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In the Lectures and Presentations section of our website you will find the fourth and final part of Dr Jean Neumann’s (TIHR, Sr Fellow in Scholarly Practice) series addressing selected Lewinian principles. This time Dr Neumann casts her attention on Kurt Lewin’s ‘Constructive Method Rule’.As ever th...
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The fourth and final part of Dr Jean Neumann’s (TIHR, Sr Fellow in Scholarly Practice) series addressing selected Lewinian principles. This time Dr Neumann casts her attention on Kurt Lewin’s ‘Constructive Method Rule’.Introduction to SeriesA single orientation to organisational change and consultin...
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I am an artist in social practice. Through drawing, paint and print, I study groups of people and objects and their ecological relationships within a wider landscape. I elaborate this into interactions, interventions, installations with individuals, groups and organisations creating challenging and ...
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In the third-part of our continuing series that addresses selected Lewinian principles, Dr Jean Neumann (TIHR, Sr Fellow in Scholarly Practice) turns her attention to Kurt Lewin’s ‘Contemporaneity’ Rule.Using both theoretical foundations and illustrative examples, Dr Neumann once again demonstrates ...
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Part-two of a four-part series highlighting the significance of Lewinian principles…Dr Jean Neumann, the Tavistock Institute’s Senior Fellow in Scholarly Practice presents, as part of ‘Lectures and other presentations’, the second part in a series of 4 articles summarising selected Lewinian principl...
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Launching the first of a four-part series highlighting selected Lewinian principles …We are delighted to announce that over the next 12 months the Tavistock Institute’s Sr Fellow in Scholarly Practice, Dr Jean Neumann will be presenting a four-part series summarising selected Lewinian principles th...
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We are delighted to announce that over the next 12 months the Tavistock Institute’s Sr Fellow in Scholarly Practice, Dr Jean Neumann will be presenting a four-part series summarising selected Lewinian principles that we at the Institute find useful in consulting, research and evaluation.Each article...
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The Tavistock had a battle on their hands. At the outbreak of World War II, its psychiatrists felt that they had expertise to offer the British Army, but many in the British Army didn’t want it. Churchill himself was one of many whose resistance to the employment of psychiatric expertise in the Army...
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My path to 70th Festival celebrationsIn a reflection on profession and belonging, Eva Worm takes us on a journey from her first encounter with the Tavistock Institute’s 70th Anniversary Festival ‘Reimagining Human Relations in our Time’ through to the launch of the Tavistock Community and its first ...
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‘Tavi-stock-taking’ with Dr Sadie KingMy career and intellectual path have been informed by the inability to tolerate being unhappy at work. I’m not happy unless I’m interested and fully present otherwise you find me looking out of the window, 14 again, back in a soulless classroom that only led to ...
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Keeping you informed about content and resources from our 70th Anniversary Celebrations festival.Ambient Jam Collective is a multi-media dance improvisation which is uniquely sensitive to place, context and people. Ambient Jam entails improvisation as a way of social dreaming, that foregrounds kinae...
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Landscapes shift, wordless stories unfold, creative choices are made, and sometimes people move through journeys in themselves and with others.Ambient Jam is a multi-media dance improvisation which is uniquely sensitive to place, context and people. The improvisation is forged by 25 years of collabo...
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Arts practices offer ways of knowing that support complex change processes and deepen understanding.We work with performance, visual and literature expression to help us with difficult emotions, uncertainty, power and the unspoken dynamics that shape organisations and systems. Much of our work deals...
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Text by Dr Anna Cole:PARCS Grows Everybody is an intergenerational oral history project commemorating the history and legacy of the Portsmouth Abuse and Rape Crisis Service, 1981—2021Portsmouth Abuse and Rape Counselling Service (PARCS) began its life in 1981 as a rape crisis helpline in one room, w...
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I have a background in academic research and over a decade working in a grass-roots, international non-profit organization I have a background in academic research and over a decade working in a grass-roots, international non-profit organization and specialise in community-based, participatory actio...
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In telling the story of my journey as an artist with a social practice I always return to the Sea of Galilee (sea of Tiberius, Buḥayrat, Ṭabarīyā, Lake of Gennesaret to name a few) — the geopolitical context of my first experience of Tavistock Group Relations, where the social meaning of the arts be...
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In the Group Relations/Tavistock milieu Eric Miller comes as close to an icon as social scientists and psychoanalysts can tolerate…Most of you will know him from his prolific writing and might have learnt, through his books, about his life-long concern with the paradox of being a human. Those of us ...
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A Dream Symposium and Dream AuctionWe invite you to join a ‘collaboration through dreams’. This is between artists, a poet, social science, a fine art auction house and an expert in Korean dream culture. We will be experimenting with fusing different dream practices and creating new ones.The project...
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Design thinking and the arts for social changeTavistock Institute staff Dr Kerstin Junge and Juliet Scott recently shared insights and findings from their current work at two symposia for Bowling Green State University’s (BGSU) Doctoral Programme in Organization Development and Change (OD&C).The...
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Redefining, reshaping and reinventing the work spaceAt our 70th Festival, I gave the keynote talk: ‘On being an orphan’ where I said:“…The Tavistock Institute’s unconscious narrative is also that of an orphan and so it has had to be abandoned at least three times in its history in order to be where ...