm — 2.30pm (UTC)

Lunchtime Talk with Yeshim Harris | Wednesday 19 February 2025, 1pm — 2:30pm UTC

Noel McQuaid presents this Food for Thought Lunchtime Talk, 22nd January at 1pm

Join us in this session to explore how creativity plays a role in Evaluative Practice on Weds 11th December 1pm-2.30pm

Over the last few decades, there has been an increased focus on how organisations can ‘improve’ creativity and innovation. Join us on Weds November 20 at 1pm — 2.30pm to discuss

This Food for Thought lunchtime talk will share Heni Hale’s process of encountering archive materials of The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. 

Wednesday 18 September 2024, 1pm — 2.30pm

In this talk, on 17th July at 1pm, Dr Nick Waggett will explore how digital technologies have become incorporated into our intra- and inter-psychic processes.

Inspired by Susan Long’s writing about anticipatory dreams and dreaming for the future, Franca Fubini will explore how the matrix dreams from the past in order to develop dreaming for the future.

Unlocking Leadership: The Next Generation of Family Business, with Mariana Moura. Join us for a captivating exploration of family business dynamics with Mariana Moura, a Brazilian consultant in the field of family enterprises.

Developing field theory for consulting in organisations, and group relations

A ‘Food for Thought’ Lunchtime Talk

How to handle paradoxes and benefit from the inherent conflicts and tensions

Inspired by the concept of biodiversity, neurodiversity is a concept that recognises neurological differences in individuals, including Autism, ADHD, dyslexia and Sensory Processing Disorder.

Join us for this online Lunchtime Talk by Sini Rinne-Kerridge exploring ethical consultancy

Steven H. Cady asks ‘why is it that traditional career paths often fall short of yielding true fulfillment?’

Applying and evolving Deepening Creative Practice in and out of the NHS field, with Bernadette Kennedy and Emily Kyte

Join us for this hybrid Lunchtime Talk with Dr. Rebecca Nestor

Exploring Lateral Relations at Work — a talk by Petros Oratis

The story and learnings from the Women and Girls Initiative

An in person immersive Lunchtime Talk session

— all the fun and all the challenges

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

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

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

How does a method used at peace negotiations work in a group setting?

Karen Izod and Siobhain Smiton talk about leading and participating in a systems-psychodynamically oriented doctoral programme.

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?

Developing a social practice as an artist. A talk that took place within the first exhibition of artworks in our offices.

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

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

David Lawlor and Mannie Sher speak on systems psychodynamics theory and its application to organisational consultancy as part of this book launch of An Introduction to Systems Psychodynamics

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

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

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

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

Simone Kennedy was the Institute’s first Visiting Artist-in-Residence. In this recording, we hear how Simone re-imagines a symbolic mother shaped from experience.

Special session: towards a common impact evaluation methodology

Why is anthropology important when understanding organisations?

The development of compassionate work and organisation design

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

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

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

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

The dynamics of discord in remote teams

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

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

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

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

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

Reflections on living in the time of Coronavirus.

— past, present and future

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?

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.’

Followership Lessons from a Convent Community

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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’.

The case of the Textiles and Clothing Business Labs

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

A prehistory of the Tavistock Institute.

The Journal as Boundary Object