The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations’

collection of:

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
“Far better than conventional
training for actually changing
and improving leadership ability”
Director of Strategy, TeliaSonera, Sweden
CONTENTS

Welcome 5
The Leicester Conference 6
Launching Young Leaders 7
Coaching for Leadership 8
Supervision for Coaching & Consultancy 10
P3C: Practitioner Certificate in Consulting and Change 11
Dynamics @ Board Level 12
Organisational Consultancy 14
Deepening Creative Practice 15
Bespoke Programmes 16
Action Learning 19
Your Experiential Journey 20
Staying in Touch: 21
The Tavistock Community
Basecamp
Mailing list

Further Information and next steps 22

Detailed brochures are on our website, with information about current

fees, dates, venues and how to apply.
If you’d like a conversation, contact Emily Kyte: [email protected]

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WELCOME

to the TIHR collection of Professional Development opportunities. We trust we

can provide something for everyone whether you are starting out in your working
life or are changing / wanting to change direction; whether you are a seasoned and
experienced professional and/or are someone who likes to learn.

What we offer are unique, multi-disciplinary programmes based on core TIHR

philosophies, theories and methodologies around organisations, communities
and culture.

Our faculty members are all established and recognised practitioners across their
various fields. They regularly attend to their own learning and development so they
can continue working to the highest quality to help you:
• expand and deepen your interpersonal skills;
• develop an X-ray vision to help you see under the surface of organisational life to
find out what’s really going on;
• foster your own leadership ability and leadership throughout your working group
or team;
• understand your team or organisation as a whole – a living dynamic system.

What people love about our professional development opportunities is that they are:
• challenging and inspiring - professionally and personally;
• immediately applicable to work, for real and lasting change;
• re-energising, leaving people better equipped to make a difference in their
organisations and other contexts;

and attract a diverse group of people from across the world, working in every type
of organisation at every level, from multinational corporates through government,
not-for-profits and sole-traders.

If you want to discuss any of these opportunities, we are always happy to talk.

We look forward to meeting you soon.

Warm wishes

Anne Benson
Head of Professional Development Programmes

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THE LEICESTER
CONFERENCE
Task Authority Role Organisation

An annual event since 1957, this 2-week residential conference offers

the most sustained immersion in experiential learning about leadership,
anywhere in the world.
This learning about Group Relations develops leadership and managerial capacity to effect real
change in organisations, through participants actually working with the relationship between
role and authority, live. Not in abstract or theoretical lectures or in role-play exercises but
through the functioning of a temporary institution with all the fun and fear, pressures and
prizes that feature in organisational life every day.
It is for team leaders, leadership developers, entrepreneurs, managers, administrators, CEOs;
change agents; academics, researchers, consultants, clinicians, activists, service providers etc.
from business, education, government / local authorities, health services and social care, finance,
NGOs, the arts, politics, consultancy, justice, religious orders and lobby groups. Participants
come from diverse backgrounds, from all over the world.
The Leicester conference addresses questions like:
• What does effective leadership look and feel like?
• What is followership, and how can it be sustained or sabotaged?
• What are the anxieties that underlie relations within teams and organisations and how can
they be surfaced and addressed?
• How to develop an individual sense of citizenship?
• How are we as individuals seen as figures of authority?
If you are interested in leadership and strategy development in your team, group,
organisation or community, then attend the next Leicester conference with your team.
We also offer in-house tailor-made organisation and community development interventions.
We support and run other Group Relations conferences around the world, based on the Leicester
model – see www.grouprelations.com.

“I have never learned as much about organisations as whole

systems as I did at the Leicester conference”
Director, Corporate Business Development, USA

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LAUNCHING
YOUNG
LEADERS

A one-day workshop for young people

who want to make a difference:

WHAT IS IT AND WHO IS IT FOR?

For those who want to enhance and explore their leadership skills and what it means to be a
leader. For participants aged 18-26, or those who are early in their career. Participants from
any background and role are welcome.
The workshop is a full and energetic day of activities: participants will have opportunities to:
• try on different roles;
• think reflectively about past and present work or learning experiences;
• inquire into alternative perspectives.
This is a chance to have an in-depth experience of leadership; to explore what works and
what doesn’t, in a peer-learning community.

WHAT WILL I TAKE AWAY?

