P3C is a practice led certificate for anyone working with change in organisations, whether as consultants, leaders, or both.

Over six months you work in your cohort with three programme directors, learning through experience. 

Each cohort becomes a temporary organisation with its own rhythms, structures and design. You work in forums, simulations, consultancy groups, theoryscapes and experiential activities and interventions you will design. 

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The Organisational Exchange takes place between modules 1 and 3 where, each participant spends time inside another participant’s organisation,  observing, experiencing, and bringing back what they find. 

The three directors bring distinct disciplines: artistic social practice; anthropology and organisational development; and political science and evaluation. 

The programme draws on the Tavistock Institute’s 80-year tradition of working with organisations and change, and on current Institute research and innovation including work with AI and socio-technical systems.

What the programme is

At the Tavistock Institute, we understand organisations as complex systems where teams, groups and individuals interact through behaviours and attitudes that are often unconscious, the unspoken tensions, recurring patterns and resistance that shape organisational cultures and dynamics.

P3C is a four-module programme that develops your ability to read these dynamics and work with them, so you can facilitate change with more confidence.

Learning is experiential: your cohort is a temporary organisation, and you learn by studying what actually happens inside it. It is demanding, sometimes uncomfortable, and consistently described by past participants as unlike anything else they have done.

What you’ll gain

•     Tavistock Institute certification, assessed through a practice portfolio;

•     A stronger sense of your own identity and authority as a practitioner;

•     The ability to read, work and thrive with unconscious team, organisational and system dynamics;

•     Confidence in working with what’s difficult, conflict, resistance, anxiety, not-knowing;

•     A way of reading organisations and entering them that you can use from first conversation through to ending and evaluation;

•     A lasting network of colleagues who have shared and created their own learning together.

What people say abut P3C

The business case for your employer

Organisations are under pressure to build human skills alongside technical ones, as AI reshapes how change happens inside teams. P3C develops people who can read what is actually going on beneath a change process, not just manage the plan for it. For an employer, that means a consultant, HR lead or business partner who can work directly with and design for resistance, ambiguity and conflict, rather than being derailed by them.

Structure and format

The programme runs across four modules plus the Organisational Exchange, in which each participant spends time inside another participant’s organisation.

•     Module 1, 3 days: Locating ourselves; place, space and identity

•     Module 2, 3 days: Data gathering, analysis, understanding

•     Module 3, 2 days in person, 1 day online: Designing and intervening, working with complexity

•     Module 4, 3 days: Loss, leaving, beginnings

 Between modules, participants stay connected through Basecamp, the programme’s private online forum, for discussion, shared resources and support with the written portfolio.

Directors

•     Juliet Scott, organisational consultant and artist in social practice;

•     Prof. John Curran, anthropologist and organisational development consultant;

•     Dr Kerstin Junge, political scientist and evaluator.

Further Faculty members

Each module also draws on a wider pool of faculty, bringing artistic, embodied and other practices into the programme alongside the core teaching.

Certification and completing P3C

To gain the Tavistock Institute’s Practitioner Certificate in Consulting and Change, participants attend all modules and submit a written portfolio, assessed by faculty. The portfolio includes a case study of a current client or project, personal reflection on your development, and your profile as a consultant.

Venue

Modules take place at the Institute’s offices in London, two minutes from Old Street Station. Hotel recommendations available locally.

Next steps

To join this programme please complete the online application form and pay the deposit. If you have any questions and/or would like a conversation about the programme with one of the directors, please contact Hafija Bibi, Professional Development Administrator at: H.Bibi@tavinstitute.org.