Practitioner Certificate in Consulting and Change

The Art of Consulting PracticeP3C 2020

A Residential Programme in 4 Modules in Cambridge19 - 20 - 21 February 22 - 23 - 24 April 8 - 9 - 10 July 23 - 24 - 25 September

Why choose this programme? You are someone working with change, maybe an organisational consultant, or someone leading others through change in your organisation. You might be a coach and want to extend your practice into the organisational or systemic. Whichever, you are curious and looking to develop your consulting and change practices and shape your personal presence.

Join us on the Practitioner Certificate in Consulting and Change programme if:

• your current approaches don’t fully equip you to work with uncertainty, not-knowing and ambiguity;

• you are curious about what goes on beneath the surface of organisational life – the unconscious dynamics of organisations

• your attention is increasingly drawn to the urgent and emergent, no longer only to the important and the planned;

• you want to grapple with the joys and challenges of creating together and crafting practice collaboratively;

• you want to expand or sharpen your professional identity, take yourself to new places and find new edges;

• you want to have time and space to make deeper sense of your consultant role with an international group of colleagues from diverse backgrounds, working in all types of organisation.

A holistic programme that integrates experiential and theoretical learning with a strong emphasis on application and practice. You will work with contemporary and classic concepts from Tavistock theory: systems psychodynamics, socio technical systems, anthropology and political science; as well as drawing on insights from complexity theory, embodied and creative practices.

DARE to take risks and learn…Engaging with these perspectives during the programme will:

Draw your attention to issues of time, space and possibility in designing organisational interventions;

Allow you to experience life in the temporary organisation that is the programme, to co-create content and learn about real issues together with peers;

Re-learn your Self, find your creativity, presence and authority whilst immersing yourself in complex, fast-paced organisational dynamics;

Enable you to experiment with group learning and development by integrating organisational and psychodynamic theories with practical change and consulting perspectives;

…to become a responsive practitioner able to work with emergent problems in your practice.

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Loss, Leaving, Beginnings: Cycles of reflections and actions, moving on.

Programme Outline This is a residential programme over 4 x three-day modules plus an organisational exchange. Each module focuses on an aspect of the consulting cycle:

Locating ourselves; place, space and identityStepping into the unknown, finding oneself in relation to the other. Crossing the boundary, joining and being in a group.

Research and Intervention Design Researching and analysing, not/knowing; developing reflexive practice; Taking risks, politics and the dynamics of change, being present in the moment.

Module 2

Module 4

Organisational Interchange: Crossing and negotiating organisational boundaries in order to learn and share with others. Examining and experiencing other roles and systems in different contexts.

The modules consist of developing scenarios, experiential activities, consultations to practice, practice consulting and relevant theoretical inputs. Throughout the programme, in both the modules and the spaces between them, which are part of the learning context of the programme, participants will be invited to join a communications hub and to form working partnerships. Participants will have opportunities to shape some aspects of the programme design and draw on their professional and personal experiences to contribute to each other’s development. Together we will craft the learning environment and content to work on current practice issues and professional development needs.

Organisational Exchange activities are co-created with participants, to add a deeper layer to sharing practice and organisational issues, through the exchange of data and perspectives on their role within their organisational setting.

AssessmentTo achieve The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations’ Practitioner Certificate in Consulting and Change, participants are expected to attend the modules and submit a portfolio of work demonstrating development. The portfolio includes a case study of working with a current client or project. The case can be submitted as a written document or using video and multimedia, and should use frameworks and concepts from the programme.

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Module 1

Evaluating: Feeding back, sharing observations, assessing and moving forward.

Module 3

Fees and Venue The fee for all 4 modules is £9,240 per applicant.

Early Bird discount before 2 December 2019: £400 = £8,840

For your application to be considered, a deposit of £924 is required. Please see the Terms and Conditions online for payment details.

Each of the 4 modules takes place at:

The Møller Centre in CambridgeSet in the beautiful grounds of Churchill College, Cambridge University, the multi-Gold award-winning Møller Centre brings the worlds of academia and business together and is inspired by Danish heritage – stunning art and design provide a backdrop to your learning experience.