You will be encouraged to see your potential, to engage with opportunities and to build
resilience. We aim to help you think about what success means to you and encourage you to
capitalise on the skills, knowledge and qualities that you already possess.

“I think the day has stimulated a lot of thought for me

personally, and I found it to be really inspiring when I
consider my future career, what I want to achieve and what
skills I have that might help me in achieving this”
Employee, UK

“I learned what my strengths are (as well as my weaknesses),

even if these strengths are not skills that are traditionally
considered ‘leadership’ qualities.”
Employee, UK

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CERTIFICATE IN
COACHING for LEADERSHIP:
Psychodynamic Approaches

4 x 2-day residential modules

held near London, annually

WHAT IS IT AND WHO IS IT FOR?

A certificated, modular programme for people who are already coaching either formally or
informally ie who use a coaching approach within their work. Some experience in developing
others is essential.
This ever-evolving programme attracts senior managers and leadership development
professionals from a variety of UK and international backgrounds, who emerge with radical –
and genuinely transformative - insights into their clients, and the systems and cultures
in which they operate.

WHAT WILL I TAKE AWAY?

Focusing on the conscious and unconscious factors affecting performance in role in context,
you will gain an increased understanding, confidence and competence in:
• your own coaching approach and style
• developing effective coaching relationships
• enabling coachees to understand and take up their role within their wider organisational
and systemic context; and
• exploring blocks and enablers to successful coaching – from an intra personal through to
the systemic level.

“A truly transformative experience, which at the same

time moves you out of your comfort zone and significantly
expands your professional repertoire”
Global Head of Human Resources, Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A. Italy

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CERTIFICATE IN
SUPERVISION for COACHING
& CONSULTANCY

3 x 2-day non-residential modules held in

The TIHR offices in central London, annually

WHAT IS IT AND WHO IS IT FOR?

The supervision stance centres on developing a third eye (internal and external) which is both
compassionate and challenging for yourself and for your clients.
Designed for coaches and consultants with at least 5 years’ experience (or who have completed
our Coaching and P3C programmes) who wish to become a supervisor. It is also for current
supervisors who want to deepen their understanding and enhance their practice and gain an
internationally recognised certificate.

WHAT WILL I TAKE AWAY?

An increased understanding, confidence and competence in:
• your own supervisory capability, founded on an understanding of the dynamics of the
supervisor-coach/consultant and coach/consultant-client interactions;
• working with the impact of systemic and cultural factors and the psychodynamic processes
that help and hinder change;
• using a range of models, theories and techniques that offer fresh perspectives to supervisor
and coach / consultant, thus extending your supervisory repertoire.
Graduates will be able to offer broad-ranging supervision for both individuals and groups
and for both coaches who work with individuals and consultants who work with large and
global systems.

“From the benefit of this experience, it speaks to how a few

timely words, especially in a learning environment,
can be priceless
Interfaith Advisor, University of Westminster

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PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATE IN
CONSULTING and
CHANGE:
The Art of Consulting Practice

4 x 3-day residential modules

held at the University of Cambridge annually

WHAT IS IT AND WHO IS IT FOR?

Designed to equip participants with a deeper capability to work as organisational consultants
and system change agents.
The programme is intended for leaders; managers; Human Resource professionals; consultants,
coaches; organisational development and change practitioners; those whose work and interest
are with groups and larger systems.

WHAT WILL I TAKE AWAY?

An increased understanding of and capability to:
• work with change in complex contexts and in conditions of uncertainty and ambiguity;
• notice and take account of organisational and systemic dynamics above and below the surface;
• design, implement and review a range of organisational development interventions;
• re-connect with and use your creativity, presence and authority whilst immersed in complex
organisational dynamics;
• manage the tensions between the urgent and emergent; the important and the planned;
• grapple with the challenges and excitements of collaborative and co-creative practice.

“The P3C experience increased my understanding of

complexity and uncertainty, I embraced the emergent
and the potency of the unconscious in organisational
development.”
Co-owner and Consultant, Frits Philips jr & Partners, The Netherlands

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CERTIFICATE IN
DYNAMICS @ BOARD LEVEL

4 x 2-day residential modules

held near London, annually

WHAT IS IT AND WHO IS IT FOR?

