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Discovery Session - Ethics in Leadership

Lead with integrity: a discovery session for those interested in Ethics and Leadership

 

Discovery
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Discovery Session - The Room: Human-AI Leadership Circle

A one-hour taster for senior leaders, consultants and executive coaches navigating the business and human impact of AI. 

Discovery
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The alignment of leadership and purpose at Omved Gardens

Transition and leadership development with an ambitious not-for-profit in London
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Diving into the unknown: how a European bank tackled a much-needed culture change

How we helped a national development bank to update its strategy and values
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Our approach to organisational consultancy

How we can support your work
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What our clients say about working with us

Hear from organisations we have worked with
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Unpacking hierarchy and privilege: leadership that supports purpose

16th Group Relations Conference offered by Group Relations India | 20 September — 25 September 2026 | Mumbai, India
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Currents #2: Heroes, humour and everyday hate

This month's moodboard, with Lucian Hudson
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Dynamics of Freelancing

Online fortnightly programme designed for those who wish to investigate what it really means to work independently 

Professional development
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Generative uncertainty, with Dr Nicola Redhouse

Dr Redhouse is Lecturer in Publishing and Editing at the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, Australia. 

NOTE EARLIER TIME for this Lunchtime Talk

Lunchtime Talks
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Faith and organisations, with Mark Argent, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and organisational consultant
Lunchtime Talks
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The Room: Human-AI Leadership Circle

In-person and online leadership circle for leaders navigating the business impact of AI 

Professional development
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Alon Alperovitz
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Ethics in Leadership

This online programme for leaders covers the meaning, importance and practical application of ethics in leadership

Professional development
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Karen Liebenguth

Karen Liebenguth helps leaders create ethical and effective workplace cultures.
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Leadership and Presence: find your natural authority

Find meaning and become more authentic, using the Whole Self as Instrument at this in-person two-day workshop 

Professional development
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On Talking about Groups: the Leicester Conference, for Insiders and Outsiders

Lunchtime Talk with Lily Scherlis, Brooklyn-based writer, artist and PhD candidate, University of Chicago

Lunchtime Talks
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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
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Lunchtime Talk: Black women leadership, with Dr Ruth Pombi Chiraga

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

Lunchtime Talks
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Podcast: the dynamics of shame, with Dr Eliat Aram

Dr Eliat Aram focuses on shame in this podcast, drawing on her research and practice over the last 25 years
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Journey into your organisational culture to enable commercial success

The essential foundation to improving employee experience, leadership development and handling change
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Paradox Leadership

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

Lunchtime Talks
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Guiding change with NHS Directors in the UK

Re-balancing an over-emphasis on tasks at the expense of relationships, with the NHS Leadership Academy
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Professional joy: don’t let your dream die with you

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

Lunchtime Talks
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Leicester Conference 2023 - Q&A Session

Join us for a Q&A session about the upcoming Leicester Conference 2023

Professional development
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Between Worlds

The Spirit of Leadership
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Psychoanalysis Goes to War (Eventually)

A prehistory of the Tavistock Institute.

Lunchtime Talks
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A tale of little numbers affecting big numbers at global tech company ASML

The CEO's brief to our team was to encourage integrated working across international boundaries and enable competing groups be more outward-focused
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Bespoke programme in advancing practice in unconscious processes

This bespoke leadership programme was created for NHS Directors in the Midlands, UK
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Building leadership inside a complex system: three years with Hertfordshire Adult Care Services

The ConnectedLives Leadership Programme
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Leicester Conference 2025

Welcome to the Leicester Conference of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, the home of experiential learning and the place to engage with what it means to be human

Professional development
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Leicester Conference 2024

Welcome to the Leicester Conference of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, the home of experiential learning and the place to engage with what it means to be human

Professional development
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Leicester Conference 2023

Welcome to this iteration of the Leicester Conference of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, celebrating 77 years in 2023.

Professional development
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Learning from the Lionesses: England Women’s football team
Coaching for Leadership - Creating a winning team
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Join us at our PD Open Evening!
Wondering what’s next for your continuing professional development?
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Board Dynamics
How are your boards working with the lived realities involved in boardroom diversity?
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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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Dynamics @ Board Level…
turning up the temperature.
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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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Dreaming of Compassion

Coreene Archer writes in this new book about the desire of a university system to implement compassion across the system...