The centre, dedicated and purpose-designed, is a fast and frequent 45 minutes by train from Kings Cross in central London and only 30 minutes by road from Stansted airport with central Cambridge, a 15 minute walk.

Food, service and domestic standards are first class with the ‘best breakfast in Cambridge’! There is state of the art tech support plus fitness gym facilities, tennis and squash courts.

Further Enquiries and Applications For more information and/or an application form please contact Professional Development Manager: Anabel Navarro.

Applications are invited from July 2019.

There are limited places on the programme so to avoid disappointment it is advised you apply early. The closing date for applications is 27 January 2020.

E: a.navarro@tavinstitute.org

T: +44 (0)20 7417 3927

About The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations is a not-for-profit organisation which applies social science to contemporary issues and problems. It was formally founded as a registered charity in 1947. The Institute is engaged with organisational development and change consultancy, executive coaching and professional development, evaluation and action research, in support of sustainable change and ongoing learning.

Our staff work creatively with people involved in innovative activities, working across boundaries or in difficult situations. We combine research and analytical skills with practical help in devising creative responses and in following through to implementation. We are particularly known for our capacity to work with issues that are otherwise hidden, sometimes unconscious.

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Core Faculty

Anne Benson RMN RGN BEd (Hons) MA I began my career in general nursing and then mental health nursing. For the last twenty five years I have been working in practice-based consultancy, education and development, in the field of organisational change, leadership and team development. I have a particular interest and expertise in leadership development,

organisational and team culture and dynamics, working through change and transition and working at and across boundaries; boundaries between professions, teams, services and agencies. My practice is informed by a blend of humanistic, psychodynamic and systems theories. I believe in working with the whole person in their particular context. I think systemically and I am interested in what goes on beneath the surface and how this manifests in the behaviours above the surface ie how our unconscious world impacts individually and systemically. My practice is grounded and practical. I encourage experimentation; working with people to identify solutions that they can test and learn from. I have worked in and with the NHS, Local Authority, Higher Education and third sector organisations as well as national bodies. I also have a practice as a Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapist.

Camilla Child MA, MSc The practice I have developed over more than 25 years has led me to a deep understanding of the multiple processes underpinning organisational cultures, change, organisational design and the implementation of new services. Mostly in and with the public sector, my work also takes me into the worlds of key institutions and cross-boundary

relationships, often working with the dynamics of the critical spaces in between, for example, departments, directorates or agencies and in the use of language and practices. I pay close attention to context and role, and draw on political science, organisational and learning theories, and systems psychodynamics to help clients make sense of interactions and support change. I bring all this to my teaching, and a willingness to enter into the collective enquiry to create meaning together. This will be my sixth year as faculty member for P3C.

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Sadie King PhD, Cert TIHR (P3C) I am interested in understanding organisations on their own terms as evolving systems intersecting with communities, and wider society. I first joined the TIHR in 2004 overlapping with the completion of my PhD in social anthropology. I then spent 7 years in the public sector (a London Council and a mental health trust). In local government my

work ranged from conducting public consultations on service changes to supporting Heads of Service to think across service boundaries to meet the needs of the target group. This involved designing and facilitating processes that supported dialogue between residents, front line services and politicians. In mental health promotion I led assessments on mental wellbeing (particularly in work places). I have now been working as a researcher and consultant at the Tavistock Institute for 5 years specialising in consultancy informed evaluation and I lead the TIHR Mental Wellbeing strand. My aspiration in projects is to combine robust mixed methods research with socio-technical, and psychodynamic approaches to change management. I have recently been integrating a gestalt approach to OD.

Further Faculty membersThe TIHR Practitioner Certificate in Consulting and Change is an innovative co-created programme. It draws both on the Institute’s rich historical influence in the field of OD consultancy and change, as well as on dynamic and contemporary interventions that inform current global and multi-cultural OD practice.

With this in mind, programme participants will have opportunities to work with diverse OD practitioners from TIHR and elsewhere, to mobilise and explore different parts of our selves in order to develop more widely and deeper for a gestalt approach. These opportunities might include embodiment work; voice work; creative arts including film; photography; poetry; and/or storytelling etc.