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Lunchtime Talk: Thinking with machines, with Dr Jean Cooper

Ambivalence, projection and the place of AI in Systems Psychodynamics

Lunchtime Talks
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Lunchtime Talk: building democracy at work

Bridging theory and practice in action research, with Hanne Finnestrand, Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Lunchtime Talks
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Further discovery sessions for Deepening Creative Practice, 1st and 8th April 2025

Free session to find out what Deepening Creative Practice will look like in 2025

Talks & presentations
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Encountering our archive materials through artistic practice-as-research

Performance researcher Heni Hale is using the Tavistock archive to explore the meaning of work then and now
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Deepening Creative Practice 2026

Certificated programme of practice in Artistic Action Research and Organisational Change: Winter and Spring Seasons

Professional development
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Leading and working from the screen

Explore the visible and invisible dynamics in remote work at this fully online, three-day experiential programme, with an optional fourth day

Professional development
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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 Thinking, Design and the Theory of Change

Join us on 25 May to meet some of the contributors to this new volume

Book launch
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CyborgORG: The Human/Machine Organization

From coal mines to WeWork: learning from the Tavistock Tradition, researching the contemporary workplace — a lunchtime talk by Jack Marmorstein.

Lunchtime Talks
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Virtual Reality

A lunchtime talk by Coreene Archer and David Drabble.

Lunchtime Talks
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A.K. Rice: A Forgotten Giant at The Tavistock Institute

Jean Neumann and Antonio Sama trace A.K. Rice’s legacy embedded and captured in articles, books and other source documents.

Lunchtime Talks
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Global socio-technical systems perspectives

The development of compassionate work and organisation design

Lunchtime Talks
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Digital Surgery — approaches and challenges of working virtually
Talks & presentations
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ASM Lithography (ASML)
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All the world’s a stage…
The Leicester Conference 2022 invites us to engage in a new way, studying the capillary, tentacular and rhizomatic in organisations.
Three copies of the book "An Introduction to Systems Psychodynamics" by Mannie Sher and David Lawlor are stacked on a wooden table. The room has a blurred background with greenery, creating a calming atmosphere.
For the digital age — an Introduction to Systems Psychodynamics

This book describes this new and expanding paradigm – bringing together the social-technical and the people dimensions for the first time. 
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Digital work courses at the Tavistock Institute
Rewriting sociotechnical systems for remote teams.
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Redefining Leadership HERE AND NOW
Latinoamerican Online Group Relations Conference - Join us: 24- 28 March 2021
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The 4th Patchwork
Group Relations is a body of practice rooted in the socio-technical systems psychodynamic tradition developed at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.
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Launch - Organisational Consultancy: Working with Dynamics 2020
Applications are now open for this programme.
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3 October - Celebrating 10 Years of TIHR Lunchtime Talks with a bumper allotment lunch
You are cordially invited to...
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Opening the Tavistock Institute’s Archives: Dialogue between Past and Present
International Symposium delivers on 70th festival promise at AOM Annual Meeting
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New TIHR collaboration in South Africa
A new partnership delivering a 4-module certificated programme in the Dynamics of Leadership & Consulting.
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Lunchtime Talks are back! Fitting Care Navigation into Health Systems
This talk by Camilla Child and David Drabble explores the real stories and transformative effects of care navigators and outlines how a socio-technical systems approach can facilitate successful organisational change.
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Call for Contributions Extended!
Celebrating 70 years: Reimagining Human Relations in our Time
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From Ahmedabad to TCBL: an evaluator’s perspective on the Institute’s work in the textiles sector
Papers relating to the Tavistock Institute’s work in the cotton mills have now been catalogued as part of the Tavistock Institute Archive Project and are available for research at Wellcome Library. The archive covers the experimental reorganisation of weaving in both Indian and American cotton mills, from the perspectives of A K Rice and Eric Miller working in the field. Records include project papers, detailed field notes, research material and data, and correspondence. Clothes are something we put on every day. And yet, most of us pay little attention to who makes them, the raw material, skills and technology needed to produce them, where they are made, and the waste that is generated by making and buying clothes. [...]
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Call for Contributions extended!
We are delighted and excited to be issuing this call inviting contributions to our festival in October 2017. Taking place over four days, Reimagining Human Relations in our Time, will be a multi-sited event taking place in the public domain. Its aims are: To engage and expand research interest in the Tavistock Institute’s archive material that is being catalogued at the Wellcome Library. To invite creative participation in our programme of work; our philosophical approach; applied methodologies and their potential in tackling current societal challenges. To offer activities consistent with the Tavistock Institute’s history and practice that will support an improved understanding of wellbeing- in its individual, organisational and societal dimensions. [...]
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The use of detention as a defence against intolerable social ambivalence towards asylum-seekers
Recording of David Lawlor & Mannie Sher lunchtime talk - 8th March
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Mining the archives: exploring the potential for new applications of STS thinking and practice
Audio Recording: Exploring the potential for new applications of STS thinking and practice. In this talk Camilla Child looks to the Tavistock archives and takes us briefly through STS history and current practice. She looks at recent work with fresh eyes to see if we can uncover new understandings for future practice.
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The Use of Detention as a Defence Against Intolerable Social Anxiety Towards Asylum Seekers
Dr David Lawlor & Dr Mannie Sher. Paper published in Socioanalysis: Special Issue - Seeking Asylum 18: 2016 (40 - 52)
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Social Science in Action: reports from Tavistock Institute Archive
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Handling complexity: online dialogue with evaluation stakeholders
The third open-class of Tavistock Chair in Social Science for Education and Change at UNIR University will take place on November 30th.
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Review of Mental Health Issues in Immigration Return Centres
A report prepared for Home Office by Dr David Lawlor, Dr Mannie Sher and Dr Milena Stateva.
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Organisation design in focus: practice, theory, meaning
A chance to explore organisational design more deeply at the EODF Annual Meeting: 17-18 October.
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Organizational design and culture change at TIHR
Three recent presentations reflect TIHR’s continuing learning around design and culture change.
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EODF 2013 conference: 11-12 October 2013, Vienna
'Designing Thriving Organisations: Resilience, Partnership, Enablement'.
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STS: socio-technical systems 2012 working conference
Canterbury, UK: September 12th - 15th
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What's humane got to do with it?'
On 12th-15th September 2012, The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations joins forces with the STS Roundtable and Canterbury Christ Church University to sponsor a working conference in Canterbury, UK
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A Finnish experience
Bringing TIHR methodology, complexity theory, art and aesthetics to intervention design.
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Consultancy

Our consultants are there both to hold the space open for profound discussions and ensure that actions are taken, and accountability lines identified.
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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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Leading and working from the screen

Explore the visible and invisible dynamics in remote work at this fully online, three-day experiential programme, with an optional fourth day
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