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# Tavistock Institute of Human Relations

> The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) is an independent, not-for-profit UK charity founded in 1947, based in London. It applies social science and psychoanalytic thinking to the problems facing organisations, communities and societies, through consultancy, research and evaluation, and professional development. It publishes the international journal Human Relations (with SAGE) and runs the Leicester Conference, a long-running residential group relations event.

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## About the Institute

- [Who we are](https://tavinstitute.org/who-we-are): Overview of the Institute — a not-for-profit applying social science to organisations, communities and societies, with links to staff, partners, purpose, story and governance.
- [Purpose and values](https://tavinstitute.org/purpose-values): Charitable status since 1947, no shareholders; the Institute's purpose of exploring patterns in human behaviour to help people and organisations.
- [Our story](https://tavinstitute.org/our-story): History from the post-WWI Tavistock Clinic group and the Institute's founding in 1947 to the present.
- [Governance](https://tavinstitute.org/governance): The three bodies responsible for governing and managing the Institute, including the Tavistock Institute Association.
- [People and partners](https://tavinstitute.org/people-and-partners): Current staff, associates and partner organisations, with individual profile pages.
- [Who we work with](https://tavinstitute.org/who-we-work-with): The kinds of organisations, groups and businesses the Institute has worked with internationally since 1947.
- [Our journals](https://tavinstitute.org/our-journals): Human Relations, the Institute's flagship international social science journal published by SAGE, and other journal activity.
- [Company information](https://tavinstitute.org/company-information): Legal and charitable status, charitable objects and registered details.

## Services

- [Consultancy](https://tavinstitute.org/consultancy): Organisational consultancy working beneath the surface with how people behave, decide and lead under pressure; the challenges clients bring and how the Institute responds.
- [Research and evaluation](https://tavinstitute.org/research-evaluation): Social research and evaluation, including theory of change, realist and mixed-method approaches, for public bodies, funders and civil society.
- [Coaching, supervision and therapy](https://tavinstitute.org/coaching-supervision-therapy): Individual, couple, team and group work by Tavistock practitioners, attending to the wider systemic context of the client.

## Tavistock approaches

- [Tavistock approaches (overview)](https://tavinstitute.org/tavistock-approaches): The Institute's ways of understanding organisations as living systems shaped by unconscious dynamics as well as structure.
- [Systems psychodynamics](https://tavinstitute.org/approaches/systems-psychodynamics): The Institute's underpinning framework, originating in nearly eighty years of its own research and practice.
- [Group relations](https://tavinstitute.org/approaches/group-relations): A method developed at the Institute for learning about authority, leadership and role from inside the experience.
- [Socio-technical systems](https://tavinstitute.org/approaches/socio-technical-systems): Designing work systems in which the social and the technical evolve together.
- [Arts and organisations](https://tavinstitute.org/approaches/arts-and-organisations): Knowing organisations from the inside through performance, visual and literary practice.
- [Social dreaming](https://tavinstitute.org/approaches/social-dreaming): A structured method developed at the Institute for surfacing what a group knows but cannot yet say.

## Professional development

- [Professional development](https://tavinstitute.org/professional-development): Multi-disciplinary programmes built on Tavistock theory and method, taught by established practitioners.
- [Programmes](https://tavinstitute.org/programmes): Current certificated and short programmes, with dates, format and fees on each programme page.
- [The Leicester Conference](https://tavinstitute.org/professional-development/the-leicester-conference): The Institute's 14-day residential group relations conference on leadership, authority and role, held annually with an international cohort.
- [What's on](https://tavinstitute.org/whats-on): Upcoming and past events, talks, discovery sessions, application deadlines and group relations conferences the Institute runs or supports.

## News and publications

- [News](https://tavinstitute.org/news): Articles, project stories, reflections and announcements from the Institute and its people.
- [Publications](https://tavinstitute.org/publications): Books, reports and other publications by Institute staff and associates.

## Contact

- [Contact](https://tavinstitute.org/contact): Email, telephone, address and how to enquire about consultancy, research or professional development.

## Optional

- [Opportunities](https://tavinstitute.org/opportunities): Current vacancies at the Institute.
- [Research assistant](https://tavinstitute.org/research-assistant): An interactive question-answering tool over the Institute's research documents (requires a browser with JavaScript).
- [Accessibility statement](https://tavinstitute.org/accessibility): Accessibility commitments and known limitations of this site.
- [Terms and privacy](https://tavinstitute.org/terms-and-privacy): Website terms of use and privacy policy.