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Coaching for Leadership: Psychodynamic Approaches
Thinking about becoming an executive coach?
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The Institute sponsors Spring Learning Intensive
Experiential Leadership Development Program
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Dynamics @ Board Level
an online programme for 2021. Applications accepted until 28 May
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Practitioner Certificate in Consulting and Change (P3C)
An invitation to grow your unknowingness
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Adults in the room
The Boardroom beyond 2021
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Danse Macabre & Other Stories
Halina Brunning and Olya Khaleelee - a psychoanalytical perspective on global dynamics
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Dynamics @ Board Level
Understanding the complexities and working through the difficulties
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Digital Surgeries
Supporting individuals and teams to work remotely through lockdowns and beyond.
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New book on the dynamics of boards
Insights about Boards that draw on Tavistock thinking on the dynamics of task, role, authority and power.
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Virtual Executive Coaching
Beyond the screen and below the surface.
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COVID-19 and the upside of existential dread
New ways of thinking, living and connecting: philosophy, ways of life, and …online courses.
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Coaching with Difference
Working with the overlapping layers of identity.
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Ever Ready for Business
The Boardroom post Covid-19...
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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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Are you a leader willing to challenge corruption?
A New Dawn...
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Coaching: an Antidote to the Assault on Thinking
If one can bear to read the news these days, it is only to feel further depressed by the sheer inanity and infantility of public discourse.
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Leadership and People Management
'Leadership and People Management' is an ongoing professional development collaboration between King's College and TIHR.
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Dynamics at Board-Level
Soft skills for effective governance. We were very excited to take part in a Board Dynamics Summit on 1 March run by ICSA The Governance Institute on our speciality subject..
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Clear line of sight: Transparency in the Boardroom
What's taking place in the debates around the appointment of the new President of the governing body for soccer FIFA...what does it herald for boards?
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Leadership, Authority & Identity
Exploring Desire and Fear in a Divided World.
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Change is situational...
sometimes slow, sometimes difficult, but always requiring movement.
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The Board as The Family
The Financial Times in London has reported that the Chairmanship of the Tesla Corporation is to go to a member of the Murdoch family.
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‘The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction’ William Blake
Anger (and other emotions) in Coaching.
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SocialPlaNet: Advancing Social Entrepreneurship Teaching
We are working with Christ Church Business School (CCBS) to introduce SocialPlaNet into Undergraduate programmes.
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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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The Music of Supervision:
chords, discords and improvisation...
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Putin, Trump and Merkel: the war of identities
Supervision and the shape-shifting ‘self’
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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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The World Cup...
As the World Cup got underway, an interesting and unlikely Twitter spat broke out between the ex-England striker Alan Shearer and the historian Simon Schama.
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Brexit (chapter 934)
and Supervision as the art of the impossible.
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The Tavistock Institute - 'Highly Commended' in the Festival of Learning 2018 awards
...for exceptional achievements in adult learning.
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Poet-in-Residence at APS Conference
Karen Izod reflects on the mutuality of poetry and organisational change in her practice.
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For the job of your dreams
Who do you need to be? What millennials regard as essential...
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John Stringer (1925-2018)
John Stringer, one of the pioneers of post-war OR, died on 21 January at the impressive age of 92.
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Do you care?
If you care to, come and join us at P3C...
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The Governors
Beyond Conflict: Achieving Dynamic School Boards
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Changes in the wind for the P3C programme
New Venue… New Format…
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The Furious Cascade
The challenge of events for coach and client...
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What is the ‘P’ in P3C?
Deepening consulting practice at the Tavistock Institute.
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Beyond ‘f..k you’ to compassion: a route map for coaches
Human, all too human
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TIHR CEO presented Companionship of the British Academy of Management
Dr Eliat Aram’s contributions to the field of Management are recognised...
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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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'The truth about ourselves....'
Coaching as Self-therapy.
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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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'All research is consultancy; all consultancy is research'

Introducing the series...
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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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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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Brexit, leadership and the limits of rationality
the role of the Coach...
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Social Seducement: Serious gaming for social entrepreneurship
During 2014-17 we led a pan-European consortium to develop a serious online role play game to train potential social entrepreneurs. The Social Seducement project aims to...
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Reflexive authority:
The crucial role of Supervision. The supervisor is the crucial figure, the Third, the individual who enters the dyad created by coach/consultant & client..
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Trusting virtual strangers: Developing trust online in temporary collaborative groups
Podcast. Professor Niki Panteli & David Drabble (TIHR) explore trust as a mechanism for forming functional online groups. Listen here.
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Graduation Ceremony
Celebrating our 2015-16 Professional Development programmes.
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An opportunity to widen your field
Certificate in Supervision for Coaching & Consultancy.
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MSc in Leading Organisational & Development in a volatile and complex world
from the Metanoia Institute
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Getting a seat on a Corporate Board
It’s not about your colour or your genitals…?
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On the Yoga Event at the Leicester Conference
Lunchtime Talk by Rachel Kelly, 10th February 2016.
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Avoiding Boardroom Death
...risky behaviour and the wish to live forever!
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Learning and the empowering awareness of precariousness
A journey into archiving the historical contemporary.
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P3C Argentina 2016
P3C - A new kind of change practice / consultancy for South America.
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Dynamics in your Boardroom
Do the dynamics in your Boardroom get in the way of getting things done?
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'Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all…?
Certificate in Supervision for Consultancy and Coaching - apply now!
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Does love matter? fear and compassion in organisations and leadership
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Certificate in Coaching for Leadership 2016
A panoptic vision for interesting times!
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The couch at sea!
A new Certificate in Supervision for Coaching & Consultancy.
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Shifting Focus: We not me & apples to barrels
Certificate Dynamics at Board Level - Closing date for applications: 18 May
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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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Fair Share
We are delighted to be part of Fair Share, an EU-wide free online training platform for fair trade entrepreneurs, employees and volunteers.
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Storytelling as sense-saviour in an era of information overload
Lunchtime Talk: Yiannis Gabriel, 21 January 2015
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Towards Compassionate Leadership
Opening conversations towards compassionate leadership: thoughts offered by Eliat Aram, CEO, The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.
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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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Certificate in Coaching for Leadership 2015
Identity: fixed or fluid?
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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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Certificate in Coaching for Leadership 2015
Applications are now being invited for our Certificated modular course starting this January.
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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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Vacancy: Finance Manager
We are looking to recruit a Finance Manager.
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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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Boardroom Wars?.... Understanding the dynamics
'War Breaks out in Co-op Boardroom' is a recent City AM headline...
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NHS Citizen

