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Inherited systems, emerging selves: exploring leadership and voice in organisations

Group Relations Conference | 24 — 27 September 2026 | with Group Relations Singapore

Group relations

The Epstein files, the 'global elite' and comforting fictions

Systems thinking helps us to examine how elites protect themselves from seeing what is inconveniently in front of them

Thought pieces

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Energy, Creative Collaboration and Wellbeing Conference

A summertime Group Relations Conference in Italy, 25 June — 28 June 2026 | Il Nodo Group

Group relations

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Book launch: Timeless Lessons, by Dr Mannie Sher

Celebration of the memoir Timeless Lessons: A Psychotherapist’s Journey and Insights for His Family

Staff publications

On the Fault Line: Authority, Leadership and Values

The 38th OFEK international Group Relations Conference in the Tavistock tradition | 8 — 13 February 2026 | Pervolia, Cyprus

Group relations

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What's needed to sustain multi-agency work on gambling-related harms

Blog 3 from our work with GambleAware to support the Mobilising Local Systems Funding Programme

Health & social care

Social inclusion

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Authority and freedom: understanding and changing the institutions in which we live

This is the 26th International Group Relations Conference in Italy | Hosted by Il Nodo Group and The Tavistock Institute | 19 – 22 February 2026

Leadership

Group relations

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Leadership at the Edge: AI, organization, and identity in the Caribbean

8th Caribbean Group Relations Conference | Thursday 12th – Saturday 14th March, 2026 | In-person at The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago

Unconscious

Group relations

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Hopeful Citizenship: authority, identity, othering and belonging

Fall 2025 Group Relations Conference | Teachers College, Columbia University, NY | November 21-23, 2025

Group relations

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Lifelong learning in Europe: what has changed since 2000?

This research tells a story of rigid learning ladders gradually giving way to flexible learning networks across the European Union

Education & training

Employment

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Co-creating a Theory of Change to reality-check an ambitious EU labour market programme

From hopeful activity list to rigorous, evidence-based intervention

Future of work

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Graduation Day 2025

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

About us

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Timeless Lessons: A Psychotherapist’s Journey and Insights for His Family

Dr Mannie Sher's new book

Staff publications

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Leadership, Authority and Role in Shaping the Living World

The 14th International Group Relations Conference in Lithuania | 22rd – 26th August 2025

Group relations

Authority, Leadership and Organisation: Exploring the hopes and fears in building partnerships

This Group Relations Conference is hosted by The Institute for Leadership and Transformation (TILT) and The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations | 3 – 6 November 2025

Group relations

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Leadership, Engagement & Accountability @ work

Group Relations Conference with The University of Utrecht, The Netherlands | 24 — 27 September 2025

Group relations

Othering and hatred of diversity

3-part series of Group Relations conferences | from Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities | Online

Group relations

Psycho-social

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What is our approach to Arts and Organisation?

Creativity at our heart - the arts and our work

Arts & culture

Organisations

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Exploring new ways of writing

Juliet Scott and Marie Beauchamps talk about our upcoming Spring writing workshops: Writing with the Poetic Lens

Arts & culture

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Measuring and Evaluating Success in the Scottish Just Transition

This world-first framework for measuring Just Transitions is already gaining traction in Scotland and beyond.

Environment

Social inclusion

This Group Relations Conference is hosted by The Institute for Leadership and Transformation (TILT) and The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations | 3 – 6 November 2025

This Group Relations Conference is hosted by The Institute for Leadership and Transformation (TILT) and The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations | 3 – 6 November 2025