We all know the route we take every day to work; we know what corner to turn and what road to cross. We know what line to take and what change to make as we reluctantly descend the escalators where we cram onto a literal tube filled with people we don’t know yet hate even before we see their faces. ...
Join us on 24 May for an in person immersive Lunchtime Talk session at the Tavistock Institute office space @63 Gee Street in London.Juliet Scott, Bongsu Park, and Marie Beauchamps, the three artists involved in our current exhibition Social Dreams, Social Matters: Artistic Affluence in Social Dream...
What does it mean to be a professional? Most people will instantly have a mental image in response to this question as the word is heavily invested with meaning. In the Oxford dictionary it is defined as 'a person who does a job that needs special training and a high level of education.'It is well k...
Karen Izod reflects of the mutuality on poetry and organisational change in her practice. So how does writing poetry relate to the day job? asked a member of the audience at the Tavistock Institute’s festival poetry reading where I read with Joe Cullen in October 2017.My response – that they are in...
The stock of the Tavi Institute is 70 and we are celebrating its rich history with a true festive bang!“The second anniversary of Mahatma Ghandi’s death falls on January 30, 1950. I did not see him die; I did not see the reaction to the murder in any of the big centres of population; but what I did ...
The ReferendumThe outcome of the Referendum was intended to be binary – ‘yes’ or ‘no’ – and we woke up on the weekend to discover that complex situations do not lend themselves to simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answers. On Referendum Day, in everyone’s mind there would have been at least four positions – the...
Social Dreaming Matrix #1: Friday 24th June, 2016, 2pm-3.15pm: Wellcome Collection Reading RoomFacilitation and write-up: Juliet Scott, Mannie SherAn additional social context was offered for this matrix as it took place the morning after the UK’s referendum on leaving the European Union. Many parti...
Jean Neumann works as both practitioner and academic in those fields that blend organisational development and change, consultancy and related change management careers. Consultancy orientation and approaches Jean cares deeply about ‘good’ organisational change and development. She has completed ove...
I am a Professional Partner and Associate of the Tavistock Institute, where I bring creative practice and social science into transformative dialogue. I am a Professional Partner and Associate of the Tavistock Institute, where I bring creative practice and social science into transformative dialogue...
Social Matters and Dreaming SeriesSDM#3Hosts: Juliet Scott and Bongsu Park18 participants and 3 staff on ZoomDreams: 10Associations: 41Sensemaking: After two intense sessions, this third, last Social Dreaming Matrix seemed to conclude with a feeling that there is always sunshine after the storm. Aft...
Bricolage into activism in the arts and systems psychodynamic approaches of Deepening Creative Practice.Bricolage meaning: the construction or creation from a diverse range of available things; something constructed or created from a diverse range of things, “bricolages of painted junk”.This article...
Participants: 4913 dreamsOver 40 associationsA long pause at the beginning of the SDM:Themes:Anger and feeling stuck in dichotomies: (love & hate, exotic & shabby, up & down, east & west, me & other; in dichotomies it feels we are in something more difficult and dangerous than might be needed; longi...
Participants: 5813 dreamsOver 40 associationsThemes:Longing for connection: (how will we connect without shared memories, without touching)The falling apart and estrangement of self: (strange deserted houses; rooms are connected yet detached; Zoom as a metaphor for experience in pandemic; looking in...
51 participants12 dreamsOver 30 associationsMain Themes:Search for common language, being connected.Yet the competition, fragmentation across borders. Who has the knowledge? who knows the truth? We were all in one, experiencing pandemia, the world in lockdown; as we move out of lockdown, social dist...
The Big Lottery Fund’s (BIG) Realising Ambition programme is a UK-wide initiative that has invested £25 million in outstanding projects that have proven their effectiveness in helping young people fulfil their potential and avoid the pathways into offending.The Realising Ambition programme is doing ...
A report prepared for Home Office by Dr David Lawlor, Dr Mannie Sher and Dr Milena Stateva. The purpose of the Review was to help the Home Office Immigration Return Centres improve conditions for detainees with mental health issues.ContextThe Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) was invited...
A report prepared for Home Office by Dr David Lawlor, Dr Mannie Sher and Dr Milena Stateva. The purpose of the Review was to help the Home Office Immigration Return Centres improve conditions for detainees with mental health issues.The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) was invited by the...