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Explore authority, group dynamics and systemic change with us.

Where social science meets psychoanalytic thinking and creativity.

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Certificate in Team Coaching - Spring 2026

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

Coaching

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Testing AI tools to help address labour and skills shortages in Europe

As evaluation partner for this Horizon Europe project, we will focus on how AI tools are designed, tested and applied

Research & evaluation

Employment

Future of work

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New framework to help measure the Just Transition in Scotland

A blueprint for the achievement of equitable outcomes during the low-carbon transition

Research & evaluation

Environment

How people relate to each other and the systems and contexts in which we live, how we grow in character, how we embrace learning and change, are questions that flicker around all points of world history.

Research & evaluation

Consulting

Professional development

What's on

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Lunchtime Talks 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

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Professional development Reading Seminars on Organisational Consultancy and Change 2026

Six live online seminars with Systems Psychodynamics authors Dr Mannie Sher and Dr David Lawlor with group relations expert Rachel Kelly

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Professional development Team Working: How to succeed

Online course on the dynamics of effective collaboration: join any time.

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Arts and organisations

We are pioneering internationally recognised creative approaches to respond to organisational and societal challenges.

From us come ever-emerging ideas and technologies, which are adopted internationally by people, groups, businesses and other organisations.

Research & Evaluation

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How a bio-psycho-social approach supports people with chronic pain

We evaluated an innovative service in South London to assess impact and replicability

Research & evaluation

Health & social care

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Neurodiversity in the tech industry

More equitable and inclusive workplaces are needed, says this global study with Colt, Nokia, Samsung, and Vodafone

Research & evaluation

Mental health

Organisations

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Evaluation of Samaritans Online Chat Service pilot

Our work will help determine how well the new online chat service meets the needs of children and young people

Research & evaluation

Children & families

Mental health

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Our Professional Development programmes

Led by internationally recognised experts, our programmes equip you for life, leadership and transformation.

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Consulting services

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Guiding change with NHS leaders in the UK

How an over-emphasis on tasks at the expense of relationships can be re-balanced

Consultancy

Health & social care

Leadership

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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

Consultancy

Leadership

Organisations

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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

Consultancy

Organisations

Young people

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The Leicester Conference

Welcome to the 14-day experiential learning event that has been running since 1957, and provides space to reflect and contemplate on how you lead and follow in your organisation, your community — indeed, how you lead and follow in your life.

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International work

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Improving the flexibility of European learning systems

Making learning outcomes transferable is key to improving employability

Research & evaluation

Education & training

Employment

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The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in China

Extending Tavistock values, philosophy and practice into new environments.

Group relations

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Reducing marginalisation amongst young people

There are effective ways of supporting children and young people to stay in education and employment

Research & evaluation

Education & training

Employment

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Group Relations around the world

Group Relations Conferences are for anyone interested in developing and deepening their leadership strategy and organisational practice.

The Tavistock Institute Archive

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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

Research & evaluation

Arts & culture

Socio-technical

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Learning the details: when honoring the past liberates the creativity in the present.

Antonio Sama relates how the archive inspired a new relationship with his mentor.

Professional Development

About us

Thought pieces

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I felt like I was there

Working with the digital archives of the Leicester Conference, a post by Karen Kiss.

Research & evaluation

Unconscious

Group relations

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Addressing sustainability and protecting the environment

From our early work on open systems and the socio-environmental, the Institute has strived to understand the rippling effect of actions taken by organisations on the systems they inhabit, and how, in dialogue, systems force organisations to change.

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