Improving the development and support of Boards through a deeper understanding of how
Boards communicate and behave, sometimes unconsciously, in ways that can help or hinder
their work.
For Board chairs and presidents, NEDs and other board members, and those who work with
boards: consultants, coaches, trainers and evaluators.

WHAT WILL I TAKE AWAY?

A deeper understanding of how to:
• expand your board leadership, board membership, teaching, evaluation and consulting
capability in ways that help boards identify their primary task;
• manage the tensions between the content of boards working agendas and the underlying
pull towards less efficient functioning;
• evaluate individual member performance;
• support Chairs;
• fill skills gaps and create healthily diverse boards;
• assist boards in managing their external relationships with stakeholders, executive
teams and the rest of the organisation.

“It was a profound and stimulating experience that has

developed my capability and capacity as a board member
[and] it has developed my confidence in my ability and to
pursue my dreams in a way that I was not expecting…”
Director, Peritus Advisory Services, UK

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ORGANISATIONAL
CONSULTANCY:
WORKING WITH
THE DYNAMICS

6 modules of 2 days each at the University of Cambridge

and the Tavistock Institute, London

WHAT IS IT?
The only advanced systems psychodynamic consultancy programme in Europe. This is an
opportunity for consultants and HR change agents to develop advanced skills in the application
of Tavistock Institute systems psychodynamics approaches to their consultancy and working
practice with and in organisations.
• developing the capacity for reflection;
• understanding the emotional experience of task-related work so that these can be better
understood and mastered;
• examining how individuals and teams debate, communicate and behave, sometimes
unconsciously, within organisations in ways that can help or hinder the work of the organisation;
• paying attention to how organisations behave as whole systems in their environments;
• skilful negotiation in crossing the boundary and contracting.

WHO IS IT FOR?
You are likely to have a background of development and practice as a consultant or change
agent with organisations already. There are a variety of roles that you could be undertaking in
your organisation:
• you may work in a training and development context in which you provide formal and/or
informal consultation;
• you may work in Human Resources from which you provide change and catalytic process to
systems; or
• you may be self-employed as an organisational and development consultant, coach or mentor.

WHAT WILL I TAKE AWAY?

• a cutting-edge experience that will help with your complex consultative and change projects
where there are issues in how you take up your role;
• working with other advanced practitioners to share and learn from your understandings of what
is happening between you and your client/organisation and identify key learnings for future
interventions;
• new skills in how to work as an advanced practitioner consultant in complex systems.

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ART & ORGANISATION DEEPENING

DEEPENING CREATIVE
CREATIVE
PRACTICE
WITH ORGANISATIONS

PRACTICE

A co-created and co-curated

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WHAT IS IT?
This new, boundaries-transcending, out-in-the-world programme is where the arts and social
sciences weave together as participants explore their whole selves in relation to their eco-system.
The programme will support you to (re-)awaken, nurture and cherish your creative, risk-taking
and curious parts, enable and encourage you to study and explore the nature of influence
and the impact of your intervention as well as (re-)learn its impact back-at-you. Working and
learning in a non-linear way, chicken-and-egg, that will go deep into the essence of who we are
and what we are here to do.
Faculty, guest artists and participants will co-curate to make a trans-disciplinary, non-linear
learning experience. At the end of the programme, participants collaborate in the creation of an
exhibition, installation, event, festival or other manifestation and expression of their learning.

WHO IS IT FOR?
It is for organisational leaders and consultants looking for another stage in development who
want to experiment with and explore their creative potential. It is for artist-academics, artistic
practitioners, working artists, concerned and creative citizens, freedom fighters, passionate
learners, curious ecologists or bored out-of-the-box agents of life and wellbeing on and of our
at-risk planet.

WHAT WILL I TAKE AWAY?

• an increase in your ability to address complex organisational and societal issues inventively
and imaginatively;
• a new repertoire and language for working – curating; archiving; choreographing; conserving;
exhibiting; presencing; embodying;
• unique ways of sharing and embedding learning in the public domain;
• you will be contributing to the development of new practice in organisational change;
• developing your artistic practice in a stimulating environment of intellectual and
creative inquiry.

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BESPOKE
PROGRAMMES

What do you need?