Creating a system that will genuinely hold the Board of NHS England to account

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Certificate in Dynamics at Board-Level 2014 – OPEN NOW
Longer, Slower, Deeper: Increasing consultancy effectiveness.
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Eliat Aram tells of directing a three-day Group Relations Conference in New York City
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Report: Group Relations Conference in Lithuania - Motivation, Resistance & Change in Organisations & Communities
Directors Report: The fourth 5-day non-residential experiential inductive learning group relations conference in Lithuania was jointly sponsored by the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Vilnius, Lithuania, and by the Group Relations Programme of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, London.
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Group Relations Conferences - The Leicester Conference
The upcoming Tavistock Institute's 68th Leicester conference provides a unique context for exploring and developing new leadership skills. Coreene Archer and Mannie Sher explain what you might expect from The Leicester Conference.
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P3C: Practitioner Certificate in Consulting and Change
comes to Argentina in 2014.
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Hope of the Amazon: Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Culture
Seeking participants, friends and partner investors to contribute to this project..
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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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Reflective coaching – an antidote to compulsive ‘busy-ness’
Certificate in Coaching 2014 – applications now being invited.
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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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Report: Lithuanian Group Relations Conference - Innovation and Authority in Organisations: Director’s Report
Directors Report from the first-ever 5-day non-residential experiential inductive learning programme in Eastern Europe was conducted at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Vilnius, Lithuania
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Hidden Complexity
Brissett, L. & Sher, M. (2013). ‘Hidden Complexity’, International Corporate Governance Year Book 2013, International Corporate Governance Network. pp. 70-71.
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Leadership in Residential Child Care: Evaluating Qualification Training
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IDeA
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(Economic) Sense and Sensibility
CERTIFICATE IN COACHING 2013
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Leading Boards'
Presenting the first in a series of TIHR papers on Board Evaluation and Development...
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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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Towards a 'good enough' society
Re-reading Winnicott in times of disappearing containers...
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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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Big Society Consultation
TIHR submits response to the Big Society consultation committee.
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Researching the Financial Sector
Inside the Minds of the Money Minders - Deciphering Reflections on Money, Behaviour and Leadership in the Financial Crisis of 2008.
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Extracting meaning from experiential learning
A staff member's tale of two unfamiliar landscapes- Israel and a group relations conference.
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The Tavistock Institute assists reflection on the banking crisis
David Walker's report: A review of corporate governance in banks and other financial industry entitiesﾔ is released today.
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New book released: 'Mind-ful Consulting'
In times of uncertainty, when well thought-through strategies become obsolete very quickly, those charged with changing organisations require the internal resources to cope with the unforeseen and the unexpected.
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Deepening Creative Practice with organisations

Certificated programme of practice in Artistic Action Research and Organisational Change. In-person, London and UK locations.
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Certificate in Supervision for Coaching & Consultancy 2026

This in-person, certificated programme is for experienced coaches and consultants who wish to begin or deepen their supervision practice.
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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Certificate in Dynamics at Board Level

A certificated programme on effective board leadership: acquire insights into group dynamics, unconscious processes, and emotional intelligence.
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Launching Young Leaders

Finding Authority, Role and Impact – for young people who want to make a difference
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Environment

How we are responding to the climate emergency
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Team Working: How to succeed

Online course on how to collaborate: join any time
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Certificate in Advanced Group Relations

Acquire the skills and expertise needed to become an advanced Group Relations practitioner
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Certificate in Advanced Group Relations Conferences Consulting: Advanced Module 1 - Online GRCs

Advanced module for experienced Group Relations practitioners who wish to become advanced Group Relations consultants, directors and field stewards
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Certificate in Advanced Group Relations Conferences Consulting: Advanced Module 2 - Directorship

Advanced module for experienced Group Relations practitioners who wish to become advanced Group Relations consultants, directors and field stewards
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Leadership and Presence: find your natural authority

Find meaning and become more authentic, using the Whole Self as Instrument in this in-person two day workshop 
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Ethics in Leadership

This six-day online programme for leaders covers the meaning, importance and practical application of ethics in leadership.
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The Room: Human-AI Leadership Circle

For leaders who know the world of work is changing, and are looking for a space to make sense of it 
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Dynamics of Freelancing

Online fortnightly programme designed for those who wish to investigate what it really means to work independently 
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People & Partners
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Programmes
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Consultancy projects
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Consultancy team

The Institute’s consultancy team brings together social scientists, consultant/researchers, artists, psychologists and anthropologists.
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