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Tavistock theoretical frameworks and methods

Tavistock theoretical frameworks and methods

For over 75 years, the Institute has blended cutting-edge research with practical applications to help organisations navigate complexity, change, and human dynamics.

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

Our theoretical approach and methods
What is Tavistock Institute Group Relations thinking?
Introducing the core concepts in the influential Tavistock approach
What is Systems Psychodynamics?
Systems Psychodynamics is a theoretical framework that explores the unconscious motivations, fears, and conflicts that drive behaviour within organisations
What is Action Research?
Action research is a participatory and iterative way of conducting research in organisations and other systems
What is our approach to evaluation?
Towards a service with a moral function
What is a Group Relations Conference?
Tavistock Group Relations conferences are designed to help participants explore and understand groups, leadership, authority, and organisational life, through experiential learning
What is Social Dreaming?
Social Dreaming is a practice of sharing and working with dreams within a social space

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Get up to speed on group relations and how the approach can help you
Team Working: How to succeed
Online course on the dynamics of effective collaboration: join any time.
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
How we can help
Complex human relations are the beating heart of organisational life. Revealing and working with messiness and complexity to help people and organisations develop.
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