Designed for your organisation
In-house, facilitated
Learning is social in nature and happens best when learners collaborate and help one another,
and when it is directly relevant to the work environment.
For organisations wanting not just talent development but to train and cultivate a cohort
of people together, we can provide an in-house programme or Group Relations conference
customised to your requirements.
We offer stand-alone modules through to whole programmes for organisations and businesses,
introducing theories and methodologies from our core certificated programmes, to match your
evolving needs.
They can be delivered in a variety of formats and at different levels, tailored to your
requirements from ½ a day; a series of days; or a week; to modules over several months.
For executive leadership teams; core-teams; cross-functional teams; management teams;
boards; training the trainers or a whole programme, organisation-wide.
We also contribute to courses and programmes offered by other institutions and organisations
– adding bespoke modules on Tavistock psychodynamic methods and practice to increase the
depth and width of learning.

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ACTION
LEARNING

The application of solutions to difficult problems

In-house, facilitated
In a Tavistock Action Learning Set you are working with a small group of colleagues, over time, to
tackle real work problems and issues in order to get things done, reflecting and learning with and
from your experience with the intention of taking action or doing something differently.
An underlying principle of the Action Learning Sets is that the individual knows their own issue
or problem better than anyone else and remains responsible for it.
This means that your ALS colleagues help you think about your issue. They don’t tell you
what to do or give you advice. Instead they ask questions and listen, to help you explore your
issue and options for approaching it differently. In itself this is invaluable practice for core
leadership skills.
Active reflection is often neglected with the pressures of day-to-day work, yet it is vital in a fast
changing environment with frequently emerging challenges.
Reflection coupled with commitment to action with a group of peers who offer support and
challenge can lead to powerful decisions and outcomes.

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YOUR EXPERIENTIAL
JOURNEY

Our modular programmes, conferences and workshops are designed to work as discrete stand-
alone opportunities or they can be built over time to support your organisational needs and your
own developing career.
Whichever route you choose (not so much a linear path but a matrix of learning nodes), you
will find yourself immersed in experiential learning, exploring unconscious dynamics and
experimenting with how creativity is expressed in the workplace.

COACHING FOR DEEPENING

LEADERSHIP CREATIVE
PRACTICE

ORGANISATIONAL
CONSULTANCY

THE LEICESTER
CONFERENCE

DYNAMICS @
BOARD LEVEL SUPERVISION
LAUNCHING
YOUNG LEADERS

For example, a young adult can start with the one-day Launching Young Leaders workshop
and then go on to the Leicester Conference.
Later on, or mid-career, you can begin with a modular programme or attend the Leicester
conference and continue with another, deepening and supporting your working practice over
several years. Many people come back to the Leicester conference more than once to further
their learning as their roles change.
The TIHR is the place where you can be accompanied throughout your life - professionally and
personally. We are frequently spoken of as a family and we embrace that idea - that we provide a
professional home for so many practitioners around the world. We can offer attractive packages
to lifelong learners = Tavistockians.

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STAYING IN
TOUCH

is a place for alumni of our programmes, conferences and seminars to connect with others,
continue the learning, exchange ideas, develop practice and carry on or begin working together,
all underpinned by Tavistock methodologies.
After you graduate or finish your conference, seminar or workshop, we invite you to join the
Tavistock Community, free until the next graduation ceremony – for you to explore, re-engage
with your cohort and get to know other TC members with your interests, online.

The purpose of the Community is:

• about continuing the Learning…
• self-organising
• having opportunities to shape it
• an emerging / evolving / learning body
There is an Annual Gathering each year in London.

BASECAMP
is our virtual hub where each programme cohort has their private space for nurturing deeper
connections between modules. Basecamp also hosts the Tavistock Community.

MAILING LIST
To receive news about the Tavistock Community, the TIHR 3-monthly Newsletter and
occasional updates on our Professional Development Collection, sign up to the mailing list –
Make an Enquiry on our website. You can tailor what information you receive.
FURTHER INFORMATION
& NEXT STEPS

Detailed brochures are on our website for our conferences, programmes,

seminars and workshops, with information about current fees, dates,
venues and how to apply.
Members of faculty are happy to have a conversation with you to
explore how a particular programme can meet your professional
development needs.
You can also have a more general, confidential, telephone conversation
about yours and/or your team’s professional development.
If you have further questions, please contact:

Emily Kyte
e: [email protected]
Leah Ashton-Hurst
e: [email protected]
t: +44 (0)20 7417 0407

www.tavinstitute.org

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