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Jen Spalding
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Certificate in Team Coaching - Spring 2026

Three day programme to introduce experienced coaches to working systemically with teams

Professional development
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Coaching for Leadership 2026

A hybrid, certificated professional development programme in 4 modules, accredited by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.

Professional development
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Transforming leadership through coaching

Explore our Executive Coaching Practice
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Design your future with our Creative Digital Futures Lab

Connect creative practice with deep technical expertise in Human and AI systems integration
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Strategic Leadership Circles 2024

Transformative conversations for senior healthcare leaders. 

Professional development
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Coaching for Leadership 2025

A hybrid, certificated professional development programme in 4 modules, accredited by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.

Professional development
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Join us at our PD Open Evening!
Wondering what’s next for your continuing professional development?
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Apply for Supervision for Coaching and Consultancy
New closing date for applications: 22 September 2022
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Supervision for Coaching and Consultancy goes online
Certificate in Supervision for Coaching and Consultancy is now accepting applications
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Join us at a P3C open evening!
You are invited to attend an Open Evening this Wednesday on Zoom to find out more...
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Welcoming Dr John Curran
An anthropological lens on P3C. We are delighted that Dr John Curran is joining the Practitioner Certificate in Consultancy and Change (P3C) faculty for 2022.
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Practitioner Certificate in Consulting and Change (P3C)
An invitation to grow your unknowingness
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Certificate in Supervision for Coaching and Consultancy
Are you a coach or consultant with at least 5 years of experience who wishes to become a supervisor?
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Supervision for Coaching and Consultancy goes online
Covid-19 adds focus to a great debate and a long tradition.
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Whatever happens…
P3C: Practitioner Certificate in Consultancy & Change
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P3C: Practitioner Certificate in Consultancy & Change
How is it practical and useful?
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Practitioner Certificate in Consulting & Change
We are now inviting applications for the next cohort.
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Supervision: working through the loop of shame in learning

An acronym was invented in the office recently – ITYS: I told you so.
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Leadership and Supervision
The narcissistic traps that lie in wait...
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On not being an academic & representing TIHR at the Academy of Management
‘Tavi-stock-taking’ with Dr Sadie King
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Practitioner Certificate in Consultancy and Change
Applications are invited for our P3C modular programme starting in February 2019.
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Do you care?
If you care to, come and join us at P3C...
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Changes in the wind for the P3C programme
New Venue… New Format…
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What is the ‘P’ in P3C?
Deepening consulting practice at the Tavistock Institute.
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The Client speaks...

This article on executive coaching is part of a series of thought-pieces developed by Dr Mannie Sher. In this article, space is given over to the client who speaks about the value of executive coaching.
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Conversations from the Archive
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A view from the ground - of an organisational consultant
I am celebrating 25 years at the Tavistock Institute this year and even after all this time...
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The Application of Tavistock Group Relations - Guliverio Akademija
A new school opens in Lithuania.
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'In space, no one can hear you scream'
A CEO tells her coach: at the top, loneliness is like living in a vacuum…
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The ‘Anthropological Thread’ in TIHR Archive
This talk explores the proposition that an ‘anthropological thread’ runs through the history of our work as an organisation.
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Money Helper
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The ‘Anthropological Thread’ in the Tavistock Institute of Human Relation’s Archive Lunchtime Talk
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Rock and Role
Practitioner Certificate in Consultancy and Change (P3C) - Join us to shape, unfold and deepen your consultancy practice through this dynamic and experiential...
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Graduation Ceremony
Celebrating our 2015-16 Professional Development programmes.
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MSc in Leading Organisational & Development in a volatile and complex world
from the Metanoia Institute
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On the Yoga Event at the Leicester Conference
Lunchtime Talk by Rachel Kelly, 10th February 2016.
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P3C Argentina 2016
P3C - A new kind of change practice / consultancy for South America.
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The Dehumanization of Consultancy
Why a Certificate in Consultancy and Change in Latin America now?
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MSc in Personal, Team & Organisational Development
from a Systemic, Gestalt & Complexity Perspective.
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Long term endemic problems or short term necessities?
- highlighting the need for renewal in your practice/being.
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The evaluation process: resistance, politics and role
A talk by Giorgia Iacopini, next at TIHR's 'Food for Thought': 24 September 2014.
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P3C programme 2015
Applications are invited for our Practitioner Certificate in Consulting and Change modular programme starting in January 2015.
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'Iguana' school trip to Lithuania
Camilla Child, Principal Consultant and Researcher at the Tavistock Institute, recently travelled to Lithuania to help the local research team there explain and launch the IGUANA pilot in schools.
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P3C: Practitioner Certificate in Consulting and Change
comes to Argentina in 2014.
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P3C programme 2013-14
Get your applications in now for our Practitioner Certificate in Consulting and Change modular programme starting this October.
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Escaping old patterns – creating radical change
Invigorate your work with the P3C programme 2013-14.
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Convert your learning
Convert your learning at The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) into credit for Masters Qualifications with The Open University Business School.
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The Dynamics of Political Mentoring and Coaching
Reporting back from a seminar addressing political mentoring and coaching...
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The return of the artisan': Practitioner Certificate in Consulting and Change
HSBC, in its June edition of Business Matters writes about the return of the artisan, in the creation of unique products and services, delivered through micro-businesses in niche market positions.
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Extracting meaning from experiential learning
A staff member's tale of two unfamiliar landscapes- Israel and a group relations conference.
Photograph by Eleanor Mamorsky and Emma Ballantyne
Coaching, Supervision & Therapy

Coaching, supervision and therapy serve the individual, the couple, the small group or the team.

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Certificate in Supervision for Coaching & Consultancy

An in-person, certificated professional development programme delivered at our London studio, accredited by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.
Certificate in Coaching for Leadership: Psychodynamic Approaches
Certificate in Coaching for Leadership: Psychodynamic Approaches

A hybrid, certificated professional development programme in 4 modules, accredited by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.

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Strategic Leadership Circles

Transformative conversations for senior healthcare leaders
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Certificate in Team Coaching - Spring 2026

This new 3 day programme introduces experienced coaches to working systemically with teams
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